Rabbi 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...
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Sukkot in LBI Collections
Leo Baeck Institute will be closed on Monday October 1 and Tuesday October 2 in observance of Sukkot. The staff at LBI wishes a good holiday to all and presents these images of Sukkot from DigiBaeck,...
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Oral History Interviews
Hundreds of Oral History Interviews are available through DigiBaeck that record the experience of German-Jewish refugees who settled in the United States. They include interviews conducted by the...
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Home Movies
"Weekend at Scharmützelsee" 8mm Home Movie, 16 min., 1935When public beaches were closed to Jews in 1935, the Jewish community board in Berlin put pressure on the Korngold family to open their estate...
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...
View ArticleLEO BAECK INSTITUTE LAUNCHES DIGIBAECK, A FREE DIGITAL VERSION OF ITS...
Online archive will enable access to more than 3.5 million pages of material that encompasses rare books, photographs, artwork, letters, memoirs and ephemera documenting the culture and achievements of...
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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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Ambassador Peter Ammon: Laudatio for Margarethe von Trotta, Recipient of the...
German Ambassador Peter Ammon at the LBI Gala Award Dinner on November 28, 2012 in New York. Ambassador Peter Ammon presented the Leo Baeck Medal to German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta at the Leo...
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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...
View ArticleDr. William H. Weitzer Named Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute,...
For Immediate Release Dr. William H. Weitzer Named Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York City The Leo Baeck Institute, a New York City-based research library devoted to the study and...
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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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Beer, Art and Revolution: Jewish Life in Munich, 1806 – the present
Julius W. Schülein, “Main Synagogue and Frauenkirche”, water color, c. 1920 February 21 – July 31 in the Katherine and Clifford H. Goldsmith Gallery Munich evokes images of the Oktoberfest and oompah...
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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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Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic...
Meyer Elkan FürthSefer yir’at shamayim [The Book of Fear of Heaven] Dessau, 1820Before the emancipation, learned Jews used mathematics primarily as a tool for calculating the Jewish calendar. As...
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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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Rosh Hashanah in LBI Collections
Leo Baeck Institute is closed on Thursday, September 5 and Friday, September 6 in observance of Rosh Hashanah. The staff at LBI wishes “Shana Tova” to all and presents this slideshow of materials from...
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Sukkot in LBI Collections
Leo Baeck Institute will be closed on Thursday September 19 and Friday September 20 in observance of Sukkot and will close at 2pm on Wednesday, September 18 for Erev Sukkot. The staff at LBI wishes a...
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