Starting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.
Some 80,000 refugees from Nazism who made their way to safety in Britain were, inevitably, engineers.
A panel discussion to mark a new edition of Anna Seghers’ remarkable 1944 novel Transit, recently published by Virago Modern Classics
Karen Hopper will give a talk about her remarkable German-born artist grandparents.
Sculptor, art educator & Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik talking about his new book, Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival – An Artobiography
Prof John J Heartfield, grandson of John Heartfield and curator of The John Heartfield Exhibition in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
Join British journalist and author Simon Parkin for a talk to coincide with the publication of his new book. Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished first-hand accounts and previously classified documents
This is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk.
Dr. Tessa Murdoch talking about her new book Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, recently published by the V&A
Talk by David Jones about his discovery that his creative work in clay & installation has become a medium for expressing his Jewish heritage
Berlin-based art historian and curator Dorothea Schöne will give a talk entitled ‘Jussuf Prince of Thebes – Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed’.
Prof. Charmian Brinson talks about her fascinating new book, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War.
Film screening & discussion with filmmaker Caroline Pick & psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach.
In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
The Ensemble Burletta will be giving a concert at Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh which includes émigré composer Hans Gál’s Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello.
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.
Mark the 80th anniversary of the internment of refugees from Nazi Europe by the British Government with this four-day trip
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.
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first generation refugees and immigrants to Britain
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
An immersive tribute to the 1930s uniquely Budapester humour as presented in London by Hungarian Jewish émigrés a hundred years ago.
A conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner