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LBI Year Book Essay Prize winner 2013: Verena Hutter
Verena Hutter’s ‘Identity Politics and the Jewish Body in Edgar Hilsenrath’s The Nazi and the Barber’ is this year’s winner of the Leo Baeck Essay Prize for young researchers in the field of German-Jewish Studies.
Research Network Gender in Anti-Semitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism
The Leo Baeck Institute London is now part of the Research Network Gender in Anti-Semitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism. 
Award of Honorary PhD to Prof Peter Pulzer
We are happy to announce that in November 2012 our Chairman, Prof Peter Pulzer, was awarded an Honorary PhD by the University of Vienna.
LBI Year Book Essay Prize winner 2012: Rachel Ramsay
Rachel Ramsay’s ‘Eine verwandtschaftliche Verbindung’ (A Connection of Kinship)? Jewish-Turkish alliances in Contemporary Jewish Writing in German’ explores Jewish and Turkish connections in recent Jewish-authored fiction written in German.
The LBI archive online!
We are very happy to announce the launch of DigiBaeck, the free digital version of the complete archival holdings and reference library of the LBI New York on www.lbi.org/digibaeck 
New hub for German-Jewish history and culture at Queen Mary
Research into German-Jewish history and culture is expanding at Queen Mary, University of London.
LBI Year Book Essay Prize winner 2011: Barry Stiefel
The LBI Year Book Essay Prize was won by Barry Stiefel’s essay on ‘The Architectural Origins of the Great Early Modern Urban Synagogue’, which appeared in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2011.
The LBI has moved to Queen Mary, University of London
The LBI has moved to Queen Mary, University of London on 11th April 2011. “The School of History at Queen Mary is very excited at the intellectual horizons opened up by the arrival of the LBI” says Prof. Julian Jackson, Head of School of History.

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