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Jerry Lindenstrauss – Life in the Shanghai Ghetto
by Jerry Lindenstrauss, given at the opening of the exhibit “Destination Shanghai” Jerry Lindenstrauss is an LBI volunteer who moved with his family to Shanghai in 1939 and gave this talk at the...
View ArticleRabbi Ronald B. Sobel Named President of LBI
Leo Baeck Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel as president. Rabbi Sobel, Senior Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El in New York City, is a highly regarded scholar of...
View ArticleVideo: DigiBaeck – German-Jewish History Online
At an event celebrating the launch of DigiBaeck – LBI’s digital archive of German-Jewish history, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle talked about moving from digitizing published materials to...
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Fellowship Application Period Extended Until November 14, 2012
Bohemian Hebraist Moritz Steinschneider studying Leo Baeck Institute supports new research on German-Jewish culture and history through a number of programs aimed at Ph.D. candidates and academics...
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German Ambassador Peter Ammon Presents 2012 Leo Baeck Medal to Margarethe von...
Ambassador Peter Ammon presents the Leo Baeck Medal to Margarethe von Trotta in New York on November 28, 2012 On November 28, 2012, German Ambassador Peter Ammon awarded the Leo Baeck Medal to German...
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Margarethe von Trotta: Acceptance of the 2012 Leo Baeck Medal
German film director Margarethe von Trotta accepts the Leo Baeck Medal in New York on November 28, 2012. German film director Margarethe von Trotta accepted the Leo Baeck Medal on November 28, 2012 at...
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Dr. William H. Weitzer Named Executive Director of LBI
Dr. William H. Weitzer The Leo Baeck Institute has appointed Dr. William H. Weitzer as its new Executive Director, succeeding Carol Kahn Strauss, who will become the Institute’s International Director....
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LBI Survey of Archives in Romania Brings Hidden Traces of German-Jewish Life...
Register of births in 1884 in Rădăuţi (Radautz), a town in Bukovina, Romania, near the Ukranian border.
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LBI Focuses on Mendelssohn Family in Exhibit at German Ambassador’s Residence
German Ambassador Peter Ammon with Carol Kahn Strauss and Rafael Seligmann On Tuesday, May 7, German Ambassador Peter Ammon hosted the opening of a new Leo Baeck Institute exhibition at his residence....
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LBI Builds Digital Home for Émigré Journal “Aufbau”
The masthead and front page of the inaugural issue of “Aufbau”, published 1934 Leo Baeck Institute has completed digitizing all issues of the German-Jewish émigré Journal, Aufbau published between 1934...
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Teaching Research Skills and German-Jewish History with DigiBaeck
Shira Klein is Assistant Professor of History at Chapman University in Orange County, California With the launch of LBI’s digital archive, historian Shira Klein immediately recognized a new tool for...
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Ein deutsch-jüdisches Soccer-Team in New York 1938 bis 1942
Von Jim G. Tobias Die Jugendmannschaft des New World Club im New Yorker „Sterling Oval“ „Die jüdischen Fußballspieler New Yorks haben an Washington’s Birthday eine Schlacht verloren“, schrieb einer der...
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“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission
Aufbau shuttered its New York offices in August 2004, but the paper’s story did not end there. The Swiss company JM Jüdische Medien AG acquired the paper and re-launched it as a monthly magazine a year...
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An Intellectual Resistance
By Hannah Loewenberg-Harnest Manfred George became Editor of Aufbau in 1939. Aufbau, as the foremost among the German-language émigré journals, constituted a unique intellectual resistance against Nazi...
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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man
In 2011 LBI helped a town in Germany honor its Jewish past and connect with one of its native sons, Harry Ettlinger. Now Ettlinger’s military service during WWII is the subject of an upcoming major...
View Article2012/2013 Fellows
LBI New York continues to support new scholarship in German- Jewish History during 2012–2013 through the administration of the following grants and fellowships. David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship:...
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New Abstract Works in the Art Collection
Friedl Dzubas’ Crossing, a flurry of short black brushstrokes on a circular canvas, is seen here during accessioning in LBI’s art storage facility. Among the artworks recently donated to LBI are a...
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New Archival Collections
The actress Dolly Haas pictured on a series of collectible cards published by the British tobacco company Ardath in 1934. Dolly Haas Family Collection: AR 25447 The Dolly Haas Family Collection, AR...
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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia
Among a trio of rare pamphlets associated with Moses Mendelssohn and the Berlin Enlightenment that LBI recently acquired is a remarkable sermon celebrating a Prussian victory in the Seven Years’ War....
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Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection
Rare book digitization.Creative Commons Stanford University Library LBI and the Frankfurt University Library have made significant progress in a joint effort to recreate a landmark collection of...
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