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...
Wednesday, 21st Mai 2025 19:00 (18:00 MESZ) Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (or Zoom Webinar) Join us for an Event Marking The 70th Anniversary Of The Leo Baeck Institute Greetings: His Excellency the German Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Steffen Seibert Dr. Tamara Or, German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation Opening remarks: Prof. Galili Shahar...
NEUER TERMIN FOLGT! 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...
Zoom Meeting In The Oral Documentation Series: The Multivoiced Archive: Connecting Oral (Hi)stories of Historical Injustices Thursday, 22.05.2025, 18:00 Prof. Dr. Nicole Immler, University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Moderator: Dr. Roni Mikel-Arieli How do personal testimonies reshape public memory – and what happens when many voices speak at once? In...
A festive launch of the scientific edition of the diary (following the day seminar starting from the morning at Machon Schocken, Balfur 6, Jerusalem) “Sand and Stars” by Siddi Wronsky: Gender, Dream and Reality through the eyes of Siddi Wronsky and Bertha Pappenheim Wednesday, 28.05.2025 18:00 LBI Jerusalem Registration for all parts of the...
Final meeting in the Zoom series “Laws, Contracts and Agreements” – Facing Past Crimes – Diplomacy, Transitional Justice and Law Wednesday, 04.06.2025 19:00 Zoom Speakers: Prof. Roni Stauber, Tel Aviv University Prof. Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University ↗ Register here.
Wir laden herzlich ein zur Festveranstaltung anlässlich des 70-jährigen Jubiläums des Leo Baeck Instituts. Am 17. Juni um 19 Uhr in der W. M. Blumenthal Akademie Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1 10969 Berlin Einlass ab 18:15 Uhr Anmeldung hier bis zum 30.5.2025 Das Jubiläumsjahr steht unter der Schirmherrschaft von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Freuen Sie sich auf...
The Annual Conference For German Studies: Language, Culture, Society (2025) Thursday, 19.06.2025 9:00 - 18:30 ANU Museum Tel Aviv University Campus Klausner 15, Tel Aviv The aim of the annual conference is to strengthen research ties in the fields of German Studies in Israel (among other fields of knowledge: history, art, literature, Jewish studies, social...
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...
Current International Research On Survivors of Nazi Persecution Eighth international multidisciplinary conference 7-9 January 2026, 9:00 Birkbeck, University of London The Wiener Holocaust Library, London A call for papers is now open for this conference: https://www.leobaeck.co.uk/news/2024/11/call-papers-beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-current-international-research-survivors The conference will be held in-person only, with no opportunity to attend virtually. ↗ Click here...
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