DOES YOUR SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, COLLEGE OR COMMUNITY GROUP NEED A SPEAKER FOR A SPECIAL PROGRAM?

LIST OF SAMPLE TOPICS FOR THE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

JEWISH - HOLOCAUST - GAY - GERMAN

• Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938 -70 years ago my father and grandfather were sent to Dachau for being Jewish. A minute by minute account of the day relating the events from a personal family perspective.
  
  
• Jewish and Gay and German-Growing up as a baby boomer gay son of two German Holocaust Survivors where being Jewish or gay or German was not an easy thing to be.
  
  
• The Homosexual Community during the Third Reich- Discussions of what happened to the homosexual community under the expanded Paragraph 175 during the Nazi era (inside Germany and the other occupied countries) and afterwards from the perspective of a gay son of Holocaust Survivors. Includes a time line of how this persecution aided in the formation of the Holocaust and how the historical facts are still being uncovered. The talk ends with the creation of the International Association of Lesbian and Children of Holocaust Survivors and the struggle to get the NYC Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial Park to inscribe the marker relating the history of the homosexual community.
  
  
  
• Jewish and German-Why would a nice Jewish boy of two Holocaust Survivors want to re-instate his German citizenship?
  
  
• My Hebrew School Teacher was Surprised-Arguing for Gay Marriage in 1965 before my Bar Mitzvah.
  
  
• Being Beaten for being Gay-Starting the Gay Liberation Front at my College in Buffalo in 1970.
  
  
• The Little Torah Goes Home-Returning a Torah that survived Kristallnacht back to Munich.
  
  
  
• A Biblical Perspective-What's the problem with being gay and Jewish anyway?
  
  
• What are the Chances-How my father was both an 18 year old Jewish boy in Dachau and then a 25 year old American soldier liberating Dachau and his hometown of Augsburg.
  
  
• Baby Boomers-Still harboring feelings of wanting to fix the world.
  
  
• Lebkuchen for Chanukah - Growing up in New York with German parents after WW II.
  
  

This is the photo of my grandparent's wedding in Germany. It not only shows the difference between my Orthodox East European greatgrandparents sitting the front row, but the actual faces of so many Jews who died in the Holocaust.

There is the story of how my greatgrandparents left Galicia to flee to safety in Munich around the turn of the 20th Century, to how some of these people's children survived through the Kindertransport to England. How the good deeds of some would save the lives of others many years later.








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LIST OF SAMPLE TOPICS FOR THE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT


URBAN PLANNING - ZONING - OR 9/11 WORLD TRADE CENTER EXPERIENCE TALK?

LIVING 1,000 FEET FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER- Before and after 9/11, from being displaced and coping with the tragedy of our times. The minute by minute account of what it was like from waking up to a beautiful sunny day to going to sleep on the floor of one's office. Then having to cope with the realities of having your neighborhood devastated and working your way back to a cleaned up home.






• ZONING STARTS IN LOWER MANHATTAN- Topics include the history and impact of Zoning on America.
  
  
• NEW AMSTERDAM- Along with a walking tour, the topic of religious freedom and taxation and other Dutch impacts on American life.
  
  
• LAND USE LAW- Topics include urban renewal, eminent domain, landmarking, growth management, exclusionary and inclusionary zoning, community benefit agreements, environmental impact statements, adult use zoning, etc.

Please click on any of the following articles or websites to get an idea of some of the topics

Here are some articles on the internet to give you an idea of the topics that are covered.	Stories about my father being in Dachau and then liberating Dachau.	Holocaust Torah returns to Munich.
Fag Bashing is Not New! Being beaten after starting the Gay Liberation Front in Buffalo New York.	End of Womens' Bowling at UB! How I registered for Women's Bowling for an easier "B".	Stories of a Gay Camper Stories about going to a Jewish Summer Camp in the Catskill Mountains... on the German Jewish side of the mountains.
How I discovered Joe Dellasandro years before Andy Warhol.	A Gay Synagogue? 1999 If so many reform and reconstuctionist and even some conservative synagogues are LGBT friendly, why do we need CBST, a synagogue serving the LGBT community?	German-Jewish & Gay An essay on being German, Jewish and gay.
Living Near Ground Zero Stories about living 1,000 feet from the World Trade Center and being displaced after 9/11.	Holocaust Articles of Interest	......

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Rick Landman, a Native New Yorker, is a gay son of two Jewish Holocaust Survivors, who was born in New York City, and is now a dual citizen of Germany and America.

Present at the Rededication ceremony of the Augsburg Synagogue and accompanied his father for various speeches given in Augsburg.

Founder of the Gay Liberation Front at his college in 1970 at the University of Buffalo, and helped to organize the First Statewide March on Albany for Gay Rights in 1971 and the First Nationwide March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.

Long term active member of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah(and former member of the Board of Directors). CBST is the world's largest synagogue serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community, their families and friends.

Founded the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors in 1990.

Earned 3 Masters Degrees and a JD in law and specialized in real estate and urban planning for decades. He is an AICP certified planner for over 30 years and a member of the New York Bar.

Executive Director of Real Estate Development for the City of New York in 1979-1983, and the Director of Real Estate Development for New York University from 1989-2006.

Adjunct Professor for the core required graduate Land Use Law class at NYU's Wagner School for their urban planning students for six years.

Long term member of Community Board #1 Manhattan, and was the first chair of the Planning & Community Infrastructure Committee, the first chair of the Landmarks Committee when Tribeca was designated, and a chair of the Tribeca Committee.



LANGUAGES
The talks are given in English, but can be delivered in German (Deutsch).

APPEARANCE FEES
Appearance fees vary depending on the engagement. Travel and boarding expenses are extra and handled on an individual basis. Each talk is approximately one hour long, including questions and answers. Cash, Travelers Checks or NYS checks are acceptable forms of payment.

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