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Thomas Meyer , Shelley Frisch (Translator)
Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany where Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, to the United States where she was a citizen from 1950—Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Tracing anew Arendt’s journey from Königsberg to Paris, where she fled to after being imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1933, and finally to New York, Meyer illuminates her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her long love affair with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism posed a deadly threat to Arendt’s life and family. His account centers on two pivotal phases—Arendt’s years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany and her years in the U.S. leading up to the landmark publication of Origins of Totalitarianism—providing not only a meticulous reconstruction of her life but also a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our times. At a time of acute political polarization, with liberalism in crisis and urgent debates about freedom, responsibility, and truth unfolding all around, Arendt’s writings and ideas echo more powerfully than ever. Meyer’s account of her extraordinary life is groundbreaking and sensational, not just for his illuminating and peerless research, but his incisive account of Arendt’s work has meant over the decades—and continues to mean for us today.
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The Together Plan
Decades after the Nazis and Soviets destroyed the Brest Jewish Cemetery, Jews and non-Jews from Belarus and around the world have come together to collect the cemetery's matzevot or tombstones to build an enduring memorial to Brest Jewry
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Biography and Memoirs
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The Together Plan
In 2017, on a visit to Belarus, Debra Brunner, co-founder and CEO of The Together Plan was handed a book in Russian by Leonid Tsyrinsky, a survivor of the Minsk Ghetto. His request was that we translate and publish this book from Russian to English. Only 200 copies of this book in Russian had ever been published for private distribution. In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, Debra began the process. She approached one of our volunteers, Nick Trapp, a talented Russian speaker who agreed to work on the translation. This was the first step that started the long journey to bring this incredibly important book to publication. A dedicated team came together to work on the historical research, editing, proofreading and fact checking. Three and a half years later, on October 17th 2023, the book was published.
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The Together Plan
In 2018, The British Embassy in Minsk hosted the launch of We Remember, Lest the World Forget – Memories of The Minsk Ghetto, a translation of memories of child survivors from Russian to English. The history of the Holocaust in Belarus is rarely spoken of, despite the fact that 800,000 Jews perished there.
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Steven Carr
What did Hollywood know and do about growing Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as America and the rest of the world waited to respond? This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Many film and general histories of the period have concluded that Hollywood could or should have done more to call attention to the growing threat. Yet the very same market forces of the 1920s that brought about rapid expansion of the film industry overseas later embroiled Hollywood in a complex anti-Semitic disinformation campaign at home and abroad that targeted the industry and even threatened its very existence. Faced with attacks and accusations of warmongering at home, Hollywood’s responses occurred within the ever-evolving and precarious context of the time. This important volume situates and explains Hollywood’s encounter with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, not just through isolated films or a few individuals, but in terms of how the path to genocide touched almost every aspect of film business operations along the way. A wealth of new archival research and scholarship across multiple perspectives are examined to bring a fresh and nuanced understanding. The book will be of interest to academics and students in Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Mass Media, American History, and American Studies. It also has much appeal for the general reader interested in Hollywood history, World War II, the Holocaust, the history of American Jewry, and the Roosevelt presidency.