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.…
The Extreme Sailing Series is an international inshore racing circuit bringing together the best skippers on the planet - from Olympic medalists to round-the-world record holders - competing against each other in state of the art 40-foot catamarans. The crews, racing identical speed machines, battle it out on short courses set very close to the shore and at the heart of cities, in order to bring the action to the public, who sometimes stands less than 5 metres away from the boats! http://www ...
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Thousands turned out to witness the Extreme 40s race on one of the most impressive stadiums the Series has ever visited on Saturday (7 July). The 'apprentices' on the circuit SAP Extreme Sailing Team were at the centre of most of the day's action -- including a collision with Oman Air which saw Jes Gram Hansen, the Danish skipper of SAP Extreme Sai…
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Episode 4: Act 4, Porto - Race of the Day - Day 2
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1:53:06Double Olympic gold medallist Hagara was chipping away at the leaderboard all day in Porto on day 2, steadily narrowing the gap between him and his French rivals on Groupe Edmond de Rothschild. Race 16 of the event was where Hagara started to make real in-roads leading his Austrian team to a race win, while the French could only muster an eighth. T…
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In Istanbul we have seen The Wave, Muscat and Red Bull Sailing Team trade places at the top of the leader board for four days, until the penultimate race of the event. Leigh McMillan, skipper of The Wave, Muscat analyses the race that he felt decided the overall event. http://www.extremesailingseries.com…
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Episode 2: Act 3, Istanbul - Race of the Day - Day 3
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1:05:55Red Bull Sailing Team Skipper Roman Hagara is hard on himself as he analysizes race 22 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Istanbul - a blip in a near perfect day for the Austrian team who lead going into the final day of Act 3. http://www.extremesailingseries.com/
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Great tactics from Morgan Larson on Oman Air saw his team sail to victory in the Extreme Sailing Series race 3 on day 2 in Istanbul. He talks us through how they did it. http://www.extremesailingseries.com/
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