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Join our community on Facebook | Join our mailing list  Frank Mecklenburg joins us to talk about the Leo Baeck Institute‘s 1938Projekt (1938 Project), an exciting initiative to track the experience of German Jews in 1938 on a day-by-day basis. We talk about the project and its objectives, what kind of history it tells us about the transformations over the course of 1938, and about the importance of learning from the past: How we can comprehend daily life under the Nazi regime, how such “normalcy” illustrates how authoritarian regimes consolidate their power and marginalize elements of the population, and how we can identify parallels between the past and today’s international crises of refugees and discrimination against minorities and immigrants. The LBI’s 1938Projekt, by posting one item each day that relates to what happened on the exact day eighty years ago, illustrates the past and also presents a demand for us to think about what’s happening today too. Check out the 1938 Project: LBI’s 1938Projekt (auch auf Deutsch)1938Projekt on Twitter and on FacebookJanuary 1, 1938: Mutual Aid for the Dispossessed — The Jewish Winter Relief Organization Other historical events, topics, and figures discussed: Chronology of major events in 1938KindertransportLeo Baeck Institute  LBI Memoir Collection  Center for Jewish HistoryHannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil”  Also see: Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil  On the concept of a “lachrymose history” of the Jews, read: Yitzchak Schwartz, “An Anti-Anti-Lachrymose Approach to Jewish history?” (JHI Blog, Feb. 2017)

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishHistoryMatters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our community on Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.jewishhistory.fm/join-our-mailing-list/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our mailing list</a> <a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Frank Mecklenburg joins us to talk about the <a href="https://www.lbi.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leo Baeck Institute</a>‘s <a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1938Projekt (1938 Project)</a>, an exciting initiative to track the experience of German Jews in 1938 on a day-by-day basis. We talk about the project and its objectives, what kind of history it tells us about the transformations over the course of 1938, and about the importance of learning from the past: How we can comprehend daily life under the Nazi regime, how such “normalcy” illustrates how authoritarian regimes consolidate their power and marginalize elements of the population, and how we can identify parallels between the past and today’s international crises of refugees and discrimination against minorities and immigrants. The LBI’s 1938Projekt, by posting one item each day that relates to what happened on the exact day eighty years ago, illustrates the past and also presents a demand for us to think about what’s happening today too. Check out the 1938 Project: <ul><li><a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LBI’s 1938Projekt</a> (<a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/de/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">auch auf Deutsch</a>)</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/1938Projekt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1938Projekt on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1938projekt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/detail/mutual-aid-for-the-dispossessed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">January 1, 1938: Mutual Aid for the Dispossessed — The Jewish Winter Relief Organization</a></li></ul> Other historical events, topics, and figures discussed: <ul><li><a href="https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/on-this-day/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chronology of major events in 1938</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005260" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kindertransport</a></li><li><a href="https://www.lbi.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leo Baeck Institute</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.lbi.org/collections/archives/memoir-collection/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LBI Memoir Collection</a></li> </ul> </li><li><a href="https://www.cjh.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Center for Jewish History</a></li><li><a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/arendt/#H6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil”</a> <ul> <li>Also see: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143039881/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=jewishhistory-20&amp;linkId=f2f290054b6a4075d64074996065fe83" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil</a></li> </ul> </li><li>On the concept of a “lachrymose history” of the Jews, read: <a href="https://jhiblog.org/2017/02/22/an-anti-anti-lachrymose-approach-to-jewish-history/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yitzchak Schwartz, “An Anti-Anti-Lachrymose Approach to Jewish history?”</a> (JHI Blog, Feb. 2017)</li></ul>

5: Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg