Haggadot in LBI collections attest to the rich cultural life and unique identity of German-Jews in pre-war Germany. Many are also stunning examples of modern book design.
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German-Jewish Émigré Journal Aufbau Now Digitized
Leo Baeck Institute has completed digitizing all issues of the German-Jewish émigré Journal, Aufbau, published between 1951 and 2004, which means the entire contents of the most important publication of the global German-Jewish refugee and exile community is now available online.
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.
LBI Receives $3 Million in Funding from Germany to Preserve Historical Records of Jewish Refugees
The Leo Baeck Institute recently signed an agreement with the German Foreign Ministry to receive $3 million over 4 years for LBI’s “New Acquisitions Preservation Project”, allowing for the cataloging of significant new historical material pertaining to the survivor population of refugees from Nazi Germany.
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