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We’re delighted to announce a major milestone for the Leo Baeck Institute London: our digitised pamphlet collection is now available online via DigiBaeck!
The Leo Baeck Institute celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2025 with President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier as its new patron.
We are pleased to present a new digital flipbook of Lina Morgenstern’s historic Illustrated Cookbook (1907) – a culinary artefact that helped shape Berlin’s social landscape in the early 20th century.
A new travelling exhibition featuring the LBI’s Library of Lost Books project has arrived in Dortmund, shining a spotlight on football’s entanglement with the National Socialist regime and inviting visitors to reflect on the importance of remembrance 80 years after the end of t
On 12 May 1965, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel formally established diplomatic relations – just two decades after the Shoah.
Lina Morgenstern (1830–1909) was a pioneering German social reformer, feminist, writer, and pacifist, whose influence shaped public welfare and women’s rights in 19th-century Germany. 
On this day in 1933, university students across Germany burned over 25,000 books deemed ‘un-German’ in a chilling display of state-sanctioned intolerance.
This Yom HaShoah, we pause to remember the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the countless others who suffered under Nazi persecution.

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