Public Programs
Book Club: When Time Stopped
This month, the LBI Book Club will read and discuss When Time Stopped: A Memoir of my Father's War and What Remains with author Ariana Neumann.
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Anna & Dr. Helmy
Journalist Ronen Steinke shares the remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis, with Sophie Spaan.
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Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey
Michael Lahr will give a lecture on Essad Bey’s life and times, followed by a dramatic reading of selected works (in German with English subtitles) by the actor Gregorij H. von Leitis.
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2022 Annual Dinner
Join LBI for our Annual Dinner, when LBI President Dr. David G. Marwell will present U.S. Ambassador to Germany Dr. Amy Gutmann with the Leo Baeck Medal, LBI’s highest honor.
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Book Club: Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited
The LBI Book Club will read and discuss Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited with author Mimi Schwartz.
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Music of Hugo Kauder
This concert explores a selection of Hugo Kauder's vocal music, piano music, and chamber music including his newly available Violin Sonata in A minor.
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Leopold Zunz: Scholarship and Revolution
Ismar Schorsch (Jewish Theological Seminary) discusses Leopold Zunz’s scholarly and political legacy at the opening of a new exhibition focused on Zunz.
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Kristallnacht and Its Aftermath
This musical tribute to the victims of Kristallnacht will feature music from Karol Rathaus, Hans Gál, and Simon Laks – three composers forced to restart their promising young careers in new countries.
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Analysis and Exile
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud is the story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud.
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Dear Fredy
Combining interviews, archival material, and animation, this documentary tells the story of Fredy Hirsch, a gay, Zionist athlete who became the head of the youth department in Theresienstadt.
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German Jews and the University
Monika Richarz’s German Jews and the University , now available in English for the first time, addresses the far-reaching transformation of German Jewry under the impact of university education.
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Hanukkah Concert
Celebrating the joys of the season, the American Society for Jewish Music's Annual Hanukkah concert showcases songs and stories that charm and delight, both familiar and new.
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Lore Segal and Uri Berliner
NPR Correspondent Uri Berliner will engage author Lore Segal in a conversation about life, literature, and history.
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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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Shared History Project Traveling Exhibition – Germany
To commemorate 1,700 years of Jewish life in German-speaking lands, two traveling exhibitions are touring the federal and state parliaments in Germany during 2021-2022.
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Shared 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!
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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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