LBI Hosts Lecture Series in Honor of 70 Years

Scholars look back at 70 years of German-Jewish historiography in a monthly series

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.

These events will be a monthly series of online webinars, occurring on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM Eastern time. The series will be as follows:

May 21: Philipp Nielsen on politics

June 11: Magda Teter on early modern German-Jewish history

July 30: Leora Batnitzky on religion in German-Jewish history

September 10: Tobias Brinkmann on Migration

October 22: Jonathan R. Zatlin on the Economy

November 12: Marsha Rozenblit on Austria

December 3: Deborah Hertz on Gender