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Tag: Lion Feuchtwanger

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A year after the LA fires, the lesson is clear: Our greatest disasters are often self-inflicted

Rob Eshman in Forward · 6 Jan

In the aftermath of the devastating 2025 fire in Los Angeles, which claimed lives and homes in the affluent Pacific Palisades area, a deeper reflection emerges on the nature of human-driven disasters.

0 History Culture

A House in Exile: Fire, Memory and the Enduring Spirit of Villa Aurora

Jacob Wirtschafter in Moment · 4 Apr 2025

Villa Aurora, a Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, embodies a rich history of German-Jewish exile and creative refuge.

0 History Literature

Flavius Josephus, Lion Feuchtwanger and the Eternal Struggle with History

Jacob Wirtschafter in Moment · 12 Dec 2024

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.

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‘The Oppermanns’ Brings Us Some Bad News From 1933

Marco Roth in Tablet · 30 Jun 2022

"The Oppermanns" is a novel written by Lion Feuchtwanger in 1933 that tells the story of a Jewish family in Germany as the rise of Nazism begins.

0 Literature Education

Disgruntled Ode

Jake Marmer in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Mar 2019

The author of the text reflects on their early years in a Soviet Jewish household, disconnected from their Jewish heritage, but finding solace in Jewish literature which offered a connection to their roots.