Leo Baeck Institute works to preserve and promote the history and culture of German-speaking Jews.
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Two Films about Jew Süss
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War
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April 30, 2019
In 2016, the LBI received the entire library of the designer and typesetter Henry (Heinz ) Wachs, who was born in 1916 in the Prussian province of Posen. Remarkably, along ...
The Hamburg attorney Julius Jonas supported his wife, Julie, and five children with a successful law practice until 1933, when Nazi racial policy immediately began to splinter the family. Julius ...
April 24, 2019
A new online database tracks the careers and biographies of Rabbis who fled Germany for the United States, and LBI’s rich archival collections figure prominently in the linked sources.