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Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture

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

2024

Hillel Kieval

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