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Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog – Interview with Kerry Elkins,...
In March 2017, LBI celebrated the launch of the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog, a new way to search LBI’s unique art and objects catalog online. LBI News spoke to two staff members who played a key role...
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Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog – Interview with Chris Bentley,...
In March 2017, LBI celebrated the launch of the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog, a new way to search LBI’s unique art and objects catalog online. LBI News spoke to two staff members who played a key role...
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A Visit to the German Literature Archive in Marbach
by Renate Evers, Director of Collections This June, I visited the German Literature Archive in Marbach (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach – DLA), where I gave a talk about traces of emigrant libraries...
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Knowledge in Flight: A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue
The LBI archives are full of references to scholars who escaped the Nazi threat with the aid of foreign benefactors. The political philosopher Hannah Arendt, the sociologist Werner Cahnman, and the...
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Commemorating 80 Years Since 1938, One Day at a Time
In 2018, the LBI will post online a document from each day of the watershed year of 1938, when German-speaking Jews were forced to realize that they had no future in Germany. A damaged clothing shop in...
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A New Provenance Research Handbook for Jewish Ceremonial Objects
When Julie-Marthe Cohen visited Jewish institutions in New York to present a new handbook on provenance research in March 2017, she did not feel assured of a warm reception. “People are very concerned...
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Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India
A trio of landscape paintings in the LBI Art Collection seem to have come from a peculiar expressionist travel prospectus. Rendered in brilliant colors with broad, loose strokes, a handsome market...
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Banker Max Warburg Honored with Leo Baeck Medal
Max Warburg (l) with LBI Executive Director William H. Weitzer at the Center for Jewish History in New York on November 15, 2017. Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin honored the Hamburg banker Max...
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Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship
The Bohemian Hebraist Moritz Steinschneider writing at his desk, date unknown. The Leo Baeck Institute is offering a Career Development Award as a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an...
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100 Years of the Noether Theorem
By Dahlia Japhet Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935) One hundred years ago today, the Scientific Society of Göttingen discussed a paper submitted by Amalie Emmy Noether, a German-Jewish mathematician. The...
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