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 last week.
This milestone marks the completion of a project spanning more than…
On 7 July 1860, Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, into a Jewish family. He went on to become one of the greatest composers and conductors in the history of Western music, a figure whose nine completed symphonies pushed the Romantic tradition to its outer limits.
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Senate House Library has written about the arrival of the LBI London library collection in Bloomsbury, and it is worth a read. The collection, over 4,500 books, 30 metres of journals and 2,400 pamphlets documenting German-Jewish history and culture, is now open to researchers. No…
12 June marks the anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929 and would have turned 97 this year.
Her diary, written in hiding between 1942 and 1944, remains one of the most significant personal documents to emerge…
The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to announce a new addition to our library: Displaced at Home: Ein Ort, den man zuhause nennt, the catalogue accompanying the Sara Nussbaum Zentrum für Jüdisches Leben’s acclaimed exhibition on 20th-century Jewish life in…
Edith Tudor Hart, born Edith Suschitzky (1908–1973), was an émigré photographer and covert agent for the Soviet Union. Originally from Vienna, she trained in photography at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In 1933 she married the English doctor Alexander Tudor-Hart and relocated with him to…
