Jonathan Bach, Author at Public Seminar

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What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany

An excerpt from Jonathan Bach’s latest book

October 19, 2017 • by Jonathan Bach

Introduction The GDR never existed.” Nonsense, of course -- the German Democratic Republic, aka East Germany, existed for forty cold war years as the front line of the Soviet Bloc, as West Germany’s socialist double and as a lived reality for sixteen million people. Yet, eighteen years after German unification in 1990, ...

Global Studies at The New School on the Executive Order banning Refugees

A Personal Message from the Chair

January 31, 2017 • by Jonathan Bach

The President’s executive order from January 27, 2017 barred entry to whole populations from select countries to the United States (initially including U.S. legal permanent residents). It is a watershed in post-World War II U.S. policy and history and a turning point in U.S. relations with the world. It must ...

Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

An Open Letter to President Van Zandt and Provost Marshall

November 15, 2016 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Miriam Ticktin and Jonathan Bach

The result of the U.S. election cannot be understood in isolation from the global context of migration and refugee flows. Fear and ignorance about what causes people to leave their communities, and about the effects this has in the societies they join are at the core of xenophobic reactions and ...

Jonathan Bach

What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany

An excerpt from Jonathan Bach’s latest book

Global Studies at The New School on the Executive Order banning Refugees

A Personal Message from the Chair

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