Jews in German-speaking academia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

This is a long-term LBI project, carried out by Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann. It aims to document, evaluate, and explain the role of Jews in German-speaking academia during the 19th and 20th centuries.

A history of visual expressions of antisemitism, emotions and morality

A joint research project by the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Fritz Bauer Institut Frankfurt

This project, using Germany as an example, is intended to clarify how the connections between emotion, morality, visual language and antisemitism work. It will cover the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era and the Federal Republic of Germany, and investigate visual products such as postcards, films and TV productions.

The project will enable us to develop criteria for discussing the emotional impact of visual representation. This is a crucial question today as visual media - in particular the internet - have become ubiquitous.

European Network for Research into Historical and Current Antisemitism

The LBI London has been actively involved in setting up this new European network of institutions interested in the study of antisemitism. At present the network includes, besides the LBI, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, the Wiener Library London, the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention in Paris.

Edition of Eyewitness Accounts 1938

A series of eyewitness accounts were collected following the events of 9th November 1938 by the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO), the predecessor of the Wiener Library. It was the aim of the JCIO to collect material on the antisemitic activities of the National Socialists and on the situation of German Jewry. The LBI and the Wiener Library are preparing a complete edition of this unique collection of historical documents.