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LBI to honor German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Wed, Jul 14, 2021

Join us on Thursday, November 18, 2021 to honor President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Launch of 1938Projekt book

Mon, Jul 12, 2021

On July 3, 2021, the German newspaper Neues Deutschland reviewed the newly-released 1938Projekt book, Posts from the Past: 1938 from a Jewish perspective . Read the article (in German) here …

Kindertransport exhibit travels to Minneapolis

Tue, Jul 6, 2021

Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War is moving to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis on July 22, 2021.

LBI to honor German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Wed, Jul 14, 2021

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Launch of 1938Projekt book

Mon, Jul 12, 2021

1938Projekt
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LBI in the News
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Kindertransport exhibit travels to Minneapolis

Tue, Jul 6, 2021

Exhibitions
Kindertransport
LBI in the News

Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Refuge in the Heights

Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Washington Heights

Tue, Jun 8, 2021

Exhibitions
LBI in the News

Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees

Fri, Apr 23, 2021

LBI in the News
People

Statement on the trial of historians in Poland

Wed, Mar 24, 2021

Shared History Project in the News

Mon, Feb 22, 2021

Exhibitions
LBI in the News
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Shared History Project

Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

LBI in the News
Programs

Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

Exhibitions
LBI in the News
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Shared History Project

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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project

Wed, Jan 27, 2021

Exhibitions
LBI in the News
Projects
Shared History Project

Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Digitization
People

Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Fellowships
People

Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Reference Service

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Collections

News from the Family Research Department

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Collections
Genealogy

LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Collections
Digitization
People
Projects

Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

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Exhibitions
Projects
Shared History Project

A Course in Old German Scripts

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Discussions
People

Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

1938Projekt
Collections
People
Projects
Visitors

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

1938Projekt
Collections
People
Projects
Visitors

Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Collaborations
Collections
People

Dr. Robert Ira Lewy

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

People

Call for Applications–Obermayer Awards 2021

Mon, Jul 13, 2020

Edict of Constantine the Great from 321 CE

Call for Papers—Shared History Conference

Mon, Jul 6, 2020

Projects

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

Between Two Nations

Fri, May 1, 2020

Archive
Art & Objects
Collections

Stay In Touch!

Thu, Apr 2, 2020

Programs

Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Library
People
Visitors

Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Archive
People
Visitors

Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Library
People
Visitors

Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Archive
Art & Objects
Exhibitions
Projects
Shared History Project

AM New York on Refuge in the Heights

Mon, Feb 10, 2020

Art & Objects
Exhibitions
LBI in the News

Wall Street Journal on Menorah Collection

Mon, Dec 16, 2019

Art & Objects
Collaborations
Exhibitions
LBI in the News

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

Mon, Dec 9, 2019

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

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

Sun, Dec 8, 2019

Art & Objects
Exhibitions
LBI in the News

Lilith Magazine on LBI’s Art in Exile Exhibit

Sun, Dec 8, 2019

Art & Objects
Exhibitions
LBI in the News

Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”

Tue, Nov 26, 2019

Leo Baeck Medal
People

News from the Family Research Department

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

People

Stolpersteine—Commemoration and Controversy

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Archive
Discussions
Projects

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Exhibitions
Projects

Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Austrian Heritage Collection
Interviews
People

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

People

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Digitization
People

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

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Art & Objects
Exhibitions
Programs

New Website Virtually Reconstructs Austrian-Jewish Lives

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Archive
Art & Objects
Projects
Visitors

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Archive
Collaborations
Collections

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Safeguarding LBI Collections with Knowledge and Planning

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Archive
Art & Objects
Projects

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

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Projects

San Diego Jewish Journal Article on LBI Event

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

Tue, Sep 24, 2019

Exhibitions
LBI in the News

The Jewish Daily Forward on “The Art of Exile”

Fri, Sep 6, 2019

Exhibitions
LBI in the News

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

The Times of Israel on the 1938Projekt

Mon, Jun 10, 2019

1938Projekt
LBI in the News

Certificate of Identity issued to Elisabeth Jonas

The Jonas Family of Hamburg: A story from the Kindertransport

Tue, Apr 30, 2019

Archive
Kindertransport
Projects

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

Wed, Apr 24, 2019

Projects

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

Fri, Apr 19, 2019

Exhibitions
LBI in the News

Nesthäkchen Comes to LBI

Thu, Mar 14, 2019

Collections
Library

The Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr Collection

Mon, Feb 4, 2019

Collections
Library

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

Thu, Dec 6, 2018

Leo Baeck Medal
People

The Kindertransport—Compassion within Limits

Mon, Dec 3, 2018

Collections
Kindertransport

Raphael Gross receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank

Fri, Nov 30, 2018

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Rykestrasske Kristallnacht Commemoration

Germany Marks 80 Years Since Kristallnacht with the 1938Projekt

Fri, Nov 9, 2018

1938Projekt
Projects

Remembering Kristallnacht

Thu, Nov 8, 2018

Projects

Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

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

Wed, Nov 7, 2018

Art & Objects
Collections
People

Spectacular Photographs of Egypt by Way of Hamburg

Tue, Oct 30, 2018

Archive
Collections

Kindertransport Exhibit Highlights Family Separation in 1930s

Thu, Sep 27, 2018

Kindertransport
Projects

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI

Wed, Sep 26, 2018

People

The library of Henry (Heinz) Wachs

Wed, Sep 26, 2018

Collections
Library

Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute

Tue, Sep 25, 2018

Collections
Library
Projects

Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt

Mon, Jun 25, 2018

1938Projekt
People
Projects

Return of the Basket Weavers

Mon, Mar 19, 2018

Art & Objects
People

Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg

Sun, Mar 11, 2018

1938Projekt
Exhibitions
Interviews
LBI in the News

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Mon, Jan 15, 2018

Fellowships
People

Posts from the Past, 80 Years after 1938

Mon, Jan 1, 2018

1938Projekt
Projects

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

Mon, Dec 4, 2017

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Visit of Dr Rachel Heuberger University Library Frankfurt with the LBI CJH periodicals digitization project team.jpg

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

Tue, Oct 3, 2017

Archive
Collections

A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue

Tue, Oct 3, 2017

People
Programs

A Visit to the German Literature Archive in Marbach

Tue, Oct 3, 2017

People

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

Sun, Oct 1, 2017

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Diverse photographs in the records of the Jewish community of Lugoj, Romania

Survey of Romanian Archives Shifts Focus to Jewish Community Records

Wed, May 3, 2017

Projects

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog

Fri, Mar 31, 2017

Art & Objects
People
Projects

Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research

Mon, Mar 13, 2017

Art & Objects
People

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

Art Books From LBI Collections Now Available Through Getty Research Portal

Fri, Mar 3, 2017

Collections
Library

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

Fri, Mar 3, 2017

Collections
Projects

Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research

Fri, Mar 3, 2017

Archive
Collections

Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca

Fri, Mar 3, 2017

Archive
Programs

2017 Obermayer Award Winners

Sun, Jan 29, 2017

People

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Sun, Jan 15, 2017

Fellowships
People

In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker

Wed, Nov 23, 2016

People

History by the Foot: Processing Archival Collections at the LBI

Tue, Nov 22, 2016

Archive
Collections

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Promoting the Braunschweig Region as Cradle of Modern Jewish Studies

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Exhibitions
Projects

Milestone in the Reconstruction of the Freimann Collection

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Collections
Library

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

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Exhibitions
Projects

Portrait of Opera Singer Heinrich Sontheim

A Voice Still Heard—Music and Musicians in LBI Collections

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Archive
Collections

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The Jewish Liturgical Year: Calendars in LBI Collections

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Collections
Library

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau

Fri, Nov 18, 2016

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India

Mon, Oct 24, 2016

Art & Objects
Collections

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

Moses Mendelssohn Award
People

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

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Archive
Projects

Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Fellowships
People

Genealogy Success Stories

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Archive
Genealogy
Library
People

2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Fellowships
People

The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity

Mon, Jun 13, 2016

Collections
Library

Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis

Mon, Jun 13, 2016

Collections
Library

Rare Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shown at LBI

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

Art & Objects
Exhibitions
Projects

Carol Kahn Strauss Thanked for Two Decades of Leadership

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

LBI Contributes Paper to UN Holocaust Outreach Program

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

Projects

Arthur Obermayer Honored those who Honor Jewish Memory in Germany

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania

Mon, Apr 11, 2016

Collections
Projects

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

Mon, Feb 22, 2016

Archive
Collections
Library

2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Sun, Jan 3, 2016

Fellowships
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel

Wed, Nov 18, 2015

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI

Mon, Nov 9, 2015

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Austrian Parliamentary President Praises Young Volunteers behind LBI’s Austrian Heritage Collection

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

People
Visitors

Leo Baeck Institute Featured at Deutscher Verein Dinner

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

People

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

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

Archive
Collections

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

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

Archive
Collections

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at Leo Baeck Institute

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People

Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People
Visitors

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People

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

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Collections

A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Projects
Visitors

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

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

Archive
Projects

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

Fri, Jul 10, 2015

German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941

Thu, Jun 4, 2015

Collections
Exhibitions

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

Wed, Jun 3, 2015

Music
Projects

An interview with Arnon Goldfinger

Wed, Jun 3, 2015

Archive
People

Preservation in the LBI Library

Tue, Jun 2, 2015

Digitization
Library
Projects

LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases

Tue, Jun 2, 2015

Archive
Library
Projects

Pioneers of Jewish Studies

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

Collaborations
Library

What was the Wissenschaft des Judentums?

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

Collaborations
Collections
Library

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

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

Fellowships
People
Programs

Michael Brenner Recognized as “Guardian of Jewish History”

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

People

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

Tue, Mar 24, 2015

Archive
Genealogy
Projects

New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization

Tue, Mar 24, 2015

Archive
Collections
Digitization

Understanding through Cooperation: Germany Decorates Carol Kahn Strauss

Tue, Mar 24, 2015

People

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

Thu, Mar 12, 2015

Projects

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch

Mon, Mar 2, 2015

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe

Thu, Dec 4, 2014

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"

Fri, Nov 28, 2014

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

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

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Projects

Jewish Encounters in the Great War: WWI in LBI Collections

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Archive
Collections

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

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Archive
Digitization
Projects

Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Fellowships
People

LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Archive
Collaborations
Digitization
Projects

Showdown at the Sterling Oval: 1942

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

Archive
Collections

Student-playwrights Meet Theresienstadt survivor at LBI

Thu, Aug 7, 2014

Programs
Visitors

LBI at Limmud Germany

Wed, Jul 23, 2014

Collaborations
Projects

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

Wed, Jul 23, 2014

Archive
Collections
Library

Conservation of the Fürth Megillah

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Archive
Collections

Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Projects

Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Art & Objects
Digitization
Projects

Jerry Brotman—Hands-on Volunteer

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

Gaby Glueckselig: Stammtisch Hostess Celebrates a Century of Bliss

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

People

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

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

People

Leo Baeck Medal for Joachim Gauck

Thu, May 15, 2014

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Sparrow Makes her Way

Tue, Mar 18, 2014

Collections
Library
People

Art: Lotka Burešová and her Terezín Friends

Thu, Mar 13, 2014

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

Sat, Mar 1, 2014

Archive
People

Stuart Eizenstat on Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century

Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Stuart Eizenstat

Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Jewish Bukovina and Transylvania Website Screenshot

LBI Launches Online Catalog for Long-Hidden Romanian Archives

Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Projects

“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections
Digitization

Shira Klein: Teaching Research Skills with DigiBaeck

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Digitization
Interviews
People

Art: New Abstract Works

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Art & Objects
Collections

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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
People

A New Presence in Berlin

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collaborations
Projects

A Digital Home for an Émigré Journal

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections

Cover of the World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag

An Intellectual Resistance

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections
Digitization

Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Collaborations
Digitization
Library
Projects

Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections
Library
Projects

Discovery in Romania

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Projects

Experiencing 1933, One Day and One Document at a Time

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Digitization
Projects

Archives: Dolly Haas, Felix Pincus, Rose Ausländer

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections
Digitization

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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia

Fri, Nov 1, 2013

Archive
Collections

Leo Baeck Medal for Margarethe von Trotta

Thu, Nov 29, 2012

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Anselm Kiefer

Tue, Dec 13, 2011

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur

Wed, Nov 10, 2010

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Leo Baeck Medal for German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Wed, Sep 22, 2010

Leo Baeck Medal

LBI to honor German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Wed, Jul 14, 2021

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees

Fri, Apr 23, 2021

LBI in the News
People

A Course in Old German Scripts

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Discussions
People

LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Collections
Digitization
People
Projects

Dr. Robert Ira Lewy

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

People

Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Fellowships
People

Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Digitization
People

Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

Archive
Collaborations
Collections
People

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

1938Projekt
Collections
People
Projects
Visitors

Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy

Sun, Oct 11, 2020

1938Projekt
Collections
People
Projects
Visitors

Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Archive
People
Visitors

Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Library
People
Visitors

Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Library
People
Visitors

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

Mon, Dec 9, 2019

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”

Tue, Nov 26, 2019

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Austrian Heritage Collection
Interviews
People

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Digitization
People

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

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

People

News from the Family Research Department

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

People

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

Thu, Dec 6, 2018

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank

Fri, Nov 30, 2018

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

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

Wed, Nov 7, 2018

Art & Objects
Collections
People

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI

Wed, Sep 26, 2018

People

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt

Mon, Jun 25, 2018

1938Projekt
People
Projects

Return of the Basket Weavers

Mon, Mar 19, 2018

Art & Objects
People

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Mon, Jan 15, 2018

Fellowships
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Max Warburg

Mon, Dec 4, 2017

Leo Baeck Medal
People

A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue

Tue, Oct 3, 2017

People
Programs

A Visit to the German Literature Archive in Marbach

Tue, Oct 3, 2017

People

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

Sun, Oct 1, 2017

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog

Fri, Mar 31, 2017

Art & Objects
People
Projects

Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research

Mon, Mar 13, 2017

Art & Objects
People

2017 Obermayer Award Winners

Sun, Jan 29, 2017

People

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Sun, Jan 15, 2017

Fellowships
People

In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker

Wed, Nov 23, 2016

People

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau

Fri, Nov 18, 2016

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

Moses Mendelssohn Award
People

Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Fellowships
People

Genealogy Success Stories

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Archive
Genealogy
Library
People

2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

Fellowships
People

Arthur Obermayer Honored those who Honor Jewish Memory in Germany

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

Carol Kahn Strauss Thanked for Two Decades of Leadership

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel

Thu, Apr 14, 2016

People

2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows

Sun, Jan 3, 2016

Fellowships
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel

Wed, Nov 18, 2015

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI

Mon, Nov 9, 2015

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Leo Baeck Institute Featured at Deutscher Verein Dinner

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

People

Austrian Parliamentary President Praises Young Volunteers behind LBI’s Austrian Heritage Collection

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

People
Visitors

Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People
Visitors

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at Leo Baeck Institute

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

People

An interview with Arnon Goldfinger

Wed, Jun 3, 2015

Archive
People

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

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

Fellowships
People
Programs

Michael Brenner Recognized as “Guardian of Jewish History”

Wed, Mar 25, 2015

People

Understanding through Cooperation: Germany Decorates Carol Kahn Strauss

Tue, Mar 24, 2015

People

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch

Mon, Mar 2, 2015

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe

Thu, Dec 4, 2014

Leo Baeck Medal
People

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"

Fri, Nov 28, 2014

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture
People

Gerald Westheimer Fellows

Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Fellowships
People

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

Fri, Jul 18, 2014

People

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