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Leo Baeck Gedenkvorlesung

Die Leo Baeck Gedenkvorlesung wurde nach dem Tod Leo Baecks 1956 ins Leben gerufen. Jedes Jahr halt sie ein führender Akademiker oder Intellektueller mit Expertise in der Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Juden. Die Vorlesungen sind in der Bibliothek des LBI sowie online über Internet Archive erhältlich.

Die Leo Baeck Gedenkvorlesung wird von Marianne C. Dreyfus und Familie, den Nachfahren des Rabbiner Leo Baecks, ermöglicht.

2023

Atina Grossmann

Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union in New York City

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 64

Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees Between ‘Orient’ and European Catastrophe

2022

Shulamit Volkov

Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 63

Rewriting German History: Jewish Experience as a Corrective (forthcoming, 2022)

MEHR LESEN

2019

David Sorkin

Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 62

Emancipation, Then and Now

MEHR LESEN

2018

Raphael Gross

Präsident, Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum

Leo Baeck Gedenkvorlesung Nr. 61

Otto Frank and Anne Frank's Diary: The History of A Universal Icon

MEHR LESEN

2017

Roger Cohen

Columnist, The New York Times

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 60

German-Jewish History in the 21st Century

MEHR LESEN

2016

Susannah Heschel

Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 59
Boundary as Barrier, Boundary as Bridge. Jewish and Christian Historiography on Religious Origins in Nineteenth-Century Germany

2015

Michael A. Meyer

Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College and Trustee of Leo Baeck Institute.

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 58

German Jews: The History and the Heritage. Celebrating 60 Years of the Leo Baeck Institute

MEHR LESEN

2014

Josef Joffe

Publisher, Die Zeit, Trustee of Leo Baeck Institute

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 57

The Golden Age of German-speaking Jewry, 1871 – 1933: Remake or Mission Impossible?

MEHR LESEN

Stuart E. Eizenstat

Former Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 56

The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and its Relationship with the United States

MEHR LESEN

2012

Brewster Kahle, Nicholas Felton, Claudia Dreifus, et. al

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 55

Digibaeck: 500 Years of German-Jewish History Online

2011

Jonathan Steinberg

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of European History, University of Pennsylvania

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 54

Bismarck, Anti-Semitism and the Tragedy of German Jewry

2010

Michael Brenner

Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University, and Professor of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 53

From German Wissenschaft to Global Scholarship: Jewish Historiography between the World Wars

2008

Nili Scharf Gold

2007

Shimon Stein

2006

2005

Peter Eisenmann

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 49

Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe

2003

Elisheva Carlebach

2001

Ruth Wisse

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 45

Some serious thoughts about Jewish humor

2000

W. Michael Blumenthal

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 44

Daniel Liebeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin

Ernst Cramer

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 43

Germany and the Jews at the Turn of the Millennium

1999

Hans Mommsen

1997

John Felstiner

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 41

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

1996

1995

Gerald D. Feldman

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 39

Jewish Bankers and the Crises of the Weimar Republic

1994

Jehuda Reinharz

1993

Steven T. Katz

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 37

The Holocaust and Comparative History

1991

Carl E. Schorske

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 35

Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation

1990

Istvan Deak

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 34

Jewish Soldiers in Austro-Hungarian Society

1989

1988

Alfred Gottschalk

1987

Saul Friedländer

1986

Not published

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 30 was not published

1985

Jakob Josef Petuchowski

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 29

On the Validity of German-Jewish Self Definitions

1983

Fritz Stern

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 27

Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later

1982

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

1981

Michael A. Meyer

1979

Walter Laqueur

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 23

The First News of the Holocaust

1978

Felix Gilbert

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 22

Bismarckian Society’s Image of the Jew

1977

George Lachmann Mosse

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 21

The Jews and the German War Experience 1914-1918

1976

Ismar Schorsch

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 20

On the History of the Political Judgment of the Jew

1975

Samuel Sandmel

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 19

Leo Baeck on Christianity

1974

Arthur Allen Cohen

1973

Alexander Altmann

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 17

Leo Baeck and the Jewish Mystical Tradition

Ernest Hamburger

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 16

Jews, Democracy and Weimar Germany

1972

Peter Gay

1971

Uriel Tal

1970

Robert Weltsch

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 13

Max Brod and his Age

1969

Emil Ludwig Fackenheim

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 12

Hermann Cohen – After Fifty Years

1968

Johannes Urzidil

1967

David Gerson Cohen

1966

Nahum Norbert Glatzer

1965

Gershom Scholem

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 8

Walter Benjamin

1964

Oscar Handlin

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 7

Jews in the Culture of Middle Europe

1963

Robert Gordes

1962

Salo Wittmayer Baron

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 5

World Dimensions of Jewish History

1961

Hans J. Morgenthau

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 4

The Tragedy of German-Jewish Liberalism

1960

Max Gruenewald

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 3

Theology and History

1959

Hans Kohn

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 2

Heinrich Heine, The Man and the Myth

1958

Fritz Bamberger

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 1

Leo Baeck, The Man and the Idea