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SUMMARY:Erich Fromm: Love\, Jewish Philosophy\, and Theopolitics
DESCRIPTION:A Conference Marking 70 Years of »The Art of Loving« \n  \n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, 12.05.2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nWednesday\, 13.05.2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the full program in Hebrew ➚here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/erich-fromm-love-jewish-philosophy-and-theopolitics/
LOCATION:LBI Jerusalem\, 33 Bustenai Street\, Jerusalem\, 9104201\, Israel
CATEGORIES:Konferenz,LBI Jerusalem
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260608T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260608T200000
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SUMMARY:Tanz auf dem Vulkan - Eine Revue (Termin München)
DESCRIPTION:Wir laden Sie herzlich zu einer besonderen Veranstaltungsreihe in Kooperation mit Elysium ein\, die Sie in das pulsierende und widersprüchliche Berlin der 1920er-Jahre entführt. Die Inszenierung begeistert dabei so sehr\, dass sie gleich dreimal auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks zur Aufführung kommt. \nZwischen Hyperinflation\, sozialem Elend und politischen Straßenkämpfen entsteht eine faszinierende kulturelle Blüte: Dada\, Bauhaus\, Jazz\, Kabarett – und die Flucht in die schillernde Welt von Kino und Operette. Im Zentrum steht Erwin Piscator\, Begründer des politischen Theaters\, der geprägt von seinen Fronterfahrungen im Ersten Weltkrieg die Bühne als Ort gesellschaftlicher Veränderung versteht. \nIn einer eindrucksvollen Revue wird diese bewegte Zeit lebendig – mit Texten von Erich Mühsam\, Erwin Piscator\, Alfred Polgar\, Kurt Tucholsky u.a.\, begleitet von Musik von Paul Abraham\, Hanns Eisler\, Mischa Spolianski u.a. \nMitwirkende der Abende in Berlin und München:\nGregorij H. von Leïtis (Regie)\nChrista Pillmann (Schauspiel)\nNeelam Brader (Mezzosopran)\nPatrick Lammer (Bariton)\nMasha Yulin (Klavier) \nDie Veranstaltungen stehen unter der Schirmherrschaft von Dr. Felix Klein\, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für jüdisches Leben in Deutschland und den Kampf gegen Antisemitismus. \n  \n\nCo-Sponsoren: \n\n\n  \nTickets 30\,00 €\, erm. 20\,00 € unter 30 Jahre 10\,00 € (nur an der Abendkasse\, nach Verfügbarkeit)
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/tanz-auf-dem-vulkan-eine-revue-termin-muenchen/
LOCATION:Münchner Künstlerhaus\, Lenbachplatz 8\, München\, 80333\, Germany
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T183000
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SUMMARY:Never Again\, When?: German Memory Culture\, the Holocaust\, and Free Expression
DESCRIPTION:With Irit Dekel and Omri Boehm \n  \n\nThis event is part of LBI’s Forum on Free Speech and Democracy. \nIn a recent article for New German Critique\, sociologist Irit Dekel (Indiana University\, Bloomington) described the phrase “Never Again” as a floating signifier\, “flexible enough to carry different meanings for different audiences while remaining specific enough to galvanize various political actions\, depending on the context and speakers.” In a comprehensive analysis of the use of the phrase in German discourse since October 7\, 2023\, she showed how “Never Again” has been deployed to argue for the singularity of the Holocaust and the need to protect Jews from a feared repetition of the catastrophe. When the same language is invoked to draw universal lessons from the Holocaust\, however\, it can draw both social and legal censure. \nWith philosopher Omri Boehm (The New School)\, Dekel will discuss the origins of the phrase “Never Again” in German history and the ways that Holocaust memory politics impacts free expression in Germany today. \n\n\nAbout the Series: Leo Baeck Institute Forum on Free Speech and Democracy \nMade possible in part by support from the Erna & Heinz Mayer Fund at the LBI \nAs the United States observes its sesquicentennial anniversary\, one of its most cherished political values is also one of its most hotly debated. Is free speech still protected in America? If not\, what poses the greater threat: state repression\, a censorious culture\, or a corporate media environment where free expression belongs to the highest bidder? In a world where hatred quickly metastasizes online – are the people even safe from free speech? \nThe ideas that found expression in the First Amendment and the constitutions of other liberal democracies were shaped and reshaped by Jewish thinkers from Spinoza to Arendt\, enabled processes of Jewish emancipation and religious reform\, and are still seen as undergirding religious freedom in pluralistic societies. \nIn this series\, scholars\, activists\, and public intellectuals will explore these questions through the lens of German-Jewish history\, starting with documents in the LBI collections and mining them for insight into the present. \n\n\nIrit Dekel is an Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her work focuses on the relations between collective memory\, media and the public sphere\, particularly on Holocaust memorialization and the representation of ethnic and religious difference in contemporary Germany. Dekel’s first book\, Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (Palgrave\, 2013)\, analyzed how various groups mediate their experience in the Holocaust Memorial. Her second book\, ‘Witnessing Positions: Jews\, Memories and Minorities in Contemporary Germany’ is forthcoming with Indiana University Press in January 2027. Dekel co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \n\n\nOmri Boehm is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He teaches and writes on early modern philosophy and philosophy of religion\, with a specific focus on Descartes\, Spinoza and Kant. His books include The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience (Continuum\, 2007)\, Kant’s Critique of Spinoza (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel (Penguin Random House\, 2021)\, and Radikaler Universalismus: Jenseits von Identität (Propyläen Verlag\, 2023). In addition to his academic publications\, he has also written for outlets including the LA Review of Books and the New York Times.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/never-again-when-german-memory-culture-the-holocaust-and-free-expression/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260610T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260610T203000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260323T132036Z
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SUMMARY:»FREMDE HEIMAT« Deutsch-jüdisches Exil gestern und heute
DESCRIPTION:Wir möchten Sie im Namen der Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Instituts herzlich zu unserer Podiumsdiskussion in Kooperation mit dem Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (radio3/rbb) mit anschließendem Empfang einladen. \nFreuen Sie sich auf ein anregendes Gespräch über deutsch-jüdisches Exil gestern und heute. Im Zentrum stehen die Kulturgeschichte der jüdischen Emigration sowie universelle Erfahrungen von Entwurzelung\, Isolation und dem Leben zwischen den Stühlen. Vom Topos des Wandernden Juden über die zerstörten Träume einer deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose bis in die gewaltvolle Gegenwart gehen wir der Frage nach\, ob Flucht und Migration Ankommen bedeuten kann – selbst wenn es ein Ankommen in einer fremden Heimat ist. \nDie Diskussionsrunde besteht aus folgenden Teilnehmenden: \n\nDr. Ursula Krechel setzt sich in ihrem literarischen Werk mit den Themen Verfolgung\, Flucht und Exil in Geschichte und Gegenwart auseinander\, so auch in ihrem jüngsten Buch »Vom Herzasthma des Exils«. Der Text appelliert an ein Umdenken und tiefgreifenden Respekt für jene\, die ihre Heimat verlassen (müssen und mussten). 2025 erhielt sie den Georg-Büchner-Preis.\nProf. Dr. Michael Brenner ist der Internationale Präsident des Leo Baeck Instituts. Er forscht und publiziert zu Themen deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur\, zuletzt in seinem Buch »Der lange Schatten der Revolution«. Michael Brenner ist Professor an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und an der American University in Washington D.C.\nDr. Sebastian Schirrmeister ist Literaturwissenschaftler. Er forscht u.a. zur deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur\, zu deutsch-hebräischen Literaturbeziehungen und zu deutsch-jüdischen Archiven. Er ist der Autor von »Das Gastspiel« (2012) und »Begegnung auf fremder Erde« (2019) sowie zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Aufsätze.\nModeration: Natascha Freundel ist Journalistin mit einem Schwerpunkt auf deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte. Sie ist Redakteurin und Moderatorin der Podcast- und Radiodebatte »Der zweite Gedanke« von radio3 im rbb.\n\n  \nWir freuen uns über ein Grußwort von Frau Julia Friedrich\, Sammlungs- und Ausstellungsdirektorin des Jüdischen Museum Berlin. \nProgramm\n\nab 18:30 Uhr: Einlass\n19 Uhr: Programmbeginn: Begrüßung + Podiumsdiskussion zum Veranstaltungsthema\nab 20:30 Uhr: Empfang\n\n  \nDie Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit radio3 statt\, wo der Mitschnitt am 11. Juni 2026 um 19:03 Uhr sowie am 13. Juni 2026 um 13:03 Uhr und im Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (u.a. in der ARD Sounds App) zu hören sein wird. \nEinlass nur nach vorheriger Anmeldung. Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei. Die Plätze sind begrenzt\, daher erbitten wir eine zeitnahe Anmeldung\, um Ihnen eine Teilnahme garantieren zu können. \nIn Kooperation mit
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/juedischesexilveranstaltungberlin/
LOCATION:W. M. Blumenthal Akademie\, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1\, Berlin\, 10969
CATEGORIES:Freunde und Förderer des LBI,Podiumsdiskussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260615T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260615T180000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260520T102101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T102101Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Mosse-Women
DESCRIPTION:German-Jewish Life Stories’ by Elisabeth Wagner \n  \nChair: Dr. Svenja Bethke (Leo Baeck Institute London) \nCommentators: \n\nDr. Natalie Naimark Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)\,\nDr. Skye Doney (George L. Mosse Program)\n\nRespondent: Elisabeth Wagner \nThis online event will be held in English. \n 
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/book-launch-the-mosse-women/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Buchvorstellung,LBI London
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T200000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260506T082618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T083611Z
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SUMMARY:Erinnerung\, Zeugenschaft\, Zukunft
DESCRIPTION:30 Jahre Austrian Heritage Collection \n\nThe Austrian Heritage Collection (AHC) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Established through the collaboration of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism\, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY)\, the GEDENKDIENST association\, and the Leo Baeck Institute New York\, Austrian volunteers have been traveling to New York every year since 1996. Since then\, the AHC has pursued the goal of documenting the history of Austrian-Jewish emigrants who fled to North America during the years of Nazi rule over Europe. \nThirty years after its founding\, 57 different Gedenkdienst volunteers have conducted more than 1\,000 oral history interviews. More than 4\,000 questionnaires have been returned\, and numerous contemporary documents have been collected. The voices of many people who for a long time—particularly in their country of origin\, Austria—found little or no public recognition have reached a wider audience through this project. Their stories are also carried forward by the volunteers serving in the Gedenkdienst program. \nWith the passing of the last emigrants and survivors—what is often referred to as the “end of the era of eyewitnesses”—the AHC is facing a new challenge. Since 2025\, it has already become the reality for Gedenkdienst volunteers to interview primarily the children\, nephews\, and nieces of survivors and emigrants—the so-called second generation. While this will significantly and sustainably change the project in the future\, these individuals also bring new perspectives. For this reason\, the 30th anniversary of the Austrian Heritage Collection is not only a moment for celebration\, but also a time for reflection. \nNina Glueckselig\, Leonie Eidinger\, and Beatrice Segal: their parents had fled from Austria and found a new home in the United States and Canada. These three members of the second generation tell the stories of their parents and relatives. They speak about their own histories\, reflect on the significance of bearing witness\, discuss the role of the second generation\, and consider the future of the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nThe event is taking place in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY). \nAbout the Speakers \n\n\nNina Glueckselig – born in 1956 in Washington Heights\, New York\, is a retired nurse\, social worker\, and jewelry designer who researched the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors for her thesis. \nHer parents\, Leo and Ita Glueckselig\, met while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After a failed escape attempt\, Leo witnessed Kristallnacht before emigrating to the United States with his brother and later served in the U.S. Army in the Philippines. Ida fled under an assumed name to Hungary and eventually returned to Poland; after the war\, Leo located her through the American Red Cross. Leo went on to work as a graphic designer and illustrator in New York and was part of the Oskar-Maria-Graf Stammtisch\, with his artwork exhibited in the US and Austria since 1999. \nListen to the interview with Leo Glueckselig conducted by Martin Horváth in 1997. \nListen to the interview with Nina Glueckselig conducted by Noel Kogler and Pia Maurer in 2025 \n\n\nLeonie Eidinger – daughter of Sidi Shernofsky and Manny Brecher\, born in 1954 in Montreal\, Canada\, is a clinic coordinator for an ophthalmic in-home service for seniors. \nFollowing the November pogrom of 1938\, Sidi’s father was interned in Dachau and Buchenwald and released after the family secured visas to Shanghai. In 1939\, Sidi and her parents traveled via Genoa to Shanghai\, where her mother died shortly after their arrival. Sidi and her father were later forced to move to the Shanghai Ghetto in the Hongkou District\, while she attended school outside the ghetto and her father worked as a jeweler. In 1947\, they emigrated to Montreal via San Francisco and New York. \nListen to the interview with Sidi Shernofsky conducted by Emma Schrott in 2018. \n\n\nBeatrice Segal – a clinical social worker and therapist\, was born in New York City in 1962 to book editor David Segal and author Lore Segal. \nLore Segal was born in Vienna in 1928 and was sent to England on a Kindertransport after the Anschluss\, where she lived with several families before reuniting with her parents. She later studied English literature in London\, lived briefly in the Dominican Republic\, and immigrated to the United States in 1951. She went on to teach creative writing at various American universities and became a well known author. \nLore Segal was interviewed for the Austrian Heritage Collection twice.\nListen to the interview with Lore Segal conducted by Klaus Fiala in 2008. \nListen to the interview with Lore Segal conducted by Miriam Bonaparte and Kevin Gheorghe in 2023. \nListen to the interview with Beatrice Segal conducted by Pia Mauerer and Noel Kogler in 2025.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/erinnerung-zeugenschaft-zukunft/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T203000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
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SUMMARY:Heresy\, Witch Hunts\, and Political Persecution
DESCRIPTION:The Problem of Speech from the Enlightenment to the Present \nWith Jason Stanley and Eliyahu Stern. \n  \n\n\n\nPresented by the Leo Baeck Institute as part of the LBI Forum on Free Speech and Democracy \nMade possible in part by support from the Erna & Heinz Mayer Fund at the LBI \nIn 1783 the German philosopher Moses Mendelsohn published his monumental work Jerusalem – Or on Religious Power and Judaism where he laid out his blueprint for Jewish political and religious life. At the very center of Jerusalem was the idea that all human beings should be granted the ability to think and speak without religious coercion or censorship. To prove his point\, Mendelsohn recuperated the legacy of the most infamous and detested heretic on the Continent\, Barukh Spinoza\, the so-called “atheist” and political “libertine.” \nIn this conversation\, the philosopher Jason Stanley (Toronto) and the historian Eliyahu Stern (Yale) will discuss the relevance of Mendelssohn’s and Spinoza’s views on heresy and the freedom of speech to the threats facing American political life and Jewish communities and institutions today. \n\n\nLeo Baeck Institute Forum on Free Speech and Democracy \nMade possible in part by support from the Erna & Heinz Mayer Fund at the LBI \nAs the United States observes its sesquicentennial anniversary\, one of its most cherished political values is also one of its most hotly debated. Is free speech still protected in America? If not\, what poses the greater threat: state repression\, a censorious culture\, or a corporate media environment where free expression belongs to the highest bidder? In a world where hatred quickly metastasizes online – are the people even safe from free speech? \nThe ideas that found expression in the First Amendment and the constitutions of other liberal democracies were shaped and reshaped by Jewish thinkers from Spinoza to Arendt\, enabled processes of Jewish emancipation and religious reform\, and are still seen as undergirding religious freedom in pluralistic societies. \nIn this series\, scholars\, activists\, and public intellectuals will explore these questions through the lens of German-Jewish history\, starting with documents in the LBI collections and mining them for insight into the present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJason Stanley is a philosopher and the Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair in American Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of seven books\, including How Propaganda Works (2015)\, the New York Times-bestselling How Fascism Works (2018)\, and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (2024). His books have been translated into more than 25 languages. \nBefore moving to the Munk School in 2025\, Stanley was the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (2013–2025). He has also taught at Rutgers University (2004–2013)\, the University of Michigan (2000-2004)\, and Cornell University (1995-2000). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEliyahu Stern is Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History in the Departments of Religious Studies and History at Yale University. Previously\, he was Junior William Golding Fellow in the Humanities at Brasenose College and the Oriental Institute\, University of Oxford. He is the author of the award-winning\, The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism (2012). His second monograph Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (2018) details the ideological background to Jews’ involvement in Zionism\, Capitalism\, and Communism. He has served as a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and a consultant to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw\, Poland. Currently\, he is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center of Jewish History.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/heresy-witch-hunts-and-political-persecution/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260618T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260618T193000
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SUMMARY:Storylistener and Storyteller
DESCRIPTION:An Anthropologist’s Journey from Oral History to Historical Fiction\n  \nProf. Ruth Behar\, University of Michigan \nModerator: Dr. Margalit Bejarano\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \n  \nZoom event\, registration required.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/storylistener-and-storyteller/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem
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SUMMARY:From Pamphleteers to Podcasts
DESCRIPTION:How Evolving Media Environments Can Fuel Antisemitism and Authoritarianism\, and What to Do About It \n\nPresented by the Leo Baeck Institute as part of the LBI Forum on Free Speech and Democracy \nMade possible in part by support from the Erna & Heinz Mayer Fund at the LBI \nEach advance in media technology can serve both constructive and destructive purposes. When the printing press was invented in the fifteenth century\, it helped disseminate the anti-Jewish blood libel and sear the image of a „dangerous“ Jew in European Christian imagination. Later\, modern newsprint and radio were quickly adopted by antisemites and white supremacists. Today\, in the midst of another media revolution\, extremism spreads rapidly online through social media and podcasts. This event will ask what role antisemitism and conspiracy theories have historically played in challenging democracies and undergirding authoritarianism. How does the structure of online platforms amplify extremists and create financial incentives for hate? And what should we do about it? \nDavid Brody\, the Executive Director of the Alliance of Jewish Americans and a legal expert on extremism and online civil rights\, will engage these questions with Magda Teter\, the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University\, whose work on the blood-libel in early-modern Europe shows surprising resonances with more recent revolutions in communications technology. \n\n\nDavid Brody is the Executive Director and founder of the Alliance of Jewish Americans\, a nonprofit\, nonpartisan Jewish civil rights organization that confronts extremism and drives legal accountability in the U.S. He is a leading national expert on the intersections of white nationalism\, surveillance technologies\, and civil rights. Previously he was the director and founder of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers‘ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law\, where he advocated for policies to protect privacy and civil rights online and litigated against white supremacists and voter suppression efforts. \nMagda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of several award-winning books\, most recently\, Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020)\, Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023)\, Blood Libels\, Hostile Archives: Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives (2025). Her essays have also appeared in the New York Review of Books\, Public Seminar\, the JTA\, and others. Teter’s research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, HF Guggenheim Foundation\, the Cullman Center at the NYPL\, the NEH\, and the Center for Jewish History\, among others. She is currently the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/from-pamphleteers-to-podcasts/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260624T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260624T203000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260401T075116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T084442Z
UID:11301-1782327600-1782333000@fuf-leobaeck.de
SUMMARY:Between Exile and Refusal
DESCRIPTION:The Language of Resistance in the Works of Jokl\, Jelinek\, Bachmann \nProf. Michal Ben-Horin and Hanan Elstein
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/between-exile-and-refusal/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Veranstaltungsreihe
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T200000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260512T090843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260512T091220Z
UID:11738-1791484200-1791489600@fuf-leobaeck.de
SUMMARY:Dancing on the Volcano - A Revue
DESCRIPTION:Dancing on the Volcano – A Revue\nWe warmly invite you to a special event series in cooperation with Elysium\, transporting you into the vibrant and contradictory Berlin of the 1920s. The production is so compelling that it will be performed three times on both sides of the Atlantic. \nAmid hyperinflation\, social misery\, and political street battles\, a fascinating cultural flourishing emerges: Dada\, Bauhaus\, jazz\, cabaret — and escapism into the dazzling world of cinema and operetta. At the center stands Erwin Piscator\, founder of political theater\, who\, shaped by his experiences on the front lines of World War I\, understood the stage as a place for social change. \nThis turbulent era comes alive in an impressive revue featuring texts by Erich Mühsam\, Erwin Piscator\, Alfred Polgar\, Kurt Tucholsky\, and others\, accompanied by music by Paul Abraham\, Hanns Eisler\, Mischa Spoliansky\, and others. \nPerformers in Berlin and Munich\n\nGregorij H. von Leïtis (Director)\nChrista Pillmann (Acting)\nNeelam Brader (Mezzo-soprano)\nPatrick Lammer (Baritone)\nMasha Yulin (Piano)\n\nThe events are held under the patronage of Dr. Felix Klein\, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism. \n  \n\nCo-Sponsors: \n\n\n  \nThe event will be held in German. More information to be announced. \n 
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/dancing-on-the-volcano-a-revue/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260310T110651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T100148Z
UID:11129-1792690200-1792695600@fuf-leobaeck.de
SUMMARY:Jewish Holocaust Memory and East German Antifascism
DESCRIPTION:22 October 2026\, 5:30PM – 07:00 PM\nGerman Historical Institute London\nLondon WC1A 2NJ\n\n\n\n\n\nLBI Lecture Series 2026\n  \n\nWhat role did Jewish survivors in the German Democratic Republic play in the cultural debate on the Holocaust and National Socialism? How could Jewish experiences of persecution and antifascist convictions be negotiated and articulated in the face of history\, politics\, and state- imposed acts of remembrance? Drawing on personal documents and works by authors like Arnold Zweig and neglected historian Helmut Eschwege\, the talk explores these questions and shows Jewish and\, in some cases\, non-Jewish actors’ motivations and options for action. In doing so\, the talk examines the tension between wilful action\, negotiated compromises\, and at times painful concessions to the state. \nAlexander Walther received his PhD from the University of Jena in 2023. His book Die Shoah und die DDR. Akteure und Aushandlungen im Antifaschismus (‘The Shoah and the GDR: Actors and negotiations in anti-fascism’) was published by Wallstein in 2025 and is based on his doctoral dissertation. \n  \nAdmission is free\, please register here. \nOverview of the 2026 Lecture Series
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/jewish-holocaust-memory-and-east-german-antifascism/
LOCATION:LBI London\, 44 Russell Sq\, London\, WC1B 4JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:LBI London,Veranstaltungsreihe
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260323T100820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T110833Z
UID:11227-1795109400-1795114800@fuf-leobaeck.de
SUMMARY:The German Case: What It Tells Us About Antisemitism Worldwide
DESCRIPTION:19 November 2026\, 5:30PM – 07:00 PM\nGerman Historical Institute London\nLondon WC1A 2NJ\n\n  \nOnce the driving force of antisemitism worldwide\, Nazi Germany waged war against Jews everywhere\, radicalising antisemitism in word and deed. After 1945\, Germany was pacified by the Allies\, and open antisemitism became the antithesis of the new democratic Staatsräson. Yet today\, antisemitism has returned – from the far right\, parts of the radical left\, Islamist movements\, and the centre of society. This lecture examines the German case in a global context and asks whether the postwar Staatsräson – the commitment to Jewish life and Israel’s security – can hold\, and what this means for Europe and the wider Jewish diaspora. \nGünther Jikeli is the Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor for the Study of Antisemitism and Interim Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on contemporary antisemitism\, conspiracy ideologies\, and online hate speech in Europe and the United States. \nAdmission is free\, please register ➚ here. \nOverview of the 2026 Lecture Series.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/the-german-case-what-it-tells-us-about-antisemitism-worldwide/
LOCATION:German Historical Institute\, London\, WC1A 2NJ
CATEGORIES:LBI London,Veranstaltungsreihe,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260607T210413
CREATED:20260323T101911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T101953Z
UID:11235-1796324400-1796329800@fuf-leobaeck.de
SUMMARY:Europeans in the Raj: German Jews and the Government of India Act\, 1935
DESCRIPTION:3 December 2026\, 7:00PM – 08:30 PM\nZoom Conference\n\n\n \n  \nHow did German Jews experience life as refugees from Nazism in the British Empire? Scholars of the Holocaust have often turned to frameworks of racial triangulation to answer this question\, emphasizing Jews’ ‘Other-ing’ in Nazi Germany to place refugees ‘in-between’ the binaries of coloniser and colonised\, European and non-European. This talk\, however\, takes a deep dive into the history of Indian constitutional development and legislative reform to understand the place of Holocaust refugees in the racialised socio-political hierarchy of the British Raj. Focusing on the Government of India Act\, 1935\, Kaul shows how German Jews became white Europeans in the British Raj. In doing so\, she calls on scholars to reframe their attention to the essential contexts\, at once local and imperial\, that structured Holocaust ‘refugeedom’ in the colonial and semi- colonial world. Pragya Kaul Guido is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan’s Department of History and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her dissertation\, Refugees in Empire: The Holocaust and Britain’s India\, has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the German Historical Institute\, the Leo Baeck Institute\, and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.\n  \nAdmission is free\, please register here. \n\n\n\nOverview of the 2026 Lecture Series
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/europeans-in-the-raj-german-jews-and-the-government-of-india-act-1935/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:LBI London,Veranstaltungsreihe
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