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Alexandra Lehmann

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Alexandra Lehmann received her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany in Political Science and German. Her German fluency is born of heritage and studying Germanistik at universities in Wuerzburg, Braunschweig, and Munich. After nearly a decade of working in New York City as a copywriter and in Munich as a translator, Alexandra continued her Masters of Fine Arts in Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawerence College in Bronxville, New York. She completed her graduate thesis under the guidance of Vijay Seshadri. It compared the letters and diaries of Sophie Scholl and Anne Frank. Yad Vashem in Jerusalem requested a copy for their research library.

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With You There Is Light: Based on the True Story about Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel

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Reading to the Religious: With You There Is Light

Alexandra Lehmann reads at St. James in North Salem, New York

Reading at St. James in North Salem, New York

November 26, 2017

After Service at the St. James Episcopal Church, North Salem, New York

The first excerpt I read last Sunday came from Chapter Three of “With You There Is Light.” Sophie Scholl attended St. Georges, the Protestant Church in Ulm, with her mother. Sophie noted reading Exodus 17:11 in her journal so I imagined and wrote about a sermon wh...

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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This is a tremendous "little" book. I keep it in the reference section of my library and seek its counsel when I need a spiritual check-in and perspective from all religions.
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Alexandra Lehmann made a comment on Lisa’s review of With You There Is Light: Based on the True Story about Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel " Thank you, Lisa. Again, this means a lot to me. I learned early on both in business and creative writing that if spelling and grammar errors exist, it ...more "
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“We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

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“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

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“I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

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