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The Leo
Baeck Institute,
named after
Leo Baeck, the last public representative of the Jewish community in Nazi
Germany, was founded in 1955 by the Council of Jews from Germany. It is
the aim of the Institute to put on record the history and culture of German-speaking
Jewry.
With centres
in London, New York and Jerusalem,
the Leo Baeck Institute is the leading research institute in the field
of German-Jewish history and culture.
In Germany, the
Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft,
the Verein der Freunde und Förderer in Frankfurt/Main
and an archival branch of the New York archive
at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, all contribute to the work of the three
centres.
The Institute
focuses in particular on the once large Jewish communities, destroyed
in the Holocaust, which made such an immeasurable contribution to European
culture.
The LBI's
publications cover many facets of Jewish history in Central Europe - from
historical analyses of life in the poorer Jewish communities to research
on the intellectual and cultural legacy of more well-known figures, particularly
those of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Rahel Varnhagen, Heinrich
Heine, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Hermann Cohen, Albert Einstein, Martin
Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Hannah Arendt.
More
information about the history of the Leo Baeck Institute:
Ruth Nattermann:
Deutsch-jüdische Geschichtsschreibung nach der Shoa. Die Gründungs-
und Frühgeschichte des Leo Baeck Institute, Klartext, Essen 2004
Christhard
Hoffmann (ed.): Preserving the Legacy of
German Jewry. A History of the Leo Baeck Institute, 1955-2005, Schriftenreihe
wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2005
The
Leo Baeck Institute London
is responsible
for the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book which has appeared without
a break for the last 50 years. Its articles cover cultural, economic,
political, social and religious history as well as the impact of antisemitism
and the Jewish responses to it. The Year Book's classified bibliography
is regarded as being of unique value for researchers and students.
In addition to the Year Book, symposium volumes and monographs,
the Institute is instrumental in publishing the Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher
Abhandlungen, which comprises today 70 volumes.
Other functions
of the London LBI include the organisation of a broad range of events
such as lecture programmes and organising international conferences
both in the UK and abroad as well as funding fellowships. The Institute
has recently been successful in establishing two research professorships
to investigate the role of German-speaking Jews in 19th and 20th century
academia.
In addition
to its publishing and conference activities, the London Leo Baeck Institute
fulfils other functions related to its role as an educational charity.
Our staff give information to the general public, advise scholars and
students engaged in research on German-Jewish history, collect archival
material for the New York Leo Baeck Institute, act as referees to organisations
funding scholarships, and vet manuscripts submitted to publishers in England,
Germany and the United States, and act as examiners for Dphil and MA candidates
in UK universities.
For further
information, please contact us!
Annual Report of
Activities 2008 (pdf)
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The LBI New York is a research, exhibition, and lecture center
whose library and archives offer the most comprehensive documentation
for the study of German Jewish history.
The
LBI New York has recently opened a research branch in Germany at
the Jewish Museum Berlin. Researchers in Berlin have access to all
of the LBI Archives's microfilms and to the digitized photograph
collection.
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Leo
Baeck Institute New York
15 West 16th Street
New York
N.Y. 10011
USA
Tel:
001-212-744 6400
Fax: 001-212-988 1305
e-mail: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
www.lbi.org
Archiv
des Leo Baeck Instituts New York
im Jüdischen Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel.: 030-25 99 35 56
Fax: 030-25 99 34 09
e-mail: a.pomerance@jmberlin.de
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The LBI Jerusalem is responsible for the publication of the
Jüdischer Almanach and books in Hebrew and German and
maintains a small archive. It advances studies of the History of Middle
European Jewry at the Israeli Universities and groomed new generations
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Leo
Baeck Institute Jerusalem
33 Bustanai Street
Jerusalem 93229
ISRAEL
Tel/Fax:
00972-2-5633790
e-mail: leobaeck@netvision.net.il
www.leobaeck.org
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Wissenschaftliche
Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland
The
Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft (WA) of the Leo Baeck
Institute is a group of historians based in Germany whose aim is
to research and to present German-Jewish history since the beginning
of Jewish emancipation. The WA organises biennial conferences with
young academics from Germany and Israel, international symposia,
and annual colloquiums with doctoral candidates.
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Universität
München
Historisches Seminar
Abteilung für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Tel. 0049 (0) 89
2180 5570
Fax 0049 (0) 89 2180 5666
e-mail michael.brenner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Vorsitzender
Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner, München
Stellvertretende
Vorsitzende
Prof. Dr. Monika Richarz, Hamburg
Vorstand
Prof. Dr. Arno Herzig, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andreas Gotzmann, Erfurt
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohrbacher, Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Rürup, Berlin
Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Hamburg
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Freunde
und Förderer, Frankfurt
Based
in Frankfurt/Main, the Freunde und Förderer of the Leo Baeck
Institute take an active role in the work of the Institute. Its
members are informed about the Institute's research through periodic
publications: the German language Almanach, the English-language
Year Book and the newsletter LBI Information. The
latter also contains reports on research results by young historians.
Members may purchase publications of the Institute at a reduced
price. The annual membership fee is €52, or €26 for students.
Please contact Freunde & Förderer for corporate fees. Membership
includes a copy each of the LBI Year Book, the Almanach,
and the LBI Information; the LBI News (New York) is available
at request.
The
Freunde und Förderer is a charitable organisation. Its work
is supported by a committee that includes leading prominent public
figures, politicians, scientists, and members of the clergy.
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Freunde und Förderer
des Leo Baeck Instituts
Liebigstr. 24
60323 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
Tel 0049-69-722 133
Fax 0049-69-723 841
e-mail: LBI.FFM@t-online.de
www.leobaeck.de
Kuratorium
Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang Bergsdorf (Ministerialdirektor a.D., Bonn)
Franz-Josef Bindert (Ministerialdirigent, Bonn)
Horst Dahlhaus (Direktor Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung a.D.,
Sankt Augustin)
P. Dr. Willehad P. Eckert (Düsseldorf)
Norbert Gansel (Oberbürgermeister a.D., Kiel)
Wilhelm Haas (Botschafter a.D., Bonn)
Dr. Niels Hansen (Botschafter a.D., Bonn)
Prof. Hilmar Hoffmann (Frankfurt)
Dr. Josef Joffe (Herausgeber "Die Zeit", Hamburg)
Hermann E.J. Kalinna (Oberkirchenrat i.R., Bonn)
Dr. Angelika Köster-Loßack (Heidelberg)
Albrecht Krause (Ministerialdirigent a.D., Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Werner Licharz (Eschborn)
Prof. Dr. Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (Karlsruhe)
Michael Mertes (Staatssekretär,Düsseldorf)
Dr. Knut Nevermann (Ministerialdirektor, Berlin)
Dr. h.c. Annemarie Renger (Bundestagspräsidentin a.D., Bonn)
Hans-Peter Repnik (Mitglied des Bundestages, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Gerhard A. Ritter (Allmannshausen)
Dr. Waldemar Ritter (Ministerialdirigent a.D., Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Rürup (Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps (Potsdam)
Dr. Klaus Schütz (Botschafter a.D., Berlin)
Dr. Joachim Schulz-Hardt (Ministerialdirektor a.D., Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Veen (Vorsitzender Stiftung Ettersberg, Weimar)
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Vierhaus (Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen)
Dr. Bernhard Vogel (Ministerpräsident von Thüringen a.D., Erfurt)
Ruth Wagner (Staatsministerin a.D., Vizepräsidentin d. Hess. Landtags,
Wiesbaden)
Dr. Walter Wallmann (Ministerpräsident a.D., Frankfurt a.M.)
Prof. Dr. Werner Weidenfeld (München)
Dr. Richard Frhr. von Weizsäcker (Bundespräsident a.D., Berlin)
Dr. Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg (München)
Vorstand
Georg Heuberger (Direktor des Jüdischen Museums Frankfurt a.M., Vorsitzender)
Thomas Cohn, stellvertretender Vorsitzender
Alfred Rosenthal
Dr. Schimon Staszewski
Arno Lustiger, Ehrenvorsitzender
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