The Book Club of the LBI New York is taking place once a month. About the Book Welten (Worlds) is a cycle of poems written in the second half of 1937 by Gertrud Kolmar, who was to perish six years later in Auschwitz. In 1947, the manuscript was passed by her brother-in-law to Peter...
Zum Hintergrund "Es begann mit einem Foto aus dem Jahr 1922. Vor einer Hauswand scharen sich 13 Männer um eine Frau in der Bildmitte und schauen ernst in die Kamera. Die 14 Komponist:innen aus verschiedenen Ländern waren Teil einer Gruppe von Tonkünstler:innen, die damals in Salzburg das erste Internationale Kammermusikfestival veranstalteten. Am Ende dieses...
Zum Hintergrund "Es begann mit einem Foto aus dem Jahr 1922. Vor einer Hauswand scharen sich 13 Männer um eine Frau in der Bildmitte und schauen ernst in die Kamera. Die 14 Komponist:innen aus verschiedenen Ländern waren Teil einer Gruppe von Tonkünstler:innen, die damals in Salzburg das erste Internationale Kammermusikfestival veranstalteten. Am Ende dieses...
Zum Hintergrund "Es begann mit einem Foto aus dem Jahr 1922. Vor einer Hauswand scharen sich 13 Männer um eine Frau in der Bildmitte und schauen ernst in die Kamera. Die 14 Komponist:innen aus verschiedenen Ländern waren Teil einer Gruppe von Tonkünstler:innen, die damals in Salzburg das erste Internationale Kammermusikfestival veranstalteten. Am Ende dieses...
About the Event Join YIVO and LBI for a concert exploring Yiddish and Hebrew songs of the Weimar Republic.The Weimar Republic era contained a hotbed of Jewish musical activity. Following World War I, there was a spike of curiosity about Eastern European Jewry and Yiddish, which inspired many German-Jewish composers—from Cantor Leon Kornitzer to avant...
Am 25. Juni 2024 findet erstmals eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Leo Baeck Instituts New York und der Universität Bremen statt: Carl Katz und andere: Falsche Kollaborationsvorwürfe gegen Juden in der Historiographie des Holocaust Die Tagung nimmt die bis in die jüngste Zeit von Historikern erhobenen falschen Anschuldigungen gegen die prominenten jüdischen Bremer Carl Katz...
Stolpertexte Stimmen aus der Vergangenheit Mit Victor Sattler, Dana von Suffrin und Karosh Taha Miriam Bistrovic, Director of Berlin Operations Leo Baeck Institute New York Berlin Die Jüdischen Kulturtage Berlin eröffnen ihr Literaturprogramm mit einer Präsentation dieser Stolpertexte: Miriam Bistrovic wird das Archiv des Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) vorstellen und über das Projekt „Stolpertexte“ sprechen....
Doppelt hält bekanntlich besser! Das Leo Baeck Institute - New York | Berlin lädt Sie daher herzlich zum Nachholtermin unserer dritten Veranstaltung der Reihe „Wo die Liebe hinführt…“ ein. Die Veranstaltungsreihe beschäftigt sich mit den vielen Facetten jüdischen Lebens, von Beziehungsgeflechten und Partnerschaften, den Möglichkeiten sich auch unter widrigsten Umständen zu behaupten und von dem Wechselspiel...
Antisemitism as a Pillar of Fascism with John Ganz and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. Part 1 of the LBI Forum on Antisemitism and Democracy About the event: Hitler’s attempt to wrest control of the German state and end Weimar democracy from the cellar of Munich’s Bürgerbräu beer hall in 1923 failed spectacularly and landed him in...
"As a Jew" – Identity, Conflict, and Politics with Emily Tamkin and Philipp Nielsen Part 2 of the LBI Forum on Antisemitism & Democracy About the event: On the eve of WWI, German Jews had enjoyed full civil rights for at least a generation but found their place in society was still contested. Sensing an...
Von Machtlosigkeit, Resilienz und Selbstermächtigung - Deutsch-Jüdische Perspektiven Am 3. November 2024 organisiert das Leo Baeck Institute – New York |Berlin ein eintägiges Symposium unter dem Titel "Macht und Ohnmacht - Von Machtlosigkeit, Resilienz und Selbstermächtigung". Unter dem Leitmotiv „Wenn einem alles genommen wird – was dann?“, inspiriert durch den Podcast EXIL, möchten wir...
Fighting Back – Jewish Responses to Antisemitism with Michael Brenner and Jane Eisner. Part 3 of the LBI Forum On Antisemitism and Democracy About the event: In 1932, Germany’s leading Jewish civil rights organization, the Central Association of German Jews, or Centralverein, published a brochure entitled We German Jews. 321–1932. The dates in the title...
In Berlin, 1930, the name Käsebier is on everyone’s lips. A literal combination of the German words for “cheese” and “beer,” it’s an unglamorous name for an unglamorous man—a small-time crooner who performs nightly on a shabby stage for laborers, secretaries, and shopkeepers. Until the press shows up. In the blink of an eye, this...
The rise of the United States and Israel as centers of Jewish life is closely tied to immigration. Yet the success story of Jewish immigration obscures the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe who were displaced during and after the First World War. Wherever they turned they faced closed doors. The...
About Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather's Journey from Spy to Children's Book Author Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her maternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one...
Marion Kaplan will join Debórah Dwork to discuss her new book, Saints and Liars. Saints and Liars is a moving history of American relief workers during the Hitler years who sought to save Jews and political opponents targeted by the Nazi regime. Praised by Publishers’ Weekly as “a gripping study of individuals’ operations in...
Abraham Rubin joins LBI to present his latest book, Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography (2024, University of Toronto Press) Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of German-Jewish converts to Christianity, who recounted their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath. The book...
Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann will join LBI to discuss their recent graphic history, Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past. Oberbrechen (illustrated by Liz Clarke) chronicles the events of the Holocaust and its aftermath in a small village in rural Germany, through the eyes of historians Fischer and Wünschmann. Based on meticulous research...
Leo Baeck Institute is proud to present the North American premiere of interdisciplinary performance The Archive by Neta Pulvermacher. The performances will take place February 24, 25, and 26 at the Center for Jewish History. When the last person who remembers is gone, whole worlds disappear forever. Israeli/American artist, choreographer and performer Neta Pulvermacher situates...
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...
On March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM, LBI will open the exhibit The Vienna Model of Radicalization. This new exhibition, on show for the first time in the United States, explores the significance of the Holocaust in Austria and highlights the role of Vienna as gateway for the radicalization of antisemitic policy in the Nazi...
Raphael Gross joins the LBI to discusses the making and reception of Anne Frank's Diary in literary history. Historian Raphael Gross, Director of the German Historical Museum and co-editor of a new critical edition of Anne Frank’s diary, discusses the making and reception of a unique document in literary history. Neither a true diary that...
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...
Lunchtime Lecture Wednesday, 11th June 2025 12:00–13:30 EST Online The event is free of admission, ➚ get your tickets here. Part 2 of LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series On June 11 at 12:00 PM EST, Magda Teter will discuss early modern German-Jewish history. As we look back at the last 70 years...
Mo., 16th June 2025 18:30-20:30 GMT-4 Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 “Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany.” – Jeanine Meerapfel On June 16, 2025, LBI will...
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