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LBI London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture.
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- Alexander Walther - Jewish Holocaust Memory and East German Antifascism · 1 h 38 minResponse by Dr Alexander Brown (LBI London/University of Liverpool) What role did Jewish survivors in the German Democratic Republic play in the cultural debate on the Holocaust…
- Sheila Hayman on Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn | LBI Film Club Interview · 23 minJoin Sheila Hayman, director and writer of Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, in conversation with the Leo Baeck Institute London about the extraordinary life and music of Fanny…
- The LBI London meets Sir Bernard Zissman, producer of "Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel" · 7 minThe Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to present an exclusive conversation with Sir Bernard Zissman, one of the producers behind the recent British documentary, Theodor…
- Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture: A Roundtable Discussion · 1 h 27 minThis online roundtable brought together scholars and practitioners to examine the Kindertransport through archival research, personal testimony, and reflective practice…
- LBI 70th Anniversary Celebrations - Eva Reichmann Memorial Lecture · 1 h 14 minChristine Schmidt, Bea Lewkowicz, Natalia Aleksiun The Wiener Holocaust Library, London6 November 2025, 6:30PM - 08:00 PM The inaugural Eva Reichmann Lecture, held as part of the…
- Dr Julia Ng - A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought · 1 h 24 minIn the early twentieth century, German-Jewish thinkers converged upon Daoism as a means to criticise state power and the dominance of economic productivity in modern society…
- Rethinking German Nationalism in the Interwar Period · 1 h 15 min · Season 2025 Episode 3Erin HochmanDue to the horrors of the Third Reich, we have come to think of German nationalism as inherently antisemitic, racist, antidemocratic, and violent. This talk…
- Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Reflections 100 Years On · 1 h 30 minLisa Pine Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Hitler and the history of the Nazis remain extremely popular topics and ones that…
- (Un)Welcome Returns? Re-Naturalisation Rights of German Jews in Germany · 1 h 22 min · Season 2025 Episode 2Nicholas CourtmanKing’s College LondonSince 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish…
- Hermann Beck - Online Book Talk · 1 h 16 min · Season 2025Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi TakeoverSpeaker: Hermann BeckHermann Beck has just been announced…
- Grzegorz Kwiatkowski: More Light – Art Against Hate · 1 h 15 min · Season 2024 Episode 4More Light – Art Against Hate: Fighting Holocaust Denial and The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism In Poland Grzegorz Kwiatkowski The ability to accurately describe the past is…
- A German-Jewish Athlete During The Age of Extremes: Alex Natan (1906–71) · 1 h 21 min · Season 2024 Episode 3Prof. Kay Schiller University of Durham, UK As a gay high-performance runner, antifascist intellectual and sportswriter, Alex Natan was a quintessential outsider in Weimar…
- LBI London Summer Lecture: Psychologists in Auschwitz: Accounting for Survival · 1 h 25 min · Season 2024Prof Dan Stone The writings of Dutch Auschwitz survivors Eddy de Wind, Elie Cohen and Louis Micheels merit analysis not only because they anticipated what later became known as…
- Regina Jonas – The First Woman Rabbi · 1 h 13 min · Season 24Rabbi Prof Dr Elisa Klapheck Wiener Holocaust Library Can women hold rabbinical office? This was one of the questions discussed at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies…
- Jewish Life In Contemporary Germany · 1 h 28 min · Season 24 Episode 2Prof Dani Kranz Germany is home to Europe’s third largest Jewish community. Yet surprisingly little is known about them. After the Shoah, about 15,000 German Jews returned to…
- Heinrich Zimmer, Nazi Racial Politics and The University of Heidelberg, 1933–1938 · 1 h 11 min · Season 2024 Episode 1Dr. Baijayanti Roy University of Frankfurt This talk examines the grey zones that exist between the established paradigms of persecution and exile in the ‘Third Reich’, as…
- Writing The Lives of Those That Stayed Behind. Georg Hermann’s Long-Lost Exile Novel ‘Die Daheim Blieben’ · 1 h 18 min · Season 2024Godela Weiss-Sussex ILCS (University of London) In the winter of 1939–40, exiled in the Dutch city of Hilversum, Georg Hermann was working on a novel that he regarded as one of…
- International Women's Day 2024: Pauline Paucker · 1 h 2 minFor International Women's Day 2024, LBI Director Joseph Cronin interviews Pauline Paucker at her home about her memories of the Institute, her work editing the Yearbook, and her…
- Who was Fritz Kittel? A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022 · 1 h 31 min · Season 2024Reading: Esther Dischereit together with Jonny Ball. In 2023, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn to honour the railroad worker Fritz…
- Dressing Eve: Re-drawing Biblical Women through Comics · 1 h 13 min · Season 23 Episode 5Dr Sarah Lightman Jewish women have been at the forefront of feminist autobiographical comics since the 1970’s as they challenged sexism in popular culture. But how have they…
