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.…
Deep Cuts in an award winning podcast hosted by international super star, Mike Kavanaugh. Fast paced, no nonsense - all nonsense show about the dumb things that make life worth examining. Featuring special guests and tons of celebrities. Your favorite celebrities. The funny ones. And the hot ones too. They are all on my junk for this show.
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Deep Cuts is back with season two. And holy cow boobs is it a lot like the first season. Only more up to date. On this season premiere Andrei Alupului stops by the apartment to discuss sketchy musicians, capes, and the finality of death vs. the death of finality. I think we also share recipes and might have taken some calls. I don't know. So sit ba…
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The one and only Doug Kellner stops by to discuss Xanax, Batman, and Funerals. You don't want to miss this one folks. I WON'T LET YOU!!!!!
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My name is Mike Kavanaugh. And I can't sleep. And this is what I do at 2am when I can't sleep. COME WITH ME, YOU JOLLY RANCHERS!!!
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