THE LBI YEAR BOOK 2009
Jüdische Geschichte im deutschsprachigen Europa und der Schweiz (Switzerland and Jewish history in German-speaking Europe)
Zurich, Theater Stadelhofen, 11-12 July 2005
LBI London und LBI Jerusalem
The conference is supported by:
Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ)
Jüdische Liberale Gemeinde Or Chadasch, Zürich (ILG)
Posen Foundation, Luzern
Saly Mayer Memorial Stiftung, Zürich
Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute, the LBI London and the LBI Jersualem organised a joint international conference entitled ‘Switzerland and Jewish history in German-speaking Europe’. The conference took place on 11 and 12 July 2005 in Zurich, Switzerland and was held in German. Scholars from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, and the US, attempted to place Swiss-Jewish history in a larger, European context of German-Jewish history.
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German Jewry: Memories of the Past – Visions of the Future
International Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute
Jerusalem, 15-18 May 2005
LBI Jerusalem
Prof Eric Hobsbawm: Enlightenment and Achievement: The Emancipation of Jewish Talent Since 1800
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London
Fiftieth Anniversary Lecture
This event was co-sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London.
Antisemitism in Europe Today: Academic Approaches
London, Sunday, 23 January 2005
European Network for Research into Historical and Current Antisemitism
in cooperation with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at Sussex University
Workshop organised by
Raphael Gross (Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at Sussex University)
Ben Barkow (Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London)
No single methodology has been successful in fully accounting for the complex historical phenomenon of antisemitism. The Network seeks to bring together disparate national and disciplinary perspectives on this phenomenon.
At the Network’s first workshop open to the public, internationally renowned scholars from different fields will discuss various approaches to the subject. These include contributions from the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, political science and linguistics.
Russian Jews in Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries
Brighton, 13-14 December 2004
Leo Baeck Institute London
Bucerius Institute
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
Organised by:
Yfaat Weiss (Director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa)
Raphael Gross (Director of the Leo Baeck Institute, London and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex)