John Stoessinger, an internationally recognized political analyst and prize-winning author of 10 books, will deliver the annual Rabbi Joseph Asher Lecture at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco on Thursday, May 18.
Stoessinger fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Three years later, he fled again via Siberia to China where he lived for seven years. In Shanghai, he served with the International Refugee Organization.
Stoessinger was chief book review editor of Foreign Affairs for five years and is presently distinguished professor of international affairs at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
His talk, titled “Odyssey to America: Reflections of a Survivor,” will be 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18 at Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake St., S.F. Free admission.