Leo Baeck

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. more

New MA programme

The Leo Baeck Institute and Queen Mary, University of London, are jointly inviting applications for their 2009/10 Leo Baeck MA in European Jewish History.

The Leo Baeck MA trains scholars towards undertaking independent research on Jewish history, culture and thought in Europe.

The deadline for receipt of applications at Queen Mary is 31 August 2009.

Please see Leo Baeck MA for further information.

The new European Leo Baeck Lecture Series and FilmTalk will start this autumn.

Please note that Niall Ferguson's lecture "Siegmund Warburg. An Anglo German Jewish Life" has been cancelled.

The Leo Baeck Institute is delighted to announce that it is partnering with Oxford Journals, the journals department of Oxford University Press, to publish the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. From volume 2009 on, the journal will appear as advance access publication online, with the print issue published at the end of the year. Members of the Society of Friends of the Leo Baeck Institute are entitled to both online access and print issue.

In addition, the full back run of issues has been digitized and will be available through Oxford University Press as part of their Archive Collection sales. More information, including instructions to authors, can be found at www.leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org. Information on archive access can be found at www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/archives.html.

Publications

The London Institute is responsible for the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. To date 53 volumes have been published. Each volume contains an extensive, annotated bibliography on German-speaking Jewry.
Over the years, the London Institute has published 72 volumes in the Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen. The most recent volume, edited by Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann, is: "Jews and Sciences in German Contexts".

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Sale 2008
We are selling selected Year Book back issues at half the retail price.

Conference

Antisemitism in Theory and Practice: Legacies in Cultural and Political Thought

London, 28 and 29 April 2008, at the Wiener Library

An international conference organised by the LBI London and the Wiener Library as a contribution to the European Network for Research into Historical and Current Antisemitism

The conference looked at theories of antisemitism and antisemitic legacies in modern cultural and political theories. We assessed the state of the art in modern theories of antisemitism and examine problematic legacies that partly fostered these theories; we also discussed praxis oriented approaches of dealing with antisemitism in a number of European countries.