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Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture

Years

Founded in memory of Leo Baeck after his passing in 1956, the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is given each year by a leading scholar or public intellectual whose work touches on the history of German-speaking Jews. The lectures are available from the LBI Library and online via Internet Archive.

The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is endowed by Marianne C. Dreyfus and Family, the descendants of Rabbi Leo Baeck

2026

Marsha Rozenblit

Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Maryland

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 67

Was New York like Vienna? How Jewish Refugees from Austria, 1938-1941, Made America into a New Version of the Habsburg Monarchy