Public Programs
Cabaret: Tanz auf dem Vulkan
We cordially invite you to a special series of events in cooperation with Elysium, which will transport you to the vibrant and contradictory Berlin of the 1920s. The production is …
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Germany 1946: Safe Haven or Forbidden Land for Jews?
Shortly after the Holocaust a quarter million Jews lived in the four occupation zones of what was once Germany. Most of them were East European Holocaust survivors who found a …
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Book Talk: I, Wandering Jew
Join the Leo Baeck Institute on September 9 for an evening with historian Yair Mintzker as he discusses his latest book, I, Wandering Jew.
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Book Club: Place Envy
On September 24, 2026, Michael Lowenthal will join the LBI Book Club to discuss his book Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation.
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From Weimar to New York: Alfred Kerr's Passion for America
Alfred Kerr was an influential writer and journalist before the Nazis seized power and subsequently declared him a target for his criticism against the party. In celebration of the publication …
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2026 Gala Dinner
Join LBI for our Annual Dinner, when LBI President Dr. David G. Marwell will present Nicole Krauss with the Leo Baeck Medal, LBI’s highest honor.
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Book Club: The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
Anjeana K. Hans will join the LBI Book Club to discuss The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
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Hidden in Plain Sight
For the first time in the United States the Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents an exhibition of private photographs preserved by an inmate at the Theresienstadt …
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: Last Stop Before the Last Stop
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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