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Library of the Leo Baeck Institute is internationally recognized
as the most comprehensive repository for books documenting the
history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Over 80,000
volumes and 900 periodical titles provide important primary and
secondary material. Rich in rarities ranging from early 16th
century writings to Moses Mendelssohn and Heinrich Heine, first
editions and dedication copies of works by more recent prominent
writers, many of its volumes were salvaged from famous Jewish
libraries that were confiscated and dispersed by the Nazis.
Most of the
collection deals with central European Jewry during the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also includes
material dating back as far as the 16th century and is as
current as the Jewish population in Germany today. The focus of
our collection is on the diverse culture of German-speaking
Jewry, especially in the arts, sciences, literature, philosophy,
and religion.
Detailed
bibliographical descriptions of all materials are available in
our
online catalog.
Please use the
following link to learn more about our
Library Development Policy.
All materials
are to be used onsite in our reading room. Please find
information for visiting the
Leo Baeck Institute
here.
We are currently
digitizing our rare book collection. Please see a project
description and the link to access the digitized books on our
Digitization of the Rare Book Collection website.
For questions regarding
the LBI library collection, please contact the head librarian Renate
Evers, at revers@lbi.cjh.org.
For general questions please use our
contact website.
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Title page
of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem (1783) |
