Home Movie: Caroline Pick, Susie Orbach
Film screening & discussion with filmmaker Caroline Pick & psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach.
Film screening & discussion with filmmaker Caroline Pick & psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach.
Alistair Fair introduces the life and work of émigré architect Peter Moro, on the occasion of his new monograph on him.
Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of Kim Philby, talks about her riveting new novel, Edith and Kim, published on 31 March by HarperCollins.
Marjorie Downward will give a talk entitled ‘Schools on the Move’, which will examine three pioneering educational projects – Gordonstoun and Camphill, both in Scotland, and Bunce Court in Kent
Stephen Duncan FRSS will be talking about his career as a sculptor in both the UK and Italy.
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
The second in a series of summer research seminars on The Arts of Postwar Britain 1945–1965 with Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett
Tribute to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral.
A talk about The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World
A talk by Dorothea Schöne about Jussuf, Abbo, a fascinating but still too little-known émigré artist, who died in London in 1953.
Holocaust researcher and educator Mike Levy talking about his recent book, Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
Composer Marilyn Herman introduces a video-recorded recital of two brand new works relating to her family’s tragic wartime history
Playwright and author Fanny Mills will speak about the hidden story of her family which had always shadowed her life.
Get to know the émigrés who, having fled Nazi Europe, embraced the future and introduced avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.
This seminar focuses on the analysis of Erna Pinner’s graphic and literary work, with particular emphasis on how the ideological discourse that influenced her work during the interwar period is transferred to her artistic production during her years of exile in London.
Featuring moving first-hand testimony, and drawn from letters, diaries and present-day interviews, The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child’s-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust.
An online talk by historian Helen Fry, based on her fascinating book Freud’s War
An online talk by Elizabeth Lamle about Freud’s very early work and correspondence
An in-person visit to the major Freud retrospective at the National Gallery, preceded by an introductory lecture by art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen.
On Wednesday 2 November at 7.30pm, Jewish Renaissance magazine is holding a special online event to mark the appearance of its latest issue
Insiders/Outsiders is partnering with Jewish Renaissance magazine and the Lyons Learning Project in hosting a series of six weekly online events
In a special online talk to mark Remembrance Day, John Hilary will look back at the contrasting experiences of German-Jewish immigrants in Britain during the two world wars. Told through the lives of the celebrated Messel family of Nymans, of which John is a member, the presentation will examine the waves of violence directed towards […]
Insiders/Outsiders is partnering with Jewish Renaissance magazine and the Lyons Learning Project in hosting a series of six weekly online events