Events
Horace Cayton: Black Renaissance Man and Raconteur
Who was the real man behind the male protagonist of Lore Segal’s Her First American? On February 12, writer Jeffery Renard Allen will give a talk on Horace Cayton.
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A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe
In small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly active participants in the daily life of their communities, managing homes and professions, leading …
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Book Club: The Artificial Silk Girl
Professor Didem Uca will join the LBI book club to discuss The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Kuen.
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Celebrating Vienna’s Center for Banned Music
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic with distinguished Czech pianist David Hausknecht celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Vienna’s Exilarte – Center for Banned Music and the 10th Anniversary of the University …
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Tell Me a Lore
Join LBI for a scholarly discussion of Lore Segal's children's literature.
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67th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Marsha Rozenblit
Jews who fled Nazi Austria after the Anschluss in 1938 went to many places, but primarily to the United States, where they tried to make new homes for themselves. In …
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Book Launch: Older Jews and the Holocaust
Join the Claims Conference, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the editors and contributors of the newly published book for a discussion about the experiences of German and Austrian older adults …
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Still Talking
WORDTheatre brings Lore Segal’s final short story collection, "Still Talking", to life in a staged reading. With James Cromwell, Mary Beth Peil, and others.
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