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Once Again, Germany Defines Who Is a Jew | Part II | Granta

‘Turning to Germany, it seems that Jews are the only ones entitled to historical context, to history, and also to trauma. Palestinian histor

"In the last few weeks, demonstrations have been permitted to take place, under strict rules on what can be said. ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ has been banned as a slogan. In Bavaria, it is being prosecuted as incitement on par with ‘Heil Hitler’. In recent weeks even the slogan, ‘from the river to the sea, we demand equality’ has been banned by police, as well as any reference to ‘genocide’. At a demonstration in Berlin, a person holding a sign that read ‘from XX to XX, XX will be free’ is being prosecuted for possible incitement. The police announced that they would break up a registered demonstration if the crowd chants ‘stop the war’. Calling for ceasefire is equated with denying Israel its right to defend itself, and is therefore synonymous with wanting Israeli Jews to be murdered."

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The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World de George Prochnik

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His work has allowed many people to feel less isolated and freakish in their deepest cravings and fears

His work has allowed many people to feel less isolated and freakish in their deepest cravings and fears....The idea that large parts of our mental life remain obscure or even entirely mysterious to us; that we benefit from attending to the influence of these depths upon our surface selves, our behaviors, language, dreams and fantasies; that we can sometimes be consumed by our childhood familial roles and even find ourselves re-enacting them as adults; that our sexuality might be as ambiguous and multifaceted as our compendious emotional beings and individual histories — these core conceits, in the forms they circulate among us, are indebted to Freud’s writings. Now that we’ve effectively expelled Freud from the therapeutic clinic, have we become less neurotic? With that baneful “illusion” gone, and with all our psychopharmaceuticals and empirically grounded cognitive therapy techniques firmly in place, can we assert that we’ve advanced toward some more rational state of mental health than that enjoyed by our forebears in the heyday of analysis? Indeed, with a commander in chief who often seems to act entirely out of the depths of a dark unconscious, we might all do better to read more, not less, of Freud.

~ George Prochnik, “The Curious Conundrum of Freud’s Persistent Influence” in The New York Times (August 14, 2017). A book review of “Freud. The Making of an Illusion. By Frederick Crews. (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, August 22, 2017))

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Save the dates for "Zweig at Fredonia 2016" this October 3-5!

Save the dates for “Zweig at Fredonia 2016” this October 3-5!

Continuing the recent surge of interest in the Austrian Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) since Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, including the premiere of an Austrian biopic selected as that country’s Oscar foreign-language submission (Vor der Morgenröte/Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe), and a host of new critical studies worldwide, Zweig returns to Fredonia this Fall! Dates and…

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  Stefan Zweig, ca. 1938 The Stefan Zweig Collection Daniel A. Reed Library Archives & Special Collections The State University of New York at Fredonia

  Please join the Archives & Special Collections of Reed Library, the Department of English and the School of Music at The State University of New York at Fredonia in a celebration of Stefan Zweig and music at the upcoming Zweig at Fredonia 2016 schedule of events to be held October 3-5, 2016 on the campus of Fredonia in Fredonia, NY.

Matthew Werley

Highlighting Zweig’s lifelong fascination with music, this three-day event will commence October 3 on Fredonia’s campus with a panel discussion investigating the collaborative relationship between Zweig and German composer Richard Strauss. The panel will be led by noted historical musicologist and Zweig scholar Dr. Matthew Werley.  Currently a Research Fellow at the renowned Richard-Strauss-Institut in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Dr. Werley is co-editing, together with Dr. Jeffrey B. Berlin, a forthcoming critical edition of newly translated correspondence between Strauss and Zweig.

A post-panel reception at Fredonia’s Reed Library on the evening of October 3 will open an exhibition featuring select items from Fredonia’s renowned Stefan Zweig Collection illustrating Zweig’s personal connections to contemporary composers (Strauss, Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, among others) in both creative and intellectual terms. The exhibit will also attempt to portray Zweig’s position in relation to the increasingly hostile environment of Nazi Germany within which artistic and musical expression struggled to survive, including a somewhat cryptic telegram sent from Strauss to Zweig on the 1935 premiere in Dresden of Strauss’ opera Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) for which Zweig himself famously wrote the libretto.

On the evening of October 4, Fredonia School of Music faculty and students will perform excerpts from Die schweigsame Frau, which Strauss composed during his tenure as head of the Reichsmusikkammer under the Nazi regime. Strauss’ decision to commission Zweig as his librettist for the opera would ultimately harbinger his resignation from the post under acute Nazi pressure.

George Prochnik © Elisabeth Prochnik

Finally, on October 5, Fredonia welcomes the return of renowned author and Zweig biographer George Prochnik (The Impossible Exile, Other Press, 2014) as he delivers the keynote 4th Biennial Stefan Zweig Lecture in Fredonia’s Rosch Recital Hall. Prochnik previously participated in the 2009 Zweig Symposium at Fredonia where he presented his paper “The Netherworld of Yesterday: An Imaginary Conversation between Stefan Zweig and Hannah Arendt” (listen to the podcast here). A brief conversation between Prochnik and Paul Holdengräber at the New York Public Library can be viewed here.

Please subscribe to the Zweig at Fredonia blog or follow us on twitter (@FREDArchives) for regular updates on the Zweig at Fredonia 2016 events. Questions may be directed to Dr. Birger Vanwesenbeeck ([email protected]), Associate Professor of English at Fredonia, or Kim Taylor ([email protected]), Coordinator of Archives & Special Collections at Fredonia.

From the Zweig Collection at Fredonia

Letter from Stefan Zweig to Richard Strauss (13 December 1934) in which he expresses his concerns about a German premiere of Die schweigsame Frau.

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The Stefan Zweig Collection, Correspondence Box 11, no. 292A-2 Reed Library Archives & Special Collections, The State University of New York at Fredonia

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  “Zweig at Fredonia 2016”, October 3-5, 2016 Please join the Archives & Special Collections of Reed Library, the Department of English and the School of Music at The State University of New York at Fredonia in a celebration of Stefan Zweig and music at the upcoming…

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In the essay 'Nature', Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of how the sun "illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines in the eye and heart of the child." Yet in the quiet landscape of the natural world, the "spirit of infancy" could be recovered. In the hour of quiet contemplation "mean egotism vanishes", Emerson wrote. "I become a transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all". Instead of helping us feel ownership of space, an architecture of silence might bring home the fact that we are part of what we gaze upon.

George Prochnik, “In Pursuit of Silence”

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...the basic strategy for locating the remaining sites of silence in your hometown is to envision it as the Costa del Sol...All the places people are naturally drawn to for work, recreation, and shopping are going to be impossibly loud...So ask yourself: What is the interior of the place I live? Where do the surf and sand stop? What's the road no one bothers to drive? The bench where no one sits? In many cities, the land underneath the yawning arches where old bridges sink their foundations is a place of refuge, as are the tops of undistinguished skyscrapers. In smaller towns, historical societies and libraries with inadequate Internet connections are invariably deserted. Museums of unfashionable subjects are a good bet anywhere. Cemeteries on weekdays, wherever you live, are an obvious but available refuge. Just remember to keep asking, Where's the culture pulling everyone? Now turn around and walk the other way. Keep walking.

George Prochnik, In Pursuit of Silence