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New in the German Jewish Cultures Series: German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust
We are pleased to share the publication of a new title in our German Jewish Cultures series, published by Indiana University Press: German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust: A History of Disappearance, by Anna Hołzer-Kawałko.
LBI Snapshot Published in AJR Journal
We are pleased to share that an article by former LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl has been published in the latest issue of the AJR Journal.
Giacomo Meyerbeer at 235: Berlin's Forgotten Opera Giant
On 5 September 1791, Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer was born near Berlin into one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Prussia. In 1817 he changed his first name to Giacomo during his period of study in Italy and the world would come to know him as Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Remembering Gloria Steinem (1934–2026)
We note the passing of Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist writer and activist who died this week at 92.
The Night That Changed Theatre: The Threepenny Opera at 98
On the night of 31 August 1928, a new work by Bertolt Brecht, with music by a young Jewish composer from Dessau opened at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Nobody quite knew what to make of it. By morning, Bertolt Brecht and his collaborator Kurt Weil were famous.
Victor Ehrenberg at the Institute of Classical Studies Library
The Institute of Classical Studies Library, our neighbours in Senate House, has mounted a small exhibition on Dr Victor Ehrenberg on the third-floor landing.
Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE Featured in Channel 4’s Dictator: The Hitler Interviews
Last week, the Channel 4 documentary series ‘Dictator: The Hitler Interviews’ featured historical testimony from the late Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger OBE (1924–2025), historian and long-standing member of the Board of LBI London.

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