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SUMMARY:Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
DESCRIPTION:The lecture is about current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution\, going beyond just concentration camps and forced labour to include all those affected by racial\, political or ideological persecution between 1933-1945. \n  \n7-9 January 2026\, 9:00\nBirkbeck\, University of London\nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, London \n  \n\nA call for papers is now open for this conference: https://www.leobaeck.co.uk/news/2024/11/call-papers-beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-current-international-research-survivors \n\nThe conference will be held in-person only\, with no opportunity to attend virtually. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nCurrent International Research On Survivors of Nazi Persecution \nEighth international multidisciplinary conference \n\n\nThis conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences\, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003\, 2006\, 2009\, 2012\, 2015 and at Birkbeck\, University of London\, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry. \n  \nThe aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include – but are not limited to – Jews\, Roma and Sinti\, Slavonic peoples\, Jehovah’s Witnesses\, LGBTQIA+\, Soviet prisoners of war\, political dissidents\, members of underground movements\, people with disabilities\, the so-called ‘racially impure’\, and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference\, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial\, political\, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945\, and who survived the Second World War. \n  \nFee: GBP 120 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events\, lunches and refreshments during the conference. Further information and registration details will be made available in due course. \n  \nThe conference is being organised by: \n\nJoseph Cronin\, Birkbeck\, University of London / Leo Baeck Institute London\nMaria Castrillo Llamas\, Imperial War Museums\, London\nDavid Feldman\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, University of London\nÉva Kovács\, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies\, Vienna\nAndrea Löw\, Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History\, Munich\nStephen Naron\, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies\, Yale University\nChristine Schmidt\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\nToby Simpson\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\nJohannes-Dieter Steinert\, University of Wolverhampton\nDan Stone\, Royal Holloway\, University of London\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n↗ Click here for the full program.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-current-international-research-on-survivors-of-nazi-persecution/
LOCATION:LBI London\, Mile End Road\, 2nd Floor\, Arts Two Building Queen Mary\, University of London\, London\, E1 4NS\, Großbritannien
CATEGORIES:Konferenz,LBI London
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260114T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
CREATED:20260112T113635Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Line of Redemption
DESCRIPTION:105 Years Since the Birth of Yosl Bergner\nAn evening featuring:Ruti Director\, Uri Hollander\, Ariel Hirschfeld\, and Carmela Rubin \nAdmission is free\, but registration in advance is required.It is also possible to join online. \n\n\nDie Veranstaltung wird auf Hebräisch abgehalten!
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/beyond-the-line-of-redemption/
LOCATION:LBI Jerusalem\, 33 Bustenai Street\, Jerusalem\, 9104201\, Israel
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260114T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
CREATED:20260114T112623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T113108Z
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SUMMARY:Horace Cayton: Black Renaissance Man and Raconteur
DESCRIPTION:Who was the real man behind the male protagonist of Lore Segal’s Her First American?\n  \n\n\nThis event is part of LBI’s programming series surrounding our exhibition And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal \nIn this talk\, writer Jeffery Allen will discuss the historical significance of Horace Cayton\, who became the romantic partner to Lore Segal soon after the end of World War II. Allen will position Cayton\, a well-known intellectual and political figure known for his quips and colorful personality\, within the larger framework of the Harlem Renaissance\, as a member of the generation termed the “New Negro” and as a part of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Cayton served as the inspiration for Lore’s character of Carter Bayoux in her best-known novel\, Her First American. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\nJeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry\, including the celebrated novel Song of the Shank\, which was a front-page review in both The New York Times Book Review and The San Francisco Chronicle. Allen’s other accolades include The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Fiction\, The Chicago Public Library’s Twenty-First Century Award\, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence\, a grant from Creative Capital\, a Whiting Writers‘ Award\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, a NYFA grant\, residencies at the Bellagio Center\, Ucross\, The Hermitage\, VCCA\, Monson Arts\, and Jentel Arts\, and fellowships at The Center for Scholars and Writers\, the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies\, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Allen is the founder and editor of Taint Taint Taint magazine and is the Africa Editor for The Evergreen Review. His latest books are the short story collection Fat Time and the memoir An Unspeakable Hope\, the latter co-authored with Leon Ford. Allen is at work on several projects\, including a memoir entitled Mother-Wit\, a book of poems called No Borders\, and the short story collection Try Me. Allen makes his home in Johannesburg and New York. Find out more about him at www.writerjefferyrenardallen.com. \nThursday\, 12. Feb. 2026\, 20:00–21:30 MEZ \nOnline\, admission is free\, get your
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/horace-cayton-black-renaissance-man-and-raconteur/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Ausstellung,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T203000
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SUMMARY:Unwelcome Returns?
DESCRIPTION:(Re-)Naturalisation Rights of German Jews and their Descendants in the Federal Republic of Germany \n  \n\n\n\nArticle 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 right is not restricted to the denaturalised individuals themselves\, but also extends to their descendants. Yet during the over seventy-five years of the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany\, there have been significant changes regarding which German Jews – and which groups of descendants – enjoyed that right to German citizenship. Drawing on previously unexamined material from archives throughout Germany\, this talk reconstructs those developments\, showing how antisemitic and former Nazi civil servants acted to restrict rights of German Jews in the 1950s and 1960s\, establishing arbitrary exclusions that remained in force until the reform of the German Nationality Act in 2021. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Courtman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Department of Languages\, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London. He is currently completing a five-year research project funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation as part of the Alfred Landecker Lecturer Programme entitled “Citizenship after Hitler: Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Law and Naturalisation Practice of the Federal Republic of Germany”. \n\n\n\n\nDo.\, 15. Jan. 2026\, 18:30–20:30 \nCenter for Jewish History (map) \n15 W. 16th St. \nNew York\, NY 10011 \n\nAdmission is free\, get your tickets here
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/unwelcome-returns/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Lesung
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260126T000000
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SUMMARY:LBI Film Club – Double Feature
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (2013) & The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023) \nThe 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. \nThis latest programme brings together two films that explore Jewish lives and histories in countries not usually associated with Judaism – Algeria and Ireland. Each expands the geographic imagination of Jewish experience\, showing how memory\, identity\, and belonging take root in diverse and unexpected places. \n📅 Screening available: 19–26 January 2026 \n  \nThe Blond Boy from the Casbah\n(Alexandre Arcady\, France\, 2023)The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023) \nIn this lyrical reflection on childhood and identity\, filmmaker Antoine returns to his birthplace\, Algiers\, with his young son. Retracing his memories amid the city’s winding streets and post‑independence echoes\, he reveals the warmth and contradictions of Jewish life on the cusp of Algerian independence. Based on the real-life experience of the film’s director\, Alexandre Arcady\, this film is a meditation on home\, heritage\, and the enduring pull of memory which brings to light a world rarely portrayed on screen. \nThe veteran Filmmaker’s The Blond Boy from The Casbah premiered in 2025 and has since featured to great acclaim in numerous major Jewish film festivals across America. \nDirector: Alexandre Arcady\nProducer: Alexandre Arcady / Diane Kurys\nScreenwriter: Alexandre Arcady\nCast: Leo Campion\, Marie Gillain\, Patrick Mille and many others\nProduction: Godolphin Films S.A.\, Alexandre Films\, Tunisian International Studios\, New Light Films\nGenre: Comedy/ Drama\nLanguage: French with English sub-titles\nRun-time: 2hrs 8mins \nHannah Cohen’s Holy Communion\n(Shimmy Marcus\, Short Film\, Ireland\, 2012)Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (2013) \nSet in 1970s Dublin\, spirited seven‑year‑old Hannah Cohen is determined to make her First Holy Communion—though\, as she soon learns\, being Jewish comes with its own surprises. Told with humour and gentle insight\, this short film offers a touching portrait of Jewish life in Ireland and the universal wish to belong. \nFilmmaker Shimmy Marcus’ charming short film was nominated for the Cork International Film Festival Grand Prix Irish in 2013 and was the 2014 winner of the Washington Jewish Film Festival Audience Award. \nDirector: Shimmy Marcus\nWriter: Lana Citron\nCast: Lucy Sky Dunne\, Elaine Cassidy\, Jim Sheridan\, Susie Power.\nMusic: Brian Byrne\nProduction: Let’s Not Lose It Productions\, Underground Films (Ireland)\nGenre: Short Film\nRun time: 13 minutes\nLanguage: English \n  \nBoth films will be available to view free of charge for one week. \nWe are most grateful to Eunice Tan and 7th Art Releasing for their kind support in making this screening possible. \nFuture LBI Film Club screenings will be announced on our website and social media channels. \n  \nEnjoy the films! \n  \nCHECK BACK HERE FOR THE LINKS!
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/lbi-film-club-double-feature/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Filmvorführung,LBI London,Veranstaltungsreihe
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260121T194500
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
CREATED:20260112T125208Z
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SUMMARY:Buchvorstellung: »Nicht alles ist erlaubt\, nicht alles ist verboten«
DESCRIPTION:Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen in den Geisteswissenschaften (1950–1990)\nVor dem Hintergrund des Spannungsfelds zwischen den Schatten der Shoah\, diplomatischen Erwartungen\, der Wiedergutmachungspolitik und universitären Konkurrenzen geht die Studie der Frage nach\, wann und wie sich die ersten akademischen Kontakte zwischen der Bundesrepublik und Israel in den Geisteswissenschaften entwickelten. \nDr. Irene Aue-Ben-David\nist Leiterin des Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. \nDr. Silja Behre\nist Historikerin. \nDr. Sharon Livne\nist stellvertretende Direktorin des Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem und lehrt am Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. \nEine Kooperation des Fritz Bauer Instituts mit der Martin-Buber-Professur für jüdische Religionsphilosophie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. \n  \nMittwoch\, 21. Januar 2026\, 18:15 Uhr \nGoethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main\nCampus Westend\, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1\nCasino-Gebäude\, Raum 1.811
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/buchvorstellung-nicht-alles-ist-erlaubt-nicht-alles-ist-verboten/
LOCATION:Goethe Universität Frankfurt
CATEGORIES:Buchvorstellung,LBI Jerusalem
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260122T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20260122T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
CREATED:20260112T115121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T120254Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Oral History Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Video Documentation as a Gateway to Family Continuity\n  \nDr. Shula Mola\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\nChair: Dr. Roni Mikel-Arieli\, Ben-Gurion University \n  \nOnline event\, register here. \n\nDas Event wird in Hebräisch abgehalten!
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/annual-oral-history-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening: And That's True Too
DESCRIPTION:The Life and Work of Lore Segal\n  \n\nThe program will be livestreamed on our YouTube here. \nOn 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 (The Sopranos) reading from Lore Segal’s autobiographical novel Other People’s Houses. \n\n\nAbout the Exhibition \nAnd That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal presents a richly documented exploration of the life and literary legacy of Lore Segal (1928–2024). Born in Vienna\, Segal survived Nazi persecution as a child when she escaped on one of the earliest Kindertransports to England. Her subsequent life—marked by displacement\, reinvention\, and a lifelong engagement with language—shaped a body of work distinguished by moral clarity\, wit\, and intellectual rigor. \nThe exhibition features photographs\, manuscripts\, rare books\, and archival materials that trace Segal’s journey from prewar Vienna to New York and examine how exile informed her novels\, short stories\, translations\, and children’s books\, as well as her influential career as a teacher. \nThe title And That’s True Too reflects Segal’s commitment to complexity and multiple perspectives—an ethos that runs through her writing and her reflections on memory\, identity\, and human connection. \nAbout our guest \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToni Kalem has an extensive background as an actress in film\, television\, and theater. Although known for her portrayal of Italian characters in iconic films such as Philip Kaufman’s\, THE WANDERERS\, PRIVATE BENJAMIN\, and Angie Bonpensiero on THE SOPRANOS\, for which she also wrote\, Ms. Kalem is of Jewish descent. When she read Lore Segal’s autobiographical novel\, OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES\, she discovered the deeply personal story she’d always wanted to tell. Like Lore\, her mother was also on the Kindertransport\, but unlike Lore\, she barely spoke of her experience. Ms. Kalem\, who now has her German citizenship\, has adapted OPH as a screenplay and plans to shoot in Vienna and the UK. \nSome other film credits include adapting and directing Anne Tyler’s\, A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE\, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival\, and an adaptation of Lisa Zeidner’s novel\, LAYOVER\, which she will direct starring Guy Pearce.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/exhibition-opening-and-thats-true-too/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Ausstellung,LBI New York | Berlin
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260129T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260129T213000
DTSTAMP:20260429T162506
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T111907Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club: It Will Yet Be Heard
DESCRIPTION:A Polish Rabbi’s Witness of the Shoah and Survival\n  \n\n\nDr. 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. \nNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years\, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised\, annotated edition\, including both Thorne’s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. \nRabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions\, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty. But\, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition\, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man\, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps\, human degradation\, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding\, he grappled not only with survivor’s guilt\, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing\, moving\, and deeply insightful\, Rabbi Thorne’s firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century’s greatest tragedy. \n(Rutgers University Press) \nLeon Thorne was a rabbi from Schodnica\, near Drohobycz\, in Austrian Galicia. He trained at the Breslau Seminary. Following the Holocaust\, he served the post-war Jewish community of Frankfurt as a rabbi before immigrating to the United States\, settling in Brooklyn\, New York. \nAbout Our Guest: \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Joanna Sliwá is a historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) where she also administers academic programs. Joanna is a historian of the Holocaust and modern Polish Jewish history. She is the author of the award-winning book\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press\, 2021) and\, with Elizabeth (Barry) White\, of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (Simon and Schuster\, 2024)\, which has been translated in several languages. A new volume that Joanna co-edited with Christine Schmidt and Elizabeth Anthony\, Older Jews and the Holocaust: Persecution\, Displacement\, and Survival\, will be published in 2026 (Wayne State University Press). She previously worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, and at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University and has served as a historical consultant and researcher\, including for the PBS film In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler \n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase the book \nDirectly from the publisher \nAmazon
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/book-club-it-will-yet-be-heard/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Buchvorstellung,LBI New York | Berlin
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