Welcome to the Leo Baeck Institute London’s research page. We have a long history of supporting academic research, including PhD projects, postdoctoral fellowships, and research fellowships. Our research also includes web-based projects, such as our Snapshots series. This page provides information on our current and past research activities.
LBI London recently sat down with Dr Monja Stahlberger, who has just completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute, where her research explored how German-Jewish exile families transmitted cultural memory across generations and national borders. Drawing on personal archives, diaries, and letters held in collections from London to Vancouver, Stahlberger’s work illuminates the deeply human dimensions of forced migration that official records so often miss. We spoke about what ego-documents reveal that history books cannot, how Kindertransport children navigated identity and belonging in real time, and why these stories from the 1930s and 40s still speak directly to how we think about refuge and migration today.
You recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with us here at the Leo Baeck Institute London. Could you tell us a bit about how your research into German-Jewish exile families and the…
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