News

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to offer a three-year PhD scholarship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German-Jewish history and culture with a focus on the 20th century.

Leo Baeck Institute London

Location: London, hybrid

Salary: £42,365 to £45,892 per annum, pro rata (0.5 FTE). Fixed term for 12 months 

We are excited to announce that our thirteenth Snapshot of German-Jewish History and Culture is now available online.

We are excited to share the news that the Library of Lost Books has been nominated for this year’s Grimme Online Award, a prestigious German media prize.

The Friends and Supporters of the Leo Baeck Institute in Berlin have published an interview on their website looking at the work of our Director and Deputy Director. Excepts can be read below and a link to the full article (in German) is at the bottom of the page.

Last Thursday, the Leo Baeck Institute London, in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (BISA), hosted a workshop titled “Jewish Refugees in the British Empire, 1933–1948” at Senate House, University of London.

Samuel David Luzzatto’s Synonymia Hebraica (Mavdil Nirdafim) (c. 1815–1820) is a remarkable manuscript smuggled out of Germany by Alexander Guttmann in 1940. 

In 1909, the Berlin-based Jüdische Turnzeitung (Jewish Gymnastics Newspaper) published a commemorative pamphlet titled ‘Physical Renaissance of the Jews’ to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bar Kochba gymnasts’ club and the 4th Sports Day of Jewish Gymnasts.