LBI is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a two-part exhibit, 70 Years of LBI: Bridging Generations. The exhibit will tell the story of LBI’s founding and showcase recent LBI projects. The first part of the exhibit regales viewers with the story of the Institute from its May 1955 founding conference in Jerusalem to the present...
Since 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish faith or ‘race’, to reclaim it. Yet, over the past 75 years, there have been significant changes regarding which German Jews – and which descendants – can enjoy that right. This talk tracks...
Bridging Generations, Disciplines, and the Atlantic: LBI at 70 As they began their salvage of the material and intellectual legacy of European Jewry, the Leo Baeck Institute's founders hoped to assemble a narrative of the German-Jewish past that was comprehensive, synthetic, and "free from apologetic or tendentious coloring." Today, the collections of the LBI inform...
Am 8. Mai 1945 endete der Zweite Weltkrieg in Europa mit der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht und der Befreiung von der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft. Zwei Monate später entschieden Vertreter der drei alliierten Großmächte USA, Großbritannien und Sowjetunion auf der Potsdamer Konferenz im Schloss Cecilienhof über die politische und demografische Zukunft Europas, in dem zuvor nie...
Due to the horrors of the Third Reich, we have come to think of German nationalism as inherently antisemitic, racist, antidemocratic, and violent. This talk challenges this conventional interpretation. It shows how the defenders of the Weimar and First Austrian Republics used the großdeutsch idea, the notion that Austria should be part of a German...
Hitler and the history of the Nazis remain extremely popular topics and ones that never cease to attract people’s interest, even fascination. It is crucial to comprehend the nature of Mein Kampf, the mindset of its author, Adolf Hitler, and the ideology he espoused that brought untold tragedy to millions of people – death, destruction,...
Writing on the Wall: The Unfolding Persecution of Jews 1933 to 1939 This lecture looks at the response of Jews to incidents of persecution and humiliation from Hitler coming to power in 1933 through to the outbreak of the Second World War. It will argue that while the Holocaust could not be predicted the level...
Join us for the inaugural Eva Reichmann Lecture, co-hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute London and The Wiener Holocaust Library. This special event celebrates the legacy of Dr. Eva Reichmann, a pioneering historian whose groundbreaking work continues to shape our understanding of Nazi persecution and Holocaust historiography. Programme Welcome & Introduction Dr. Joseph Cronin (Director, Leo Baeck Institute...
In the early twentieth century, German-Jewish thinkers converged upon Daoism as a means to criticise state power and the dominance of economic productivity in modern society. Figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin explored how Daoist ideas could inspire alternative ways of organising social and economic life, thereby challenging stereotypes of ‘China’ as...
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