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Please join the
University at Albany Libraries for an enlightening discussion of 1930s era
German and Jewish intellectual émigrés and their subsequent impact on American
society. The program will be held on Thursday October 12th, 2006 from 4-6pm in the
Standish Room in the Science Library, University at
University in Exile, 1933-1953: Refugee
Scholars in
Thursday,
October 12, 2006 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Standish
Room, Science Library,
University
at
In 1933, Adolf Hitler began a systematic purge of
German universities and dismissed radical and Jewish faculty heralding a great
exodus of intellectuals. During this period roughly 4,000 academics lost
positions and 1,700 of these German scholars came to the
This period of immigration is documented
in The German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection, is
accessible at the University at Albany Libraries’ M.E. Grenander
Department of Special Collections and Archives and presently consists of more
than 1,500 cubic feet of personal papers, organizational records, political
pamphlets, tape recordings, photographs, and related research materials
documenting the German intellectual exodus of the 1930s and 1940s. Selections
from the Émigré Collection will exhibit before and after the event. Additional
information about the German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection is
available at http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/emigre.htm.
Moderator: Dr.
Panelists:
ˇ Dr. Claus Dieter Krohn, Professor of Social and Cultural History,
ˇ Dr. Johannes F. Evelein,
Chair of Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature,
ˇ Dr. John Spalek, Professor Emeritus, Department of Languages and Literature,
University at
Thursday,
October 12, 2006 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Standish
Room, Science Library,
University
at
For more information please contact:
(518) 437-3931
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