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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 19h

German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust: A History of Disappearance, by Anna Hołzer-Kawałko, has just been published as the latest addition to our German Jewish Cultures series with Indiana University Press. Read more here: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/publications...

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German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust | Leo Baeck Institute London

German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust illuminates the final years of the long history of Jewish communal and institutional libraries in Germany. These valuable depositories, with centuries of…

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On 5 October, the Wiener Holocaust Library hosts a book talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer on their new book, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. 5 October, 3:00–4:30pm. Details here: lbilondon.ac.uk/events/book-love-loss

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're pleased to share an upcoming event featuring Miriam Rürup, a valued member of LBI London's Editorial Board for our Schriftenreihe series and our Fellowship Advisory Board. More information: www.jmberlin.de/digital-lect...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The 2nd annual Eva Reichmann Lecture takes place on 25 October, with Mark Lilla, opening the conference "Between Revolution and Reaction" at LBI New York. The lecture is free and open to all, streaming online. 25 October, 6:30pm EDT / 10:30pm UK time. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/49ha9lj...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our latest LBI Film Club screening is live today. Outsider. Freud (Yair Qedar, 2025), a poetic and award-winning documentary exploring Sigmund Freud's Jewish identity, marginalisation, and exile, is now available to watch free online on our website. Watch now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-...

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Film Club: Outsider. Freud | Leo Baeck Institute London

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from the LBI Film Club, starting on Thursday 24th September 2026.

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry is now inviting submissions for its 2028 Year Book Essay Prize. Full rules and details on how to enter are available on the LBI website: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/publications... Closing date 1 March 2027

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from the LBI Film Club, starting this Thursday.. Outsider. Freud 24th September – 30th September 2026

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join us on 5 October at the Wiener Holocaust Library for a book talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer on their new book, Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. 5 October 2026, 3:00–4:30pm, Wiener Holocaust Library. Full details: lbilondon.ac.uk/events/book-...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LBI London is delighted to share news of a new collaborative Reading and Research Group, "Liberalism in Exile," run by the ILCS at the University of London and the Academic Working Group of the LBI in Germany. Find out more: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A new conference report by LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl on the 2026 British Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) meeting is now available on our website. Read the full report: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... #BIAJS2026

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just over a week to go until our next LBI Film Club screening. From 24 to 30 September, we're streaming Outsider. Freud (Yair Qedar, 2025) free online. Details here: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are pleased to share the publication of a new title in our German Jewish Cultures series, published by Indiana University Press: German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust: A History of Disappearance, by Anna Hołzer-Kawałko. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/publications...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from our LBI Film Club, starting Thursday 24 September 2026. Find out more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-... #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #JewishHistory #LBILondon #SigmundFreud

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are pleased to share that an article by former LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl has been published in the latest issue of the AJR Journal. The piece is adapted from her original LBI Snapshot on the 1938/9 calendar of the Jüdischer Frauenbund. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/09...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

L'shanah tovah u'metukah! To mark the Jewish New Year, we're sharing a piece of nineteenth-century commercial print culture: an advertising card issued by the French chocolate manufacturer Chocolat Poulain, from the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Wishing our community a peaceful, healthy New Year.

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Leo Baeck Institute London is seeking an experienced Librarian & Archivist to take responsibility for the development, organisation and accessibility of its specialist library and archival collections. More info and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies/li...

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Job Vacancy: Librarian & Archivist | Leo Baeck Institute London

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A clue for our next Film Club… This month we’ll be diving into the story of a pioneering intellectual whose impact reached far beyond his own field and continues to shape cultural and academic conversations today. Can you guess the person? Full event details will be announced shortly.

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On 5 September 1791, Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer was born near Berlin into one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Prussia. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/09... Image: Wiki

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On the night of 31 August 1928, a new work by Bertolt Brecht, with music by a young Jewish composer from Dessau opened at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Our Snapshot, “The Wait and the Fight: Creation of the Jewish Brigade, 1939–1944”, traces the long campaign by the Yishuv to fight Nazi Germany under a distinct Jewish flag and the eventual formation of the Jewish Brigade Group in 1944. Read the full Snapshot: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A rare 1938/39 calendar produced by the Jüdische Frauenbund, now held in the LBI London Pamphlet Collection, sheds light on how German‑Jewish women used the rhythms of family and religious life to sustain identity under mounting Nazi persecution. Read more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Institute of Classical Studies Library, our neighbours in Senate House, has mounted a small exhibition on Dr Victor Ehrenberg on the third-floor landing - 'Catalogue of My Antiques: the Story of Victor Ehrenberg’s Collection'. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/08...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Meet Ahuvia Goren, whose research traces how early modern Italian Jews grappled with uncertainty, unbelief, and new scientific ideas, situating Jewish thought within wider transformations in European knowledge and belief. Read the full interview: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In 1941, in wartime Jerusalem, a group of German‑Jewish refugees compiled Ariel: Ein Almanach für Literatur‑Graphik‑Musik, an interdisciplinary almanac that brought together poetry, visual art, and music in the German language. Read our full Snapshot: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In a candid interview conducted in February 2025, Anthony Grenville, a prominent academic and historian, shared insights into his life, family history, and contributions to the study of German-Jewish exile. Listen to the interview here: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/lbi... @ghilondon.bsky.social

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are pleased to share our latest Snapshot of German-Jewish History and Culture: Reassembling Culture: A German-Jewish Almanac in Jerusalem, which is now available to read on our website: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Meet Daniel Herskowitz, whose research explores modern German-Jewish thought and its engagement with major philosophical traditions. Read the full interview: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We are thrilled that the LBI London library collection has reached its new home at Senate House Library, following its successful move from Queen Mary University of London last month. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05... @senatehouselib.bsky.social

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last week, the Channel 4 documentary series ‘Dictator: The Hitler Interviews’ featured historical testimony from the late Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE (1924–2025), historian and long-standing member of the Board of LBI London. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/08...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Congratulations to Amitai Glass Stegman, from LBI’s 2023/4 fellowship cohort, on his article in Jewish Studies Quarterly. In this piece, he looks at late antique debates on fasting in Sasanian Mesopotamia. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Congratulations to Avinoam J. Stillman, from LBI’s 2023/4 fellowship cohort, on the publication of his article ‘An Inheritance of Dreams’. It appears in the latest volume of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06... @livunipress.bsky.social

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Contents | Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 38,

How did Jewish men and women in early modern east-central Europe respond to their dreams? Some answers to this question emerge from a manuscript written by Yehuda Katz, a Jewish man from…

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📣Call for applications now open for an EHRI Transnational Workshop taking this December The workshop - Documentation as Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks - will take place at the Library wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2026/07/07/e...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Meet Ágnes Kelemen, whose doctoral research examines Hungarian Jewish émigré students who left Hungary in response to the numerus clausus law of 1920 and its quota on Jewish access to higher education. Read the full interview: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

LBI Fellow Jordan Katz Publishes New Book on Jewish Midwives Congratulations to Jordan Katz, from LBI’s 2016/17 fellowship cohort, on the publication of her monograph Delivering Knowledge, which appeared in April 2026 with Stanford University Press. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join us for the London launch of Dress in Auschwitz: Clothing and Survival in the Holocaust by Dr Sofia Pantouvaki Drawing on more than twenty years of research, the book explores the experience of Auschwitz prisoners through the lens of dress and clothing 🗓️ 8 September, 6:30 - 8pm buff.ly/e5Cjfwo

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Book Launch and Special Exhibition: Dress in Auschwitz: Clothing and Survival in the Holocaust, with Sofia Pantouvaki - The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host the London launch of Dress in Auschwitz: Clothing and Survival in the Holocaust by Dr Sofia Pantouvaki, recently published by Bloomsbury. Dr Pantouvaki…

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On Aug. 5th, I'll lead a Lower East Side walking tour for YIVO "In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers." We'll learn about the Yiddish press and some of the best-known women writers, as well as some of the protagonists of my latest research. @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Women-Writer...

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In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers: A Walking Tour | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

In this Lower East Side walking tour led by Dr. Sonia Gollance, participants will visit sites associated with both celebrated and less-familiar women writers.

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Earlier this year, intern Tatiana Martin joined LBI London to explore historical memory, oral history and the institute’s collections. Read Tatiana’s interview here: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/06...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

On 28 July 1929, Yehuda Bacon was born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He turns 97 this year. That he survived to this age is, by any measure, extraordinary. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We hope you enjoyed Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn! What did you think of the film? Don’t miss our next free screening – subscribe to the LBI Film Club newsletter to stay in the loop: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/mailing-list

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

To mark its 70th anniversary, LBI London, LBI Jerusalem, and LBI New York have launched Talk Baeck, a new interview series celebrating the scholars who have shaped the study of German-speaking Jewry in recent decades. Watch the interview: talkbaeck.com/interview/pr... @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social

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Prof. Richard Bessel - Talk Baeck

Richard Bessel shares in this interview the trajectory of his life and academic career. Born in a transatlantic household to a German mother who escaped Nazi persecution and an American father who…

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In 1941, as WWII engulfed Europe, a group of German-Jewish refugees published ‘Ariel: Ein Almanach für Literatur-Graphik-Musik’ that brought together poetry, visual art, and music by some of the most significant German-Jewish writers and artists of the age. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...

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Reassembling Culture: A German-Jewish Almanac in Jerusalem | Leo Baeck Institute London

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Last week, LBI London welcomed Dr Susanne Frane and Martine Brucker from the German Embassy in London to our new offices at Senate House, and to the LBI Library at its new home in Senate House Library. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... @uk.diplo.de

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our July newsletter is out this week, with updates on upcoming events, new research, and news from LBI London. To receive it directly to your inbox, subscribe at the link below. lbilondon.ac.uk/mailing-list/

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Senate House Library has written about the arrival of the LBI London library collection in Bloomsbury, and it is worth a read. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

English Heritage has unveiled a new blue plaque at 49 Hallam Street in Marylebone, marking Stefan Zweig’s former London home. The plaque recognises the Austrian Jewish writer’s years in exile in London, where he lived from 1936 to 1939 after fleeing Nazi Austria. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

With the Wimbledon Championships underway, we look back at the remarkable legacy of British-Jewish tennis pioneer Angela Buxton (1934–2020), whose historic triumph 70 years ago this year remains a powerful story of excellence and solidarity. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Last week, the 2025-26 Leo Baeck Fellows gathered at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, for their summer workshop. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Leo Baeck Institute London will be well represented at the British Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) 2026 conference, which takes place next week at Birkbeck, University of London. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... @ankahajkova.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

From the courts of Austria to the grass of Wimbledon, the story of Liesl Herbst nee Westreich (1903-1990) is one of talent, resilience and survival, first recounted in a 2023 biography by her granddaughter. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... Image: Wiki

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