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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.
Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. ETHNIC MINORITIES

VICKI CARON AND PAULA HYMAN: The Failed Alliance: Jewish–Catholic Relations in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1914

JACK WERTHEIMER: “The Unwanted Element”: East European Jews in Imperial Germany

ISTVAN DEAK: Ethnic Minorities and the Jews in Imperial Germany: Comments on the Papers of Vicki Caron and Paula Hyman and of Jack Wertheimer

 

II. JEWRY IN THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

JACOB TOURY: Jewish Townships in the German-Speaking Parts of the Austrian Empire — Before and After…

Werner E. Mosse, Arnold Paucker, Reinhard Rürup

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

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

ISMAR SCHORSCH: The Leo Baeck Institute: Continuity amid Desolation

 

I. RELIGION AND SECULARISATION

ISMAR SCHORSCH: The Religious Parameters of Wissenschaft Jewish Academics at Prussian Universities

VERNON LIDTKE: Social Class and Secularisation in Imperial Germany: The Working Classes

GEOFFREY G. FIELD: Religion in the German Volksschule, 1890–1928

FRITZ STERN: Comments on the Papers of Ismar Schorsch, Vernon Lidtke and Geoffrey G. Field

 …

Preface by Arnold Paucker

 

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

WERNER E. MOSSE: Judaism, Jews and Capitalism Weber, Sombart and Beyond

LAWRENCE SCHOFER: The History of European Jewry Search for a Method

KONRAD KWIET: Problems of Jewish Resistance Historiography

 

II. CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT

EVA ENGEL: The Emergence of Moses Mendelssohn as Literary Critic

MOSHE PELLI: The Beginning of the Epistolary Genre in Hebrew Enlightenment Literature in Germany: The Alleged Affinity Between Lettres Persanes and ‘…

Introduction by Robert Weltsch

 

I. HISTORIOGRAPHY

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Past, Present and Future of German-Jewish Historiography

 

II. ANTISEMITISM AND PHILOSEMITISM

SHULAMIT VOLKOV: Antisemitism as a Cultural Code: Reflections on the History and Historiography of Antisemitism in Imperial Germany

HENRY WASSERMANN: Jews and Judaism in the Gartenlaube

INGRID BELKE: Liberal Voices on Antisemitism in the 1880s Letters to Moritz Lazarus, 1880–1883

MOSHE ZIMMERMANN: Two Generations in the History of…

Introduction by Robert Weltsch

 

I. JEWS AND SOCIALISM

WERNER T. ANGRESS: “Between Baden and Luxemburg”: Jewish Socialists on the Eve of the First World War

ROBERT S. WISTRICH: Anti-Capitalism or Antisemitism? The Case of Franz Mehring

 

II. EMANCIPATION AND ASSIMILATION

JACOB TOURY: Types of Jewish Municipal Rights in German Townships: The Problem of Local Emancipation

GORDON R. MORK: German Nationalism and Jewish Assimilation: The Bismarck Period

 

III. JEWISH THOUGHT

MOSHE…

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

Introduction by Robert Weltsch

 

I. THE BIBLE IN GERMAN

MARTIN JAY: Politics of Translation: Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin on the Buber–Rosenzweig Bible

 

II. THE JEWISH QUESTION AND ANTISEMITISM

MICHAEL ANTHONY RIFF: The Anti-jewish Aspect of the Revolutionary Unrest of 1848 in Baden and its Impact on Emancipation

STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN: The Pace of Modernisation of German Jewry in the Nineteenth Century

MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT: Jews and Antisemites in Austria at the End of the Nineteenth Century…

Preface by Robert Weltsch

 

INTRODUCTION

GERSON D. COHEN: German Jewry as Mirror of Modernity: Introduction to the Twentieth Volume

 

I. HISTORIANS’ CONVENTIONS

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Prefatory Remarks

WERNER JOCHMANN: The Jews and German Society in the Imperial Era: Opening Address at the Session on German-Jewish History, Thirtieth Congress of German Historians, on 3rd October 1974

REINHARD RÜRUP: Emancipation and Crisis: The “Jewish Question” in Germany 1850–1890

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: German Politics…

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

Preface by Robert Weltsch

 

ROBERT WELTSCH: Siegfried Moses: End of an Epoch

 

I. TYPOLOGY

FRITZ BAMBERGER: The Arden House Conference: “Exploring a Typology of German Jewry”

DAVID S. LANDES: The Jewish Merchant: Typology and Stereotypology in Germany

H. G. REISSNER: The Jewish Merchant Observations on the Paper of David Landes

ALEXANDER ALTMANN: The German Rabbi: 1910–1939

ALFRED JOSPE: A Profession in Transition: The German Rabbinate 1910–1939

MAX…

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

Introduction by Robert Weltsch

 

EVA G. REICHMANN: Leo Baeck Centenary: A Personal Tribute

 

I. FROM THE MIDDLE AGES ONWARD

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: The Relevance of the Middle Ages for the Understanding of Contemporary Jewish History

JULIUS CARLEBACH: The Problem of Moses Hess’s Influence on the Young Marx

FREDDY RAPHAËL: Max Weber and Ancient Judaism

 

II. PREVALENCE OF ANTISEMITIC IDEAS

GEOFFREY G. FIELD: Antisemitism and Weltpolitik

JOHN HAAG: The Spann…

Werner Feilchenfeld, Wolf Michaelis, Ludwig Pinner

V, 113 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163622-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163622-6

Preface and Introduction by Robert Weltsch

 

I. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWRY IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

FOCUS ON WILHELMINIAN GERMANY

A Symposium on Prussian Jewry

MARJORIE LAMBERTI: The Prussian Government and the Jews: Official Behaviour and Policy-Making in the Wilhelminian Era

WERNER T. ANGRESS: Prussia’s Army and the Jewish Reserve Officer: Controversy before World War I

PAUL R. DUGGAN: German-Jewish Relations in the Wilhelminian Period: Comments on the Papers of Marjorie Lamberti and Werner T. Angress

LAMAR CECIL:…

Werner E. Mosse, Arnold Paucker (Editors)

IX, 704 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163135-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163135-1

Ingrid Belke

CXLII, 421 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163627-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163627-1

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