Past Event Category: Remarque Insitute
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Feb 132026: Hisham Matar, Daniel Mendelsohn, “Exile”
Hisham Matar, Daniel Mendelsohn
Remarque Institute, NYU, 60 5th Ave 8th Floor New York, NY 10011
Exile was a deeply personal and profoundly intellectual theme for two generations of European writers, including George and Hilde Mosse, as well as the Institute’s namesake: Erich Maria Remarque. Living in exile deeply influenced how Europeans—especially exiled Germans, European Jews, and Russians—abroad thought of their relationship to the homelands to which they aspired to return. Some sought …