PANEL DISCUSSIONs

Historicizing Jewish Experience in Los Angeles: 1860s – 1930s

Jewish and Gentile Perceptions: Between the Individual and Communal Discourse. Translating Jewish Identity. 

Presenters: Rabbi, Dr. Norbert Weinberg, Dr. Vladimir Melamed

Panel of Discussants  

Politics of Exile: Misery does not have company

From the letter of Joseph Roth to Stefan Zweig (1934):

You are clever. I am not. But I see what you cannot see because your cleverness exempts you from

seeing. You have the grace of reason, I the grace of misery. 

In the Light of Grace and in the light of Misery:  

Joseph Roth 

Stefan Zweig

Lion Feuchtwanger 

Moderators and Panel of Discussants 

The Life of Others during the Holocaust 

Mixing Traditional Categories: all but Victims 

If the Others felt the Victims' Desperation. 

TBA