Dr Wildmann is a historian and movie scholar. He was the director of the Leo Baeck Institute in London and a lecturer at Queen Mary’s College, University. After career stops in Zurich, Berlin, and Jerusalem, the historian and film scholar spent six years directing the Leo Baeck Institute…
Former Leo Baeck Yearbook Editors
Prof Raphael Gross is a historian and previously directed the Leo Baeck Institute in London, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main and the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History in Leipzig, where he also held the chair of Jewish history at the University of Leipzig. He has published numerous…
Prof John A. S. Grenville (1928-2011), born Hans Guhrauer in Berlin, arrived in Britain via Kindertransport in 1939 and later changed his name upon naturalisation. Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, he specialised in diplomatic history, European international…
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.
His many years of dedicated service have profoundly shaped the Institute and its Year Book…
Prof. Robert Weltsch (1891–1982) was a Czech-German journalist, editor of the Jüdische Rundschau (1919–1938) in Berlin, and a leading voice for Jewish dignity amid Nazi persecution. As first Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London (1945–1964) and Founder Editor of its Year Book…