Leo Baeck Institute works to preserve and promote the history and culture of German-speaking Jews.
Kern-Martin Family Collection
Ruth Jacobsen
LBI Book Club, Vol VII: The War of the Jews
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Project
The Shared History project tells the story of Jews in central Europe using 58 objects. Each object will illustrate how German-Jewish history is deeply interwoven with the peoples and countries in this region.
Featured Collection
The story of Rabbi Walter Plaut's (1919–1964) participation in the Interfaith Freedom Ride in 1961, told based on the Walter Plaut Scrapbook in the collection of the LBI Archives.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
The German Jews of Washington Heights
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