People

Dr Joseph Cronin specialises in research into Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust. After graduating with a BA and MA from Durham University, Joseph conducted his PhD at the… more→

Alexander D. Brown is a historian of twentieth-century Europe specialising in the German Democratic Republic, antifascism, Holocaust memory, and Jewish political life under socialism. He is the… more→

Dr Alice Riegler holds a BA in History from the University of Florence and an MA in European History and PhD in History from University College London. Her main research interest, which was also… more→

Prof. David Rechter is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Brasenose College. His research centres… more→

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin (on sabbatical). She also serves as spokesperson for the Selma… more→

Rabbi Julia Neuberger has played a significant role in British Judaism, highlighting the evolving relationship between Jewish and German identities in the post-Holocaust period. Ordained in 1977… more→

Dr Simon Adler is Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on political economy, intellectual history, and… more→

Professor Cathy Gelbin, Professor of Film and German Studies at the University of Manchester, is a film historian and cultural studies scholar whose work examines European life and its Jewish… more→

Prof Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. A leading expert in Yiddish studies, her research focuses on the development of… more→

Dr Svenja Bethke is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leicester and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her research… more→

Prof. Tobias Brinkmann is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University. Social historian of modern Jewish history after 1800, focusing on migration… more→

Professor David Feldman is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He joined Birkbeck in 1994 after holding… more→

Prof. Paul Franks is Professor of Philosophy and Judaism in Antiquity at Yale University. Specializes in Kant, German Idealism, Jewish Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of… more→

Prof. Tim Grady is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Chester. He specialises in twentieth-century British and German history, including the First World War, German-Jewish… more→

Prof. Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She specialises in nineteenth-century European history, modern Jewish history, nationalism,… more→

Prof. Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Southampton. He specialises in art music in twentieth-century Germany, cultural histories of modern Germany, the Third… more→

Prof. Christina von Hodenberg is Director of the German Historical Institute London and Professor of European History at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in political culture,… more→

Prof. Anthony Kauders is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Keele University. He specialises in German-Jewish history, antisemitism, and the history of psychology including psychoanalysis,… more→

Charlie Knight holds a PhD from the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton where he remains an Honorary Fellow. He is currently a Visiting… more→

Prof. Dr. Rainer Liedtke is Professor of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Universität Regensburg, specialising in comparative European, urban, Jewish, British history and the… more→

Till van Rahden is a Full Professor of German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2016. He is also a Research Professor at… more→

Prof. Miri Rubin is a historian of medieval Europe whose research explores the religious cultures of 1100-1600, with focuses on community life, charity, and the Eucharist. Her work examines Jewish… more→

I work on the histories of National Socialism and the Holocaust, especially the role of ‘ordinary’ people in perpetrator societies, the role of visual culture in the spreading nad ‘naturalisation… more→

Professor Godela Weiss-Sussex’s main research interests lie in the culture and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the following areas: women’s writing, the works of German-… more→

Prof. Christian Wiese is Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University… more→

Director of the Leo Baeck Institute from May 2001 to April 2015. Former co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.

Books

November 1938. Die Katastrophe vor der Katastrophe… more→

Dr Arnold Paucker, OBE, born in Berlin in 1921, was Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London from 1959 - 2001, and editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book from 1978 - 1992.

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Prof. Robert Weltsch (1891–1982) was a Czech-German journalist, editor of the Jüdische Rundschau (1919–1938) in Berlin, and a leading voice for Jewish dignity amid Nazi persecution. As first… more→

Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. For 2004-5 he is the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford… more→

Prof. Werner E. Mosse (1918–2001) was a German-born British historian and founding father of the University of East Anglia, where he served as Professor of European History. Former Chair of the… more→

Prof. Peter Pulzer (1929–2023) was born in Vienna and fled Nazi persecution with his family in 1939. Gladstone Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of… more→

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin (on sabbatical). She also serves as spokesperson for the Selma… more→

Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. For 2004-5 he is the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford… more→

Director of the Leo Baeck Institute from May 2001 to April 2015. Former co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.

Books

November 1938. Die Katastrophe vor der Katastrophe… more→

Director of the Leo Baeck Institute from May 2001 to April 2015. Former co-editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.

Books

November 1938. Die Katastrophe vor der Katastrophe… more→

Prof. John A. S. Grenville (1928-2011), born Hans Guhrauer in Berlin, arrived in Britain via Kindertransport in 1939 and later changed his name upon naturalisation. Professor Emeritus of Modern… more→

Dr Arnold Paucker, OBE, born in Berlin in 1921, was Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London from 1959 - 2001, and editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book from 1978 - 1992.

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Prof. Robert Weltsch (1891–1982) was a Czech-German journalist, editor of the Jüdische Rundschau (1919–1938) in Berlin, and a leading voice for Jewish dignity amid Nazi persecution. As first… more→

Alexander D. Brown is a historian of twentieth-century Europe specialising in the German Democratic Republic, antifascism, Holocaust memory, and Jewish political life under socialism. He is the… more→

Martin Buber (1878–1965) was an Austrian-born Israeli philosopher best known for his existential philosophy of dialogue, particularly in I and Thou (1923), which emphasises the I-Thou relationship… more→

Hannah Arendt was a political theorist and philosopher whose work explored totalitarianism, authority, and the conditions of modernity. Her scholarship profoundly shaped twentieth-century… more→

Rabbi Prof. Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was one of the most important German-Jewish thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, whose life exemplified moral and intellectual leadership amid… more→

Dr Eva Reichmann was a pioneering German historian and sociologist, renowned for her analysis of antisemitism and the social causes of the Jewish catastrophe in Germany. From 1945 to 1959, she… more→

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), born Gerhard Scholem in Berlin, was a German-Israeli philosopher and historian widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah… more→

Prof. Ernst Akiva Simon was a German-born Israeli philosopher, educator, and religious thinker. He co-founded Brit Shalom for Jewish-Arab understanding and was a key figure in the Leo Baeck… more→