To mark the publication of her book, The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson, Dr.Anna Nyburg will give a talk about the history of the internationally famous London-based publishing house founded by refugees from Nazism.
The Cassirers were a remarkable German Jewish family – highly successful in business and leaders of European culture.
To mark the recent publication by Princeton University Press of a book entitled Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect, its co-editors Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira and one of the other contributors to the volume Barbara Penner will introduce us to the life and work of this talented Austrian-born Jewish architect, designer and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.
