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A
lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London and The
Wiener Library
Was
Hollywood the preferred destination for European and especially
for German and Jewish actors fleeing Nazi persecution? Why was the
American film industry interested in hiring these actors? What ideas,
cultural codes and emotions were at stake when exiles played Nazis?
And in which ways are the emotions of desire and hatred implicated
in Nazi films about Jews?
FilmTalk stresses
film as much as talk. The lectures are 20-25 minutes long and are
followed or intercut with excerpts from the films under review.
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Next Filmtalk
22
April 2010, 7pm
Dr
Daniel Wildmann (LBI London; Queen Mary, University
of London)
In
the Ambivalence of Disgust - Jud Süss in Nazi Germany
What
emotions did antisemitic films evoke in German viewers in
the "Third Reich"? How were these emotions linked
to Jews on the one hand and to moral feelings on the other?
Looking at the films, can emotional and moral justifications
be found for the antisemitic policies of National Socialism?
The lecture investigates these questions by focusing on the
beginning of the film Jud Süss by Veit Harlan (1940).
Dr Daniel
Wildmann is deputy director at the Leo Baeck Institute London
and lecturer in history at Queen Mary, University of London.
His publications include Veränderbare Körper. Jüdische
Turner, Männlichkeit und das Wiedergewinnen von Geschichte
in Deutschland um 1900, 2009, Schweizer Chemieunternehmen
im Dritten Reich, 2001 (co-author with Lukas Straumann) and
Begehrte Körper. Konstruktion und Inszenierung des "arischen"
Männerkörpers im "Dritten Reich", 1998.
He is currently working on a book project entitled A History
of Visual Expressions of Antisemitism, Emotions and Morality.
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Lectures are
held at the Wiener
Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5BH
Underground: Regent's Park, Great Portland Street
Bus: C2, 18, 27, 30, 88, 453
Admission is free. Lectures will begin promptly at 7.00 pm.
Latecomers may not be admitted
Places are strictly limited and must be reserved in advance by
contacting the
Leo
Baeck Institute London
(t: +44 (0)20 7580 3493 or email
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Past
lectures
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29 October
2009, 7pm
Prof Tim
Bergfelder
University of Southampton
Exile Actors
in Hollywood during World War II: An Introduction
This lecture
aims to place migration patterns of Jewish exiles to Hollywood within
wider industrial and political contexts, and analyse some distinctive
career trajectories, such as those of Felix Bressart and Curt Bois.
Film examples to be drawn on will include Casablanca (1942)
and To Be or Not to Be (1942).
Prof Tim Bergfelder
is Head of Film Studies at the University of Southampton. His most
recent books are: The Concise CineGraph (co-edited with Hans-Michael
Bock, 2009), Destination London. German-speaking Emigrés
and British Cinema 1925-50 (co-edited with Christian Cargnelli,
2008), Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
(co-authored with Sue Harris and Sarah Street, 2007), and International
Adventures. Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions
in the 1960s (2005).
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A
lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London and The
Wiener Library
FilmTalk
2008/9 focused on the theme of Jews: Heroes and Stars.
FilmTalk
examined mainstream feature films and art house films from the
perspective of contemporary Jewish history. What vision of Jewish
masculinity is offered by Paul Newman in Exodus? What kind
of Jewishness
is played out by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and other
films that made
her a star? And what is so special about a musical set in the borscht-belt,
like
Dirty Dancing?
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PROF
CHRISTIAN WIESE
Hans
Jonas, Memoirs
book launch
26
November 2008, 7pm
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Richard J.
Evans' talk marks the beginning of the second season of our European
Leo Baeck Lecture Series. For more information click here.
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May 2008, 7.00 pm
 PROF
ROBIN JUDD
Circumcision
and Jewish Identity in the Kaiserreich
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10
April 2008, 7.00 pm
PROF TILMAN ALLERT (University of Frankfurt am Main)
The Führer
Gruss. Story of a Gesture
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1
November 2007, 7.00pm
PROF SHARON GILLERMAN (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles):
Strongman Siegmund
Breitbart and the Staging of the Jewish Body in the Weimar Republic
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Book Launch:
24 October 2007, 6.00pm
PROF CHRISTIAN
WIESE
The Life and
Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions
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3
October 2007
DR NATHAN ABRAMS
Considerable cultural confidence - loud and proud: Mel Brooks' 'The
Producers'
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Sept
29 August 2007
PROF SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER (University of California, Los Angeles):
The Years of
Extermination. A Plea for an Integrated History of the Holocaust
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Special
Lecture
15 November 2006
Yoram
Leker and Prof Ladislaus Löb:
Kasztner: Saving Jewish Lives and the dilemma of dealing with the
Nazis |
Juden
und Öffentlichkeit
(Jews
and the Public Sphere)
23-24 October 2006
Theater
Stadelhofen
Stadelhoferstraße 12, 8001 Zürich
International
Conference of the LBI London and Jerusalem, and the Hermann Cohen
Archive.
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Special
Screening and Lecture
8
June 2006,
the eve of Germany's hosting of
the World Cup
Daniel
Wildmann:
Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl, the Berlin Olympics 1936 and
Aryan Masculinity
Jointly organised
by the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Wiener Library.
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Frontier
of Hope
Jews from Italy seek refuge in Switzerland 1943-45
by Renata Broggini
11
May 2005
Round Table
Discussion chaired by Professor Peter Pulzer (Chairman of the LBI)
on the occasion of the launch of the English translation of "Frontier
of Hope" by Renata Broggini.
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Fiftieth
Anniversary Lecture
10
May 2005
Professor Eric
Hobsbawm
Enlightenment and Achievement: The Emancipation of Jewish Talent
Since 1800
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Joint Lecture Series 2004-2005
Wiener
Library, Centre for German-Jewish Studies and Leo Baeck Institute
For the first
time, Britain's leading institutions for the study of German-speaking
Jewry and the Holocaust have combined to present a programme of
public lectures.
Drawing on the strengths of these three renowned institutions, the
lectures pose a series of probing questions: How did Jews in the
aftermath of the Shoah deal with feelings of revenge? In what ways
does the concept of trauma help us to understand the life of individual
survivors? How did Christians and Jews live together in a German
city between 1933-1945? What can we say about coercion and consent
during the Third Reich?
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The Leo Baeck Institute/Wiener
Library Lecture Series 2003/2004 has been most successful,
drawing capacity audiences of up to 150 people. Among the contributors
were Steven Aschheim, Robert Wistrich, Ignacio Klich, Ute Deichmann,
Joanna Bourke, Cilly Kugelmann, Alistair Davidson, Nicolas Berg, Sigrid
Weigel and Carlo Ginzburg. |
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Werner
Mosse Memorial Lecture 2003
In his lecture,
Jonathan Hess examined visions of large-scale Jewish economic and
cultural domination around 1800, offering a profile of public perceptions
of the Berlin Jewish elite in this period.
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Presentation of the memorial book
Before They Perished: Photographs
Found in Auschwitz
Holocaust Memorial Day 2003
German
Historical Institute, Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener
Library, Leo Baeck Institute London and Kehayoff Publisher, Munich
Speakers
M. E. Thomas Matussek ( Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany)
Prof. J. A. S. John Grenville (Birmingham)
Arno Lustiger (Frankfurt am Main)
Dr. Hanno Loewy ( Fritz Bauer Institute,
Frankfurt am Main)
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