Mit Ulrike Draesner, Norbert Hummelt, Karosh Taha, Ruth Maria Thomas Was bleibt, wenn die letzten Zeitzeug:innen verstummen? In den Archiven des New Yorker Leo Baeck Instituts werden zehntausende Familiensammlungen, private...
The Book Club of the LBI New York is taking place once a month. About the Book Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against...
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...
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....
"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...
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...
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...
