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Herbert and Kaethe Hirsch family collection 1912-1984
No full textThis collection contains the papers of Robin Hirsch and his parents, Herbert and Kaethe. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, dating from Herbert's time as an artilleryman for the German army in World War I up until his death in 1982. Herbert mostly corresponded with his immediate family and friends. In 1967, Robin relocated to the United States, so later correspondence is mostly between Robin and his parents. Other materials in the collection focus on restitution for Herbert and Kaethe, as well as photographs from Herbert's travels in the 1930s in Europe and Palestine.Herbert Hirsch collected articles and information on anti-Semitism (mainly 1933-1935 German newspapers and 1945 English reporting) and Jewish resistance. He was member of the Juedischer Ruder-Club IVRIA: part of the collection contains material about the club and its history. The collection also contains efforts to document the former Hirsch-family-history and some diary-like writings and texts, most of them written by Herbert Hirsch.Also included are documents about the work of Robin Hirsch as a theater director (posters and leaflets) and as a lecturer.Herbert M. Hirsch was born on January 11, 1898 in Berlin to Bertha née Baer and Max Hirsch. He had one younger brother, Georg. In 1913, Herbert took a commercial apprenticeship at the Orenstein & Koppel (O&K) Company. In 1914, he joined the Jewish rowing club, “Ivria.” During World War I he served in the German army as a field artilleryman. After the war, he returned to O&K until 1921, when his father had a heart attack and forced him to take over the family firm, Max Hirsch & Co., a metal works factory that sold bakelite. In 1938, Herbert’s mother and brother fled to the Netherlands; Bertha died in Bergen-Belsen in 1944, but Georg survived the war. On September 15, 1938, Herbert Hirsch found refuge in England, but was interned on the Isle of Man from June 27, 1940 until 1941. Herbert married Kaethe Lewald in 1939. In London, Hirsch was chairman of the Hampstead Zion House and the Theodor Herzl Society and involved in the Association of Jewish Refugees. Herbert Hirsch died on October 28, 1982.Kaethe Hirsch was born on May 1, 1902 in Berlin to Ernst Lewald and Luise née Felsenthal. Luise was deported in March 1943 and died in the Holocaust. Kaethe had a sister, Herta, who married Werner Eichwald and fled to Argentina. From 1924 to 1928 Kaethe was married to Joachim Lothar Sachs. After moving to England in 1939, she married Herbert and had two children, Robin, born in 1942 and Barbara, born in 1944. Kaethe Hirsch died in June 1990.Robin Hirsch attended Oriel College at Oxford University from 1961-1964. He taught at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in 1966 and briefly worked at the Sheffield Playhouse. In 1967, he received Fulbright and English Speaking Union Fellowship scholarships and began a doctorate at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in theater and literature in 1969 and moved to New York City. He married Nancy Volkman in 1972. In July 1977, he opened the Cornelia Street Café with Charles McKenna and Raphaela Pivetta. In addition to running the Café, he also founded the New Works Project, a group devoted to the development of new theater productions. He married his second wife Leona Jaglom in 1984
Last dance at the Hotel Kempinski : creating a life in the shadow of history /
No full text"Robin Hirsch was born in London during the Blitz, to German Jews who had escaped Hitler. Coming of age in postwar England with German-speaking parents, he learned very quickly the ironies of survival - his best friend at school, an English Jew, at the age of six called him a Nazi." "In these memoirs, which span more than fifty years and which shift from Berlin to Brooklyn, from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires, from Shanghai to West Virginia, from Jerusalem to Beverly Hills, Hirsch wrestles with his ambiguous heritage, assembling the jigsaw puzzle both of his own life and of "a larger life which was once whole, but which was deracinated, decimated, and scattered across the globe.""-- "As Hirsch taps into the shared consciousness of this far-flung community, he discovers that the violence of the Holocaust "can breed in the survivor a myriad of responses - despair, silence, anger, a reciprocal violence, a reverence or an appetite for life, and on occasion, mirabile dictu, a sense of humor.""--. "With a similar mixture of feelings - and with considerable humor - he conjures up the costume ball at Berlin's Hotel Kempinski, where his parents first met; he relives with an uncle the horrors of Auschwitz and the miracle of his aunt's survival; he submits his infant son to the terrifying ritual of circumcision."-- "The journey across boundaries and generations enables Hirsch to connect with his European past, to achieve a hard-earned measure of peace in the New World, and finally to forgive his parents: "What were their lives like before us, what had they given up, what had they lost, what out of the turmoil and the violence and the displacement had they managed to salvage, what, now, in the shadow of this history, did they feel they had accomplished?" The answer, Last Dance suggests, is found in the indomitable human spirit."--"Robin Hirsch was born in London during the Blitz, to German Jews who had escaped Hitler. Coming of age in postwar England with German-speaking parents, he learned very quickly the ironies of survival - his best friend at school, an English Jew, at the age of six called him a Nazi." "In these memoirs, which span more than fifty years and which shift from Berlin to Brooklyn, from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires, from Shanghai to West Virginia, from Jerusalem to Beverly Hills, Hirsch wrestles with his ambiguous heritage, assembling the jigsaw puzzle both of his own life and of "a larger life which was once whole, but which was deracinated, decimated, and scattered across the globe.""-- "As Hirsch taps into the shared consciousness of this far-flung community, he discovers that the violence of the Holocaust "can breed in the survivor a myriad of responses - despair, silence, anger, a reciprocal violence, a reverence or an appetite for life, and on occasion, mirabile dictu, a sense of humor.""--. "With a similar mixture of feelings - and with considerable humor - he conjures up the costume ball at Berlin's Hotel Kempinski, where his parents first met; he relives with an uncle the horrors of Auschwitz and the miracle of his aunt's survival; he submits his infant son to the terrifying ritual of circumcision."-- "The journey across boundaries and generations enables Hirsch to connect with his European past, to achieve a hard-earned measure of peace in the New World, and finally to forgive his parents: "What were their lives like before us, what had they given up, what had they lost, what out of the turmoil and the violence and the displacement had they managed to salvage, what, now, in the shadow of this history, did they feel they had accomplished?" The answer, Last Dance suggests, is found in the indomitable human spirit."--Rubin, Dere
Happy Hour with Robin Sacks
No full textRobin Sacks is the author of Get Off My Bus!: How to Get Clarity, Get in the Driver\u27s Seat, and Get Moving in Your Life! Introduction by Kristen Kuhlman, LSW, LHNA, MBA/HCM DHA Candidate
Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
No full texttag=1 data=Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
tag=2 data=Butler, Robin
tag=3 data=Public Administration,
tag=4 data=72
tag=5 data=2
tag=6 data=Summer 1994
tag=7 data=263-270.
tag=8 data=MANAGEMENT%PUBLIC SERVICE
tag=10 data=The author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government.
tag=11 data=1994/6/8
tag=12 data=94/0490
tag=13 data=CABThe author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government
Robin Becker, 16th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRobin Becker is the author of Giacometti’s Dog, published in 1990 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous books are Backtalk and Personal Effects, both published by Alice James Books She has received fellowships in poetry from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems appear in many journals including Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. She has published book reviews in Belles Lettres, The Boston Globe, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner and The Women’s Review of Books She teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year she is Visiting Poet at Pennsylvania State University. Robin Becker serves as Poetry Editor for The Women’s Review of Books and as a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs
Author Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The baby book" at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The Baby Book." Introductory remarks are provided by MSU Professor Telaina Eriksen and MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library and sponsored by the MSU Department of English and the Center for Gender in Global Context
Writer Robin Lippincott reads from novel In the Meantime
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to writer Robin Lippincott read from his new novel In the Meantime, which tracks the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades. Lippincott is also the author of Mr. Dalloway. The reading was part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt University. It was recorded on Oct. 31, 2007.
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