Stumbling texts: Jewish life stories in the USA

The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin has opened its archives to authors as part of a unique literary project. Under the title Stolpertexte: Literatur gegen das Vergessen (Stumbling Texts: Literature Against Oblivion, Hentrich & Hentrich 2024), authors have traced the life stories of German Jews under National Socialism, whose personal documents are collected in the Leo Baeck Institute's archives. This has resulted in literary texts that commemorate the lives and hopes of people who had everything taken from them under Nazi terror. Dana von Suffrin and Olga Grjasnowa will read from their texts this evening and then discuss memory, language and Jewish perspectives in Germany and beyond.An event organised by DAIS (German-American Institute Saxony) in cooperation with Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V. and TaMaR Germany.