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Longing, Prayer, Surrender: Diary of an Incredible Journey Translated into...
A portrait of Lene Schneider-Kainer. The year she turned 41, Lene Schneider-Kainer divorced her husband, closed her fledgling business selling designer lingerie to upper class Berlin ladies, and...
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Federal President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, Awarded Leo Baeck Medal in Berlin
Federal President Joachim Gauck accepts the Leo Baeck Medal on May 14, 2014 in Berlin. On May 14, 2014, LBI President Dr. Ronald B. Sobel presented the Leo Baeck Medal to the Federal President of...
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Mahlzeit! German-Jewish Cuisine in LBI Collections
A plate from, Morgenstern, Lina. Illustriertes Universal-Kochbuch für Gesunde und Kranke. Berlin. 1907. As anyone who has traveled abroad knows, food is one of the most important aspects of culture....
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Leo Baeck Institute Annual Award Dinner Honoring Dr. Josef Joffe
Center for Jewish History | December 3, 2014 Dr. Josef Joffe. Photo: Vera Tammen Join us when Dr. Henry A. Kissinger presents the Leo Baeck Medal to Dr. Josef Joffe, who will also deliver the 57th...
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Exile in the Spotlight—LBI to Sponsor Conference on Émigré Theater Giant Kurt...
A portrait of Kurt Hirschfeld (1902–1962) taken inDarmstadt, c. 1930. Else Blum Collection, AR 10303 When the National Socialist regime engineered the “alignment” of cultural institutions from Berlin...
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LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”
The first issue of Jüdische Familienforschung, LBI Library, B184. In the first of a series of measures aimed at improving access to its collections for family historians, LBI recently partnered with a...
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From Gleiwitz to Shanghai, Digitized Periodicals offer Snapshots of Jewish Life
A selection of periodicals digitized by Leo Baeck Institute The LBI Library is pleased to announce that about 60 new periodicals are already available online through DigiBaeck and Internet Archive,...
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Josef Joffe on the “Golden Age” of German-speaking Jewry
Josef Joffe. Photo by Vera Tammen Josef Joffe is the editor of Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, and one of the most influential voices on international affairs today. On December 3, 2014,...
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Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows
Thanks to the generosity of Professor Gerald Westheimer, LBI has supported fellowships for scholars who are early in their careers to pursue research on the social, cultural, and academic aspects of...
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WWI Correspondence—Karl Henschel, a Volunteer from Berlin
Karl Henschel Collection, AR 6433 During the first year of the war, German soldiers sent six million letters every day, and received another 8.5 million. Soldiers’ letters were almost immediately...
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WWI Memoirs—Helmut Freund, a physician from Berlin
A page from Helmut Freund’s Memoir About 300 memoirs in LBI collections describe the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, from ordinary infantrymen to celebrated...
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WWI Photographs—Bernhard Bardach, an Austrian military surgeon
Bernhard Bardach was a 48-year-old career medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army when war broke out. He served on the Eastern and Western fronts, but he was able to spend much of his time during...
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WWI Art—Hermann Struck’s portraits of Muslim POWs
Raupratta Chan, Punjabi, 1916, Etching by Hermann Struck. As empires clung to their supremacy and nationalist movements advanced an opposing vision of the link between ethnicity and state, troop...
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New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization
This handwritten diary from the 18th century is typical of documents that could be transcribed under a new program. Photo, Jon Pack. Thanks to a gift from a private family foundation, LBI will launch...
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Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe
Eva Schweitzer Josef Joffe (r) with Henry Kissinger. Photos by Christina Domingues. “Germans and Jews can enrich one another. They can unite their best qualities,” said LBI President Dr. Ronald Sobel...
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Understanding through Cooperation: Germany Honors Carol Kahn Strauss
Carol Kahn Strauss (c) with her husband, Peter Strauss, and German Consul General Brita Wagener. Photo, Celia Rogge. On January 20, 2015, LBI International Director Carol Kahn Strauss was presented the...
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Michael Brenner Recognized as “Guardian of Jewish History”
Michael Brenner (l) with German Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas. Photo, Emily Andresini. On November 19, 2015 at the Center for Jewish History, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas presented LBI...
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Gerald Westheimer: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History
Gerald Westheimer on his first day of school in Berlin at the age of six and at his home in Berkeley, California in 2015. Gerald Westheimer, born 1924 in Berlin, established the Gerald Westheimer...
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Leopold Zunz (1794 – 1886)
Leopold Zunz (1794-1886), engraving by C. Fisher. Inscribed across bottom: the print is dedicated to Zunz on his 70th birthday. It is also signed by Zunz, lower right, with an inscription. In December...
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Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874)
Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874) One of the leading figures of the Reform Judaism movement, Abraham Geiger believed that Judaism was not a given quantity or a national law but a process still in flux;...
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