Berlin Book Evening:
Jews in Berlin and Essays by Kurt Tucholsky
Monday, May 13, 2013, 6:00 PM
Jews in Berlin and Berlin! Berlin!, two new titles from Berlinica Publishing
LBI hosts an evening of discussion devoted to two recent books from Berlinica Publishing.
Author Julius Schoeps will speak on the updated edition of the classic Jews in Berlin, a survey of Jewish life in this cosmopolitan city from the 13th century to the present.
This whirlwind tour will also note the impressive trend of young Jewish people moving from Tel Aviv, London, Paris and New York to Berlin. The resurgence of Jewish life is an important and wonderful reason why this decade-old book has just come out in a new edition.
Anne Nelson will discuss a new collection of essays by Kurt Tucholsky, a brilliant journalist whose biting satirical dispatches and early distrust of the Nazis forced him out of Germany into exile. His books were burned, but his writings survive, and they are collected for the first time in English in Berlin! Berlin!
Professor Julius Schoeps is Professor of Modern History at the University of Potsdam where he also directs the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies.
Anne Nelson is the author of Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Admission
Members: $10
General Admission: $15
RSVP: (212) 744-6400
Monday, May 13, 2013, 6:00 PM
Center for Jewish History
Forchheimer Auditorium
15 W. 16th St.
New York, NY 10011