Events
Finding Overlooked Clues in German Records
Alex Calzareth, Director of the JewishGen German Research Division, will share his strategies for correlating historical evidence and making sense of ambiguous records.
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Three Minutes – A Lengthening
Three minutes of footage are the only moving images remaining of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland before the Holocaust. This film reveals the human stories hidden within the celluloid.
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Book Club: Exile Music
This month, the LBI Book Club will read and discuss Exile Music with author Jennifer Steil.
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Rafting to Bombay
In this documentary, Israeli director Erez Laufer tells the story of his father Nahum’s escape from the Nazis in Poland to India during WWII – against the backdrop of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
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Jacob Taubes: Professor of Apocalypse
Jerry Z. Muller (Catholic University) discusses his new biography of Jacob Taubes with Michael Brenner (American University/Munich).
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Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey
Michael Lahr will give a lecture on Essad Bey’s life and times, followed by a dramatic reading of selected works (in German with English subtitles) by the actor Gregorij H. von Leitis.
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Lore Segal and Uri Berliner
NPR Correspondent Uri Berliner will engage author Lore Segal in a conversation about life, literature, and history.
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Dear Fredy
Combining interviews, archival material, and animation, this documentary tells the story of Fredy Hirsch, a gay, Zionist athlete who became the head of the youth department in Theresienstadt.
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Book Club: Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited
The LBI Book Club will read and discuss Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited with author Mimi Schwartz.
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Music of Hugo Kauder
This concert explores a selection of Hugo Kauder's vocal music, piano music, and chamber music including his newly available Violin Sonata in A minor.
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Leopold Zunz: Scholarship and Revolution
Ismar Schorsch (Jewish Theological Seminary) discusses Leopold Zunz’s scholarly and political legacy at the opening of a new exhibition focused on Zunz.
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Recreating Lost Synagogues
Architect Marc Grellert (TU Darmstadt) discusses his decades of work creating virtual reconstructions of synagogues destroyed during the pogroms of November 9, 1938.
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Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath
This musical tribute to the victims of Kristallnacht will feature music from Karol Rathaus, Hans Gál, and Simon Laks – three composers forced to restart their promising young careers in new countries.
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Analysis and Exile
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud is the story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud.
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German Jews and the University
Monika Richarz’s German Jews and the University , now available in English for the first time, addresses the far-reaching transformation of German Jewry under the impact of university education.
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Hanukkah Concert
Celebrating the joys of the season, the American Society for Jewish Music's Annual Hanukkah concert showcases songs and stories that charm and delight, both familiar and new.
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DigiBaeck – Celebrating 500 Years of German-Jewish History Online · Tue, Oct 16, 2012
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco · Tue, Feb 18, 2014
Jews and the Berlin Wall · Sun, Nov 16, 2014
The Rosenburg Files—Former Nazis in the Post-War German Justice Ministry · Wed, Nov 19, 2014
The Role of Scholarship in Shaping Jewish Identity · Sun, Mar 1, 2015
“The Flat” with director Arnon Goldfinger · Wed, Apr 15, 2015
Sara Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin · Tue, May 19, 2015
Stef Wertheimer—“The Habit of Labor” · Tue, Nov 3, 2015
The 58th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Michael Meyer · Sun, Nov 8, 2015
Exile in the Spotlight: Kurt Hirschfeld and German-language Theater at the Schauspielhaus … · Sun, Dec 6, 2015
Harold James on “Nazi Looting and its Aftermath” · Tue, Mar 29, 2016
Burning Words – A History Play by Peter Wortsman · Sun, Apr 3, 2016
From Vienna to New York: Jewish Exiles Remember “Austria” in the Aftermath … · Thu, Jun 9, 2016
The Other in the Mirror: Jewish Interpretations of Christian and Islamic Origins · Sun, Sep 25, 2016
Martin Luther and Antisemitism · Sun, Nov 13, 2016
Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany · Tue, Mar 28, 2017
German-Jewish History in the Twenty-First Century · Sun, Oct 15, 2017
Film Discussion: Germans and Jews · Tue, Oct 17, 2017
Germans, Jews, and Sex · Wed, Oct 18, 2017
Why Moses Mendelssohn Matters · Thu, Oct 19, 2017
The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming · Wed, Oct 25, 2017
The “Pew Jew” Study: American and German-Jewry in Comparison · Thu, Oct 26, 2017
Knowledge in Flight: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Scholar Rescue in North America · Tue, Dec 5, 2017
The 1938Projekt: 80 Years Since 1938 · Tue, Feb 27, 2018
Passing Illusions & Babylon Berlin: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany · Tue, May 15, 2018
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War · Wed, Sep 26, 2018
The Inaugural Diamonstein/Spielvogel Forum with Bill Moyers · Mon, Oct 22, 2018
1938Projekt: 80 Years since Kristallnacht · Thu, Nov 8, 2018
Reclaiming Citizenship: Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany · Mon, Dec 10, 2018
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss · Thu, Jan 17, 2019
Sam Adler: Building Bridges with Music · Wed, Jan 23, 2019
The City without Jews · Thu, Apr 4, 2019
From Macy’s to the Titanic – The Straus Family Legacy · Mon, Apr 15, 2019
From Swastika to Jim Crow · Wed, Apr 17, 2019
Child Separation and Refugee Crises from the Kindertransport to Today · Tue, May 21, 2019
Two Films about Jew Süss · Thu, May 30, 2019
PORTLAND: Fake News in 1930s Germany and Today · Tue, Jun 11, 2019
The German Stolpersteine · Wed, Jul 24, 2019
The World of Aufbau · Tue, Sep 10, 2019
CINCINNATI: Women in the Rabbinate Then & Now · Tue, Sep 17, 2019
Paint, Pray, Love: Lene Schneider-Kainer “Out of the Box” · Thu, Sep 19, 2019
62nd Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by David Sorkin · Sun, Dec 8, 2019
Live on Zoom: German-Jewish Judaica for Passover · Mon, Apr 13, 2020
Overcoming the Present with Max Czollek · Mon, Apr 20, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol I: My Blue Piano, by Else Lasker-Schüler · Tue, May 12, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol II, Part 1: The World of Yesterday by … · Tue, Jun 2, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol II, Part 1: The World of Yesterday by … · Tue, Jun 2, 2020
Jews and the Right · Tue, Jun 30, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol III: Her First American by Lore Segal · Tue, Jul 14, 2020
Out of the Box: Snapshots of a Life · Tue, Aug 11, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 2: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin · Wed, Oct 28, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol V, Part 2: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin · Wed, Oct 28, 2020
2020 Annual Dinner · Tue, Nov 17, 2020
Shared History Conference · Mon, Dec 7, 2020
Loss & Legacy: The Half-Century Quest to Reclaim a Birthright Stolen by … · Thu, Dec 10, 2020
LBI Book Club, Vol. VI: The Ground Under My Feet · Tue, Dec 22, 2020
Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times · Thu, Jan 14, 2021
1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment · Sun, Jan 24, 2021
The New York Librarian Who Spied On American Nazis · Tue, Feb 9, 2021
Jewish Life in Late Antiquity · Tue, Feb 16, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. VIII · Thu, Feb 25, 2021
Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany · Thu, Mar 11, 2021
The Blood Libel · Thu, Mar 25, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. IX: The Spirit Returneth by Selma Stern · Wed, Mar 31, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. IX: The Spirit Returneth by Selma Stern · Wed, Mar 31, 2021
Julie Metz and Ariana Neumann in Conversation · Thu, Apr 8, 2021
A Conversation on Charlotte Salomon · Tue, Apr 20, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. X: Nathan the Wise · Wed, Apr 28, 2021
Samson Schames and the Art of Exile · Thu, Apr 29, 2021
Color on My Mind · Wed, May 19, 2021
The Jewish Enlightenment in the Era of Absolutism · Thu, Jun 3, 2021
Talent, Ambition, Wealth · Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Heinrich Heine: Revolution and Music · Thu, Jun 24, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. XI: Heinrich Heine · Tue, Jun 29, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. XIV: Yellow Street · Thu, Sep 30, 2021
The Business of Jewish History ·
The Jewish Renaissance in Weimar Germany · Tue, Oct 19, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. XV: The Oppermanns · Thu, Sep 30, 2021
Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath · Tue, Nov 9, 2021
Holocaust History in the 21st Century · Tue, Nov 16, 2021
LBI Book Club, Vol. XVI: Panorama · Thu, Sep 30, 2021
Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation ·
LBI Book Club, Vol. XVII: Professor Bernhardi · Thu, Sep 30, 2021
The Hare with Amber Eyes ·
Jerusalem, New York, and London ·
Vom jüdischen Witz zum Judenwitz (At Wit's End) ·
LBI Book Club, Vol. XVIII: The Original Bambi ·
Theresienstadt Exhibition Opening featuring Zuzana Justman ·
Identity Between Worlds ·
A New History of Theresienstadt ·
Writing the Story ·
Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook ·
Thomas Brasch: The Life of an Artist ·
Book Club: Where She Came From ·
Lieber Thomas (Dear Thomas) ·
Shared History Project Exhibition Opening: Washington, DC ·
Book Club: Rheinsberg ·