Leo Baeck Institute works to preserve and promote the history and culture of German-speaking Jews.
New Additions to the Art and Object Collection
Hannah Kroner
"What Is Good and What Is Evil" – Thomas Mann as a Political Activist
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Thu, Aug 21, 2025–Thu, Oct 16, 2025
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Telling history in the digital age. What happens to memory when survivors are no longer present? How do facts hold their own in a world full of reels, AI and …
Mon, 8 Sep 2025 18:30–20:30 -0400
On September 8, 2025 LBI and Thomas Mann House present a talk by Kai Sina on Thomas Mann as political activist, followed by a conversation between Sina and author Samantha Rose Hill.
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:00–13:00 -0400
On September 10 at 12:00 PM EST, Tobias Brinkmann will continue LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series with a discussion on migration in German-Jewish historiography.
Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:00–20:00 -0400
Join LBI on September 15 for the opening of LOST AND FOUND: The Art and Life of Samson Schames.
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00–13:00 -0400
On October 22 at 12:00 PM EST, Jonathan R. Zatlin will continue LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series with a discussion on migration in German-Jewish historiography.
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:00–14:30 -0400
Author Seth Rogoff will join LBI to discuss his book The Castle
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00–13:00 -0500
On November 12 at 12:00 PM EST, Marsha Rozenblit will continue LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series with a discussion on migration in German-Jewish historiography.
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:00 -0500
Join LBI for our Annual Dinner, when LBI President Dr. David G. Marwell will present Wolf Blitzer and Kati Marton with the Leo Baeck Medal, LBI’s highest honor.
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 12:00–13:00 -0500
On December 3 at 12:00 PM EST, Deborah Hertz will continue LBI's 70th Anniversary Lecture Series with a discussion on gender in German-Jewish historiography.
Mon, Sep 15, 2025 – Sun, Dec 21, 2025
From September 15-December 21, LBI will display LOST AND FOUND: The Life and Art of Samson Schames.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
This new exhibition reveals inmates’ experience of the grim reality of Theresienstadt, a Nazi transit camp just forty miles from Prague that remains misunderstood.
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