Susan Ronald talks with Helen Fry on “A Dangerous Woman” The Life of Florence Gould
A Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald’s revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940’s Paris.
During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Göring’s Aerobank. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others.
Series “Helen Fry in Conversation” with:
Robin Lustig – Is Anything Happening? My Life as a Newsman – Aug. 28, 2022 Susan Ronald – A Dangerous Woman – Sept. 11, 2022 Leah Garrett – X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II – Oct. 2, 2022 George Bearfield – Foursquare: The Last Parachutist – Oct. 16, 2022 Helen Rappaport – In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian – Oct. 23, 2022
Leah Garrett talks with Helen Fry on X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now.
“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees—a top-secret band of brothers—who waged war on Hitler.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling author of The Longest Winter and TheLiberator
Series “Helen Fry in Conversation” with:
Robin Lustig – Is Anything Happening? My Life as a Newsman – Aug. 28, 2022 Susan Ronald – A Dangerous Woman – Sept. 11, 2022 Leah Garrett – X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II – Oct. 2, 2022 George Bearfield – Foursquare: The Last Parachutist – Oct. 16, 2022 Helen Rappaport – In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian – Oct. 23, 2022
Leah Garrett is Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has published five books in Jewish studies and won and was shortlisted for numerous literary prizes. Her new book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, has been featured on CNN, Time Magazine, The Guardian, C-SPAN and a range of other venues. The Daily Telegraph called it “a thrilling story, well-told,” while the Times of London labelled it as “gripping,” and The Jerusalem Report called it “stunning…an incredible moving story of Jewish heroism.” X Troop is being translated into Hebrew, Polish and Russian. To learn more, please visit www.leahgarrett.org
Professor and author Ori Z. Soltes, as co-founding Director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, has spent twenty years focused on the issue of Nazi-plundered art.
Ori Z. Soltes is extremely engaging and a leading expert on the issue of Nazi-plundered art.
You won’t want to miss these riveting stories…
Why was art and the plunder of cultural property so obsessively important to the Nazis? Why do civilizations continue to plunder art and what was different about the Nazis doing it? How did the Allies react at the end of the war and why is this issue still ongoing?
and some compelling cases of Restitution ..
What happened to Chagall’s “The Village”? How did the Met keep Picasso’s work and the case of “Woman in Gold”? and much more
Nazism, the Arts, and the Pretense of Civilization Part 2: Wednesday, March 2
Identity, Art, and Migration: Refugee Artists in America During the Nazi Period: Wednesday, March 16
Professor and author Ori Z. Soltes, as co-founding Director of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, has spent 20 years focused on the issue of Nazi-plundered art. We are thrilled to have Ori join our team with a series of three lectures.
Identity, Art, and Migration: Refugee Artists in America During the Nazi Period.
This presentation will focus on three artists—Anni Albers, Rudi Lesser, and Eva Hesse—who came to the United States during this period under very different circumstances and with diverse outcomes as artists. Their contexts are embedded in larger questions of artistic identity and how it could be affected by American policies regarding refugees before, during, and just after the Nazi era.
Leah Garrett is Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has published five books in Jewish studies and won and was shortlisted for numerous literary prizes. Her new book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, has been featured on CNN, Time Magazine, The Guardian, C-SPAN and a range of other venues. The Daily Telegraph called it “a thrilling story, well-told,” while the Times of London labelled it as “gripping,” and The Jerusalem Report called it “stunning…an incredible moving story of Jewish heroism.” X Troop is being translated into Hebrew, Polish and Russian.