Music at the Leo Baeck Institute
In addition to books and archival collections devoted to music and musicians, LBI has a small collection of recorded music.
Haggadot at the Leo Baeck Institute
A chronological tour of the Haggadot in the LBI Library's rare book collection.
Austrian Heritage Collection
The Austrian Heritage Collection documents the history of Austrian-Jewish émigrés who fled to the US during the Nazi years through oral history interviews and collection of archival materials.
History of the Periodicals Collection
The Leo Baeck Institute’s extensive periodicals collection was an integral part of LBI’s original collection and was built up from scratch by the Institute's founders in the post-war era. The periodicals collection was first described by Max Kreutzberger in the Institute's earliest published catalog issued in 1970. Kreutzberger wrote that …
Periodicals
LBI's collection of newspapers and magazines includes 1,600 titles ranging from Enlightenment-era pamphlets to congregation bulletins to papers published by German-Jewish exiles in the 20th century.
New Archival Collections
The Leo Baeck Institute is continually collecting new archival materials related to the history of German-speaking Jews.
Jews in Upper Silesia
A brief history of the Upper Silesian Jewish community and a comprehensive guide to LBI's Upper Silesian collections.
New Additions to the Art and Object Collection
On this website you will find a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and artifacts that were recently donated to the Leo Baeck Institute's Art & Object Collection
Photograph Collection
The LBI Archives contain over 25,000 photographs ranging from family snapshots to the estates of professional photographers to albums assembled by Jewish communal institutions.
Marianne Rein's Europa
Marianne Rein was a promising young poet when, in 1941, she was deported to the Riga concentration camp. The Jacob Picard Collection at LBI has the largest body of her literary legacy.
