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Edict of Constantine the Great from 321 CE

Shared History Conference

Monday, Dec. 7, 2020

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Three days of discussion and debate to kick off LBI's “Shared History Project” which marks 1,700 years of Jewish life in German-speaking lands.

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Loss & Legacy: The Half-Century Quest to Reclaim a Birthright Stolen by the Nazis

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

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By 1929 Helene and Samuel Gronner reach economic success and social prominence in the German town of Ilmenau. But when Nazi ideology grips the community, neighbors begin to shun Jewish-owned …

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LBI Book Club, Vol. VI: The Ground Under My Feet

Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

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Join LBI for our sixth book club, in which we'll read and discuss Eva Kollisch's The Ground Under My Feet.

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1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

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Join us as we discuss the changing landscape of Holocaust education and explore the 1938Projekt lesson modules as one tool that can provide relevance to student

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Shared History Conference

Monday, Dec. 7, 2020
Online (Register for link)

Conference

Loss & Legacy: The Half-Century Quest to Reclaim a Birthright Stolen by the Nazis

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Book Presentation
LBI

LBI Book Club, Vol. VI: The Ground Under My Feet

Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Two Great Families And Their Temple: The Strauses, The Lehmans and Temple Emanu-El

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Martin Buber, Ernst Simon, and Shmuel Hugo Bergman at the founding conference of Leo Baeck Institute, May 30, 1955

2020 Annual Dinner

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Annual Award Dinner
US

Terezin, Starving People by Norbert Troller

Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath

Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.

Concert

LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 2: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
LBI

Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
LBI
Lecture

Fashion Metropolis Berlin, Eldridge Street

Fashion Metropolis Berlin, 1836-1939

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Family History Today: Donating Your Family Papers–How, When, Where and Why?

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 1: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Family Affairs: Writing Personal Histories

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, 3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Lecture

Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Stories Will Become Jewish History?

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
Conversation
Lecture

LBI Book Club, Vol IV: The German Bride by Joanna Hershon

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
LBI

Out of the Box: Snapshots of a Life

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Conversation
LBI

LBI Book Club, Vol III: Her First American by Lore Segal

Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Jews and the Right

Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Book Presentation
LBI
Lecture

Circus Jews Under National Socialism: A Lecture/Performance

Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

LBI
Lecture

LBI Book Club, Vol II, Part 2: The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Book Presentation
Conversation
LBI
US

LBI Book Club, Vol II, Part 1: The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Book Presentation
Conversation
LBI
US

PANEL DISCUSSION: Refuge in the Heights

Thursday, May 28, 2020, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

LBI
Lecture
Panel Discussion

LBI Book Club, Vol I: My Blue Piano, by Else Lasker-Schüler

Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
Conversation
LBI
US

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Overcoming the Present with Max Czollek

Monday, April 20, 2020, 3 p.m.–4 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conversation
LBI
US

Passover Haggadah from Tsadik Kaplan Collection

Live on Zoom: German-Jewish Judaica for Passover

Monday, April 13, 2020, 3 p.m.–4 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Lecture
US

17th-century print depicting ritual murder of Bavarian boy by Jews

Live on Zoom - Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 4 p.m.–8 p.m.
Online (Register for link)

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

POSTPONED: Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey aka Kurban Said – Wanderer Between Worlds

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
Staged Reading
US

Hans Richter, City College of New York, 1948

POSTPONED: Stories of New York: City College—Cinema and Sanctuary

Monday, March 16, 2020, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
Panel Discussion
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"Refuge in the Heights" Exhibition Opening with Rob Snyder

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Exhibition Opening
Lecture
US

Marion Kaplan, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal

Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
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Ely Jacques Kahn: A New York Architect Standing the Test of Time

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Film Screening
US

Cover of Prince of the Press by Joshua Teplitsky

Prince of the Press: David Oppenheim and His Library

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
LBI
Lecture
US

Eugen Bárkány, founder of Slovakia's first Jewish Museum

Eugen Bárkány: A Pioneer of Jewish Heritage Preservation in Slovakia

Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
US

The Flight Portfolio

Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
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The German Menorah — Lecture and Antique Judaica Roadshow

Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, 12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
US

62nd Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by David Sorkin

Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, 2:30 p.m.–4 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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2019 Annual Award Dinner Honoring Martha Minow

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Annual Award Dinner
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Phil Rosenthal in Conversation with Marjorie Ingall

Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conversation
US

TWIN CITIES: Lessons from the German-Jewish Migration

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Mount Zion Temple

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

SAN DIEGO: Racism in American and German Cinema of the '20s

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, 4 p.m.–7 p.m.
UC San Diego Atkinson, Hall Auditorium

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

The Art of Exile: Paintings by German-Jewish Refugees

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Exhibition Opening
US

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music – Book Cover

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California

Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

SOLD OUT: Jews on the Upper East Side: Walking Tour

Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

US
Walking Tour

Paint, Pray, Love: Lene Schneider-Kainer “Out of the Box”

Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
US

Cover of "West Germany and Israel" by Carole Fink

West Germany and Israel: Carole Fink in conversation with David Marwell

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
The Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU

Conversation
Lecture
US

CLEVELAND: Germany 1932, America 2020: Jews and Democracy in Crisis

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, 7 p.m.–8 p.m.
Landmark Centre Building, Siegal Lifelong Learning Center

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

Regina Jonas' Dissertation "Can a Woman be a Rabbi"

CINCINNATI: Women in the Rabbinate Then & Now

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, 4:30 p.m.–7 p.m.
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

Lecture
Panel Discussion
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Harold Poor, Kurt Tucholsky, and the Ordeal of Germany

Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
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The World of Aufbau

Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
US

Books about the Holocaust in the LBI Library Stacks

INDIANAPOLIS: Teaching and Scholarship on the Holocaust in the United States

Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
The Athenaeum

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

The German Stolpersteine

Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
US

PORTLAND: Fake News in 1930s Germany and Today

Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

Power / Jew Suess Poster with Conrad Veidt

Two Films about Jew Süss

Thursday, May 30, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Lecture
US

Conference: Remembering Ernst Toller (1893–1939)

Thursday, May 30, 2019, 1:30 p.m.–7 p.m.
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

Conference
US

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Curator's Tour of Kindertransport Exhibition

Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Popper Gallery

Child Separation and Refugee Crises from the Kindertransport to Today

Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Panel Discussion
US

Washington Heights Walking Tour

Sunday, May 19, 2019, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Washington Heights

US
Walking Tour

Curator's Tour of Kindertransport Exhibition

Monday, May 13, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Popper Gallery

Curator's Tour
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An Encounter with Ernst Toller & William S. Burroughs

Thursday, May 9, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Staged Reading
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Still from “Judenrein” by Daniel Blaufuks

“Under Strange Skies” and “Judenrein” with Daniel Blaufuks

Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Deutsches Haus at NYU

Conversation
Film Screening
US

CHICAGO: Lessons from Weimar Germany

Friday, May 3, 2019, 12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Germany Week

LBI
Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

Dear Erich: A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal

Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Concert
US

From Swastika to Jim Crow

Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Film Screening
US

H.G. Adler: A 20th-Century Life for the 21st Century

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Deutsches Haus at NYU

Conversation
US

From Macy’s to the Titanic – The Straus Family Legacy

Monday, April 15, 2019, 5 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

ATLANTA: Contrasting Experiences: Jewish Immigrants from Germany in the US

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Emory University

LBI
Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

Andrees allgemeiner Handatlas, 1901 North America

MIAMI: The German language and the Jews: a few ‘what ifs’

Monday, April 8, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
The Jewish Museum of Florida – Florida International University

LBI
Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

The City without Jews

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Film Screening
US

How Fascism Works

Monday, April 1, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Conversation
US

Curator's Tour of Kindertransport Exhibition

Monday, April 1, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Popper Gallery

Curator's Tour
US

My Knees Were Jumping—Remembering the Kindertransports

Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
US

A curator's journey through the Kindertransport exhibition

Thursday, March 7, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Popper Gallery

Curator's Tour
US

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Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University

Conversation
US

The Treaty of Versailles with Michael Neiberg

Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

Sam Adler: Building Bridges with Music

Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Concert
US

The Many Deaths of Jew Süss

Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, 6:30 p.m.

Book Presentation
US

Reclaiming Citizenship: Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany

Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
Lecture
US

Otto Frank & His Daughter’s Diary: The Making of a Universal Icon

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
US

1938Projekt: 80 Years since Kristallnacht

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Commemoration
Concert
Lecture
US
Walking Tour

The Inaugural Diamonstein/Spielvogel Forum with Bill Moyers

Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Lecture
US

Sanctuary in the Heights: Migration and Memory in Washington Heights

Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, 1 p.m.–5 p.m.
Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation of Washington Heights

Panel Discussion
US
Walking Tour

Restoring Tomorrow

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Film Screening
US

Celebrating 20 Years of the Straus Historical Society

Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, noon–4 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

US
Walking Tour

Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall

Exhibition Opening
US

Ladies Mile Walking Tour

Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

US
Walking Tour

Reverberations: Music for Unaccompanied Violin by J.S. Bach and Its Influence on Later Works

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Exhibition Opening
US

Katzenstein Cigar Store on the Lower East Side of New York City

Becoming German Jews in America

Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall

Exhibition Opening
Lecture
Panel Discussion
US

Passing Illusions & Babylon Berlin: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

Synagogues in Hungary—Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture

German-Jewish History after 1945

Thursday, April 12, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
US

The German-Jewish Cookbook

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
US

The 1938Projekt: 80 Years Since 1938

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Commemoration
Exhibition Opening
Lecture
US

Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall

The “Pew Jew” Study: American and German-Jewry in Comparison

Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
Panel Discussion
US

The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion
US

What if the Weimar Republic had Survived?

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

Our Crowd—German-Jewish Banking Families in America

Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion

Germany? Germany! Kurt Tucholsky’s Satirical Writing

Monday, May 22, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

"Woman in a Cabbage Field", Painting by Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

Stranger in a Strange Land—Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
US

How They Lived: The Everyday Lives of Hungarian Jews 1867–1940

Thursday, March 16, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

We’ll Always Have Casablanca

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

Portrait of Leopold Zunz by Carl Fischer

Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

Martin Luther and Antisemitism

Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Morgan Library & Museum

Panel Discussion
US

Restitution, Justice, and Memory

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion
US

The Other in the Mirror: Jewish Interpretations of Christian and Islamic Origins

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
US

Berlin Films: Grand Hotel

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
US

Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions - Film Still

Berlin Films: Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
US

Berlin Films: Menschen am Sonntag

Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
US

From Vienna to New York: Jewish Exiles Remember “Austria” in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conversation
Panel Discussion
US

And after the Fire—A Novel

Thursday, June 2, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Lecture
US

An Erwin Schulhoff Retrospective

Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Concert
Lecture
US

Uncovering Mysteries of 19th-Century German-Jewish Immigrant Families

Monday, May 23, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conversation
Lecture
US

When Europe was a Prison Camp

Thursday, May 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic

Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

Burning Words – A History Play by Peter Wortsman

Sunday, April 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Staged Reading
US

Harold James on “Nazi Looting and its Aftermath”

Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Exhibition Opening
Lecture
US

Exile in the Spotlight: Kurt Hirschfeld and German-language Theater at the Schauspielhaus Zurich

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Panel Discussion
Staged Reading
US

Head of Leo Baeck, by Erna Weill, Cropped

The 58th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Michael Meyer

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.–4 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Lecture
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
US

Stef Wertheimer—“The Habit of Labor”

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Book Presentation
Conversation
US

Sara Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin

Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 7 p.m.–9 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Concert
Lecture

“The Flat” with director Arnon Goldfinger

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conversation
Film Screening
US

Exile in the Spotlight: Kurt Hirschfeld and German-language Theater at the Schauspielhaus Zurich

Monday, March 9, 2015, 2:30 p.m.–7 p.m.
Forchheimer Auditorium

Conference
Staged Reading
US

The Role of Scholarship in Shaping Jewish Identity

Sunday, March 1, 2015, 1:30 p.m.–5 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Conference
US

The Rosenburg Files—Former Nazis in the Post-War German Justice Ministry

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion
US

Jews and the Berlin Wall

Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, 2 p.m.–4 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion
US

American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Film Screening
Panel Discussion
US

DigiBaeck – Celebrating 500 Years of German-Jewish History Online

Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History

Panel Discussion
US

BOOK PRESENTATION:
LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 2: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin · Oct. 28, 2020

CONVERSATION:
Out of the Box: Snapshots of a Life · Aug. 11, 2020

EVENT:
LBI Book Club, Vol III: Her First American by Lore Segal · July 14, 2020

BOOK PRESENTATION:
Jews and the Right · June 30, 2020

BOOK PRESENTATION:
LBI Book Club, Vol II, Part 1: The World of Yesterday by … · June 2, 2020

BOOK PRESENTATION:
LBI Book Club, Vol I: My Blue Piano, by Else Lasker-Schüler · May 12, 2020

CONVERSATION:
Overcoming the Present with Max Czollek · April 20, 2020

LECTURE:
Live on Zoom: German-Jewish Judaica for Passover · April 13, 2020

LECTURE:
62nd Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by David Sorkin · Dec. 8, 2019

LECTURE:
Paint, Pray, Love: Lene Schneider-Kainer “Out of the Box” · Sept. 19, 2019

LECTURE:
CINCINNATI: Women in the Rabbinate Then & Now · Sept. 17, 2019

BOOK PRESENTATION:
The World of Aufbau · Sept. 10, 2019

LECTURE:
The German Stolpersteine · July 24, 2019

LECTURE:
PORTLAND: Fake News in 1930s Germany and Today · June 11, 2019

LECTURE:
Two Films about Jew Süss · May 30, 2019

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Child Separation and Refugee Crises from the Kindertransport to Today · May 21, 2019

FILM SCREENING:
From Swastika to Jim Crow · April 17, 2019

LECTURE:
From Macy’s to the Titanic – The Straus Family Legacy · April 15, 2019

FILM SCREENING:
The City without Jews · April 4, 2019

CONCERT:
Sam Adler: Building Bridges with Music · Jan. 23, 2019

BOOK PRESENTATION:
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss · Jan. 17, 2019

BOOK PRESENTATION:
Reclaiming Citizenship: Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany · Dec. 10, 2018

COMMEMORATION:
1938Projekt: 80 Years since Kristallnacht · Nov. 8, 2018

LECTURE:
The Inaugural Diamonstein/Spielvogel Forum with Bill Moyers · Oct. 22, 2018

EXHIBITION OPENING:
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War · Sept. 26, 2018

BOOK PRESENTATION:
Passing Illusions & Babylon Berlin: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany · May 15, 2018

COMMEMORATION:
The 1938Projekt: 80 Years Since 1938 · Feb. 27, 2018

EVENT:
Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America · Dec. 5, 2017

FILM SCREENING:
The “Pew Jew” Study: American and German-Jewry in Comparison · Oct. 26, 2017

PANEL DISCUSSION:
The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming · Oct. 25, 2017

BOOK PRESENTATION:
Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany · March 28, 2017

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Martin Luther and Antisemitism · Nov. 13, 2016

LEO BAECK MEMORIAL LECTURE:
The Other in the Mirror: Jewish Interpretations of Christian and Islamic Origins · Sept. 25, 2016

CONVERSATION:
From Vienna to New York: Jewish Exiles Remember “Austria” in the Aftermath … · June 9, 2016

STAGED READING:
Burning Words – A History Play by Peter Wortsman · April 3, 2016

EXHIBITION OPENING:
Harold James on “Nazi Looting and its Aftermath” · March 29, 2016

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Exile in the Spotlight: Kurt Hirschfeld and German-language Theater at the Schauspielhaus … · Dec. 6, 2015

LECTURE:
The 58th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Michael Meyer · Nov. 8, 2015

BOOK PRESENTATION:
Stef Wertheimer—“The Habit of Labor” · Nov. 3, 2015

CONCERT:
Sara Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin · May 19, 2015

CONVERSATION:
“The Flat” with director Arnon Goldfinger · April 15, 2015

CONFERENCE:
The Role of Scholarship in Shaping Jewish Identity · March 1, 2015

PANEL DISCUSSION:
The Rosenburg Files—Former Nazis in the Post-War German Justice Ministry · Nov. 19, 2014

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Jews and the Berlin Wall · Nov. 16, 2014

FILM SCREENING:
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco · Feb. 18, 2014

PANEL DISCUSSION:
DigiBaeck – Celebrating 500 Years of German-Jewish History Online · Oct. 16, 2012

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