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Moses Mendelssohn Award for Historian Atina Grossmann


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American Federation of Jews from Central Europe Processing Continues


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Exhibits: The Story of the Kitchener Camp, and Crossing the Ocean


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Restitution Meets Genealogy in Return of Looted Books from Nuremberg


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Digitizing LBI’s Audiovisual Treasures


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Fellowship News: New Halbers and Baumgardt Fellows


Exile, Mandy, and Kathryn

Mandy Patinkin to Return to "Exile"


Girl in Agra

Collection Highlight: Chuma, a Tawaif of Agra


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"Exil" in the News


2023 Honoress

Leo Baeck Medals for Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, and Bernie Blum


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Statement on Israel


LBI Librarian Irmgard Foerg at LBI's first office on 1239 Broadway, New York, 1960s

The Search for the Lost Lesebuch & the Building of a Library


Exile Wide

"Exile" in the News


Amy Gutmann Receives the Leo Baeck Medal

Leo Baeck Medal for Ambassador Amy Gutmann


Miriam Bistrovic speaking at SHP Opening in Rostock

Jüdische Kulturtage in Rostock – trotz Krieg in der Ukraine


Mandy Patinkin

"Exile": A Podcast Presented by LBI


Dave Fox, untitled painting (water and fishing scene)

The Hunt for the Red Munchkin, and more in the Salomons-Fox Collection


Andreas Lehnertz

2022–2023 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


Bremen Transcribathon

Bremen Goes the Distance in “Transcribathon” of LBI Collections


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Following the Lehman Family from Rimpar to Yale


Shulamit Volkov with Huberta von Voss-Wittig and Miriam Bistrovic

Shulamit Volkov–Rewriting German History: Jewish Experience as a Corrective


Getrude Scharff Goldhaber in her office

The Times of Israel on Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber


Getrude Scharff Goldhaber in her office

Physics World on Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber


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SHP exhibit opens in Nordrhein-Westfalen


Ruth Rogers-Altmann Skiing

Ruth Rogers-Altmann Brought Alpine Style to American Skiwear


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Economist Edna Ehrlich’s Papers Processed and Digitized


Blau-Weiss Movement, Benno Cohn

LBI Jerusalem Holdings Digitized


Stephen Sondheim doucments

Into the Woods: Following the Trail of Stephen Sondheim's Ancestors


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New Exhibit to Explore Life in Theresienstadt


Steinmeier

Leo Baeck Medal for Frank-Walter Steinmeier


Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber

“I want to understand what the world is made of.”


Spinnerei und Weberei, BoE

Online Exhibition to Explore “The Business of Emancipation”


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LBI Collections Integrated into a New One-Stop Judaica Portal


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Staff News: Conferences and Workshops


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"History Matters"


2021-2022 Gerald Westheimer Fellows

2021–2022 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


Ismar Elbogen scholarship recipients, 2021

Ismar Elbogen Scholarship Brings German Doctoral Students to LBI


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Thousands of Works to Enrich Edythe Griffinger Portal


1938Projekt Book

1938Projekt Book Published


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Family Research Department News


1938Projekt Gallery

Launch of 1938Projekt book


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Kindertransport exhibit travels to Minneapolis


Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Refuge in the Heights

Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Washington Heights


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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


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Shared History Project in the News


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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project


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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Reference Service


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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy


Gottschalk Family

News from the Family Research Department


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Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


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A Course in Old German Scripts


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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19


Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


Edict of Constantine the Great from 321 CE

Call for Papers—Shared History Conference


Landscape with view of Synagogue at Oppeln (Upper Silesia) by G. Pujos

Between Two Nations


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Stay In Touch!


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Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection


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Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021


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Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel


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Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism


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AM New York on Refuge in the Heights


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Wall Street Journal on Menorah Collection


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David Sorkin—“We should not take those rights for granted”


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The Jerusalem Post on LBI's Refuge in the Heights Exhibition


The Lilith Blog

Lilith Magazine on LBI’s Art in Exile Exhibit


Martha Minow

Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”


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LBI’s Art of Exile Exhibition and the Search for Samson Schames


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Safeguarding LBI Collections with Knowledge and Planning


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1938Projekt at German Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC


The Baum Family Tre

News from the Family Research Department


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Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side


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From Prague to Princeton: Tracing the Story of the Kulbach Family


Stolpersteine in Freiburg

Stolpersteine—Commemoration and Controversy


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“I call him sensei”—An Appreciation of Grigoriy Ratinov


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New Website Virtually Reconstructs Austrian-Jewish Lives


San Diego Jewish Journal Article on LBI Event

San Diego Jewish Journal on: Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties


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The Jewish Daily Forward on “The Art of Exile”


Times of Israel | Online 1938Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews

The Times of Israel on the 1938Projekt


Certificate of Identity issued to Elisabeth Jonas

The Jonas Family of Hamburg: A story from the Kindertransport


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Daily Beast on: The German Jews Who Escaped Hitler, and Made New York Their Home


Nesthäkchen Covers

Nesthäkchen Comes to LBI


Judith Marcus & Zoltán Tarr.

The Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr Collection


Peter Wittig & Huberta von Voss-Wittig

Leo Baeck Medal for Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig


Anneliese Erlanger

The Kindertransport—Compassion within Limits


Raphael Gross receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank


Rykestrasske Kristallnacht Commemoration

Germany Marks 80 Years Since Kristallnacht with the 1938Projekt


Werner Gundersheimer, Vice President

Remembering Kristallnacht


Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


Sphinx and Camel Photograph

Spectacular Photographs of Egypt by Way of Hamburg


Kindertransport

Kindertransport Exhibit Highlights Family Separation in 1930s


Karen Franklin and Robert Morgenthau

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI


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The library of Henry (Heinz) Wachs


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Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


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Return of the Basket Weavers


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Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg


Jason Lustig

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


1938Projekt Gallery Kiosk

Posts from the Past, 80 Years after 1938


Max Warburg (l) with LBI Executive Director William H. Weitzer at the Center for Jewish History in New York on November 15, 2017.

Leo Baeck Medal for Max Warburg


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A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


Roger Cohen

Interview: Roger Cohen on German-Jewish History in the 21st Century


Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


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Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research


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Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca


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Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research


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2017 Obermayer Award Winners


Stefanie Fischer

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker


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History by the Foot: Processing Archival Collections at the LBI


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Promoting the Braunschweig Region as Cradle of Modern Jewish Studies


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The Jewish Liturgical Year: Calendars in LBI Collections


Portrait of Opera Singer Heinrich Sontheim

A Voice Still Heard—Music and Musicians in LBI Collections


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Milestone in the Reconstruction of the Freimann Collection


Robert M. Morgenthau

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau


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Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India


Susannah Heschel

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel


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Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna


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Genealogy Success Stories


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2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis


Bookmark in a Roedelheim Mahzor

The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity


Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel


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Rare Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shown at LBI


Transnistria Postcard from JBAT

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


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“We have wandered together a long, long way”—The Hans and Eleonore Jonas Collection


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2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel


Michael Meyer Moses Mendelssohn Award

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI


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Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI


Walter Nathan

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI


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A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry


E. M. Lilien - Jewish May

German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941


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An interview with Arnon Goldfinger


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Preservation in the LBI Library


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LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases


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Pioneers of Jewish Studies


Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


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What was the Wissenschaft des Judentums?


Handwritten Diary

New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization


Ismar Schorsch

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch


Josef Joffe

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe


Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"


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LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”


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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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From Gleiwitz to Shanghai, Digitized Periodicals offer Snapshots of Jewish Life


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Jewish Encounters in the Great War: WWI in LBI Collections


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Showdown at the Sterling Oval: 1942


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Student-playwrights Meet Theresienstadt survivor at LBI


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LBI at Limmud Germany


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Longing, Prayer, Surrender: Diary of an Incredible Journey Translated into English


Preservation of Fürth Megillah

Conservation of the Fürth Megillah


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Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections


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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection


Joachim Gauck

Leo Baeck Medal for Joachim Gauck


Sparrow Makes Her Way: Cover of Children's Book by Meta Samson.

Sparrow Makes her Way


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What’s in a Name? Dennis Baum and the Simson Company


Stuart Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat on Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century


Stuart Eizenstat and Michael Blumenthal

Leo Baeck Medal for Stuart Eizenstat


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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


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Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection


Cover of the World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag

An Intellectual Resistance


Digitizing Aufbau

A Digital Home for an Émigré Journal


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Shira Klein: Teaching Research Skills with DigiBaeck


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Archives: Dolly Haas, Felix Pincus, Rose Ausländer


Dr. Miriam Bistrovic

A New Presence in Berlin


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Experiencing 1933, One Day and One Document at a Time


Postcard - Suceava in 1906

Discovery in Romania


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“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission


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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man


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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia


Margarethe von Trotta

Leo Baeck Medal for Margarethe von Trotta


Anselm Kiefer

Leo Baeck Medal for Anselm Kiefer


Kurt Masur and Alan Gilbert

Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur


Angela Merkel

Leo Baeck Medal for German Chancellor Angela Merkel


Year

Topic

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Fellowship News: New Halbers and Baumgardt Fellows


Memorial Lecture

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Historian Atina Grossmann


Restitution_Image

Restitution Meets Genealogy in Return of Looted Books from Nuremberg


Amy Gutmann Receives the Leo Baeck Medal

Leo Baeck Medal for Ambassador Amy Gutmann


Mandy Patinkin

"Exile": A Podcast Presented by LBI


Andreas Lehnertz

2022–2023 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


karen-franklin-rimpar

Following the Lehman Family from Rimpar to Yale


Stephen Sondheim doucments

Into the Woods: Following the Trail of Stephen Sondheim's Ancestors


Steinmeier

Leo Baeck Medal for Frank-Walter Steinmeier


Ismar Elbogen scholarship recipients, 2021

Ismar Elbogen Scholarship Brings German Doctoral Students to LBI


LBI Logo

"History Matters"


2021-2022 Gerald Westheimer Fellows

2021–2022 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


LBI Logo

Family Research Department News


LBI Logo

Staff News: Conferences and Workshops


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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


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Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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A Course in Old German Scripts


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Archive and Library Work in the Age of COVID-19


Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


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Dr. Robert Ira Lewy


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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


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Rare Finds at Constance Book Fair Enrich LBI Library Collection


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Community Outreach in Portland: Where the Yekkes Wear Flannel


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Some Lost, Some Gained in Translation Between Japan and Judaism


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David Sorkin—“We should not take those rights for granted”


Martha Minow

Martha Minow urges us to “resist tyranny and revenge”


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“I call him sensei”—An Appreciation of Grigoriy Ratinov


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Sparkling Water and Sparkling Conversation on the Upper East Side


The Baum Family Tre

News from the Family Research Department


Peter Wittig & Huberta von Voss-Wittig

Leo Baeck Medal for Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig


Raphael Gross receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Raphael Gross after Lecture on Anne Frank


Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


Karen Franklin and Robert Morgenthau

Family Research has Deep Roots at LBI


Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


basket-weavers.jpg

Return of the Basket Weavers


Jason Lustig

2018 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


Max Warburg (l) with LBI Executive Director William H. Weitzer at the Center for Jewish History in New York on November 15, 2017.

Leo Baeck Medal for Max Warburg


new-school.jpg

A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


Roger Cohen

Interview: Roger Cohen on German-Jewish History in the 21st Century


Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


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Julie-Marthe Cohen Discusses Provenance Research


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2017 Obermayer Award Winners


Stefanie Fischer

2017 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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In Memoriam: Arnold Paucker


Robert M. Morgenthau

Leo Baeck Medal for Robert M. Morgenthau


Susannah Heschel

Moses Mendelssohn Award for Susannah Heschel


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Between Memory and Oblivion—The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna


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2015 Gerald Westheimer Fellows


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Genealogy Success Stories


Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit

Germany Honors Ronald B. Sobel


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2016 Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows


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Leo Baeck Medal for Eric R. Kandel


Michael Meyer Moses Mendelssohn Award

Michael A. Meyer on the History of LBI


Walter Nathan

Walter Nathan—Leaving a Legacy at LBI


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Family Matters—Fourth Generation of Bambergers Introduced to LBI


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An interview with Arnon Goldfinger


Gerald Westheimer

Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


Ismar Schorsch

Leo Baeck Medal for Ismar Schorsch


Josef Joffe

Leo Baeck Medal for Josef Joffe


Josef Joffe

Josef Joffe on the "Golden Age of German Jewry"


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Gerald Westheimer Fellows


Joachim Gauck

Leo Baeck Medal for Joachim Gauck


Sparrow Makes Her Way: Cover of Children's Book by Meta Samson.

Sparrow Makes her Way


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What’s in a Name? Dennis Baum and the Simson Company


Stuart Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat on Jewish Continuity in the 21st Century


Stuart Eizenstat and Michael Blumenthal

Leo Baeck Medal for Stuart Eizenstat


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Shira Klein: Teaching Research Skills with DigiBaeck


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Harry Ettlinger and Otto Oppenheimer: Story of a Monuments Man


Margarethe von Trotta

Leo Baeck Medal for Margarethe von Trotta


Anselm Kiefer

Leo Baeck Medal for Anselm Kiefer


Kurt Masur and Alan Gilbert

Leo Baeck Medal for Kurt Masur


Year

Topic

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Exhibits: The Story of the Kitchener Camp, and Crossing the Ocean


Exile, Mandy, and Kathryn

Mandy Patinkin to Return to "Exile"


Mandy Patinkin

"Exile": A Podcast Presented by LBI


SHP opening Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, 3

SHP exhibit opens in Nordrhein-Westfalen


Theresienstadt exhibit image

New Exhibit to Explore Life in Theresienstadt


1938Projekt Book

1938Projekt Book Published


Spinnerei und Weberei, BoE

Online Exhibition to Explore “The Business of Emancipation”


1938Projekt Gallery

Launch of 1938Projekt book


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Shared History Project in the News


Deutsche Post stamp, SHP

Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project


Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


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Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


Edict of Constantine the Great from 321 CE

Call for Papers—Shared History Conference


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Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021


June 2019 Disaster Recovery Workshop.jpg

Safeguarding LBI Collections with Knowledge and Planning


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1938Projekt at German Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC


Stolpersteine in Freiburg

Stolpersteine—Commemoration and Controversy


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New Website Virtually Reconstructs Austrian-Jewish Lives


Certificate of Identity issued to Elisabeth Jonas

The Jonas Family of Hamburg: A story from the Kindertransport


Rykestrasske Kristallnacht Commemoration

Germany Marks 80 Years Since Kristallnacht with the 1938Projekt


Werner Gundersheimer, Vice President

Remembering Kristallnacht


Kindertransport

Kindertransport Exhibit Highlights Family Separation in 1930s


Tom&GayleWachs-0791.jpg

Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


Malgorzata Bakalarz 1938Projekt Pedagogy

Developing Teaching Tools for the 1938Projekt


1938Projekt Gallery Kiosk

Posts from the Past, 80 Years after 1938


Kerry Elkins

Making the Edythe Griffinger Art Catalog


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Promoting the Braunschweig Region as Cradle of Modern Jewish Studies


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Rare Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shown at LBI


Transnistria Postcard from JBAT

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


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A Conversation on Jewish Identity With Future Leaders of German Jewry


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LBI Materials Now Searchable in More Global Databases


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Preservation in the LBI Library


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From Gleiwitz to Shanghai, Digitized Periodicals offer Snapshots of Jewish Life


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LBI Partners with Genealogists to Focus on “Family Matters”


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LBI at Limmud Germany


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Wikipedians Write the Book on LBI Collections


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Edythe Griffinger Art Catalogue Will Improve Access to LBI Art Collection


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Progress Filling Gaps in Frankfurt Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection


Dr. Miriam Bistrovic

A New Presence in Berlin


Postcard - Suceava in 1906

Discovery in Romania


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Experiencing 1933, One Day and One Document at a Time


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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


Year

Topic

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Digitizing LBI’s Audiovisual Treasures


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American Federation of Jews from Central Europe Processing Continues


Girl in Agra

Collection Highlight: Chuma, a Tawaif of Agra


LBI Librarian Irmgard Foerg at LBI's first office on 1239 Broadway, New York, 1960s

The Search for the Lost Lesebuch & the Building of a Library


Bremen Transcribathon

Bremen Goes the Distance in “Transcribathon” of LBI Collections


Dave Fox, untitled painting (water and fishing scene)

The Hunt for the Red Munchkin, and more in the Salomons-Fox Collection


Blau-Weiss Movement, Benno Cohn

LBI Jerusalem Holdings Digitized


Ruth Rogers-Altmann Skiing

Ruth Rogers-Altmann Brought Alpine Style to American Skiwear


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Economist Edna Ehrlich’s Papers Processed and Digitized


LBI Logo

Thousands of Works to Enrich Edythe Griffinger Portal


LBI Logo

LBI Collections Integrated into a New One-Stop Judaica Portal


Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber

“I want to understand what the world is made of.”


Center for Jewish HIstory

Report from the Association of Jewish Libraries Conference


1938projekt-metro-teachers.jpg

Teaching the Holocaust with Archives—The 1938Projekt as Pedagogy


CJH_MEMBERS-038.jpg

Snapshots of a Life—The Emil Carl Grossmann Collection


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LBI’s Role as an Archive in the Digital Age


Gottschalk Family

News from the Family Research Department


Lewy Family

Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Reference Service


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Commemorating 1,700 Years of Shared History in 2021


Landscape with view of Synagogue at Oppeln (Upper Silesia) by G. Pujos

Between Two Nations


_I8A2032.jpg

From Prague to Princeton: Tracing the Story of the Kulbach Family


Nesthäkchen Covers

Nesthäkchen Comes to LBI


Judith Marcus & Zoltán Tarr.

The Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr Collection


Anneliese Erlanger

The Kindertransport—Compassion within Limits


Michael Sturmfels, descendent of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer

Visit from a Descendant of Wolf Zacharias Wertheimer (1782–1844)


Sphinx and Camel Photograph

Spectacular Photographs of Egypt by Way of Hamburg


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The library of Henry (Heinz) Wachs


Tom&GayleWachs-0791.jpg

Preserving Private Libraries at Leo Baeck Institute


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Listening to Records—The Jacob Jacobson Collection in Research


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History by the Foot: Processing Archival Collections at the LBI


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Milestone in the Reconstruction of the Freimann Collection


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The Jewish Liturgical Year: Calendars in LBI Collections


Portrait of Opera Singer Heinrich Sontheim

A Voice Still Heard—Music and Musicians in LBI Collections


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Walter Langhammer and the Illumination of India


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Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis


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The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity


Transnistria Postcard from JBAT

Field Work Continues for LBI Archival Survey in Romania


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“We have wandered together a long, long way”—The Hans and Eleonore Jonas Collection


E. M. Lilien - Jewish May

German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941


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What was the Wissenschaft des Judentums?


Handwritten Diary

New Gift to Support Pilot Projects in Transcription and Photograph Digitization


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Jewish Encounters in the Great War: WWI in LBI Collections


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Showdown at the Sterling Oval: 1942


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Longing, Prayer, Surrender: Diary of an Incredible Journey Translated into English


Preservation of Fürth Megillah

Conservation of the Fürth Megillah


Sparrow Makes Her Way: Cover of Children's Book by Meta Samson.

Sparrow Makes her Way


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Library: A Sermon Heard from Berlin to Philadelphia


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Archives: Dolly Haas, Felix Pincus, Rose Ausländer


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Documenting Jewish Life in East Germany


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“Aufbau” – Reconstruction as a Mission


Cover of the World of Aufbau by Peter Schrag

An Intellectual Resistance


Digitizing Aufbau

A Digital Home for an Émigré Journal


Year

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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Stay In Touch!


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LBI’s Art of Exile Exhibition and the Search for Samson Schames


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A Conversation with Henry Kaufman on Scholar Rescue


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Film Scholar Noah Isenberg Will Always Have Casablanca


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Gerald Westheimer in Conversation: A Vision for Scholarship on German-Jewish History


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Student-playwrights Meet Theresienstadt survivor at LBI


Year

Topic

Exil in news

"Exil" in the News


Exile Wide

"Exile" in the News


Miriam Bistrovic speaking at SHP Opening in Rostock

Jüdische Kulturtage in Rostock – trotz Krieg in der Ukraine


Getrude Scharff Goldhaber in her office

Physics World on Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber


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The Times of Israel on Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber


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SHP exhibit opens in Nordrhein-Westfalen


1938Projekt Gallery

Launch of 1938Projekt book


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Kindertransport exhibit travels to Minneapolis


Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Refuge in the Heights

Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Washington Heights


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Huberta von Voss-Wittig joins Board of Trustees


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Shared History Project in the News


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Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Florence Mendheim


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Deutsche Post stamp honors 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany


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Deutscher Bundestag on LBI's Shared History Project


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AM New York on Refuge in the Heights


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Wall Street Journal on Menorah Collection


The Lilith Blog

Lilith Magazine on LBI’s Art in Exile Exhibit


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The Jerusalem Post on LBI's Refuge in the Heights Exhibition


San Diego Jewish Journal Article on LBI Event

San Diego Jewish Journal on: Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties


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The Jewish Daily Forward on “The Art of Exile”


Times of Israel | Online 1938Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews

The Times of Israel on the 1938Projekt


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Daily Beast on: The German Jews Who Escaped Hitler, and Made New York Their Home


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Why 1938 Matters Today with Frank Mecklenburg