Fiume: How People Struggled Amongst the Nudists

Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Presenter: Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami) Respondent: Molly Greene (Princeton University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Gabriele D’Annunzio, his legionnaires, and all the extremes of drugs, sex, nudism, and libertinism has put the port-city town of Fiume (today’s Rijeka in the Republic of Croatia) on the historiographical map. Often characterized as the site of proto-fascism or the “festival of the revolution,” Fiume has been marked…

Film: The City without Jews

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Jews are hounded by mobs and driven from Vienna in this 1924 expressionist film based on the satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer. The sensational film that anticipated the Holocaust and cost Bettauer his life was rediscovered in 2015. With commentary by film scholar Noah Isenberg (UT Austin) and a live score. Recently restored and featuring a new soundtrack, The City Without…