LBI Jerusalem and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des LBI in Deutschland invite applications for a seminar for postdoctoral students of German-Jewish and Central-European Jewish History in Berlin and Jerusalem. Apply by March 15.
LBI London Announces Two Scholarships for LBI MA in European Jewish History
Applications for the 2012/2013 academic year are due April 16, 2012.
Leo Baeck Institute Gala Award Dinner
Monday, December 12, 2011, 7:00 pm German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will award the Leo Baeck Medal to Anselm Kiefer and bestow a special honor on Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. The presentation will take place during the annual Leo Baeck Institute Gala Award Diner at the Waldorf≈Astoria in New York.
Funding for German-Jewish Research: Fellowship Applications Due Nov. 1
Leo Baeck Institute supports new research on German-Jewish culture and history through a number of programs aimed at Ph.D. candidates and academics working on topics related to the German-Jewish community in a variety of disciplines. Applications for a number of these programs are due November 1, 2011.
Leo Baeck Salon Explores the Logistics of Memory in Berlin
At the 9th Leo Baeck Salon, seventeen young artists transformed shipping containers in an industrial Berlin neighborhood into art spaces with sculptures inspired by LBI collections. The artists, all students in Gregor Schneider’s sculpture class at the Berlin University of the Arts, engaged with LBI archives at the Jewish Musuem in Berlin.
NEH and DFG to Fund Initiative to Recreate Seminal Judaica Collection
The $180,000 grant, jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG), will allow LBI to digitize about 1,000 books that have been identified as missing from the Frankfurt Library’s Judaica collection.
Leo Baeck Institute and Frankfurt Library Work to Reunite Legendary “Science of Judaism” Collection
Projects underway at Leo Baeck Institute and the Goethe University Library in Frankfurt could give scholars access to a landmark collection of Judaica that was long believed to be permanently fragmented by World War II. A a team of librarians at LBI have cross-referenced a list of works missing from the Frankfurt Library’s 1932 catalogue with LBI holdings.
“The Art of the Book” Presents LBI Collections on Jewish Book Art at German Ambassador’s Residence
As part of the Leo Baeck Institute’s ongoing cooperation with the German Embassy in Washington, DC, Ambassador Klaus Scharioth opened the third exhibition in his residence featuring objects from LBI collections. “The Art of the Book” is devoted to the contributions of Jewish writers, illustrators, designers, publishers and collectors to literature and learning in Germany.
Video: Joschka Fischer and Norbert Frei, the German Foreign Office and the Nazi Past
Excerpts of former German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, and author Norbert Frei discussing “The German Foreign Office and the Past” at LBI. It was the first public discussion of the research initiative and book in New York.
Joschka Fischer Addresses Role of German Foreign Office in Nazi Persecution
Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer discussed his role as initiator of a commission to investigate the role that German diplomats played in Hitler’s apparatus of persecution. The event, which was the first public discussion of the initiative in the US, was co-sponsored by the American Council on Germany and the New School for Social Research.