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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.
Burgeoning emancipation

 

Two Silent Minorities: Orthodox Jews and Poor Jews in Berlin 1770–1823 by Steven M. Lowenstein The World of Moses Mendelssohn by Eva Engel Holland

 

Jewish self-defence

 

Anti-Anti 1889/1892 by Jacob Toury The Rise of Jewish Defence Agitation in Germany, 1890–1895: A Pre-history of the C.V.? by Jacob Borut The Centralverein and the American Jewish Committee: A Comparative Study by Evyatar Friesel Countering the Pre-1933 Nazi Boycott against the Jews by Sibylle Morgenthaler The Prosecution of…
Julius Carlebach, Gerhard Hirschfeld, et al.

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

Historiography

 

Recent Historiography on the Jewish Religion by Michael A. Meyer Emancipation and Assimilation: Two Concepts and their Application to German-Jewish History by David Sorkin Jewish History and Jewish Historiography: A Challenge to Contemporary German Historiography by Moshe Zimmermann

 

Emancipation, acculturation, modernity   The Ethos of Modern Jewish Scholarship by Ismar Schorsch Scholarship in the Service of Reform by Ismar Schorsch Jewish Identity and the Modern Rabbi: The Cases of Isak Noa Mannheimer, Adolf…
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

Patterns of assimilation and acculturation

 

Jewish Conversions – A Measure of Assimilation? A Discussion of the Berlin Secession Statistics of 1770–1941 by Peter Honigmann The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy by Ismar Schorsch Public Opinion and the Proposed Emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria in 1849–1850 by James F. Harris Jewish Participation in the Deutscher Nationalverein, 1859–1867 by Shlomo Na'aman Robert Remak (1815–1865): A Case Study in Jewish Emancipation in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Scientific Community by Norbert Kampe and Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach…
Avraham Barkai

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

The course of emancipation

 

Breakthrough into the Past: The Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden by Ismar Schorsch Dohm's Treatise on the Jews: A Defence of the Enlightenment by Robert Liberles Problems and Limits of Assimilation: Hermann and Paul Wallich 1833–1938 by Werner E. Mosse The Foundations of German-Jewish Orthodoxy: An Interpretation by Julius Carlebach

 

Jewish self-defence

 

Two debates

 

The German-Jewish Centralverein by A.P.

 

The German-Jewish…
Ingrid Belke

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

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

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

Jacob Toury

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

Werner E. Mosse, Arnold Paucker, Reinhard Rürup

XII, 431 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163606-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163606-6

Eugen Taeubler (Editor: Selma Stern-Taeubler)

XXIV, 63 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163625-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163625-7

Hans Liebeschütz, Arnold Paucker (Editors)

XIII, 445 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162955-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162955-6

Felix Gilbert (Editor)

LII, 329 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163708-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163708-7

Selma Stern (edited by Max Kreutzberger)

VIII, 156 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163138-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163138-2

Hans I. Bach

XV, 251 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163137-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163137-5

Monika Richarz

XI, 257 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163136-8 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163136-8

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