Third online meeting in the series for The oral history workshop series: A russian novel – Oral Documentation And The Struggle For Immigration To Israel from the Soviet Union Speaker: Lisa Vasserman-Slutsky (Bar Ilan University) Chair: Dr. Atalia Sharagai Thursday, 23th Jan. 2025 This is an online event. The link will be sent...
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...
This book offers Hebrew readers a rich selection of documents on the lives of Jews in Nazi Germany, spanning from the rise of the Nazi regime to the outbreak of World War II. The first section, The German Reich 1933–1937, is based on the first volume of the German series Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der...
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...
You are invited to the fourth online meeting in the series: Laws, Contracts and Agreements: A Look at Law in German-Jewish History and Culture In the Subject Of: Law, Culture And Jewish Identity 1900-1970 With Participation of: Dr. Gal Hertz (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design) Prof. Jose´ Brunner (Tel Aviv University) ...
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...
Historians have traditionally argued that antisemitic violence in Nazi Germany rose gradually, from low levels during the first years of Hitler's rule to a high point in the Reich-wide pogrom of November 1938. Before the Holocaust, based on research in more than twenty German archives, demonstrates that this long-held assumption is wrong. During the months-long Nazi takeover...
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...
Please join us remembering Lore Segal, novelist, essayist, short story writer, translator and children's book author. Family and friends will remember Lore and celebrate her life well-lived, with words, film and music. Marth 9th, 2025, 14:00-16:00 EDT Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011 If you are not able to...
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...
(Re-) Naturalisation Rights of German Jews and their Descendants in the Federal Republic of Germany / Since 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish faith or ‘race’, to reclaim it. Yet, over the past 75 years, there have been significant changes...
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...
Oral Testimonies On Intimate Violence During The Holocaust Sixth Zoom Meeting in the Oral History Workshop Series. Thursday, 24th April 2025 18:00 Where? Zoom Meeting At the event of the Holocaust Remembrance Day The meeting will be held in English! Speakers: Prof. Natalia Aleksiun, University of Florida Chair: Prof. Dalia Ofer, The Hebrew University of...
A Scholars’ Discourse – A session within the conference: Kafka In Jerusalem 100 Years After His Death Tuesday, 6th May 2025 7:00 PM Chair: Dr. Karin Neuburger Twito Speakers: Eli Schonfeld, Keren Mock, Noam Tirosh The event will take place at the institute or via zoom webinar. Link to the zoom will be...
Jüdische Perspektiven auf Neuanfänge in Deutschland und Europa der Nachkriegszeit 7.-9. Mai 2025 Eine Konferenz zum 80. Jahrestag der Befreiung vom Nationalsozialismus und des Endes des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa des Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums für europäisch jüdische Studien in Kooperation mit der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung und dem Leo Baeck Institut (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft). Mit Unterstützung...
Seventh Meeting In The Series Laws, Contracts And Agreements: Justice vs. Law In Cinema: Fritz Bauer vs. The Federal Republic of Germany Law versus Justice in Cinema – Fritz Bauer vs. the Federal Republic of Germany Speakers: Dr. Hila Levi (The Hebrew Univesity) , Mr. David Witzthum (independent researcher) More information here. ...
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.
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...
Wednesday, 11th June 2025. 19:00 UTC+02:00 Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem or Zoom Webinar Prof. Giddon Ticotsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Re-reading Das Hebräerland (1937): The Zeugmatic Interplay Between the Ideological and the Aesthetic In cooperation with: The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center, the German...
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