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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 Albany, SUNY, Albany, N.Y.

 

University in Exile, 1933-1953: Refugee Scholars in New York, the New School for Social Research, and the German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection

 

Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Standish Room, Science Library,

University at Albany, SUNY

Albany, N.Y.

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 United States, settling initially in urban centers. The University in Exile in New York City was founded 1933 as a base for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions and fostered a community of  academic exiles that lasted until after World War II  . Led by a panel of distinguished scholars, the program will feature an overview of the widespread exile and escape of intellectuals and academics from Nazi Germany and their impact on United States political and intellectual landscape.

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. Joel Berkowitz, Chair of the Judaic Studies Department and Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, University at Albany, SUNY

Panelists:

ˇ Dr. Claus Dieter Krohn, Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of Lüneburg, Germany
ˇ Dr. Johannes F. Evelein, Chair of Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
ˇ Dr. John Spalek, Professor Emeritus, Department of Languages and Literature, University at Albany, SUNY

 

 

Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Standish Room, Science Library,

University at Albany, SUNY

Albany, N.Y.

For more information please contact: Brian Keough, [log in to unmask]
(518) 437-3931    

 

 

 

 

 

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