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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Welcome to Episode 15 of Staffroom Rambles, the weekly education podcast by Tom Rogers and Chris Mayoh.In this week's bumper episode we discuss Damian Hinds and Amanda Spielman's 'solutions' to the teacher workload issue, Donald Trump and arming teachers, performance-related pay, Pupil Premium funding, the Practical Pedagogies conference, Teachmeet…
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Welcome to Episode 14 of Staffroom Rambles, the weekly education podcast by Tom Rogers and Chris Mayoh.This week we apologise for our lengthy absence, describe Chris's change in circumstances and then discuss Tom Bennett's report on behaviour in English schools (and specifically how the data is reported by headteachers), and the demands of being a …
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Welcome to Episode 13 of Staffroom Rambles, the weekly education podcast by Tom Rogers and Chris Mayoh.This week we talk about Ofsted's attack on Swindon's 'failing' teachers, the Practical Pedagogies Conference in Toulouse, consistency of approach to managing students' behaviour, and we point out some other education podcasts that might be of inte…
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Welcome to Episode 12 of Staffroom Rambles, the weekly education podcast by Tom Rogers and Chris Mayoh.This week we keep it relatively short and discuss the GCSE Results Day and the impact on teachers, positively and negatively.Links to articles we discussed this week can be found here:Tom's TES article about the pressures of GCSE Results Day: http…
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