📜 One of the Oldest Books in the Leo Baeck Institutes Collection Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2026-09-23 | 📜 One of the Oldest Books in the Leo Baeck Institutes Collection
Closing Borders: Immigration and WWI Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2025-01-27 | In his new book "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State Univ.) sheds light on the journeys of Jewish migrants and refugees before and after the First World War. He argues that the experience of permanently displaced Jews after 1918 deserves more attention and shows parallels to the situation of unwanted refugees and migrants today.For this event Tobias Brinkmann will be joined by José C. Moya (Barnard College/Columbia University), a leading specialist of modern Latina America and global migration.
Concert and Discussion: Music and Identity Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2025-01-02 | Watch the concert and discussion Music and Identity, which took place as a collaboration between LBI and 1014 on December 11, 2024Composers included four world-renowned composers, Craig Urquhart (Germany), Sergei Newsky (Russia), Konstantia Gourzi (Greece), and Tamar Muskal (Israel), from across the Atlantic to discuss their identity in our globalized world and present samples of their music. Moderated by pianist and concert curator Sophia Zhou.Concert:Apollon- piano trio by Konstantia GourziArgaman - piano trio by Tamar MuskalKlavierquartett - piano quartet by Sergei NewskyLamentation song solo piano Craig Urquhart
Film Discussion: My Illegal Life Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-12-02 | Watch the panel discussion of the film My Illegal Life with author Esther Dischereit and director Gerhard Schick, moderated by Irit Bloch. In 1942, a Jewish mother, Hella Zacharias, and her five-year-old daughter went into hiding in the Berlin underground. Through Hella's own resourcefulness and the help of others, both mother and daughter survived through the war. In My Illegal Life (Germany, 2024), writer Esther Dischereit, Hella's second-born daughter, follows the traces of her mother's and half-sister's experiences in hiding.
Book Club: Käsebier Takes Berlin Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-11-26 | Watch the November 2024 LBI Book Club discussion of Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabrielle Tergit. Our guest this session was Professor Peter Jelavich, who specializes in the history of mass culture and the media.
Drawing From Memory: From Archive to Graphic Memoir Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-11-19 | Watch author Ari Richter discuss his novel Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz with Columbia professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences Amy Hungerford. The memoir was partially researched in LBI's archive. The panel was a part of the Jewish Comics Experience at the Center for Jewish History.
Fighting Back: Jewish Responses to Antisemitism Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-11-12 | Part 3 of LBI's Forum on Antisemitism and Democracy. Watch journalist Jane Eisner and Professor Michael Brenner discuss Jewish responses to antisemitism during Weimar Germany and today.
As a Jew: Identity, Conflict, and Politics with Emily Tamkin and Philipp Nielsen Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-11-12 | Part 2 of LBI's Forum on Antisemitism and Democracy. Watch journalist Emily Tamkin and Professor Philipp Nielsen discuss Jewish involvement in politics and global conflict during WWI and today. With an introduction by Director of Collections Renate Evers.
LBI Gala Speeches 2024 Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-11-08 | Watch the speeches from the 2024 Annual Gala honoring Jehuda and Shulamit Reinharz. Speeches from John H. Slade Executive Director Markus Krah, President David Marwell, Pulitzer-prize winning author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman, and honorees Jehuda and Shulamit Reinharz
Antisemitism as a Pillar of Fascism with John Ganz and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-24 | Part 1 of LBI's Forum on Antisemitism and Democracy. John Ganz, journalist and public intellectual, and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld discuss fascism through comparisons between 1920s Germany and the present.
Jewish Life in Landau Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture, Part 3 Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-16 | Part 3 of the Symposium Jewish Life in Landau: Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture.You can fin more information about the symposium here: https://www.juedisches-leben-in-landau.de/
Jewish Life in Landau Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture, Part 2 Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-16 | Part 2 of the Symposium Jewish Life in Landau: Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture.You can fin more information about the symposium here: https://www.juedisches-leben-in-landau.de/
Jewish Life in Landau Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture, Part 1 Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-16 | Part 1 of the Symposium Jewish Life in Landau: Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture.You can fin more information about the symposium here: https://www.juedisches-leben-in-landau.de/
Book Club: The Magician Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-10 | Professor Mark Anderson of Columbia University joined LBI to discuss The Magician by Colm Tóibín. You can read more about the book and the speaker at lbi.org/events/book-club-the-magician/.
Book Talk: Stefanie Fischer on Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-10-08 | In September, Stefanie Fischer joined LBI to discuss her book, "Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939". After giving a presentation on her research, Prof. Fischer sat down to talk with Frank Mecklenburg, LBI's Director of Research, and Tani Berman, a descendant of one of the families featured in Fischer's book.
Jewish Immigration: History, Politics, and Policy Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-09-23 | On September 17, LBI hosted a discussion on the history of Jewish immigration. Professor Libby Garland presented her research and engage in a conversation with Dr. Michael Levi, drawing connections between her work, Dr. Levi’s own family history of migration to the United States, and larger questions of immigration history, policy, and politics. The event was held in honor of the inauguration of the Levi-Thalheimer Fund for Research and Public History.
Jewish Life in Landau - Jewish Wine Merchants and Palatinate Wine Culture Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-09-06 | Join the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit Pfalz (Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Palatinate) for an all-day symposium Thursday, October 10 from 9:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Jewish life and wine culture in Landau, Germany.
EXILE – Episode 15: Samson Schames – indomitable artist in exile Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-07-30 | Dive into the extraordinary story of Samson Schames, an artist in exile who turned the debris of war into powerful works of art. Using rusty nails, melted glass, and even tufts of his own hair, Samson's paintings and mosaics capture resilience and hope.Join Mandy Patinkin on the latest episode of Exile as we explore Samson's indomitable spirit and the legacy of his unique creations, now showcased in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt.Don't miss this inspiring tale. Listen now on the LBI website @applepodcasts or @spotify . 🎧✨ lbi.org/de/projects/podcast#ExilePodcast #MandyPatinkin #SamsonSchames #ArtInExile #JewishHistory #LeoBaeckInstitute #JewishMuseumFrankfurt #Resilience #Inspiration #archive #history #arthistory @claims_conference @anticaproductions 📸 Samson (Fritz) Schames, Leo Baeck Institute, F 829. Paul Arnsberg Collection, AR 7206📸 Schames, Samson: The Tear, Leo Baeck Institute, 2016.06.
Remarks from Scott Miller at A Tree Of Life Film Screening Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-07-25 | On June 26, 2024, the Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History hosted a screening of the documentary A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. Directed by Trish Adlesic, the film examines the deadly antisemitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The screening was followed by remarks from Scott Miller, former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and current member of the Tree of Life Memorial Project. You can watch those remarks here.To learn more about LBI, visit lbi.org For current exhibitions and upcoming programs, visit lbi.org/public-programs
EXILE Episode 14 - Leo Fuks, a vaudeville performer in Hollywood under the name Jackie Gerlich Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-07-23 | Step into the extraordinary life of Leo Fuks, a vaudeville performer who transformed into Hollywood's Jackie Gerlich. Known for his role as the Red Munchkin in the iconic "Lollipop Guild" scene of The Wizard of Oz, Leo's journey is one of resilience and reinvention.Join Mandy Patinkin in the latest episode of Exile as we uncover Leo's path from the vaudeville stage to the silver screen, showcasing his indomitable spirit and lasting impact.Listen now on the @leobaeckinstitute website, @applepodcasts or @ spotify 🎧✨ lbi.org/de/projects/podcast#ExilePodcast #MandyPatinkin #LeoFuks #JackieGerlich #HollywoodHistory #Vaudeville #LeoBaeckInstitute #Resilience #Inspiration@claims_conference @anticaproductions
EXILE Episode 13 – LILY RENEES GLAMOROUS REVENGE Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-07-19 | In the first episode of our new season of the history podcast EXILE we dive into the incredible journey of Lily Renee Wilhelm. Exiled from Vienna on the Kindertransport, Lily found herself in New York, where she broke barriers in the comic book industry as the illustrator of Señorita Rio. 🌟📚Narrated by @MandyPatinkin, this episode reveals how Lily became an icon despite facing rampant sexism. Listen now to be inspired by her resilience and creativity! 👉 Listen now on the LBI website lbi.org/de/projects/podcast/episode-13 @applepodcasts or @spotify 🎧✨#ExilePodcast #LilyReneeWilhelm #ComicBookHistory #LeoBaeckInstitute #JewishHeritage #MandyPatinkin #NewSeason #archive #podcast #historypodcast #comics #empowerment 📸 Portrait of Lily Renee taken by Elizabeth Gottlieb in New York in the 1940s. Courtesy of Trina Robbins.📸 Señorita Rio, Fight Comics #40, October 1945. Fiction House. Cover by Lily Renée. LBI Library Collection.@claims_conference @anticaproductions
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitlers Germany Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-06-17 | Watch Wolf Gruner present his new book “Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany” at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. Find the book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267198/resisters/ [Disclaimer: The first five minutes of the recording are lost due to technical issues] (This event took place at the Center for Jewish History)
Concert: On Hollywood and Weimar — Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-05-31 | The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music presented a night of live music with Karyn Levitt, Soprano and Jed Distler, Piano. This event was part of Carnegie Hall's 2023-2024 season's series: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice.Many of Hollywood’s greatest film scores were written by émigré and exiled composers who fled Nazi Europe for Southern California. From dusty westerns and sweeping romances to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, this program celebrates the blending of the old world and the new to produce the uniquely hybrid sound of Hollywood’s Golden Age.On Hollywood and Weimar: Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of FilmWritten by Karyn LevittPerformed by Karyn Levitt, Soprano and Jed Distler, PianoCopyright 2024 Karyn Levitt / Royal Road Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.To book the show, contact GoldenLand Concerts and Connections: concerts@goldenland.com, or for more information, visit: karynlevitt.com(This event took place at the Center for Jewish History on Wednesday, May 15, 2024)
Concert: Will There Still Be Singing? — A Hanns Eisler Cabaret Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-05-31 | The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music presented a night of live music. This event was part of Carnegie Hall's 2023-2024 season's series: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice.Soprano Karyn Levitt performed Eric Bentley’s English versions of the songs of Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, one of the 20th century’s great songwriting teams. Levitt’s close working relationship with Bentley, the foremost translator of Brecht’s lyrics and plays, gave her the opportunity of a lifetime to consult with the source of these acclaimed translations.Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler CabaretWritten by Karyn LevittPerformed by Karyn Levitt, Soprano and The Hanns Eisler TrioEric Ostling, Musical Director and PianoWilliam Schimmel, AccordionIra Siegel, GuitarCopyright 2024 Karyn Levitt / Royal Road Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.To book the show, contact GoldenLand Concerts and Connections: concerts@goldenland.com, or for more information, visit: karynlevitt.com(This event took place at the Center for Jewish History on Wednesday, May 8, 2024)
Still Reading Kafka? — 65th Annual LBI Memorial Lecture w/ Hillel Kieval Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-05-31 | Still Reading Kafka? On Language, Literature, Friendship, and Identity in Central EuropeTo pick up and read the novels or short stories of Franz Kafka hardly needs justification. His standing as one of the last century’s most important writers is assured. The question is: What can Kafka’s writings and the various contexts in which his life transpired—linguistic, familial, cultural, political—reveal about the textures of Jewish life in Central Europe at the turn of the century? In the 65th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture, Hillel Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis) revisits crucial aspects of Kafka’s life, work, and intellectual relationships, to explore what it meant to be both Jewish and a citizen of Prague before and after the First World War.Learn more about the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture: lbi.org/about/honors/leo-baeck-memorial-lecture(This Event was recorded on May 21, 2024 at the Center for Jewish History)
Book Club: Welten/ Worlds Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-25 | Welten (Worlds) is a cycle of poems written in the second half of 1937 by Gertrud Kolmar, who was to perish six years later in Auschwitz. In 1947, the manuscript was passed by her brother-in-law to Peter Suhrkamp, publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag — now Germany's premier literary press — and was one of the first books to appear from that press after the war.Our guest, Friederike Heimann, studied German, political science and sociology at the FU Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2012 on the poet Gertrud Kolmar under Professor Alfred Bodenheimer at the Center for Jewish Studies in Basel. Since 2014 Dr. Heimann has been working at the Jewish Salon at Grindel in Hamburg, where she has welcomed many different guests from literature and the sciences. She currently lives as a freelance author and literary scholar in Hamburg.
Moses Mendelssohn Returns To Jerusalem Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-17 | This symposium marked the first Hebrew translation of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem in seventy-five years.Featuring a Talk By:Dr. Shmuel Feiner, Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University; Editor of the new translation of Jerusalem.Moderated By:Professor Michah Gottlieb, NYUWith Responses By:Professor Shira Billet, Jewish Theological SeminaryProfessor Leah Hochman, Hebrew Union CollegeJonathan Green, NYUWith Concluding Reflections By:Professor Jacob J. Schacter, Yeshiva UniversityOrganized by Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University and LBI, co-sponsored by Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Center for Jewish History, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice.
Stolpertexte - Juli Zeh, Ulrike Draesner, Karosh Taha bei 3Sat Kulturzeit Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-12 | Journalist Christhard Läpple berichtet für die Sendung "3Sat Kulturzeit" über LBIs neustes Projekt. "Stolpertexte" sind kurze literarische Texte über die Schicksale deutscher Juden, die im Archiv des LBI in New York dokumentiert sind. lbi.org/stolpertexte
Iris Berben – Stimme des neuen Podcasts Exil des Leo Baeck Instituts – New York Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-11 | „Wenn einem alles genommen wird ... was dann?“ Diese Frage stellt Iris Berben in der Einleitung zum neuen Podcast vom LBI. Die mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnete Schauspielerin erzählt zwölf Geschichten von deutschsprachigen Jüdinnen und Juden, die mit dem Verlust ihrer Heimat und Kultur zurechtkommen müssen.Bericht von rbb, STUDIO 3 - Live aus Babelsberg, Dec.12, 2023
Crossing the Ocean: Three Waves of German Jewish Immigration to the US Exhibit Opening Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-09 | On April 7, 2024, at 5:30PM EST, LBI opened the second exhibit in the Katherine and Clifford H. Goldsmith Gallery this year, Crossing the Ocean: Three Waves of German Jewish Immigration to the United States. Based on personal accounts from the LBI Archives, this exhibition explores how the experience of German-speaking Jews coming to America changed between the 1840s and 1950s. Executive Director, Dr. Markus Krah gave opening remarks.
Stolpertexte: Archives, Literature, and Memory Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-09 | LBI invited students from the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, Germany’s premiere creative-writing program, to read from their own Stolpertexte. German writer Max Czollek, who holds the Spring 2024 DAAD Chair in Contemporary Poetics at NYU, discusses literary memory culture in Germany and engages in a discussion with the students. Featuring Nadja Etinski, Amalie Mbianda Njiki, Tara Meister, Konstantin Schmidtbauer, Mücahit Türk, Jonë Zhitia, Hannah Beckmann.Cosponsored by Deutsches Haus at NYU.
Book Club: The Trial Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-04-02 | Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. The Book Club was joined by Vivian Liska is Professor of German literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on literary theory, German modernism, and German-Jewish authors and thinkers.
Stolpertexte: Literatur, die Geschichte Lebendig Hält Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-03-21 | Was bleibt, wenn die letzten Zeitzeug:innen verstummen? In den Archiven des New Yorker Leo Baeck Institute werden zehntausende Familiensammlungen, private Aufzeichnungen, Memoiren, Briefe und Tagebücher bewahrt, die vom Leben, Alltag und den Erfahrungen deutschsprachiger Jüdinnen und Juden berichten. Zum ersten Mal seit 1955 haben sich deutschsprachige Autor:innen nun mit diesen persönlichen Sammlungen auseinandergesetzt.Das Ergebnis sind "Stolpertexte", kurze literarische Texte. Ähnlich der Stolpersteine unterbrechen sie alltägliche Routine und erinnern im Hier und Jetzt an die Leben und Hoffnungen der Menschen, denen unter der Nazi-Terrorherrschaft alles genommen wurde.In diesem Trailer lesen Ulrike Draesner, Olga Grjasnowa, Norbert Hummelt, Karosh Taha, und Victor Sattler aus ihren Stolpertexten. Mehr erfahren und Texte lesen unter: lbi.org/stolplertexte
Stolpertexte: Trailer zum Projekt Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-03-21 | Was bleibt, wenn die letzten Zeitzeug:innen verstummen? In den Archiven des New Yorker Leo Baeck Institute werden zehntausende Familiensammlungen, private Aufzeichnungen, Memoiren, Briefe und Tagebücher bewahrt, die vom Leben, Alltag und den Erfahrungen deutschsprachiger Jüdinnen und Juden berichten. Zum ersten Mal seit 1955 haben sich deutschsprachige Autor:innen nun mit diesen persönlichen Sammlungen auseinandergesetzt.Das Ergebnis sind "Stolpertexte", kurze literarische Texte. Ähnlich der Stolpersteine unterbrechen sie alltägliche Routine und erinnern im Hier und Jetzt an die Leben und Hoffnungen der Menschen, denen unter der Nazi-Terrorherrschaft alles genommen wurde.In diesem Trailer lesen Ulrike Draesner, Olga Grjasnowa, Norbert Hummelt, Karosh Taha, und Victor Sattler aus ihren Stolpertexten. Mehr erfahren und Texte lesen unter: lbi.org/stolplertexte
Book Club: Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of Jewish Men to Britain, 1939 Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-03-05 | Author Professor Emerita Clare Ungerson joined LBI's Book Club to discuss her book Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of Jewish Men to Britain, 1939.In November 1938, about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to 4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas.
Leave to Land Exhibition Opening Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-02-23 | The Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939, this derelict army base on the Kent coast in southeastern England became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust.Listen for special remarks from Dan Green (Director General and CEO, World ORT, UK) and a panel discussion with Emary Aronson (LBI Board Member and Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Advisor to the CEO at Robin Hood) and Ronnie Wolf (Senior Adviser of the Leave to Land Exhibition) and moderated by Frank Mecklenburg (Mark M. and Lottie Salton Senior Historian at the Leo Baeck Institute) in celebration of the new Leave to Land Exhibition.
Liederabend: Wolfgang Holzmair Sings the Songs of Max Kowalski Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-02-22 | The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music hosted a night of live music with Wolfgang Holzmair and Thérèse Lindquist on February 7th, 7:30PM EST at the Center for Jewish History.
Book Club: Morning Gift Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-02-22 | For the month of January, LBI's Book Club was joined by Dr. Amy Willams to discuss The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson.
2023 Annual Dinner Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-02-22 | On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, the Leo Baeck Institute hosted its Annual Dinner at the Center for Jewish History in New York. The Honorees, actor-activists Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody as well as long-time LBI Trustee and former President, Bernard (Bernie) Blum were presented the Awards by LBI President David G. Marwell. Mandy narrates LBI’s podcast Exile, which was initiated, and executive produced by Bernie Blum.Watch introductions delivered by our Executive Director, Dr. Markus Krah, and LBI President, Dr. Marwell, the award speeches, and laudatio given by Ruth W. Messinger, current Global Ambassador and former President of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS).
At the Threshold: German-Yiddish Encounters and Missed Encounters in Weimar Berlin Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-01-25 | This talk explores the role of Weimar Berlin as a “threshold” between exile and homeland in which “eastern” and “western” writers looked toward one another in their efforts to both cultivate new forms of artistic expression and negotiate national commitments. Rachel Seelig, scholar of modern Jewish literature and freelance writer based in Toronto, joins LBI's Michael Simonson, Head of Public Outreach and Archivist.
Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees Between ‘Orient’ and European Catastrophe Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-01-24 | In the 64th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture, historian Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union) will examine the ambivalent, paradoxical, and diverse experiences, emotions, and memories of Jews who found refuge from National Socialism and the Holocaust in India and Iran after 1933. Always shadowed by the emerging European catastrophe, uprooted Jews were also precariously privileged as white Europeans in non-western, colonial or semi-colonial societies. An extensive collection of family correspondence and memorabilia extending from wartime Nazi Berlin throughout the global diaspora of German Jewry as well as archival, literary, visual, and oral history sources illuminates refugees’ everyday lives in the changing context of interwar fascination and contact with the “Orient,” global war against fascism, anti-colonial independence movements, and gradual revelations about the destruction of the European world they had escaped.
December Book Club: The Golem of Brooklyn: A Novel Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2024-01-11 | This month, the LBI Book Club discussed The Golem of Brooklyn: A Novel with author Adam Mansbach.Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F*ck to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy, and the memoir-in-verse I Had a Brother Once. With Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, he co-authored For This We Left Egypt? and the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, and his books for young readers include the New York Times bestseller Just Try One Bite and the award-winning Jake the Fake series.
EXIL – Der Podcast - Vorstellung der Podcast-Reihe mit Iris Berben Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-11 | 🎬 Zum Launch der Podcast-Reihe EXIL des Leo-Baeck-Institute New York | Berlin und der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung fand am 07.Dezember 2023 im Tagungszentrum der Bundespressekonferenz ein Podiumsgespräch statt. 🎤 Sharon Adler (Journalistin; AVIVA-Berlin) moderierte das Gespräch mit Iris Berben (Schauspielerin), Dr. David Jünger (Historiker, Universität Rostock) und Dr. Juliane Wetzel (Historikerin, Technische Universität Berlin).🗣️ Neben der Entstehungsgeschichte des Podcast werden im Gespräch wesentliche Fragen zum Thema Flucht, Exil und Ankunft in den Aufnahmeländern der deutschsprachigen Jüdinnen und Juden behandelt.➤ Der von Iris Berben eingesprochene Podcast erzählt 12 bewegende Geschichten deutschsprachiger Jüdinnen und Juden zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Die Folgen erscheinen ab dem 07.12.2023 wöchentlich und sind in der bpb Mediathek und auf gängigen Plattformen zu finden.➔ PODCAST: https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/podcasts/543131/exil/➔ ERSTE FOLGE - FLORENZ MENDHEIM (Jüdische Bibliothekarin als Anti-Nazi-Spionin): https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/podcasts/543235/exil-01-florence-mendheim-juedische-bibliothekarin-als-anti-nazi-spionin/
November Book Club: Hoppla, Were Alive! with Drew Lichtenberg Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-11 | A landmark of the Weimar Republic, Ernst Toller's Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the founding works of what would later be come to known as the epic theater and a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Drew Lichtenberg is Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. and translator of this play.
Two Roads Home: Daniel Finkelstein OBE with Debórah Dwork Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-11 | This special event hosted in partnership with The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, saw British journalist and politician, Daniel Finkelstein OBE, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book.Special guest Chief of Staff to His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General to New York Rian Matanky-Becker opened the event.
Christian-Jewish Discourses in the Medieval and Early Modern Period: German-Jewish Book Culture Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-07 | A collaborative rare books workshop with presentations from the Jewish Public Library Montreal and the Library of the Leo Baeck Institute New York.The speakers present examples of early printed books from their rare book collections that not only provide insights into important Christian-Jewish discourses of their time, but also shaped them. We cover the Nuremberg Jewish Oath of 1484, probably the first Jewish oath ever printed, which became the dominant model for oath formulas until the eighteenth century; the raging pre-Reformation debate in the early 16th century over whether or not to burn Jewish books—also known as the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn debate or the Battle of the Books—which was inconceivable without the new medium of printing; and lastly, Moses Mendelssohn's Bi’ur (1794), the first German translation of the Pentateuch, in context with the author’s published memoirs.The recording features three presentations:00:00 Introduction4:42 Moses Mendelssohn, presented by Eddie Paul, JPL Montreal28:46 The 1484 Nuremberg Jewry Oath (More Judaico), presented by Renate Evers, LBI NY45:12 The Reuchlin/Pfefferkorn Debate 1507ff, presented by Renate Evers, LBI NY
25 Years of the Washington Principles - Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-07 | LBI and Yeshiva University Museum commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-confiscated Art. Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, the main architect of the agreement for the US government, delivers a key note address on where we stand today with how Nazi-stolen property could be returned to their rightful owners.Joined for a panel discussion by Karen Heilig (Claims Conference Assistant Executive Vice President and General Counsel), Dr. Felix Klein (Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism), and moderator Gabriel Goldstein (Director and Chief Curator of the Yeshiva University Museum).
EXIL - Der Podcast - Trailer und Hörprobe Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-12-07 | Willkommen bei EXIL, dem Geschichts-Podcast über jüdisches Leben im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus. Die preisgekrönte Schauspielerin Iris Berben erzählt 12 mitreißenden Geschichten, die auf persönlichen Briefen, Tagebüchern und Interviews basieren. Das umfangreichen Material stammt aus dem Archiv des Leo Baeck Instituts. Jede Episode ist eine Geschichte voller Schönheit und Gefahr, die die historischen Begebenheiten zum Leben erweckt. Denn die Vergangenheit ist immer gegenwärtig.Ab dem 7. Dezember 2023 wöchentlich eine Folge in der Mediathek der bpb und auf allen gängigen Plattformen:bpb: https://www.bpb.de/mediathek/podcasts/543131/exil/ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2T9TmXJPc4nyBxrAjECl5rDeezer: deezer.com/de/show/1000486342Apple: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/exil/id1719640080Amazon: https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/967db234-ecdc-49a1-8b98-4dcf449e439a'EXIL" ist eine Kooperation des Leo Baeck Institute - New York | Berlin und der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, produziert von Antica Productions.#podcast #geschichte #jüdischegeschichte
Archives to Earbuds: Podcast as Cultural Artifact Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-11-13 | When an archival institution makes a podcast, it is not just highlighting historical artifacts from its collection, but it is also creating a new artifact. And in some cases the assemblage of existing audio recordings – snippets of decades-old broadcasts or excerpts from local oral histories – can transform a podcast itself into a chronicle of previously uncollected or inaccessible documentations that preserve and contextualize historical events and cultural moments.Ben Nadaff-Hafrey (The Last Archive, Revisionist History) moderates a panel including Bill Healy (Somebody, You Didn’t See Nothin), Mary Kidd (NYPL and Preserve This Podcast), Natalia Petrzela (Welcome To Your Fantasy, Past Present) and Renate Evers (LBI, Exile), who discuss how collecting organizations and scholars and podcast creators can utilize and make sense of the proliferation of-digital media and safeguard podcasts against digital obsolescence.Hosted online by: AIR (Association of Independents in Radio)
Archives to Earbuds: Podcasts for Cultural Institutions Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-11-09 | As cultural institutions consider new ways to engage diverse patrons and better serve a wide range of communities and populations, podcasts emerge as an exciting tool for just such engagement. But there's a steep learning curve for institutions when it comes to the cost of both producing podcasts and developing audiences for them. Our moderator and panelists share their insights and expertise on the challenges and opportunities of podcasting and how podcasts can serve the missions and programming needs of organizations in an increasingly competitive attention economy.Jessica Alpert (Rococo Punch) moderates a panel of creatives and producers from firms including Antica Productions, Pod People, Capacity Interactive and Christine Ragasa Global on how cultural institutions have used podcasting to advance their missions.Online simulcast courtesy of: The Podcast Academy (TPA)
A Jewish Artist in Berlin Before, During, and After the Third Reich Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2023-11-03 | Konrad Geldmacher (1878-1965) was a formally trained sculptor and medalist who, though not widely celebrated today, publicly pursued his craft in Berlin beginning even before his military service during the First World War and well into the 1960s. Dr. Ira Rezak, an emeritus professor of medicine (Stony Brook University) and an author, discusses the life and work of Geldmacher.
