Leo Baeck Institute works to preserve and promote the history and culture of German-speaking Jews.
Kern-Martin Family Collection
Ruth Jacobsen
1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment
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Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
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Join us as we discuss the changing landscape of Holocaust education and explore the 1938Projekt lesson modules as one tool that can provide relevance to student
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Join LBI's book club in reading and discussing The War of the Jews by Lion Feuchtwanger.
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Gabriel Mendes will present on the history of the Lafargue clinic, its importance in the history of public health, and its important role in the battles against school desegregation.
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Author Douglas G. Morris and commentators David Abraham and Claudia Koonz discuss Morris' new book on the Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel, who worked underground to resist the Nazi regime.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, noon–1:30 p.m.
Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies for a conversation with Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) and Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College, PA) about the work …
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Virtual exhibition drawn from the art collection of LBI, this exhibition presents paintings created in exile by German-speaking Jews and other targets of Nazi persecution.
This virtual exhibition explores and documents the experience of the German-Jewish refugees of Washington Heights.
As managing director of Aurora Verlag, Wieland Herzfelde brought revolutionary ideas to the structure of publishing and thus can be said to be the most innovative of the publishers who …
When they met for the first time in California, Gottlieb and Guggenheim already shared a love for German culture, especially for books. As a student in Munich, Ernst Gottlieb had …
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