Lunchtime Lecture: Tobias Brinkmann on Migration in German-Jewish History

Part 4 of LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series

On September 10 at 12:00 PM EDT, Tobias Brinkmann will discuss migration in German-Jewish historiography over the past decades.

As we look back at the last 70 years of German-Jewish historiography since the founding of the Leo Baeck Institute, LBI presents a series of seven events focusing on the most important topics in German Jewish history. Each generation of historians witnesses the appearance of different approaches to historical writing. After decades of focusing on the main political events in German-Jewish history and biographies of political leaders, there has been a turn to microhistory, the role of common people, women and children, minorities, stories dominated by struggles and failures, etc. In the new series, the LBI will present a comprehensive view of seven overarching topics in German Jewish history and ask how their historiography has changed over the decades.

This lecture series will take place online.

About the Speaker:

Tobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University, University Park, PA. Publications: Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2024). Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2012) – finalist for the National Jewish Book Award 2013; (Editor), Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 (New York: Berghahn, 2013).