German Refugee Classicists: Eva Lehmann Fiesel and Ruth Erika Fiesel @leobaeckinstitute

Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

This presentation by scholar Judith Peller Hallett illuminates the extraordinary lives and legacies of two German-born classicists, Eva Lehmann Fiesel and her daughter Ruth Erika Fiesel, warmly welcomed here in the United States as refugees from the Nazis and their "race laws" in 1934.

Thumbnail: Eva Feisel and her baby Ruth in 1921. Used with permission from the Ernest K. Lehmann Family.

German Refugee Classicists: Eva Lehmann Fiesel and Ruth Erika Fiesel

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