Public Programs
Endpapers
Alexander Wolff's Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of his grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
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Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation
Ben Ratskoff and Amelia Glaser will discuss W. E. B. Du Bois' writings on Third Reich in 1936 for the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper.
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LBI Book Club, Vol. XVII: Professor Bernhardi
The LBI Book Club will read and discuss the play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler with special guest Dr. Judith Beniston.
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People of the Book Club: Eva and Eve
Author Julie Metz will discuss her book Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind, with Lauren Gilbert and Michael Simonson.
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Jerusalem, New York, and London
Panelists will compare and contrast how German-Jewish refugees in the 1930s who arrived in these three cities started new lives, were received by their neighbors, and transformed their identities.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: Art of Exile
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.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: Refuge in the Heights
This virtual exhibition explores and documents the experience of the German-Jewish refugees of Washington Heights.
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Pazifische Presse
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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Business of Emancipation
This exhibit tells a complex story about the economic integration of Jews into German society and its impact on their families, professions, and the wider community.
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Shared History Project Traveling Exhibition
To commemorate 1,700 years of Jewish life in German-speaking lands, the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin created two traveling exhibitions that will tour the federal and state parliaments …
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Shared History Project Traveling Exhibition
The traveling panel exhibition “Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-Speaking Lands” uses iconic artefacts to explore how interwoven the lives of Jewish people and their non-Jewish …
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