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Showdown at the Sterling Oval, 1942: Soccer Coverage in Aufbau
In the 1930s and 1940s, a lively soccer culture was supported in the New York City area by immigrants from all over Europe, including Jewish refugees from Germany. Fans who craved the latest on Jewish...
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Announcement: 2014 Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme
Ludwig Meidner, Portrait of Leo Baeck, 1953 The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and Leo Baeck Institute London have announced a February 1...
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LBI Launches Online Catalog for Long-Hidden Romanian Archives
Search the catalog at jbat.lbi.org. Search the results of the archival survey online at jbat.lbi.org. The results of an extensive survey of Jewish records in Romanian archives are now searchable in an...
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Leo Baeck Medal for Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
The Honorable W. Michael Blumenthal (l) and Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat at the Center for Jewish History on January 14, 2014. By Christina Domingues. In recognition of his long career in public service...
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Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century: Stuart Eizenstat on “The Future of the...
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat delivers the 56th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture at LBI on January 14, 2014. By Christina Domingues Before accepting the Leo Baeck Medal on January 14, 2014, Ambassador Stuart...
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Apply for Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship by March 15
The Bohemian Hebraist Moritz Steinschneider writing at his desk, date unknown. The deadline to apply for LBI’s Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship has been extended to March 15, 2014. The...
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Database of German Exile Publishers Now Online
Some of the distinctive logos of German exile publishers : Row 1 (l-r) Europäischer Merkur, Paris; El Libro Libre, Mexico City; Humanitas, Zürich; Tarshish, Jerusalem; Row 2 (l-r) Eugen Prager,...
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Donation of Biochemist’s Library a Case Study in Provenance & Restitution
Provenance markings that proved that these books belonged to Carl Neuberg. In the lower right hand corner, a piece of paper has been pasted over Neuberg’s name and address. The LBI Library has been...
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Lotka Burešová and her Terezín friends
By Anna Hájková Anna Hájková, a scholar of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, describes how the discovery of a small watercolor painted there in 1944 led to insights into the cultural dynamics of the ghetto’s...
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Jerry Lindenstraus: Sprechen Trotz Allem
Jerry Lindenstraus talks to German school pupils at the headquarters of the Schwarzkopf Stiftung in Berlin in December 2013. Over six-feet tall, impressively agile for his 84 years, and sharply...
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What’s in a Name? Dennis Baum and the Simson Company
LBI Trustee Dennis Baum in 2014. Dennis Baum fought for restitution of his family’s assets in Germany for years following German reunification in 1990. In January, Baum joined his former negotiating...
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Research Profile: Michaela Raggam- Blesch on “Half-Jews” in Vienna, 1938–1945
Michaela Raggam-Blesch Kurt Kelman and Gusti Dressler pose in front of a sign reading “Juden verboten!”(Jews forbidden), at the Augarten Park in Vienna. Summer 1938.Kurt Kelman Collection, AR 11292...
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Library: Sparrow Makes her Way
Samson, Meta and L. Szkolny (illus). Spatz macht sich. Berlin: Jüdischer Buchverlag, 1938. “Wishing that you may make your own way just like this ‘sparrow.’ Love, Evi, your Aunt Becker. Cologne, Rosh...
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Archives: Hoerlin Collection Combines Intrigue, Alpinism, and Physics
Folders from the Hoerlin collection. Visible are correspondence between Käte and Hermann Hoerlin, Herman Hoerlin’s reports on the observation of nuclear tests from space, and a hand-drawn map of a...
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Jerry Brotman—Hands-on Volunteer
Jerry Brotman while barcoding books in the LBI library stacks. He is neither a scholar nor a librarian, but Jerry Brotman knows the LBI Library Collection more intimately than anyone else. In 2014, he...
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Erhard Roy Wiehn— “Wer schreibt, der bleibt!”
Erhard Roy Wiehn is the editor of the “Edition Schoah und Judaica” Erhard Roy Wiehn, born 1937 in Saarbrücken, is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Constance who has edited one of...
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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection
Works by Eduard Magnes, Max Liebermann , and others in LBI’s storage facility at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Photo: Jon Pack. Thanks to a gift from a trust under the will of Edythe...
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Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections
Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow at METRO, and Richard Knipel, President of Wikimedia NYC at the CJH on May 4, 2014. Until recently, an Internet search for Selma...
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LBI at Limmud Germany
At Limmud Germany, workshops were presented in German, Russian, and English, a mix that reflects the diverse backgrounds of the participants. Photo: Nathan Frank. After the fall of the Berlin Wall,...
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Honoring Federal President Joachim Gauck
Dr. Ronald B. Sobel, President of LBI Federal President Gauck (l) and Dr. Ronald B. Sobel. Photo: Michael Fahrig. In 1905, a then young Rabbi Leo Baeck wrote, “What gives our life its worth is what we...
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