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LBI London Library Collection Arrives at Senate House Library
We are delighted to share that the LBI London library collection has now arrived at Senate House Library, following its transfer from Mile End Library at Queen Mary University of London in mid-May.
Meet the Leo Baeck Fellows: Ágnes Kelemen, 2016/17 cohort
The latest feature in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Meet the Fellows series introduces Ágnes Kelemen, whose doctoral research examined the experience of Hungarian Jewish émigré students.
LBI Fellow Amitai Glass Publishes in Jewish Studies Quarterly
Congratulations to Amitai Glass, from LBI’s 2023/4 fellowship cohort, on his article in Jewish Studies Quarterly. In this piece, he looks at late antique debates on fasting in Sasanian Mesopotamia.
Yehuda Bacon at 97: Artist, Witness, Survivor
On 28 July 1929, Yehuda Bacon was born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, into an Orthodox Jewish family. He turns 97 this year. That he survived to this age is, by any measure, extraordinary.
German Embassy visit to LBI London
On July 13, LBI London welcomed Dr Susanne Frane and Martine Brucker from the German Embassy in London to our new offices at Senate House, and to the LBI Library at its new home in Senate House Library.
LBI BIAJS report
From July 13 to 15, the campus of Birkbeck, University of London, was filled with illuminating conversations, discussions and debates about Space and Place in Jewish Studies.
Stefan Zweig honoured with new blue plaque
English Heritage has unveiled a new blue plaque at 49 Hallam Street in Marylebone, marking Stefan Zweig’s former London home. The plaque recognises the Austrian Jewish writer’s years in exile in London, where he lived from 1936 to 1939 after fleeing Nazi Austria.
LBI London at BIAJS 2026
The Leo Baeck Institute London will be well represented at the British Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) 2026 conference, which takes place 13 - 15 July at Birkbeck, University of London.

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