Ann Kjellberg

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Robert Fludd, from Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia (1617)In conversation with Mariana DimópulosIn my case, descended from Germanized Poles on my mother’s side and Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa on my father’s, I grew up in Cape Town in an environment where English—the master tongue—seemed to be the way of the future, and an English-language education the best way of ensuring that a child would prosper.

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“I began to collect the dreams that the Nazi dictatorship had as it were dictated”: this is how Charlotte Beradt (1907–1986) describes the subversive and dangerous project she undertook in 1933. A Jewish journalist and Communist Party member, she had been barred from publishing soon after Hitler’s ascent to power, but managed to survive under the new regime until she was able to get out of Germany in 1939.

2 weeks ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

On Thursday, veteran Washington correspondent April Ryan reported on efforts she had heard about from sources to transport the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and on a letter that Dr. Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, had received informing him that a Bible and a volume of an early work of African American history were being returned to him by the museum.