In the hushed, book-lined halls of the Doheny Memorial Library at USC, visitors are greeted with a provocative question: How do you write history when you’re part of it—and when the world around you is crumbling?The library’s new exhibit, “Josephus, Translated and Transformed: From the 1st to the 21st Century,” runs until December 18 and pairs Flavius Josephus, the first-century chronicler of a doomed Jewish revolt, with Lion Feuchtwanger, the 20th-century German-Jewish novelist who fled Nazi persecution. Two men separated by nearly two millennia, yet linked by their ability to record catastrophe from the eye of the storm.
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