The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to announce that Daniel Lichman will join us this September as the first holder of our new PhD Scholarship.
Daniel brings a unique blend of academic and rabbinic experience. He studied history at Nottingham University and trained for the rabbinate at Leo Baeck College. Since then, he has worked as a university chaplain and was the founding rabbi of Makor Hayim, a progressive synagogue in Willesden Green.
Daniel will be pursuing his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, under the joint supervision of Birkbeck and the LBI London.
His doctoral research, provisionally titled ‘The Afterlife of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Post-War Anglo-Jewry’, explores the legacy of Weimar-era German Jewish intellectual traditions in Britain. Focusing on the émigré founders of the London Jewish Theological Seminary (later Leo Baeck College), Daniel will trace how figures such as Leo Baeck, Ignaz Maybaum, Lionel Blue, and Dow Marmur continued the Hochschule’s ideals in a new postwar context.
We look forward to welcoming Daniel in the autumn and to supporting his important work on the continuing influence of German-Jewish thought.
You can read more about Daniel's research at https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/phd-projects/afterlife-hochschule-fur-die-wissenschaft-des-judentums-post-war-anglo-jewry
