Who was the real man behind the male protagonist of Lore Segal’s Her First American? 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 this talk, writer Jeffery Allen will discuss the historical significance of Horace Cayton, who became 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 German citizens whose citizenship was removed by the Nazi regime on the grounds of their Jewish ‘race’ the right to German citizenship upon application. This...
Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (2013) & The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023) The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to invite you to a special double‑feature online screening from the LBI Film Club, available free of charge for one week beginning Monday, 19 January 2026. This latest programme brings together two films that explore...
Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen in den Geisteswissenschaften (1950–1990) Vor dem Hintergrund des Spannungsfelds zwischen den Schatten der Shoah, diplomatischen Erwartungen, der Wiedergutmachungspolitik und universitären Konkurrenzen geht die Studie der Frage nach,...
Video Documentation as a Gateway to Family Continuity Dr. Shula Mola, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Dr. Roni Mikel-Arieli, Ben-Gurion University Online event, register here. Das Event wird...
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: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival by Leon Thorne. Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a...
Evening in honor of Dr. Assaf Ziderman’s book: Martin Buber’s Dialogic Thought as a Philosophy of Action Moderator: Rachel Livne-Freudenthal Speakers: Miri Rozmarin, Or Sharf Responder: Assaf Ziderman The...
Time and Holiness in German-Jewish Tradition Prof. Amir Eshel (Stanford University) and Prof. Galili Shahar (Tel Aviv University) Online meeting, for registration click here.
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...
Reflections on an Oral History Teaching Project in 2025 Dr. Agnès Arp, University of Erfurt & Dr. Axel Doßmann, Berlin Moderator: Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David, Leo Baeck Institute Zoom...
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 and restored to the same heights as such luminaries as Isherwood and Brecht. In 1931 a young woman writer living in Germany penned her answer...
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 short stories, Lore Segal received acclaim for her work for children. Tell Me a Mitzi and The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless, Her Cat...
In the Wheels of Time Fifth Meeting in the Annual Series Prof. Aya Elyada (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Dr. Yemima Hovav (Herzog College) Online meeting, registration required. Die Vernstaltung ist...
Di., 17. März 2026, 18:30–20:30 Center for Jewish History (map) 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 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...
Join Us for an Evening in Memory of Prof. Zohar Shavit Dedicated to Her Book: Cultural Translation: The Haskalah Library and the Making of the Modern Jew Memorial Speeches:...
Do., 19. März 2026, 17:00–18:30 GMT-4 Center for Jewish History New York Admission is free, get your tickets here. Join the Claims Conference, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the editors and contributors of the newly published book for a discussion about the experiences of German and Austrian older adults during and after the Holocaust....
A Roundtable Discussion This event brings together scholars and individuals with personal connections to the Kindertransport to explore its legacy in British memory and culture. The discussion will examine historical narratives, cultural representations, and the continuing significance of the Kindertransport in shaping British identity. Online (hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute London in collaboration with...
Discourse Culture as a Documentary Tool Join Us for the Fifth Meeting of the Annual Oral History Series Dr. Omer Einav, Yad Yaari Moderator: Neta Shapira, University of Haifa...
Mittwoch, 25. März 2026, 18:00 Campus Charité Mitte, Carl-Westphal-Hörsaal, Alte Nervenklinik Bomhoefferweg 3 Begrüßung: Lydia Stötzer (GeDenkOrt.Charité – Wissenschaft in Verantwortung) Grußwort: Dr. Miriam Bistrovic (Berliner Direktorin des Leo Baeck Institute - New York | Berlin) New York, Ende der 1950er Jahre: Der aus Braunschweig stammende Arzt Walter Heinemann (1883-1968) sitzt an seinem...
Join Us For An Evening In Honor Of The Book by Dr. Maya Shabbat. Chair: Dr. Ahuva Liberles Greetings: Prof. Guy Miron Speakers: Dr. Emma Zohar, Prof. Shmuel Feiner,...
Di., 31. März 2026, 20:00–21:30 MESZ Online. Admission is free, get your ticket here. Karen Bermann grew up in the mad orbit of her father, Fritz, the rebellious child of a Viennese Orthodox Jewish family who fled Europe alone as an adolescent in the late 1930s. An irreverent, comic, rageful man with three names, who...
University of Southampton Highfield Campus 7 April 2026, 1:48PM - 02:48 PM During the past seven decades, tens of thousands of Shoah survivors have told or written their personal experiences within the framework of various research and documentation projects. Many of the survivors who gave testimonies between 1945 and 1947 reappeared three or four...
Personal narratives such as diaries, letters, memoirs, and autobiographies often capture experiences of migration, exile, and cultural transition that are less visible in other forms of documentation. This conference seeks to explore how ego-documents function as records of transnational experience, linguistic negotiation, and cultural hybridity. Ego-documents allow for what Iriye and Saunier (2009) termed the...
Mi., 15. Apr. 2026, 19:30–21:00 GMT-4 Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 Get your tickets here. On April 15th, 2026, WORDTheatre will bring Lore Segal’s final short story collection, Still Talking, to life through performances by James Cromwell (Succession), Toni Kalem (The Sopranos), Mary Beth Peil (Dawson’s Creek), Penny...
Emotional Remembrance through Interactions with AI-based Representations of Holocaust-Survivors Berit Zimmerling, University of Tübingen Moderator: Dr. Daniel Mahla, University of Haifa Zoom Event, Registration Required.
Computerspiele und Citizen Science als Räume der Erinnerung Dr. Alina Bothe ist Historikerin und Leiterin mehrerer Forschungsprojekte zur Geschichte des Holocaust am Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. Außerdem ist sie Mitinitiatorin des Projekts „#LastSeen. Bilder der NS-Deportationen“, das fotografische Quellen zu NS-Deportationen sammelt, erforscht und digital zugänglich macht. Dr. Felix Zimmermann ist Referent für Games-Kultur,...
Testimony, Solidarity, and Politics in the Work of Esther Dishereit Dr. Irit Dekel and Dr. Lilach Naishtat Zoom event, registration required. Veranstaltung ist auf HEBRÄISCH!
The talk examines the private and public writings of Robert Weltsch, a prolific journalist and a prominent German Zionist.
How do you create human agency in times of war? – Rawson Basharat, Editor-in-Chief; Magazine +972 Seventh session of the annual oral history series Moderator: Prof. Amos Goldberg,...
Author John Efron will engage in conversation with historian Michael Brenner and Joan Nathan. They will discuss Efron's book All Consuming.
Sabeth Schmidthals ist Geschichts- und Deutschlehrerin und in der historisch-politischen Bildungsarbeit tätig. Für ihr Engagement in der Vermittlung der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus und in der lokalen Erinnerungsarbeit wurde sie 2020 mit dem Obermayer Award ausgezeichnet. In ihrer Arbeit setzt sie sich insbesondere für ein reflektiertes Geschichtsbewusstsein bei Jugendlichen ein. Oskar Sonneborn ist Projektkoordinator bei der Stiftung Erinnerung,...
The 8th Annual Else Lasker-Schüler Lecture in Jerusale is about the Redemptive Rebellion of Else Lasker-Schüler.
21 May 2026, 5:30PM - 07:00 PM German Historical Institute London, London WC1A 2NJ During the Third Reich, German political, social, economic, and private life was transformed to such an extent that the Holocaust became thinkable and, ultimately, possible. Yet many Germans maintained a ‘not Nazi’ subjectivity, drawing a line between themselves and...
With Mikael Olsson Berggren, we discuss Kurt Tucholsky’s Castle Gripsholm and its fragile balance between summer idyll and political unease.
This lecture will cover the legacy of the history of Jewish refugees in Shanghai and the social interactions with local Chinese people.
Hebrew and Arabic – Thinking Within War Dr. Lilach Nethanel and Dr. Daniel Behar Zoom event, registration required. Veranstaltung ist auf HEBRÄISCH!
Elizabeth Loentz eröffnet in Frankfurt die neu ins Leben gerufene Bertha Pappenheim Lecture zum Thema Judaism and Gender.
Wir laden Sie zu einer besonderen Veranstaltungsreihe ein, die Sie in das pulsierende und widersprüchliche Berlin der 1920er-Jahre entführt.
Wir laden Sie zu einer besonderen Veranstaltungsreihe ein, die Sie in das pulsierende und widersprüchliche Berlin der 1920er-Jahre entführt.
With Boehm, Dekel will discuss the origins of the phrase “Never Again” and the ways that Holocaust memory politics impacts free expression.
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. Freuen Sie...
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