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Position: Programme and Development Officer (3 days/week)

Salary: £35,192 pro rata (one-year fixed term, with the possibility of extension)

Start Date: May 2025

The Leo Baeck Institute London has recently acquired a significant piece of German-Jewish cultural history: a plaster bust of Dr. Lazarus Goldschmidt, the renowned scholar who translated the Babylonian Talmud into German.

The Leo Baeck Institute London, in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, announces the Call for Papers for the Eighth International Multidisciplinary Conference on Survivors of Nazi Persecution.

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Hugo Preuß was a pivotal figure in German history, shaping the Weimar Constitution and laying the foundations for modern German democracy.

For the academic year 2025/26, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes is once again awarding up to ten doctoral scholarships to doctoral students working on a dissertation in the field of German-Jewish Studies.

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate the remarkable women who have shaped German-Jewish history and culture.

Moritz Lazarus, a prominent intellectual of the 19th century, played an important role in shaping liberal Jewish thought. His ideas on societal integration and individual freedom were groundbreaking for his time.

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