Public Programs
Spinoza, Hegel, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Inspired by scholar and philosopher David Baumgardt, Jason Maurice Yonover explores – and offers a new historical narrative of – the idea that political progress only comes through struggle.
LEARN MOREBook Club: Remote Sympathy
This month, the LBI Book Club will read and discuss Remote Sympathy with author Catherine Chidgey.
LEARN MOREHeimat Is a Space in Time
In HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Germany, 2019), German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their own words.
LEARN MOREGerman Refugee Classicists
Judith Haller Pallet will examine how and why Eva Lehmann Fiesel and Ruth Erika Fiesel matter not only to the profession of classics, but also to women’s history and that of the United States.
LEARN MORELeopold Zunz: Scholarship and Revolution
Leopold Zunz established a secular and interdisciplinary method of scholarship to investigate Jewish history, culture, and life in all its forms – Wissenschaft des Judentums – a Science of Judaism.
LEARN MOREShared History Project Traveling Exhibition – USA
The Shared History Project traveling exhibition will be traveling across the United States throughout 2022 and early 2023. Find a location near you!
LEARN MOREVIRTUAL 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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