Events
Curator's Tour of Kindertransport Exhibition
Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great
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How Fascism Works
Philosopher Jason Stanley (Yale) in conversation with Peter Beinart on the ten pillars of fascist politics and how his own family history influences his world view today.
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The City without Jews
Jews are hounded by mobs and driven from Vienna in this 1924 expressionist film based on the satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer. Silent film with live score and commentary by Noah Isenberg (UT Austin).
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The German language and the Jews: a few ‘what ifs’
What if German had become the language of the USA as it very nearly did? The effect of the western Haskalah was to make German, not Yiddish or Hebrew, the ...
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Contrasting Experiences: Jewish Immigrants from Germany in the US
Contrasting Experiences: Jewish Immigrants from Germany in the United States The history of German Jewish immigrants from in the United States illustrates the great promise of America as an inclusive ...
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From Macy’s to the Titanic – The Straus Family Legacy
A pop-up exhibition, lecture, and discussion on the German-Jewish family that built Macy's into an iconic brand and how the Titanic disaster tore the family apart.
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H.G. Adler: A 20th-Century Life for the 21st Century
LBI and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation about H.G. Adler between Peter Filkins, the author of a recent Adler biography, and New York-based author Joshua Cohen.
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From Swastika to Jim Crow
The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow . Based on the book ...
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Dear Erich: A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
The opera, "Dear Erich” is inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father.
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Three Suitcases—An Encounter with Ernst Toller & William S. Burroughs
In 1937, future Beat icon William Burroughs married Ilse Herzfeld Klapper. She arrived in New York in 1939 and was hired as a secretary by writer and activist Ernst Toller. A new play by Richard Byrne
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Curator's Tour of Kindertransport Exhibition
Join curator Ilona Moradof on a tour of Kindertransport Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great
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Washington Heights Walking Tour
Rob Snyder , author of the book Crossing Broadway, Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City , and Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, leads ...
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Child Separation and Refugee Crises from the Kindertransport to Today
Mark Hetfield (HIAS), Alex Aleinikoff (New School), and Deborah Amos (NPR) discuss how popular resistance to refugees has torn families apart in crises from the Kindertransport to today.
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