The Leo Baeck Institute London was pleased to co-host a book talk at The Wiener Holocaust Library on 5 October 2026, featuring Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust.
Co-authors Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer discussed the book with Dr Kinga S. Bloch, former Deputy Director of LBI London, who moderated the event. The discussion was followed by a reception and book signing.
LBI London board member Dr Charlie Knight represented the Institute at a German Unity Day reception at Canterbury Cathedral on 6 October, hosted by the German Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Susanne Baumann.
The evening brought guests together to celebrate German unity and the ties between Germany and Britain. With the cathedral illuminated after dark and the national anthems sung by the Kent College Sedecim Choir, it offered a welcoming setting for conversation and new connections.
The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to congratulate Professor Neil Gregor, a member of the LBI London Board, on his election as chair of the German History Society for 2026–29.
Professor Gregor was elected at the Society’s annual general meeting at the University of Stirling. He succeeds Professor Mark Hewitson of University College London, who has completed his three-year term.
A new study by Ellen Pilsworth examines how memoirs by refugees from Nazi persecution were published and presented to British readers before and during the Second World War.
Reading Hitler’s Victims: Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War is published in Berghahn Books’ War and Genocide series. It challenges the assumption that memoirs by survivors of Nazi persecution only appeared after 1945, tracing instead how personal accounts shaped British understandings of Nazism between 1933 and 1945.
The Leo Baeck Institute London invites you to the launch of our Library of Lost Books exhibition at Leo Baeck College Library. The Library of Lost Books is a project that tells the story of one of the most important Jewish scholarly libraries of the twentieth century - and asks the public to help find its missing volumes.
We’re pleased to share an upcoming event featuring Miriam Rürup, a valued member of LBI London’s Editorial Board for our Schriftenreihe series and our Fellowship Advisory Board.
On Tuesday 29 September 2026, Miriam Rürup, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam, joins journalist Dinah Riese from the taz for a digital lecture on statelessness and visions of belonging, part of the Jewish Museum Berlin’s series “Human Rights as the Last Utopia? Migration and Jewish History.”
Established in January 2026, this research group focuses on the history of liberalism and liberal thought in exile, in particular in the British and Anglophone context more generally.
L’shanah tovah u’metukah! To mark the Jewish New Year, we’re sharing a striking piece of nineteenth-century commercial print culture: a chromolithographed advertising card issued by the French chocolate manufacturer Chocolat Poulain, depicting the Jewish New Year.
The image offers a nineteenth-century European reading of ancient biblical life, showing figures sounding the shofar to mark the festival. It’s held in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel, catalogued as JMS 1980_7 .
Wishing our whole community a peaceful, healthy and inspiring New Year from all of us at LBI London.
Between 1933 and 1940, Palestine took in some 60,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-ruled countries, over half of whom were German Jews fleeing escalating persecution. This large wave of German immigrants, of ‘Yekkes’ as they became nicknamed in the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine), became known by several names: The Fifth Aliyah, the German Aliyah, and the Aliyah Chadascha (The New Aliyah).
