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Monday, December 14, 2015

Pyrenees, border and refuge

New lecture series at the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies, January- May, 2016

The lectures will be in the context of the exhibition "Fleeing the Holocaust. Catalonia and the Jewish refugees in the Second World War" produced by a the Museum of the History of Catalonia and the Provincial Government of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Museum of Jewish History.

January 14th
L'Hospici de Girona: acollida i refugi d'infants fugits de l'Holocaust (1941-1943), Josep Calvet, historian.


February 11th
Històries amb nom: comarques de Girona, pas i refugi de jueus europeus, Martine Berthelot, University of Perpignan.


March 10th
P. L. Landsberg: del suïcidi a la vida, Oriol Ponsatí, filòsof i editor.


April 14th
Passadors i refugiats: l'experiència personal i la literatura de Jordi Pere Cerdà, Jordi Julià, Autonomous University of Barcelona.


May 12th
La frontera, la ferida. Pensaments, paraules i imatges per a un espai encara per pensar, Xavier Antich, University of Girona.


Place: Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies
Access: Sant Llorenç Street

Free admission