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UK Jewish Film/ Hitler Vs. Picasso and the Others + post-screening discussion

This screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Reader in History, University of Manchester, and Janet Wolff, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester, chaired by David Berkley QC,.

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a reader at the University of Manchester. He is a specialist of economic and diplomatic aspects of the Holocaust and post-war reparations. He has written on looted art in the Holocaust and has edited several memoirs and Holocaust diary. He is also the author of TV documentaries. He has recently published the „Goering Catalogue“, the original inventory of Goering’s art collection in Carinhall (Paris, Flammarion, 2015). He currently researches the search and exhumation of victims‘ corpses after the Holocaust.

 

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester. She is a sociologist and art historian, and has taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Rochester (New York) and Columbia University. She has published a number of books on aesthetics and the sociology of art. In her most recent book, Austerity Baby (published by Manchester University Press) she has turned from academic to more personal writing, combining memoir, family history and accounts of other lives and events. Central to the book is the experience of her father and his family in Germany in the 1930s. 

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