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.…
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Roundtable Japan is a bilingual podcast on modern and contemporary Japan sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation. This series brings together scholars and experts from around the world to discuss a single theme each time. Topics will be selected from major themes in modern and contemporary society. Each episode will be accompanied by transcripts and/or subtitles, a reading list, etc., to make it accessible to the broadest audience possible. 公益財団法人 東芝国際交流財団のご提供でお届けするラウンドテーブル・ジャパン (R ...
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Has Japan solved the problem of homelessness?
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1:02:28“Has Japan solved the problem of homelessness? And even if it has not, what lessons for other countries does the Japanese experience have to offer? According to Japanese government statistics, Japan’s street homeless population peaked in 2003 at 25,296. The figure for 2023 was 2,830 – 2,575 men, 172 women, and 73 ‘unclear’. That is an 89% decline. …
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