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Flavius Josephus, Lion Feuchtwanger and the Eternal Struggle with History

JL;DR SUMMARY In exploring the complex legacies of Flavius Josephus and Lion Feuchtwanger, the USC Doheny Memorial Library exhibit delves into themes of survival, compromise, and historical narrative. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityNazi GermanySurvivalHistorical NarrativeCompromiseLion FeuchtwangerFlavius JosephusUsc Doheny Memorial LibraryJewish Roman WarJosephus Trilogy

Places mentioned

Los Angeles, California, United States
"Feuchtwangers story followed a different trajectory.…he settled in Los Angeles, where his Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades became a haven for German intellectuals fleeing the Third Reich."
San Diego, California, United States
"Some 120 miles south of USC, scholars at the Society for Biblical Literature conference in San Diego are still grappling with Josephuss legacy."
Israel
"As a commander in Galilee, he famously orchestrated a suicide pact at Yodfatknown to the Romans as Jotapata, located in present-day northern Israelbut had second thoughts when his own turn came."
Vienna, Austria
"Among them is Piotrkowski, who gave a presentation on a papyrus fragment of Josephuss workthe oldest known manuscript of his writingsnow housed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Fragment of Sefer Yossipon in Yiddish, published 1815 in Warsaw. Gift of Rabbi Adam Rosenthal."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"In 1933, the Nazis banned his works and stormed his Munich villa."

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