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A New Online Presence for the Leo Baeck Institute(s)
Since 2010, LBI staff in New York have engaged with donors, scholars, genealogists, and others on the Institute’s Facebook page. In between two and six posts per day, archivists and librarians share...
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Genealogy Success Stories
Jane Vogel-Kohai, Moshav Mesillat Tziyon, Israel Jane Vogel-Kohai When I began my genealogical research about 17 years ago, I was excited to learn that my grandfather’s papers were preserved at LBI. My...
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Descendants of Expropriated Berlin Families Gather for Exhibition Opening
Eugenie Fuchs, “Winter Landscape”, Oil on Canvas, 1931. Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Inv.-Nr. SM 2014-0449 Before the opening reception in late March for the new exhibit, Stolen Heart: The Theft of...
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Family of Rare Book Donor Visits LBI
(l-r) Columbia University historian Elisheva Carlebach; President & CEO of the Center for Jewish History, Joel Levy; Playwright Peter Wortsman; Frank Herz’s daughter-in-law, Janet Stahl; Herz’s...
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In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker
The Leo Baeck Institute, New York|Berlin mourns the loss of historian Arnold Paucker, who led the Leo Baeck Institute London from 1959 until 2001. Paucker was editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year...
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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog Brings a Hidden Collection Online
Works by Eduard Magnes, Max Liebermann , and other artists in the LBI’s art storage facility at the Center for Jewish History in New York. By Jon Pack. Thanks to a gift from a trust under the will of...
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Research, Exploitation, and Survival: The Story of Jacob Jacobson, a Jewish...
Hechingen, Decrees about Schutzjuden, 1635-?; Jacob Jacobson Collection; AR 7002; Box 8 Folder III31; LBI. One of the largest and most-used collections in the LBI archives is named for a little known...
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2017 Obermayer Award Winners
At the Berlin city parliament building in January 2017, six non-Jewish German individuals or groups were presented the Obermayer German-Jewish History Award for their efforts to preserve and document...
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Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau
At the LBI’s Annual Award Dinner on November 17, 2016 at the Center for Jewish History, friends, family, and colleagues gathered to honor Robert M. Morgenthau with the Leo Baeck Medal for a lifetime of...
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Survey of Romanian Archives Shifts Focus to Jewish Community Records
Diverse photographs in the records of the Jewish community of Lugoj, Romania, dated from the late-19th through mid-20th century. A survey of archival material related to the Jewish history of...
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Art Books From LBI Collections Now Available Through Getty Research Portal
The new partnership is aimed at increasing public exposure to digitized illustrated books and artists’ portfolios in the LBI’s collections that may not be available anywhere else. Struck, Hermann. Land...
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Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows 2016
Thanks to the generosity of Professor Gerald Westheimer, the LBI supports fellowships for scholars who are early in their careers to pursue research on the social, cultural, and academic aspects of the...
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Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research
Birth Register (Altes Familien Register, Berlin), 1778-1811. (Jacob Jacobson Collection, LBI) Jordan Katz, a fellow at the Center for Jewish History and a member of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme...
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Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca
Among the materials in LBI collections that document the flight of German-speaking Jews via Casablanca is the Solnik Family’s ticket for the journey from Casablanca to New York, which was scheduled for...
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Roger Cohen on German-Jewish History in the 21st Century
Roger Cohen’s journalistic career has included stints covering Beirut in the 1980s, the Bosnian war in the 1990s, the return of the German government to Berlin in 2000, and the War in Afghanistan as...
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Working To Get Memory, and the Past, Right
David N. Myers is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the Sady & Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History. He was recently named President & CEO of the...
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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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