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Zacharias Frankel (1801 – 1875)
Zacharias Frankel (1801 – 1875) Zacharias Frankel was one of the leading advocates for Conservative Judaism in Germany. Born and trained in Prague, he was the first rabbi in Central Europe with a...
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Esriel Hildesheimer (1820 – 1899)
Esriel Hildesheimer (1820 – 1899) Around 1870, the Orthodox minority in Berlin, distressed at the turn toward liberalization represented by changes such as the installation of an organ in the Synagogue...
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Moritz Steinschneider (1816 – 1907)
Moritz Steinschneider (1816 – 1907) In 1848, a Moravia-born Talmudist named Moritz Steinschneider was charged with the preparation of the catalogue of the Hebrew books in the Bodleian Library at...
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LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases
Leo Baeck Institute has made strides toward integrating its holdings into major global library catalogs, which means more one-stop-shopping for researchers interested in Jewish history. Nearly 8,000...
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Preservation in the LBI Library
Lauren Paustian Caring for a library of over 80,000 physical volumes is a hands-on job, according to Lauren Paustian, an associate librarian who handles many of the LBI Library’s preservation efforts....
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Sara Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin
Clockwise from top left: Musicians perform a work by J.S. Bach that was preserved in the archive of Sara Levy; an engraving by Anton Graff , probably of Sara Levy; Rebecca Cypess at the harpsichord;...
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Stolen Heart: Exhibit on Expropriation in Heart of Berlin coming to LBI
An aerial photograph of Berlin in 1925 highlighting Jewish-owned properties. The Leo Baeck Institute plans to mount an exhibit entitled Stolen Heart based on the exhibition Stolen Mitte: The...
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Arnon Goldfinger, Director of The Flat
“When Israel was founded, there was the sense that it was necessary to build a new country with new people by cutting off the Diaspora roots. Now people feel that they missed something. Not just among...
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Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch
Professor Ismar Schorsch (l) with Robert Rifkind (r) and Dr. Ronald B. Sobel at the Center for Jewish History on March 1, 2015 On March 1, 2015, as LBI opened a symposium and exhibit on the...
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Woman in Gold Screening Brings Restitution Lawyer Randol Schoenberg to Center...
Randol Schoenberg Attorney Randol Schoenberg approaches the podium in the Center for Jewish History’s Forchheimer Auditorium on March 29, 2015. Schoenberg was the guest of honor at a special advance...
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German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941
This fall, LBI will present an exhibition entitled German-Speaking Jews and Zionism, 1862 – 1941 at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, a historic reform congregation in the nation’s capital. This...
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EXHIBIT—In our Midst. Facets of Jewish Life in Leipzig in the Modern Era
JUNE 28 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 Exhibit at the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz 10/11, 04107 Leipzig The Leipzig Brühl around 1920. Leipzig Jewish Community Collection, F 9629. One of...
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Exile in the Spotlight: How Kurt Hirschfeld made Zurich into the World Stage...
After the Second World War, the theater designer Teo Otto—one of the most prolific men in his profession in the 20th century— reminisced about his first conversation with Kurt Hirschfeld, the...
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A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry
William H. Weitzer ELES students during one of the organization’s Auslandsakadamie seminars in New York. A group of 14 Jewish students from Germany will spend two days at the Leo Baeck Institute in...
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More than Just a Moment—Unlocking the Value of the LBI Photo Collection
Friedl Roth with an unidentified man, 1920s Joseph Roth Collection, AR 1764 Austrian writer Josef Roth carried dozens of snapshots of his estranged wife, Friederike (Friedl), among his few possessions...
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Just Passing Through, but Taking a Stand—Jewish Student Politics in Vienna,...
1969—A hunger strike by Jewish students on Schwarzenbergplatz in support of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. Hermann Teifer The University of Vienna celebrates its 650th anniversary this year,...
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Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at Leo Baeck Institute
Walter Nathan History and family go hand in hand for Walter Nathan. In 2006, the Chicago businessman visited his father’s native town of Gau Algesheim (near Mainz) and found the Jewish Cemetery there...
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Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI
The Bambergers—Back row: Gabrielle, Sarah, Kenneth, Michael; 3rd row: Max, Isaiah, Kristin, Madeleine, Phylis; 2nd row: Quinn, Niva, Ella; 1st row: Ezra When LBI Vice President Michael Bamberger...
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Bures Praises Young Volunteers behind LBI’s Austrian Heritage Collection
Simeon Gozivoda (l.) and Jan Dreer with Doris Bures at Leo Baeck Institute,New York, where the young volunteers shared examples of their work with theSocial Democratic politician. Doris Bures, the...
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Leo Baeck Institute Featured at Deutscher Verein Dinner
LBI President Emeritus Ismar Schorsch (l) with Jürgen Ostertag, a Stuttgart native and New York-based attorney who is the president of one of the city’s oldest social clubs, Deutscher Verein. LBI...
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