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The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

Published since 1956, The LBI Year Book, journal of the Leo Baeck Institute, remains at the forefront of the field, publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of German-speaking Central European Jewry from early modern times to the post-war period. Articles cover the cultural, economic, political, social and religious history, the impact of anti-semitism and the Jewish response to it.

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Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts

The “Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts” is the leading series in the field of German-Jewish history. The first volume was published in 1959; since then 74 monographs and edited volumes have been published in the series, some of which were written by well-known scholars such as Hans Liebeschütz, Werner Emil Mosse, Ernst Simon, Selma Stern, Margarete Susmann and Jacob Toury.

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International Conference “The Legacy of Hans Kohn”

Jerusalem, 11-12 March 2009

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International Conference ‘Antisemitism and the emergence of sociological theory’

University of Manchester, 2-3 November, 2008

Hosted by the Jewish Studies Centre, Manchester University, with
support from the Leo Baeck Institute, London, and the British
Sociological Association Theory Study Group

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FilmTalk 2008/2009: Jews: Heroes and Stars

You can download the leaflet here.

A lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London and The Wiener Library

FilmTalk 2008/9 focused on the theme of Jews: Heroes and Stars.

FilmTalk examined mainstream feature films and art house films from the perspective of contemporary Jewish history. What vision of Jewish masculinity is offered by Paul Newman in Exodus? What kind of Jewishness is played out by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and other films that made her a star? And what is so special about a musical set in the borscht-belt, like Dirty Dancing?

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