On July 13, LBI London welcomed Dr Susanne Frane and Martine Brucker from the German Embassy in London to our new offices at Senate House, and to the LBI Library at its new home in Senate House Library. Dr Frane is Head of the Culture and Education Section at the Embassy, while Martine…
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At the end of June, the 2025-26 Leo Baeck Fellows gathered at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, for their summer workshop.
Over two days, ten doctoral researchers presented their work to each other and to…
The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to announce that Ido Ben Harush is the winner of the 2027 LBI Year Book Essay Prize for his essay “Idolatry and Textolatry: Media Crisis from Mendelssohn to Flusser”. His essay will be published in the 2026 edition of the Leo Baeck Institute Year…
We are delighted to share that the LBI London library collection has now arrived at Senate House Library, following its transfer from Mile End Library at Queen Mary University of London in mid-May.
This milestone marks the completion of a project spanning more…
A new edited volume, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections, has recently been published, featuring a chapter by LBI London Director Joseph Cronin.
Edited by Clara Dijkstra, Charlie Knight (a…
The Leo Baeck Institute London, together with its partners, is pleased to announce the 2025-26 cohort of Leo Baeck Fellows, a new group of outstanding doctoral researchers working on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry, whose profiles and projects are showcased on the…
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…
The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to announce the selection of its 2024 cohort of research fellows. The fellows will be involved in a series of workshops, conferences, and public talks throughout the year, aiming to deepen understanding and foster scholarly discourse on topics related to…
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