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Poetry in Preservation
Restituted Books
A Conversation on Charlotte Salomon
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
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Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey for a conversation with Griselda Pollock and Kerry Wallach about Charlotte Salomon.
Thursday, April 22, 2021, noon–1:15 p.m.
The new Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—City University of New York launches its public programming with “In Honor of …
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Read and discuss one of the best-known comedies of the eighteenth century, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise.
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Panelists will explore how Samson Schames’ life story and work provide a window into the history of exiled artists during the Nazi period and the impact of exile on their art.
Sunday, May 2, 2021, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Madeline Vadkerty will discuss her book Your Honor Mr. President: Letters to Jozef Tiso and the letters that thousands of ordinary people sent to him regarding the "Jewish question."
Thursday, May 27, 2021, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Author Leah Garrett discusses the incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now.
Thursday, June 24, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Alex Ross (The New Yorker ) engages George Prochnik, author of a recent Heinrich Heine biography, in a conversation about the German poet's revolutionary aesthetics and politics.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Virtual exhibition drawn from the art collection of LBI, this exhibition presents paintings created in exile by German-speaking Jews and other targets of Nazi persecution.
This virtual exhibition explores and documents the experience of the German-Jewish refugees of Washington Heights.
When they met for the first time in California, Gottlieb and Guggenheim already shared a love for German culture, especially for books. As a student in Munich, Ernst Gottlieb had …
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