Leo Baeck Institute has completed digitizing all issues of the German-Jewish émigré Journal, Aufbau published between 1934 and 2004, thus ensuring that the entire contents of the most important publication of the global German-Jewish refugee and exile community will remain available online to researchers.
German Ambassador Peter Ammon hosted the opening of a new Leo Baeck Institute exhibition at his residence. “The Mendelssohns: A German Family of Scholars, Bankers, and Artists” was curated by the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) from its extensive collection of personal papers, books and other artifacts.
LBI archivists are conducting an inventory of archival holdings related to German-speaking Jewish communities in Southern Bukovina and Transylvania, a project that will dramatically increase the accessibility of primary resources on an aspect of Jewish history that is underrepresented in scholarship.
LBI is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. William H. Weitzer as its new Executive Director, succeeding Carol Kahn Strauss, who will become the Institute’s International Director.
German film director Margarethe von Trotta accepted the Leo Baeck Medal on November 28, 2012 at the Leo Baeck Institutes annual gala award dinner in New York City.
On November 28, 2012, German Ambassador Peter Ammon awarded the Leo Baeck Medal to German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta.
Because of the power-outage related closures and email disruptions at LBI following Hurricane Sandy, the November 2012 deadline for fellowship applications has been extended until November 14, 2012. Applications sent by email after October 28 may not have been received. Please resubmit your application if you are in doubt as to whether it was received.
Brewster Kahle, designer Nicholas Felton, and New York Times reporter Claudia Dreifus discuss LBI’s new digital archive of German-Jewish History.
Rabbi Sobel is Senior Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El in New York City and a highly regarded scholar.
LBI volunteer Jerry Lindenstrauss escaped Germany in in 1939 and moved to Shanghai with his family, where he experienced the Japanese occupation. He made these remarks at the opening of “Destination Shanghai” on June 19, 2012.
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