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...
Author Ruth Franklin will join the LBI Book Club in June to discuss her book The Many Lives of Anne Frank. About The Many Lives of Anne Frank Do., 26. Juni 2025 20:00–21:30 MESZ Online. The event free of admission, ➚ get your tickets here. In this innovative new biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation...
21.08.2025, 18:00 Uhr Berlin (genauer Ort wird nach Anmeldung bekannt gegeben) Erinnerungskultur in Social Media und Literatur Mit Dr. Nora Pester (Hentrich & Hentrich) und Susanne Siegert (@keine.erinnerungskultur) Moderiert von Sharon Adler (Aviva-berlin.de) Dr. Nora Pester ist Inhaberin und Verlegerin des Hentrich & Hentrich Verlags für jüdische Kultur und Zeitgeschichte. Außerdem ist sie Gesellschafterin der...
Do., 28. Aug. 2025 20:00–21:30 UTC Format: Online The event is free of charge. ➚ Get your tickets here Prof. Ranen Omer-Sherman will join the LBI Book Club in August...
Mo., 8. Sept. 2025 18:30–20:30 GMT-4 Center for Jewish History (map) 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 Format: personal The event is free, get your tickets ➚ here. Lecture and Conversation with Kai Sina & Samantha Rose Hill Join the Leo Baeck Institute New York and the Thomas Mann...
9.9.2025, 18:00 Berlin (genauer Ort wird nach Anmeldung bekannt gegeben) Künstliche Intelligenz, Zeitzeugenschaft und das Versprechen von Authentizität Mit Dr. Katalin Krasznahorkai ("In Echt? – Virtuelle Begegnung mit...
Mi., 10. Sept. 2025 18:00–19:00 MESZ Format: Online The event is free of admission, ➚ get your tickets here. Tobias Brinkmann on Migration in German-Jewish History Part 4 of LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series On September 10 at 12:00 PM EDT, Tobias Brinkmann will discuss migration in German-Jewish historiography over the past decades. As...
Mo., 15. Sept. 2025 18:00–20:00 GMT-4 Center for Jewish History (map) 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 FormatPersönlich The event is free of admission, ➚ get your tickets here. The Life and Art of Samson Schames Samson Schames, a Jewish artist forced to flee Nazi Germany, found an extraordinary...
Die Veranstaltung verhandelt Comics und Graphic Novels als mediale Gedächtnisräume, in denen individuelle Erfahrungen, politische Geschichte und Erinnerungskultur sichtbar und diskutierbar werden. 16.10.25, 18:00 Berlin (genauer Ort wird nach Anmeldung...
With a gala dinner we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute and honor Wolf Blitzer and Kati Marton with the Leo Baeck Medal. Thursday., 20. Nov. 2025, 18:00 GMT-5 Temple Emanu-El 1 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065 Format: in person ➚ Get your tickets here Please join the...
(Re-)Naturalisation Rights of German Jews and their Descendants in the Federal Republic of Germany Article 116 Paragraph Two of the Basic Law (the German constitution of 1949) grants former...
The Life and Work of Lore Segal The program will be livestreamed on our YouTube here. On January 22, LBI will open its first exhibition of 2026 And That's True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal. Aside from the unveiling of the exhibition, the opening event will feature renowned actor Toni Kalem...
A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival Dr. Joanna Sliwá will join the LBI Book Club in January to discuss the book It Will Yet Be Heard:...
Was New York like Vienna? How Jewish Refugees from Austria, 1938-1941, Made America into a New Version of the Habsburg Monarchy Jews who fled Nazi Austria after the Anschluss in 1938 went to many places, but primarily to the United States, where they tried to make new homes for themselves. In so doing, many of...
Professor Didem Uca will join LBI to discuss The Artificial Silk Girl This enthralling tale of a “material girl” in 1930s Berlin is the masterpiece of a literary icon, rediscovered...
This event is part of LBI's programming series surrounding our exhibition And That's True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal In addition to penning four novels and numerous...
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