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Charlie Scheidt in conversation with Kat Rohrer
3:00pm, 5 October 2026 - 04:30 PM
Please join us for a book talk about Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust. The event will include a book talk by co-authors Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer followed by a reception with an opportunity for book signing. The event is co-sponsored by the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Austrian Cultural Forum, LBI London, and Rutgers University Press.
5:00pm, 15 June 2026 - 06:00 PM
Chair: Dr. Svenja Bethke (Leo Baeck Institute London)
Book presentation by Dr. Elisabeth Wagner: “Lives at the Limits of Convention. The Mosse Women”
Commentators:
Dr. Natalie Naimark Goldberg (Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem) Dr. Skye Doney (George L. Mosse Program)Respondent: Elisabeth Wagner
This online event will be held in English.
5:00pm, 10 July 2024
To celebrate the International Feuchtwanger Society conference arriving in London in 2024, the Leo Baeck Institute London has established a Feuchtwanger Book Club. This club spotlights the works of the renowned German Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.
Join us for the final book of our Feuchtwanger Book Club, The Devil in France, Lion Feuchtwanger’s gripping 1941 account of his incarceration in a French internment camp that almost cost him his life. The book club is open to everyone.
We will meet on Zoom on Wednesdays…
5:00pm, 22 May 2024
To celebrate the conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society coming to London in 2024, the Leo Baeck Institute London has organised a Feuchtwanger Book Club, focusing on the work of the acclaimed – but now somewhat forgotten – German Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.
Our Feuchtwanger Book Club is starting a new book in next week’s session: Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1932 novel ‘The War of the Jews’ (Der jüdische Krieg). It is open to everyone.
Join us online on Zoom every Wednesday at 4pm (BST). For details contact…
5:00pm, 24 April 2024
To celebrate the conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society coming to London in 2024, the Leo Baeck Institute London is organising a Feuchtwanger Book Club, focusing on the work of the acclaimed – but now somewhat forgotten – German Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.
This book club, which will be held online between March and June 2024, will focus initially on a reading of Feuchtwanger’s 1933 novel The Oppermanns, a chronicle of the collapse of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazis, seen through the eyes of one German Jewish family.
6:00pm, 23 January 2023
The Leo Baeck Institute London warmly invites you to join an online discussion of the book
German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations
edited by Kerry Wallach & Aya Elyada
23 January 2023 at 18:00 (U.K) |13:00 (N.Y) | 19:00 (Berlin) | 20:00 (Israel)
7:00pm, 18 May 2022
Please join us for an online discussion of the book
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
with the author, Prof Michael Brenner, and Prof Steve Aschheim.
6pm (UK time), May 18th 2022
The event, chaired by Dr Irene Aue-Ben-David (Director, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem), is a collaboration between the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Leo Baeck Institute New York.
7:30pm, 28 November 2019
Book Launch
On the occasion of the launch of Jüdischer Almanach 2019 we are delighted to invite you to a presentation of ‘Sex and Crime: Geschichten aus der Jüdischen Unterwelt’ in the presence of the editor, Dr Gisela Dachs (Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem) and the two authors Rabbi Andy Steiman and Dr Daniel Wildmann (Leo Baeck Institute London).
This event will take place on Monday 28th of November 2019 at 19.30hrs in the Rosi-und-Paul-Ansberg-Saal at the Henry-and-Emma-Budge…
6:00am, 5 March 2019
We are delighted to welcome Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius to present her book Judenmord. Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany. First published in German in 2014, this is the first comprehensive study of representations of the Holocaust in Post-war German art. The book presents an innovative and multi-layered perspective on Post-war Holocaust memory by taking into account works by both supporters and opponents of Nazism, and by artists working in both East and West Germany. While discussing how artists…
6:45pm, 24 November 2011
Book Launch with the Leo Baeck Institute
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