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We are delighted to present the forthcoming programme of events at the Leo Baeck Institute London. Our upcoming schedule features a series of lectures that explore central themes in Jewish history, culture, and contemporary thought.

We warmly invite colleagues and guests to join these gatherings, which will are held in-person in Central London, and live on Zoom. Detailed timings, registration links, and speaker biographies may be found on the individual event pages.

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Christine Schmidt, Bea Lewkowicz, Natalia Aleksiun
06 Nov 2025 18:30 - 08:00 PM

Join us for the inaugural Eva Reichmann Lecture: 

Eva Reichmann: Witness, Historian, Legacy

This special event celebrates the legacy of Dr. Eva Reichmann, a pioneering historian whose groundbreaking work continues to shape our understanding of Nazi persecution and Holocaust historiography.

 

Programme

Welcome & Introduction 

Dr. Joseph Cronin (Director, Leo Baeck Institute London) and Dr. Toby Simpson (Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library) will open the evening by reflecting on Eva Reichmann’s…

Julia Ng
27 Nov 2025 17:30 - 06:30 PM

In the early twentieth century, German-Jewish thinkers converged upon Daoism as a means to criticise state power and the dominance of economic productivity in modern society. Figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin explored how Daoist ideas could inspire alternative ways of organising social and economic life, thereby challenging stereotypes of ‘China’ as passive or non-productive. This talk examines how their engagement with Daoism offered a vision of religion’s role in everyday life that moved beyond racialised notions of activity and inactivity, and the…

07 Jan 2026 09:00

Eighth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, 7-9 January 2026

A call for papers is now open for this conference: https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2024/11/call-papers-beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-current-international-research-survivors 

 

The conference will be held in-person only, with no opportunity to attend virtually.

 

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