Ergebnis für "Exil" in Geschichte

Eine spannende Zeitreise ins Schicksalsjahr berühmter Frauen. Unda Hörner folgt den Spuren berühmter Frauen in zwölf lebendig erzählten Kapiteln durch das Jahr 1939: Hannah Arendt gelingt die Flucht nach New York, Helene Weigel zieht mit dem Brecht-Tross nach Schweden. Marlene Dietrich...

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR FEBRUARY | A 2026 HIGHLIGHT IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND THE BOOKSELLER A meeting place for Europe’s bohemian artists. A headquarters of the Nazi occupation. A shelter for...

Der Podcast "Exil" erzählt bislang unbekannte Geschichten deutschsprachiger Jüdinnen und Juden aus der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Die Folgen basieren auf persönlichen Briefen, Tagebüchern, Interviews und Dokumenten aus dem Archiv des Leo Baeck Institute. "Exil" ist eine Kooperation des Leo Baeck Institute - New York | Berlin und der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, produziert von Antica Productions und präsentiert von Iris Berben. Mehr Infos: bpb.de/543131

Im neuen Interview-Podcast Café Exil begrüßt Moderatorin Shelly Kupferberg prominente Personen aus Film, Literatur, Kunst und Kultur und spricht mit ihnen über Fragen des Exils in Geschichte und Gegenwart: über das schwierige Verhältnis zur Heimat, über Identität, Demokratie und Menschenrechte.

An enthralling account of Mary, Queen of Scots' captivity in England, revealing intrigue, plots, and political turmoil. Discover a thrilling true story of treachery, deceit, hope, and despair. From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at...

Über die Bedeutung der Vertreibung von Geistesgrößen wie Hannah Arendt, Th. W. Adorno, Max Delbrück, Walter Gropius und vieler mehr aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland. Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Gropius, Hans Jonas, Max Delbrück, Curt Stern und viele andere Größen aus Physik, Jura, Geschichtswissenschaften, Theologie, Chemie, Pädagogik und mehr: Die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten war für viele Wissenschaftler:innen verbunden mit Berufsverbot, Bedrohung und Verfolgung.

From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II exiles and one famed Paris hotel. Since its birth in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived...

The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.

Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder. Bessner delves into Speier’s intellectual development, illuminating the ideological origins of the expert-centered approach to foreign policymaking and revealing the European roots of Cold War liberalism.

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983...

It's been 2,000 years after most Jews were exiled from Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, and two generations since the Holocaust led to the founding of modern Israel. Still, small yet resilient Jewish communities continue to endure and thrive around the world - sometimes in the most unlikely places, and often in the face of extreme persecution. Journalist Annika Hernroth-Rothstein has spent two years of her life uncovering the hidden beauty of these largely forgotten Jewish enclaves. 

An engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic in the 1890s, from critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke. What would drive a man to exhume the body of his daughter and remove her heart? That...

In the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, a group of leading Eastern European Jewish intellectuals embarked upon a project to transform the lives of millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews around the world. Their goal was to publish a popular and comprehensive Yiddish-language encyclopedia of general knowledge that would serve as a bridge to the modern world and as a guide to help its readers navigate their way within it.

Exiles is the only play written by James Joyce. It draws material from "The Dead", the final story in his famous short stories collection, Dubliners. It centers around four individuals - Richard, Robert, Bertha, and Beatrice - and the complex romantic entanglements between them as tensions rise and relationships are tested.

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This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch...

Embracing Exile analyzes biblical and rabbinic texts, philosophical treatises, studies of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and a multiplicity of modern expressions. It offers revised readings of the Bible's book of Esther, a survey of Talmudic treatments of exile, an in-depth analysis of the thought of the Maharal of Prague, as well as the work of Philip Roth, among other modern authors. David Kraemer shows that Diaspora Jews through the ages insisted that God joined them in their exiles and that, as citizens of the world, Jews could only live throughout the world.

Brought to you by Penguin. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains...

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