Contents

  • Histories

    Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.

  • People

    Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.

  • Reader

    Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.

  • Reflections & Analysis

    Personal reminiscence, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
[email protected]

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Living in Translation

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" When I came to the United States in 1939 as a refugee from Hitler fascism, I had, like all refugees, a very problematic relationship with the English language. "

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A Statement

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" It has been insinuated by certain authorities of Columbia University that I resigned in a fit of unjustified petulance, and I, theretofore, beg to submit the following statement... "

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Aristide Zolberg

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New School professor Aristide R. Zolberg, one of the world’s leading voices on the politics, history, and ethics of immigration, (…) served as Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Politics and University in Exile Professor Emeritus at The New School for Social Research. A distinguished political scientist and a preeminent scholar of comparative politics, the history […]