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Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture

Years

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

2023

Atina Grossmann

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