Das LBI arbeitet mit verschiedenen Bibliotheken und Bibliotheksverbünden um unsere Bestände in diversen thematischen und fachlichen Kontexten auffindbar zu machen.

During the last few years, the library of the Leo Baeck Institute received several book donations as a result of restitution projects in German libraries.

Alice Urbach was a single working mother of two whose cookbook So kocht man in Wien! was a bestseller until it was stolen during the Holocaust.

The LBI Library has in its collection hundreds of Jewish calendars published from as early as 1754 to the 21st century.

In 2013, the Central and Regional Library of Berlin (ZLB) restituted 40 volumes from biochemist Prof. Carl Neuberg’s former library. His granddaughters transfered them to the library of the LBI NY.

Im Juni dieses Jahres besuchte ich das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach (DLA) auf Einladung des Forschungsverbunds Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel. Eine Woche lang hatte ich die Gelegenheit, die Bestände und Aktivitäten des führenden Archivs der Quellen deutschsprachiger Literatur kennenzulernen. Meine Marbacher Kolleginnen und Kollegen und ich entdeckten viele Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen unseren Institutionen und damit …

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Editor and Biblical Scholar Alison Joseph will join in conversation with Professor Deborah Dash Moore about new ways to read the Hebrew Bible.

LBI collaborates with the Frankfurt University Library in Germany to digitally recreate what was the largest collection of books on the Wissenschaft des Judentums before it was scattered in WWII.

Two books were restituted from the library of the Frankfurt Rabbi Ignatz Isaac Bick (1891-1965?) by the State and University Library Hamburg. His heirs donated them to the Leo Baeck Institute Library.

Exploring the beginnings of German-Jewish children's literature with the first textbooks published for German-Jewish children.