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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees

Media advisory – For immediate release April 23, 2020 Contacts: North America: David Brown Director of Communications and Programs, Leo Baeck Institute dbrown@lbi.cjh.org | +1 (920) 265-2374 Europe: Miriam Bistrovic …

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Statement on the trial of historians in Poland

The Leo Baeck Institute and its partner organizations in the Center for Jewish History – The American Jewish Historical Society, The American Sephardi Federation, Yeshiva University Museum, and The YIVO …

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Shared History Project in the News

A list of notable mentions of the Shared History Project in recent publications.

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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


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Statement on the trial of historians in Poland


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Shared History Project in the News


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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


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  • 2021
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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project


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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Reference Service


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  • 2020
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Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19


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  • 2020
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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy


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  • 2020
Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


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  • 2020
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Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


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  • 2020
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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


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  • 2020
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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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  • 2020
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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


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  • 2020
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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


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  • 2020
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A Course in Old German Scripts


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  • 2020
  • Discussions
Gottschalk Family

News from the Family Research Department


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  • 2020
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Widen the Circle

Call for Applications–Obermayer Awards 2021


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Call for Papers—Shared History Conference


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  • 2020
Landscape with view of Synagogue at Oppeln (Upper Silesia) by G. Pujos

Between Two Nations


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  • 2020
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Stay In Touch!


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Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021


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  • 2020
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Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism


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Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel


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  • 2020
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Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection


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  • 2020
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AM New York on Refuge in the Heights


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Wall Street Journal on Menorah Collection


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David Sorkin—“We should not take those rights for granted”


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  • 2019
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Lilith Magazine on LBI’s Art in Exile Exhibit


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  • 2019
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The Jerusalem Post on LBI's Refuge in the Heights Exhibition


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  • LBI in the News
  • 2019
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Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”


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  • 2019
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LBI’s Art of Exile Exhibition and the Search for Samson Schames


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Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side


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  • 2019
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From Prague to Princeton: Tracing the Story of the Kulbach Family


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  • 2019
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1938Projekt at German Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC


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New Website Virtually Reconstructs Austrian-Jewish Lives


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Stolpersteine—Commemoration and Controversy


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  • 2019
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“I call him sensei”—An Appreciation of Grigoriy Ratinov


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  • 2019
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Martha Minow

Interview: Martha Minow on the Law, Memory, and Forgiveness


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  • 2019
The Baum Family Tre

News from the Family Research Department


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  • 2019
Regina Jonas' Dissertation "Can a Woman be a Rabbi"

Deutschlandjahr Takes German-Jewish History—and LBI—on the Road


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  • 2019
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Safeguarding LBI Collections with Knowledge and Planning


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  • 2019
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San Diego Jewish Journal Article on LBI Event

San Diego Jewish Journal on: Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties


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  • 2019
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The Jewish Daily Forward on “The Art of Exile”


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  • 2019
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Times of Israel | Online 1938Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews

The Times of Israel on the 1938Projekt


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  • 2019
  • 1938Projekt
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The Jonas Family of Hamburg: A story from the Kindertransport


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  • 2019
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Joachim Prinz

New Research Tool: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933–1990


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Daily Beast on: The German Jews Who Escaped Hitler, and Made New York Their Home


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Nesthäkchen Comes to LBI


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Judith Marcus & Zoltán Tarr.

The Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr Collection


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  • 2019
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Peter Wittig & Huberta von Voss-Wittig

Leo Baeck Medal for Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig


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  • 2018
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Anneliese Erlanger

The Kindertransport—Compassion within Limits


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  • 2018
  • Kindertransport
Raphael Gross receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank


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  • 2018
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Rykestrasske Kristallnacht Commemoration

Germany Marks 80 Years Since Kristallnacht with the 1938Projekt


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  • 2018
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Werner Gundersheimer, Vice President

Remembering Kristallnacht


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  • 2018
Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


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  • 2018
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Sphinx and Camel Photograph

Spectacular Photographs of Egypt by Way of Hamburg


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  • 2018
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Kindertransport

Kindertransport Exhibit Highlights Family Separation in 1930s


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The library of Henry (Heinz) Wachs


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Karen Franklin and Robert Morgenthau

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI


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  • 2018
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Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


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  • 2018
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Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


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  • 2018
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Return of the Basket Weavers


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  • 2018
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Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg


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  • LBI in the News
  • 2018
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Jason Lustig

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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  • 2018
  • Fellowships
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Posts from the Past, 80 Years after 1938


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  • 2018
  • 1938Projekt
Max Warburg (l) with LBI Executive Director William H. Weitzer at the Center for Jewish History in New York on November 15, 2017.

Leo Baeck Medal for Max Warburg


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A Visit to the German Literature Archive in Marbach


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A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


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Preserving Yesterday’s News with the CJH and Frankfurt University Library


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Roger Cohen

Interview: Roger Cohen on German-Jewish History in the 21st Century


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Diverse photographs in the records of the Jewish community of Lugoj, Romania

Survey of Romanian Archives Shifts Focus to Jewish Community Records


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Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


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Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research


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Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research


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Struck, Hermann. Land Israel: 25 Original-Radierungen.

Art Books From LBI Collections Now Available Through Getty Research Portal


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Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca


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Research, Exploitation, and Survival: The Story of Jacob Jacobson, a Jewish Archivist in Nazi Germany


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2017 Obermayer Award Winners


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Stefanie Fischer

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker


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History by the Foot: Processing Archival Collections at the LBI


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Milestone in the Reconstruction of the Freimann Collection


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Promoting the Braunschweig Region as Cradle of Modern Jewish Studies


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Einstein Cup

“German and Jewish”— A traveling Exhibition by Leo Baeck Institute in Germany


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Portrait of Opera Singer Heinrich Sontheim

A Voice Still Heard—Music and Musicians in LBI Collections


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The Jewish Liturgical Year: Calendars in LBI Collections


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Robert M. Morgenthau

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
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Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India


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  • Art & Objects
Susannah Heschel

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel


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  • Moses Mendelssohn Award
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2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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Digitization and Beyond: LBI Staff Report on Library and Archives Trends


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Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna


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Genealogy Success Stories


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The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity


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Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis


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Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel


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LBI Contributes Paper to UN Holocaust Outreach Program


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Arthur Obermayer Honored those who Honor Jewish Memory in Germany


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Carol Kahn Strauss Thanked for Two Decades of Leadership


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Rare Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shown at LBI


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Transnistria Postcard from JBAT

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


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“We have wandered together a long, long way”—The Hans and Eleonore Jonas Collection


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2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
Michael Meyer Moses Mendelssohn Award

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI


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  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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Austrian Parliamentary President Praises Young Volunteers behind LBI’s Austrian Heritage Collection


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Leo Baeck Institute Featured at Deutscher Verein Dinner


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Final Sale in Berlin—Database of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Berlin Now Part of LBI Collections


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Meine Liebe Käthe—A trove of century-old letters adds fuel to WWI debate


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Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI


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Walter Nathan

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI


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Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at Leo Baeck Institute


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More than Just a Moment—Unlocking the Value of the LBI Photo Collection


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A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry


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Exile in the Spotlight: How Kurt Hirschfeld made Zurich into the World Stage for German Theater


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Just Passing Through, but Taking a Stand—Jewish Student Politics in Vienna, 1967–1975


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E. M. Lilien - Jewish May

German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941


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Sara Levy's World

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


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An interview with Arnon Goldfinger


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Preservation in the LBI Library


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LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases


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Pioneers of Jewish Studies


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Michael Brenner Recognized as “Guardian of Jewish History”


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Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


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What was the Wissenschaft des Judentums?


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Carol Kahn Strauss and Brita Wagener

Understanding through Cooperation: Germany Decorates Carol Kahn Strauss


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New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization


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Family Matters: In Chicago, Generations Gather for Intimate Look at Family Histories Preserved in LBI Archives


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  • Archive
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Germany’s Top Justice Official Tackles His Ministry’s Past at LBI


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Ismar Schorsch

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
Josef Joffe

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"


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  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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Exile in the Spotlight—LBI to Sponsor Conference on Émigré Theater Giant Kurt Hirschfeld


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LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”


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From Gleiwitz to Shanghai, Digitized Periodicals offer Snapshots of Jewish Life


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Jewish Encounters in the Great War: WWI in LBI Collections


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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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Showdown at the Sterling Oval: 1942


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Student-playwrights Meet Theresienstadt survivor at LBI


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LBI at Limmud Germany


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Longing, Prayer, Surrender: Diary of an Incredible Journey Translated into English


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Gaby Glueckselig: Stammtisch Hostess Celebrates a Century of Bliss


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Jerry Brotman—Hands-on Volunteer


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“Erhard Roy Wiehn— Wer schreibt, der bleibt!”


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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection


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Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections


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Conservation of the Fürth Megillah


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Joachim Gauck

Leo Baeck Medal for Joachim Gauck


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
Sparrow Makes Her Way: Cover of Children's Book by Meta Samson.

Sparrow Makes her Way


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What’s in a Name? Dennis Baum and the Simson Company


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Stuart Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat on Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century


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  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Stuart Eizenstat and Michael Blumenthal

Leo Baeck Medal for Stuart Eizenstat


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  • Leo Baeck Medal
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LBI Launches Online Catalog for Long-Hidden Romanian Archives


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Shira Klein: Teaching Research Skills with DigiBaeck


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  • Digitization
  • Interviews
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Interviews
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Archives: Dolly Haas, Felix Pincus, Rose Ausländer


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
Dr. Miriam Bistrovic

A New Presence in Berlin


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Older
  • Archive
Digitizing Aufbau

A Digital Home for an Émigré Journal


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Older
  • Archive
Cover of the World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag

An Intellectual Resistance


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
Postcard - Suceava in 1906

Discovery in Romania


  • Archive
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Library
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Art: New Abstract Works


  • Art & Objects
  • Collections
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
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Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection


  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
  • Library
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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man


  • Archive
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
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“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
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Experiencing 1933, One Day and One Document at a Time


  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
Margarethe von Trotta

Leo Baeck Medal for Margarethe von Trotta


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Anselm Kiefer

Leo Baeck Medal for Anselm Kiefer


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Kurt Masur and Alan Gilbert

Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Angela Merkel

Leo Baeck Medal for German Chancellor Angela Merkel


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal

Year

Topic

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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


  • LBI in the News
  • People
  • 2021
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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
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A Course in Old German Scripts


  • Discussions
  • People
  • 2020
  • Discussions
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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • People
  • Projects
  • 2020
  • Digitization
Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
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Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Collections
  • People
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
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Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19


  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • People
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Digitization
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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • 2020
  • Fellowships
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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy


  • People
  • 2020
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Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel


  • Archive
  • People
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Visitors
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Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection


  • Library
  • People
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • Library
  • Visitors
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Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism


  • Library
  • People
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • Library
  • Visitors
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David Sorkin—“We should not take those rights for granted”


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • 2019
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Martha Minow

Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • 2019
  • Leo Baeck Medal
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Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side


  • Austrian Heritage Collection
  • Interviews
  • People
  • 2019
  • Austrian Heritage Collection
  • Interviews
The Baum Family Tre

News from the Family Research Department


  • People
  • 2019
Martha Minow

Interview: Martha Minow on the Law, Memory, and Forgiveness


  • People
  • 2019
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“I call him sensei”—An Appreciation of Grigoriy Ratinov


  • Digitization
  • People
  • 2019
  • Digitization
Peter Wittig & Huberta von Voss-Wittig

Leo Baeck Medal for Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • 2018
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Raphael Gross receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • 2018
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


  • Art & Objects
  • Collections
  • People
  • 2018
  • Art & Objects
Karen Franklin and Robert Morgenthau

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI


  • People
  • 2018
Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


  • 1938Projekt
  • People
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • 1938Projekt
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Return of the Basket Weavers


  • Art & Objects
  • People
  • 2018
  • Art & Objects
Jason Lustig

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • 2018
  • Fellowships
Max Warburg (l) with LBI Executive Director William H. Weitzer at the Center for Jewish History in New York on November 15, 2017.

Leo Baeck Medal for Max Warburg


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
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A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


  • People
  • Programs
  • Older
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A Visit to the German Literature Archive in Marbach


  • People
  • Older
Roger Cohen

Interview: Roger Cohen on German-Jewish History in the 21st Century


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


  • Art & Objects
  • People
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
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Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research


  • Art & Objects
  • People
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
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2017 Obermayer Award Winners


  • People
  • Older
Stefanie Fischer

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • Older
  • Fellowships
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In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker


  • People
  • Older
Robert M. Morgenthau

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Susannah Heschel

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel


  • Moses Mendelssohn Award
  • People
  • Older
  • Moses Mendelssohn Award
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Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna


  • Fellowships
  • People
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  • Fellowships
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Genealogy Success Stories


  • Archive
  • Genealogy
  • Library
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Genealogy
  • Library
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2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • Older
  • Fellowships
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Carol Kahn Strauss Thanked for Two Decades of Leadership


  • People
  • Older
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Arthur Obermayer Honored those who Honor Jewish Memory in Germany


  • People
  • Older
Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel


  • People
  • Older
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2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • Older
  • Fellowships
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Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Michael Meyer Moses Mendelssohn Award

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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Austrian Parliamentary President Praises Young Volunteers behind LBI’s Austrian Heritage Collection


  • People
  • Visitors
  • Older
  • Visitors
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Leo Baeck Institute Featured at Deutscher Verein Dinner


  • People
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Walter Nathan

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI


  • People
  • Older
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Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at Leo Baeck Institute


  • People
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Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI


  • People
  • Visitors
  • Older
  • Visitors
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An interview with Arnon Goldfinger


  • Archive
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
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Michael Brenner Recognized as “Guardian of Jewish History”


  • People
  • Older
Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • Programs
  • Older
  • Fellowships
Carol Kahn Strauss and Brita Wagener

Understanding through Cooperation: Germany Decorates Carol Kahn Strauss


  • People
  • Older
Ismar Schorsch

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Josef Joffe

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


  • Fellowships
  • People
  • Older
  • Fellowships
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“Erhard Roy Wiehn— Wer schreibt, der bleibt!”


  • People
  • Older
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Gaby Glueckselig: Stammtisch Hostess Celebrates a Century of Bliss


  • People
  • Older
Joachim Gauck

Leo Baeck Medal for Joachim Gauck


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Sparrow Makes Her Way: Cover of Children's Book by Meta Samson.

Sparrow Makes her Way


  • Collections
  • Library
  • People
  • Older
  • Library
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What’s in a Name? Dennis Baum and the Simson Company


  • Archive
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
Stuart Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat on Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century


  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
Stuart Eizenstat and Michael Blumenthal

Leo Baeck Medal for Stuart Eizenstat


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
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Shira Klein: Teaching Research Skills with DigiBaeck


  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Interviews
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Interviews
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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man


  • Archive
  • People
  • Older
  • Archive
Margarethe von Trotta

Leo Baeck Medal for Margarethe von Trotta


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Anselm Kiefer

Leo Baeck Medal for Anselm Kiefer


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal
Kurt Masur and Alan Gilbert

Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur


  • Leo Baeck Medal
  • People
  • Older
  • Leo Baeck Medal

Year

Topic

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Shared History Project in the News


  • Exhibitions
  • LBI in the News
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2021
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
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Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


  • Exhibitions
  • LBI in the News
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2021
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project


  • Exhibitions
  • LBI in the News
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2021
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • People
  • Projects
  • 2020
  • Digitization
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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


  • Collections
  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2020
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
Edict of Constantine the Great from 321 CE

Call for Papers—Shared History Conference


  • Projects
  • 2020
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Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021


  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
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Safeguarding LBI Collections with Knowledge and Planning


  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Projects
  • 2019
  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
Regina Jonas' Dissertation "Can a Woman be a Rabbi"

Deutschlandjahr Takes German-Jewish History—and LBI—on the Road


  • Projects
  • 2019
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New Website Virtually Reconstructs Austrian-Jewish Lives


  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2019
  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Visitors
Stolpersteine in Freiburg

Stolpersteine—Commemoration and Controversy


  • Archive
  • Discussions
  • Projects
  • 2019
  • Archive
  • Discussions
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1938Projekt at German Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC


  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • 2019
  • Exhibitions
Certificate of Identity issued to Elisabeth Jonas

The Jonas Family of Hamburg: A story from the Kindertransport


  • Archive
  • Kindertransport
  • Projects
  • 2019
  • Archive
  • Kindertransport
Joachim Prinz

New Research Tool: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933–1990


  • Projects
  • 2019
Rykestrasske Kristallnacht Commemoration

Germany Marks 80 Years Since Kristallnacht with the 1938Projekt


  • 1938Projekt
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • 1938Projekt
Werner Gundersheimer, Vice President

Remembering Kristallnacht


  • Projects
  • 2018
Kindertransport

Kindertransport Exhibit Highlights Family Separation in 1930s


  • Kindertransport
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • Kindertransport
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Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


  • Collections
  • Library
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • Library
Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


  • 1938Projekt
  • People
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • 1938Projekt
1938Projekt Gallery Kiosk

Posts from the Past, 80 Years after 1938


  • 1938Projekt
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • 1938Projekt
Diverse photographs in the records of the Jewish community of Lugoj, Romania

Survey of Romanian Archives Shifts Focus to Jewish Community Records


  • Projects
  • Older
Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


  • Art & Objects
  • People
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
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Research, Exploitation, and Survival: The Story of Jacob Jacobson, a Jewish Archivist in Nazi Germany


  • Collections
  • Projects
  • Older
Einstein Cup

“German and Jewish”— A traveling Exhibition by Leo Baeck Institute in Germany


  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Exhibitions
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Promoting the Braunschweig Region as Cradle of Modern Jewish Studies


  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Exhibitions
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Digitization and Beyond: LBI Staff Report on Library and Archives Trends


  • Archive
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
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Rare Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shown at LBI


  • Art & Objects
  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
  • Exhibitions
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LBI Contributes Paper to UN Holocaust Outreach Program


  • Projects
  • Older
Transnistria Postcard from JBAT

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


  • Collections
  • Projects
  • Older
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A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry


  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • Older
  • Visitors
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Exile in the Spotlight: How Kurt Hirschfeld made Zurich into the World Stage for German Theater


  • Archive
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
Sara Levy's World

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


  • Music
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Music
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LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases


  • Archive
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Library
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Preservation in the LBI Library


  • Digitization
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Digitization
  • Library
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Family Matters: In Chicago, Generations Gather for Intimate Look at Family Histories Preserved in LBI Archives


  • Archive
  • Genealogy
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Genealogy
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Germany’s Top Justice Official Tackles His Ministry’s Past at LBI


  • Projects
  • Older
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Exile in the Spotlight—LBI to Sponsor Conference on Émigré Theater Giant Kurt Hirschfeld


  • Projects
  • Older
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From Gleiwitz to Shanghai, Digitized Periodicals offer Snapshots of Jewish Life


  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization
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LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
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LBI at Limmud Germany


  • Collaborations
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Collaborations
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Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections


  • Projects
  • Older
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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection


  • Art & Objects
  • Digitization
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Art & Objects
  • Digitization
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LBI Launches Online Catalog for Long-Hidden Romanian Archives


  • Projects
  • Older
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Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection


  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Collaborations
  • Digitization
  • Library
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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Library
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Library
Dr. Miriam Bistrovic

A New Presence in Berlin


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
Postcard - Suceava in 1906

Discovery in Romania


  • Archive
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
Capture.JPG

Experiencing 1933, One Day and One Document at a Time


  • Archive
  • Digitization
  • Projects
  • Older
  • Archive
  • Digitization

Year

Topic

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Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Collections
  • People
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


  • Collections
  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Shared History Project
  • 2020
  • Exhibitions
  • Shared History Project
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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


  • Collections
  • Digitization
  • People
  • Projects
  • 2020
  • Digitization
Gottschalk Family

News from the Family Research Department


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Genealogy
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Genealogy
Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


  • 1938Projekt
  • Collections
  • People
  • Projects
  • Visitors
  • 2020
  • 1938Projekt
  • Visitors
Lewy Family

Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Reference Service


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • 2020
  • Archive
Landscape with view of Synagogue at Oppeln (Upper Silesia) by G. Pujos

Between Two Nations


  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
  • Collections
  • 2020
  • Archive
  • Art & Objects
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From Prague to Princeton: Tracing the Story of the Kulbach Family


  • Archive
  • Collaborations
  • Collections
  • 2019
  • Archive
  • Collaborations
Nesthäkchen Covers

Nesthäkchen Comes to LBI


  • Collections
  • Library
  • 2019
  • Library
Judith Marcus & Zoltán Tarr.

The Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr Collection


  • Collections
  • Library
  • 2019
  • Library
Anneliese Erlanger

The Kindertransport—Compassion within Limits


  • Collections
  • Kindertransport
  • 2018
  • Kindertransport
Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


  • Art & Objects
  • Collections
  • People
  • 2018
  • Art & Objects
Sphinx and Camel Photograph

Spectacular Photographs of Egypt by Way of Hamburg


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • 2018
  • Archive
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The library of Henry (Heinz) Wachs


  • Collections
  • Library
  • 2018
  • Library
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Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


  • Collections
  • Library
  • Projects
  • 2018
  • Library
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Preserving Yesterday’s News with the CJH and Frankfurt University Library


  • Archive
  • Collections
  • Older
  • Archive
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Research, Exploitation, and Survival: The Story of Jacob Jacobson, a Jewish Archivist in Nazi Germany


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Struck, Hermann. Land Israel: 25 Original-Radierungen.

Art Books From LBI Collections Now Available Through Getty Research Portal


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Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research


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History by the Foot: Processing Archival Collections at the LBI


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The Jewish Liturgical Year: Calendars in LBI Collections


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Milestone in the Reconstruction of the Freimann Collection


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A Voice Still Heard—Music and Musicians in LBI Collections


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Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India


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Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis


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The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity


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Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


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“We have wandered together a long, long way”—The Hans and Eleonore Jonas Collection


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Meine Liebe Käthe—A trove of century-old letters adds fuel to WWI debate


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Final Sale in Berlin—Database of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Berlin Now Part of LBI Collections


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More than Just a Moment—Unlocking the Value of the LBI Photo Collection


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German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941


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What was the Wissenschaft des Judentums?


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New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization


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Jewish Encounters in the Great War: WWI in LBI Collections


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Showdown at the Sterling Oval: 1942


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Longing, Prayer, Surrender: Diary of an Incredible Journey Translated into English


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Conservation of the Fürth Megillah


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Sparrow Makes her Way


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Art: New Abstract Works


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A Digital Home for an Émigré Journal


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An Intellectual Resistance


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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


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“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission


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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia


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Archives: Dolly Haas, Felix Pincus, Rose Ausländer


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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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LBI’s Art of Exile Exhibition and the Search for Samson Schames


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A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


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Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca


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Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


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AM New York on Refuge in the Heights


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Wall Street Journal on Menorah Collection


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San Diego Jewish Journal on: Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties


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Daily Beast on: The German Jews Who Escaped Hitler, and Made New York Their Home


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Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg


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Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel · Nov. 18, 2015
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Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI · Nov. 9, 2015
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Sara Levy’s World: Music, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin · June 3, 2015