What is it like to be an American Jew living in modern Germany? Philosopher and writer Susan Neiman brings four decades of experience to this compelling discussion with UCL Professor of German History Mary Fulbrook.

Offering unique personal and historical insights, Susan Neiman vividly recounts life in Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. A former academic at Yale and Tel Aviv University, she is the author of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil and currently serves as director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin. Presented in association with Jewish Women’s Voices and the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.

About the speaker:

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action. She is the director of the Einstein Forum in Germany.

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. Among other books, she is the author of A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, winner of the Fraenkel Prize, and, most recently, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, awarded the Wolfson History Prize.