Leo Baeck Institute London

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The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to announce an important update to its online presence: our website has a new academic URL, lbilondon.ac.uk. This new web address, effective immediately, reflects our status as a UK research institute.

This transition also coincides with our expanded partnership with Birkbeck, University of London, and proximity to an array of key institutions, such as the Wiener Holocaust Library and the German Historical Institute London. 

For those accustomed to our original website address, rest assured: visitors can still reach our site at www.leobaeck.co.uk, and all staff can continue to be contacted via their existing email addresses.

On the anniversary of the ‘November pogrom’ (Kristallnacht) in 1938, the Leo Baeck Institute London offers a recording of our 2013 event examining this moment in history.

The lectures, introduced by Sir Nicholas Montagu, explore the events of Kristallnacht and their brutal impact on Jewish communities.

Former LBI London Director Raphael Gross’s talk focuses on Herschel Grynszpan and the diverse reactions to his assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. It tells the story of Grynszpan’s background and examines the various responses to and consequences of his action which was used by the Nazis as an excuse for the most significant pogrom against German Jews in history.