Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead
Virtual Event
In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
£6.00 – £12.00
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Early Second World War internment camps in the UK, 1939-40
A talk focussing on the often overlooked temporary camps on the British mainland which most of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ passed through.
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Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual EventFollow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
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Julius Frank: textile and wallpaper designer
Celia Frank will talk about the life and work of her father, Julius Frank (1897-1985), a Jewish German textile and wallpaper designer and artist
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Zweig in London
When novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig arrived in London in 1934, exiled from his native Vienna by the rising tide of Nazism, he was at the height of his literary career.
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Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard
Two writers, Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard, will discuss the themes and concerns they share in Leopoldstadt and The Hare with Amber Eyes
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The Refugees who made the Festival of Britain
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain, design historian Harriet Atkinson will give this talk
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Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Online screening, and Q&A, of the 2018 documentary
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Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second Generation (Jewish) Artists
Virtual EventThis interdisciplinary symposium focuses on visual artwork by international (Jewish) artists of the post-Holocaust generation
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A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Virtual EventIn this virtual, scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
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Hiddensee: Annie Freud in Conversation with Jacqueline Saphra
Virtual EventAnnie Freud will read from her new book, and be in conversation about her work with fellow poet Jacqueline Saphra.
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studio potter Hans Coper
To coincide with the centenary display of his work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Understanding WW2 Internment Through Postal History
Virtual Event‘Who, When, Where, and Why?’
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Janina Bauman: Beyond These Walls
Lydia Bauman will talk about her mother, the writer
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A New Life for Inherited Objects: The Art of Evy Cohen
A talk by a descendent of the Haimaki Cohen family sheltered during World War Two by Princess Alice, mother of the late Prince Philip
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Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
In this scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
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The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
David Herman will lead a discussion with Eva Hoffman, Philip Boehm and Adam Freudenheim about this powerful and prescient novel
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Alice Schwab: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England
Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE will be in conversation with Joachim Schloer about her redoubtable mother Alice (Liesel) Schwab
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Bertha Bracey and the Quaker Rescuers
From the rise of Hitler in 1933 to post-Holocaust Europe, the Quakers played a huge role in saving Jewish lives.
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The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
Historian Sybil Oldfield will be in conversation with writer and journalist Caroline Moorehead about fascinating new publication.
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Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
Artist Judith Raum will be joined by design historian Tanya Harrod to evoke the life & work of Yugoslav-Jewish textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944)
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Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity
A rich array of musical images by émigré photographers will evoke the deeply cultured milieu in which so many refugees from Nazism lived.
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Leonhard Adam: ‘Dunera Boy’, Lawyer, Anthropologist and Artist
Mary-Clare Adam, Leonard’s daughter, will highlight the dramatic events in his life on two continents before and after the two World Wars
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Hope after catastrophe: The Art of Dante Elsner
The talk will be given by Dante’s granddaughter, Maia Elsner whose poetry explores the nature of intergenerational memory