Leo Baeck Memorial Lectures

Listed in chronological order; all memoiral lectures are $12 unless stated otherwise:

LBML 1 (1958): BAMBERGER, FRITZ: Leo Baeck, The Man and the Idea. 20 p.

LBML 2 (1959): KOHN, HANS: Heinrich Heine, The Man and the Myth. 24 p.

LBML 3 (1960): GRUENEWALD, MAX: Theology and History. 13 p.

LBML 4 (1961): MORGENTHAU, HANS J.: The Tragedy of German-Jewish Liberalism. 16 p.

LBML 5 (1962): BARON, SALO WITTMAYER: World Dimensions of Jewish History. 26 p.

LBML 6 (1963): GORDIS, ROBERT: Jewish Learning and Jewish Existence: Retrospect and Prospect. 34 p.

LBML 7 (1964): HANDLIN, OSCAR: Jews in the Culture of Middle Europe. 20 p.

LBML 8 (1965): SCHOLEM, GERSHOM GERHARD: Walter Benjamin. 24 p.

LBML 9 (1967): COHEN, GERSON DAVID: Messianic Postures of Ashkenazim and Sephardim (Prior to Sabbatai Zvi). 42 p.

LBML 10 (1966): GLATZER, NAHUM NORBERT: Baeck - Buber - Rosenzweig. Reading the Book of Job. 19 p.

LBML 11 (1968): URZIDIL, JOHANNES: The Living Contribution of Jewish Prague to Modern German Literature. 26 p.

LBML 12 (1969): FACKENHEIM, EMIL LUDWIG: Hermann Cohen - After Fifty Years. 27 p.

LBML 13 (1970): WELTSCH, ROBERT: Max Brod and his Age. 29 p.

LBML 14 (1971): TAL, URIEL: Religious and Anti-Religious Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism. 28 p.

LBML 15 (1972): GAY, PETER: The Berlin-Jewish Spirit. A Dogma in Search of Some Doubts. 19 p.

LBML 16 (1973): HAMBURGER, ERNEST: Jews, Democracy and Weimar Germany. 31 p.

LBML 17 (1973): ALTMANN, ALEXANDER: Leo Baeck and the Jewish Mystical Tradition. 28 p.

LBML 18 (1974): COHEN, ARTHUR ALLEN: Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death-Camps. 23 p.

LBML 19 (1975): SANDMEL, SAMUEL: Leo Baeck on Christianity. 22 p.

LBML 20 (1976): SCHORSCH, ISMAR: On the History of the Political Judgment of the Jew. 23 p.

LBML 21 (1977): MOSSE, GEORGE LACHMANN: The Jews and the German War Experience 1914-1918. 28 p.

LBML 22 (1978): GILBERT, FELIX: Bismarckian Society's Image of the Jew. 31 p.

LBML 23 (1979): LAQUEUR, WALTER: The First News of the Holocaust. 32 p.

LBML 24 (1980): LOEWENBERG, PETER: Walter Rathenau and Henry Kissinger: The Jew as a Modern Statesman in Two Political Cultures. 26 p.

LBML 25 (1981): MEYER, MICHAEL A.: German Political Pressure and Jewish Religious Response in the 19th Century. 31 p.

LBML 26 (1982): YERUSHALMI, YOSEF HAYIM: Assimilation and Racial Anti-Semitism: The Iberian and the German Model. 38 p.

LBML 27 (1984): STERN, FRITZ: Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later. 32 p.

LBML 28 (1984): PARET, PETER: "The Enemy Within" - Max Liebermann as President of the Prussian Academy of Arts. 31 p.

LBML 29 (1985): PETUCHOWSKI, JAKOB JOSEF: On the Validity of German-Jewish Self Definitions. 24 p.

LBML 30 (1986) was never published.

LBML 31 (1987): FRIEDLÄNDER, SAUL: A Conflict of Memories- The New German Debates about the "Final Solution". 24 p.

LBML 32 (1988): GOTTSCHALK, ALFRED: The German Pogrom of November 1938 and the Reaction of American Jewry. 27 p.

LBML 33 (1989): MIRON, DAN: Ashkenaz: Modern Hebrew Literature and the Pre-modern German Jewish Experience. 48 p.

LBML 34 (1990): DEAK, ISTVAN: Jewish Soldiers in Austro-Hungarian Society. 31 p.

LBML 35 (1991): SCHORSKE, CARL E.: Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation. 24 p.

LBML 36 (1992): PLAUT, W. GUNTHER: German-Jewish Bible Translations: Linguistic Theology as a Political Phenomenon. 24 p.

LBML 37 (1999): KATZ, STEVEN T.: The Holocaust and Comparative History. 32 p.

LBML 38 (1994): REINHARZ, JEHUDA: Zionism and the Great Powers: a Century of Foreign Policy. 32 p.

LBML 39 (1995): FELDMAN, GERALD D.: Jewish Bankers and the Crises of the Weimar Republic. 21 p.

LBML 40 (1996): KAPLAN, MARION: Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Women in the Aftermath of November 1938.

LBML 41 (1997): FELSTINER, JOHN: Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.

LBML 42 (1999): MOMMSEN, HANS: The Legacy of the Holocaust and German National Identity.

LBML 43 (2000): CRAMER, ERNST: Germany and the Jews at the Turn of the Millenium.

LBML 44 (2000): BLUMENTHAL, W. MICHAEL: Daniel Liebeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin. LBML 44, 2000

LBML 45 (2001): WISSE. RUTH R.: Some serious thoughts about Jewish humour.

LBML 46 (2003): CARLEBACH, ELISHEVA: Divided souls : the convert critique and the culture of the Ashkenaz, 1750-1800.

LBML 47 (2004): LIBERLES, ROBERT: Persistent myths and stereotypes in the image of German Jews : a social perspective.

LBML 48 (2004): ELLENSON, DAVID:  "Wissenschaft des Judentums", historical consciousness, and Jewish faith : the diverse paths of Frankel, Auerbach and Halevy. 15 p.

LBML 49 (2005): EISENMAN, PETER: "Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe” 12 p.

LBML 50 (2006): RICHARDS, Arnold D: "Creating sociology and psychoanalysis in the Habsberg lands : Freud, Brill and Fleck “. - 2007” 24 p.

LBML 51 (2007): STEIN, Shimon: " From Jerusalem to Berlin and back : a diplomatic journey . 13 p.

LBML 52 (2008): GOLD, Nili Scharf: “Yehuda Amichai: the German-Jewish roots of Israel's national poet.” 16 p.

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