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Dr. Arnold Paucker, OBE, 1921-2016
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Arnold Paucker. Dr Arnold Paucker, OBE, born in Berlin in 1921, was Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London from 1959 - 2001, and editor of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book from 1978 - 1992.
LBI Year Book Essay Prize Winner 2015: Nick Block
This year’s Leo Baeck essay prize for recent PhDs in German-Jewish studies goes to Nick Block for his essay On Nathan Birnbaum’s Messianism and Translating the Jewish Other. The article was published in the 2015 volum
LBI Year Book Essay Prize Winner 2014: Susanne Hillman
This year’s Leo Baeck essay prize for recent PhDs in German-Jewish studies goes to Susanne Hillman for her piece ‘“A Few Human Beings Walking Hand in Hand”: Exposing Margarete Susman’s key role in the emerging Jewish-
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.
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.

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