The Rescue of Sigmund Freud

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ May 15-18 watch the film Outsider. Freud. on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.
⇒ May 17 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Yair Qedar, left, is an Israeli filmmaker, social activist, and former journalist. His project “The Hebrews” chronicles the lives of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew and Jewish literary and intellectual canon. His 19 feature-length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won over 35 prizes. He is also a leading LGBTQ activist, who created several queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. Since the early nineties, he has been involved in journalistic writing and editing. He has written for Schocken, Haaretz, and Davar and served as editor and deputy editor of the travel magazine Masa Acher. He won the Allied Prize for World Jewish Press and the European Union Award for Journalistic Reporting.

Andrew Nagorski, right, is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Rome, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, and Moscow. In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. He is the author of eight books, including Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom; Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power; and The Nazi Hunters. He is also chairman of the board of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation, and a member of the board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.

Daniela Finzi is a literary and cultural scholar and a curator. She has been the Research Director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation since 2016, and has curated numerous exhibitions on Freud and psychoanalytical issues at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Her research focuses on the history of psychoanalysis, exile studies and gender studies. Her most recent publications include the anthologies IT HURTS! Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter, 2025) and Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ed. with Elane Shapira)

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Registration for this program will open at a later date.