The Leo Baeck Institute London held a Fellowship Seminar at Birkbeck, University of London, on 1 and 2 July 2025. The event brought together doctoral fellows and scholars to discuss research in German-Jewish history and culture.
The seminar is part of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme, which supports doctoral students researching German-Jewish history and culture. The programme is open to candidates from any country, university, and academic field, including literature, philosophy, history, and cultural studies. Fellows remain at their home institutions but meet for two workshops each year, organised by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow.
Participants presented research on a wide range of topics which included German-Jewish family correspondence during the Holocaust, intergenerational memory, women’s life writing in exile, the reception of Jewish music, and the intellectual contributions of Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt.
The seminar was chaired and supervised by:
- Dr Peter Antes (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- Dr Joseph Cronin (Leo Baeck Institute London)
- Dr Rachel Furst (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
- Dr Sonia Gollance (University College London)
- Dr Till Greite (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
- Dr Caroline Jessen (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture)
The London seminar provided participants with the opportunity to engage in in-person discussion, encouraging dialogue and the exchange of ideas across a range of academic disciplines.
