LBI Presents - Episode 5: Fact, Fiction, and Finding Yourself
Dec 19, 2023•30 min
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Episode description
The archive and library at LBI contains over 2000 memoirs. On this episode, Mark and literary critic Ruth Franklin, author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, discuss the line between fact and fiction in memoir writing and the evolution of Holocaust memoirs from first hand accounts to books written by second and third generation authors.
LBI Presents is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York | Berlin and Antica Productions.
Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer.
Executive Producers include Laura Regehr, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producer is Emily Morantz. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson.
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