Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2007-08

The lecture series is organised by the LBI London and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt/Main in cooperation with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at Sussex University.

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The Years of Extermination. A Plea for an Integrated History of the Holocaust

7:00pm, 29 August 2007

Prof Saul Friedländer (University of California, Los Angeles)

Strongman Siegmund Breitbart and the Staging of the Jewish Body in the Weimar Republic

7:00pm, 1 November 2007

Prof Sharon Gillerman (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles)

In this lecture, Sharon Gillerman will discuss the performances and career of the Jewish performer and strongman Siegmund Breitbart. The lecture focuses on how, at a time of growing racial anti-Semitism, Central Europeans became captivated by a Jew whose body conformed perfectly to the Aryan ideal.