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Founded in memory of Leo Baeck after his passing in 1956, the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is given each year by a leading scholar or public intellectual whose work touches on the history of German-speaking Jews. The lectures are available from the LBI Library and online via Internet Archive.
The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is endowed by Marianne C. Dreyfus and Family, the descendants of Rabbi Leo Baeck
Gloria M. Goldstein Professorship of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 65
Still Reading Kafka? On Language, Literature, Friendship, and Identity in Central Europe
Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union in New York City
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 64
Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees Between ‘Orient’ and European Catastrophe
Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 63
Rewriting German History: Jewish Experience as a Corrective (forthcoming, 2022)
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 62
Emancipation, Then and Now
President, German Historical Museum
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 61
Otto Frank and Anne Frank's Diary: The History of A Universal Icon
Columnist, The New York Times
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 60
German-Jewish History in the 21st Century
Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 59Boundary as Barrier, Boundary as Bridge. Jewish and Christian Historiography on Religious Origins in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College and Trustee of Leo Baeck Institute.
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 58
German Jews: The History and the Heritage. Celebrating 60 Years of the Leo Baeck Institute
Publisher, Die Zeit, Trustee of Leo Baeck Institute
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 57
The Golden Age of German-speaking Jewry, 1871 – 1933: Remake or Mission Impossible?
Former Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 56
The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and its Relationship with the United States
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 55
Digibaeck: 500 Years of German-Jewish History Online
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of European History, University of Pennsylvania
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 54
Bismarck, Anti-Semitism and the Tragedy of German Jewry
Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University, and Professor of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 53
From German Wissenschaft to Global Scholarship: Jewish Historiography between the World Wars
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 52
Yehuda Amichai: the German-Jewish roots of Israel’s national poet
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 51
From Jerusalem to Berlin and back : a diplomatic journey
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 50
Creating sociology and psychoanalysis in the Habsberg lands: Freud, Brill and Fleck
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 49
Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 48
“Wissenschaft des Judentums”, historical consciousness, and Jewish faith : the diverse paths of Frankel, Auerbach and Halevy
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 47
Persistent myths and stereotypes in the image of German Jews: a social perspective
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 46
Divided souls : the convert critique and the culture of the Ashkenaz, 1750-1800
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 45
Some serious thoughts about Jewish humor
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 44
Daniel Liebeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 43
Germany and the Jews at the Turn of the Millennium
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 42
The Legacy of the Holocaust and German National Identity
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 41
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 40
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Women in the Aftermath of November 1938
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 39
Jewish Bankers and the Crises of the Weimar Republic
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 38
Zionism and the Great Powers: a Century of Foreign Policy
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 37
The Holocaust and Comparative History
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 36
Gunther: German-Jewish Bible Translations: Linguistic Theology as a Political Phenomenon
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 35
Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 34
Jewish Soldiers in Austro-Hungarian Society
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 33
Modern Hebrew Literature and the Pre-modern German Jewish Experience
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 32
The German Pogrom of November 1938 and the Reaction of American Jewry
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 31
A Conflict of Memories- The New German Debates about the “Final Solution”
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 30 was not published
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 29
On the Validity of German-Jewish Self Definitions
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 28
“The Enemy Within” – Max Liebermann as President of the Prussian Academy of Arts
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 27
Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 26
Assimilation and Racial Anti-Semitism: The Iberian and the German Model
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 25
German Political Pressure and Jewish Religious Response in the 19th Century
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 24
Walther Rathenau and Henry Kissinger: The Jew as a Modern Statesman in Two Political Cultures
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 23
The First News of the Holocaust
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 22
Bismarckian Society’s Image of the Jew
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 21
The Jews and the German War Experience 1914-1918
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 20
On the History of the Political Judgment of the Jew
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 19
Leo Baeck on Christianity
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 18
Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death-Camps
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 17
Leo Baeck and the Jewish Mystical Tradition
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 16
Jews, Democracy and Weimar Germany
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 15
The Berlin-Jewish Spirit. A Dogma in Search of Some Doubts
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 14
Religious and Anti-Religious Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 13
Max Brod and his Age
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 12
Hermann Cohen – After Fifty Years
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 11
The Living Contribution of Jewish Prague to Modern German Literature
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 9
Messianic Postures of Ashkenazim and Sephardim (Prior to Sabbatai Zvi)
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 10
Baeck – Buber – Rosenzweig. Reading the Book of Job
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 8
Walter Benjamin
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 7
Jews in the Culture of Middle Europe
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 6
Jewish Learning and Jewish Existence: Retrospect and Prospect
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 5
World Dimensions of Jewish History
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 4
The Tragedy of German-Jewish Liberalism
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 3
Theology and History
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 2
Heinrich Heine, The Man and the Myth
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture No. 1
Leo Baeck, The Man and the Idea
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