The Leo Baeck Institute and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a reading and conversation on I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me, Selected Letters and Reflections of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (Seagull Books, 2024) with the book’s editor and translator Peter Wortsman and the author and translator Tess Lewis. “I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me” affords English-speaking readers the first privileged peek at the mindset of one of Europe’s first and foremost women of letters. Rahel Levin Varnhagen penned over ten thousand letters to more than three hundred recipients during her liftetime, varying in subject from family affairs to linguistic, literary and pressing social concerns; and constituting a singular contribution to German literature.

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