When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
Pittsburgh 📍 | My Journey
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36:48In this episode, we start by talking about Louisville and DeWana’s own journey into the work that she does with the organization 55,000 Degrees (http://www.55000degrees.org/). We cover some context about her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, how folks are going about serving youth through the context of education, and what her specific approach has…
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This episode is a conversation with Harry Johnson, the Pittsburgh Manager for the BMe Network. I’ve known Harry for a few years now and as of last year, we have worked more closely since he joined the Pittsburgh My Brother’s Keeper Committee. Check out BMe online at www.bmecommunity.org. To engage with Harry and the Pittsburgh network, check them o…
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A conversation with Mark Lewis - President & Chief Executive Officer of the POISE Foundation
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A conversation with Ricky Aiken of Inner City Innovators at the 2018 Cities United Convening
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Episode 1/x | Hello World
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