European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series
This season’s theme is Jews and Justice. The Lecture Series aims to explore their concepts of justice, the ways how they are related to the different political and cultural realms they lived in, as well as the potential juridical and political conflicts that arise from these concepts.
2 February
Prof. Susan James (Birkbeck College, London)
Spinoza on Learning to Live Justly
The European Leo Baeck Lecture Series is organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London, the Jewish Museum and the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London.
FilmTalk 2011/2012: Sleeping with the Enemy
8 December 2011
Prof Sue Harper (University of Portsmouth)
The Lion’s Mane: Sexual and Racial Politics in Samson and Delilah (1949)
The FilmTalk series 2011/2012 will open with Sue Harper’s lecture on Samson and Delilah (1949).
This lecture series is organised by the LBI London in cooperation with the Wiener Library.
New hub for German-Jewish history and culture at Queen Mary
Research into German-Jewish history and culture is expanding at Queen Mary, University of London.
The Leo Baeck Institute London (LBI), at the forefront of research on German-speaking Jewish communities in Europe over the last 300 years, is now based on the university’s Mile End campus.
Bilingual Office Manager – Maternity Cover
The Leo Baeck Institute is a charity based at Queen Mary, University of London, in London E1, carrying out research, publishing, and organizing a broad range of events in the field of German Jewish history and culture. We are looking for part-time maternity cover for our Office Manager for a period of approx. 5 months, from 1 February to end of June 2012.



