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Nicholas Courtman

Since 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish faith or ‘race’, to reclaim it. Yet, over the past 75 years, there have been significant changes regarding which German Jews – and which descendants – can enjoy that right. This talk tracks those developments, from the restrictive, often antisemitic decisions made in the 1950s, to attempts to uphold those regulations in the following decades, through to the 2021 reform of the German Nationality Act that finally redressed such exclusions.

27 Mar 2025 17:30 - 27 Mar 2025 18:30
Erin Hochman

Due to the horrors of the Third Reich, we have come to think of German nationalism as inherently antisemitic, racist, antidemocratic, and violent. This talk challenges this conventional interpretation. It shows how the defenders of the Weimar and First Austrian Republics used the großdeutsch idea, the notion that Austria should be part of a German nation-state, to create a democratic nationalism. Unlike their conservative and right-wing opponents, these republicans did not view democracy and Germany, socialism and nationalism, or Jew and German as mutually exclusive categories. As…

22 May 2025 17:30 - 22 May 2025 18:30
Lisa Pine

This event is also the LBI Summer Lecture 2025

Hitler and the history of the Nazis remain extremely popular topics and ones that never cease to attract people’s interest, even fascination. It is crucial to comprehend the nature of Mein Kampf, the mindset of its author, Adolf Hitler, and the ideology he espoused that brought untold tragedy to millions of people – death, destruction, genocide and war. The book presents a dangerous set of ideas, regrettably ones that still have followers today, one hundred years after Mein Kampf was originally penned…

10 Jul 2025 17:30 - 10 Jul 2025 18:30
Frank McDonough

Writing on the Wall: The Unfolding Persecution of Jews 1933 to 1939

This lecture looks at the response of Jews to incidents of persecution and humiliation from Hitler coming to power in 1933 through to the outbreak of the Second World War. It will argue that while the Holocaust could not be predicted the level of persecution escalated during the period.

 

Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He was born in Liverpool, studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from…

23 Oct 2025 18:30 - 23 Oct 2025 19:30

LBI News

The Leo Baeck Institute London has recently acquired a significant piece of German-Jewish cultural history: a plaster bust of Dr. Lazarus Goldschmidt, the renowned scholar who translated the Babylonian Talmud into German.

The Leo Baeck Institute London, in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, announces the Call for Papers for the Eighth International Multidisciplinary Conference on Survivors of Nazi Persecution.

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In May 1955, a group of prominent German-speaking Jewish scholars and thinkers gathered in Jerusalem with a shared mission: to safeguard the history and culture of a community nearly lost to the Holocaust. This moment marked the founding of the Leo Baeck Institute.

The LBI London is pleased to welcome our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow to the team.

The Leo Baeck Institute London proudly presents its 2025 Lecture Series: Belonging and Exclusion. This series explores German-Jewish experiences over four lectures throughout 2025:

 

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We are thrilled to announce that the Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books project has been awarded the prestigious Grimme Online Award in the category of Kultur und Unterhaltung. This recognition highlights the dedication and hard work behind the project, which aims to relocate books from Berlin’s Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, closed by the Nazis in 1942.
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