Refuge on the Mediterranean
A Staged Reading With Students from Leipzig University on the Forced Migration of German-Jewish Scholars from Nazi Germany
Admission: EUR 18, EUR 14, EUR 10 (solidarity pricing system)
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From Breslau to Jerusalem, from Berlin to Cairo, from Leipzig to Ankara: in the 1930s, Jewish researchers fled Nazi persecution to the Mediterranean. Based on four biographies, this staged reading focuses on the journeys, challenges, and fates of Jewish academics threatened in Germany, as well as their reception in exile.
The reading was developed by students at Leipzig University as part of a project seminar led by Sebastian Willert at the Dubnow Institute. The documents, compiled from several archives, show the conditions under which solidarity and support for threatened academics were formed. Relief organizations played a central role in selecting who they would support in their flight in exile. The reading conveys individual perspectives on forced migration from Nazi Germany to the Mediterranean and outlines the realities that refugees faced on the ground.
The event will be held in German.
Thursday, 26 June 2026, 8 p.m.
Cammerspiele Leipzig e. V. in der Kulturfabrik Leipzig
An event as part of Jewish Week Leipzig