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Welcome to the publications page of the LBI London, where you can explore our rich collection of works on German-Jewish history and culture. Our publications are divided into three main series:

 

  • Leo Baeck Institute Year Book: Published by Oxford University Press, this flagship journal has been a premier platform for academic research in German-Jewish studies since 1956, featuring diverse perspectives and primary documents.
  • Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts: This academic series, launched in 1959, offers monographs and edited volumes covering a broad spectrum of historical topics from the Enlightenment to the modern era.
  • German Jewish Cultures: Published by Indiana University Press, this series showcases innovative research at the intersection of Jewish and German studies, embracing a wide range of methodologies and historical periods.
Heid, Paucker (Hrsg.)

IX, 245 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163581-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163581-6

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

INTRODUCTION

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Jews as Jews versus Jews as Germans – Two Historical Perspectives: Introduction to Year Book XXXVI

 

I. BURGEONING EMANCIPATION

STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN: Two Silent Minorities: Orthodox Jews and Poor Jews in Berlin 1770–1823

EVA ENGEL HOLLAND: The World of Moses Mendelssohn

 

II. JEWISH SELF-DEFENCE

JACOB TOURY: Anti-Anti 1889/1892

JACOB BORUT: The Rise of Jewish Defence Agitation in Germany, 1890–1895: A Pre-history…

Julius Carlebach, Gerhard Hirschfeld, et al.

XII, 654 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163580-9 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163580-9

Fred Grubel, Frank Mecklenburg, Michael A. Rief, N. Sznaider

XIII, 409 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163141-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163141-2

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

INTRODUCTION

REINHARD RÜRUP: An Appraisal of German-Jewish Historiography: Introduction to Year Book XXXV

 

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Recent Historiography on the Jewish Religion

DAVID SORKIN: Emancipation and Assimilation: Two Concepts and their Application to German-Jewish History

MOSHE ZIMMERMANN: Jewish History and Jewish Historiography: A Challenge to Contemporary German Historiography

 

II. EMANCIPATION, ACCULTURATION, MODERNITY

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

INTRODUCTION

HEIKO A. OBERMAN: The Stubborn Jews: Timing the Escalation of Antisemitism in Late Medieval Europe: Introduction to Year Book XXXIV

 

I. PATTERNS OF ASSIMILATION AND ACCULTURATION

PETER HONIGMANN: Jewish Conversions – A Measure of Assimilation? A Discussion of the Berlin Secession Statistics of 1770–1941

ISMAR SCHORSCH: The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy

JAMES F. HARRIS: Public Opinion and the Proposed Emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria in 1849–1850

SHLOMO…

Avraham Barkai

XIV, 177 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163613-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163613-4

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. THE COURSE OF EMANCIPATION

ISMAR SCHORSCH: Breakthrough into the Past: The Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden

ROBERT LIBERLES: Dohm’s Treatise on the Jews: A Defence of the Enlightenment

WERNER E. MOSSE: Problems and Limits of Assimilation: Hermann and Paul Wallich 1833–1938

JULIUS CARLEBACH: The Foundations of German-Jewish Orthodoxy: An Interpretation

 

II. JEWISH SELF-DEFENCE

TWO DEBATES

A.P.: The German-Jewish Centralverein…

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

INTRODUCTION

GEORGE L. MOSSE: German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect: Introduction to Year Book XXXII

 

I. EMANCIPATION

GORDON A. CRAIG: Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn: Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation

DAVID SORKIN: The Genesis of the Ideology of Emancipation: 1806–1840

 

II. NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANTISEMITISM

NORBERT KAMPE: Jews and Antisemites at Universities in Imperial Germany (II): The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin: A Case Study on the…

Ingrid Belke (Editor)

VI, 370 (-815) pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163611-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163611-0

Arnold Paucker (Hrsg.)

XXIV, 426 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163612-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163612-7

Ingrid Belke

VI, 370 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163611-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163611-0

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. EMANCIPATION

REINHARD RÜRUP: The Tortuous and Thorny Path to Legal Equality: “Jew Laws” and Emancipatory Legislation in Germany From the Late Eighteenth Century

ROBERT LIBERLES: Was There a Jewish Movement for Emancipation in Germany?

ROBERT LIBERLES: Emancipation and the Structure of the Jewish Community in the Nineteenth Century

 

II. FROM IMPERIAL GERMANY TO NAZI RULE

HENRY WASSERMANN: Jews in Jugendstil: The Simplicissimus, 1896–1914

MARK H. GELBER:

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. FROM WEIMAR TO HITLER

ERNEST HAMBURGER AND PETER PULZER: Jews as Voters in the Weimar Republic

BARBARA SUCHY: The Verein Zur Abwehr Des Antisemitismus (II): From the First World War to its Dissolution in 1933

JEHUDA REINHARZ: The Zionist Response to Antisemitism in Germany

LUDGER HEID: East European Jewish Workers in the Ruhr, 1915–1922

FRANKLIN C. WEST: Success Without Influence: Emil Ludwig during the Weimar Years

RALPH E. GIESEY: Ernst H. Kantorowicz…

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. IN THE THIRD REICH

JACOB BOAS: German-Jewish Internal Politics under Hitler 1933–1938

DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT: The American Press and the Persecution of German Jewry: The Early Years 1933–1935

ANAT FEINBERG: Jewish Fate in German Drama 1933–1945

BOB MOORE: Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands 1933–1940: The Structure and Pattern of Immigration from Nazi Germany

MICHAEL BLAKENEY: Australia and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Government Policy 1933–1939

Arthur Prinz

XII, 202 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163610-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163610-3

Jacob Toury

XIV, 294 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163609-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163609-7

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

MAX GRUENEWALD: In Memoriam: Robert Weltsch

 

I. INFLATION AND DEPRESSION

FRITZ K. RINGER: Inflation, Antisemitism and the German Academic Community of the Weimar Period

ECKHARD G. WANDEL: Germany’s Political Morale and Morals During the Great Depression

DONALD L. NIEWYK: The Impact of Inflation and Depression on the German Jews

GERALD D. FELDMAN: Inflation and Depression as Hitler’s Pace Makers: Comments on the Papers of Fritz K. Ringer, Eckhard G.…

Jacob Toury

VIII, 171 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163608-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163608-0

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. THE JEWISH MINORITY

MARION A. KAPLAN: Tradition and Transition: The Acculturation, Assimilation and Integration of Jews in Imperial Germany: A Gender Analysis

STEFI JERSCH-WENZEL: The Jews as a “Classic” Minority in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Prussia

 

II. ZIONISTS AND “ASSIMILATIONISTS”

MARJORIE LAMBERTI: From Coexistence to Conflict: Zionism and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1897–1914

PETER M. BALDWIN: Zionist and Non-zionist Jews in the Last Years before the Nazi…

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