Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture

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

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. 59
Boundary 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