Our Film Club screening of Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel has been so popular that we’ve extended it to Friday 25 April – so there’s still time to catch it!
🎬 Watch FREE online now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-...
Last night, BBC Panorama featured LBI London Executive Board Member Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger, who spoke about how “people use the cover of criticising the actions of the Israeli government to be antisemitic”.
Read more: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/julia-neuber...
Join us this week for LBI London Film Club as we screen Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel, a British documentary presented by David Baddiel and featuring the voice of Stephen Fry.
Watch the film FREE online this week only: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...
What can Herzl’s life tell us about the world of Central European Jewry, modern identity, and the power of ideas? Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel, presented by David Baddiel and featuring the voice of Stephen Fry.
Watch the film FREE here all week: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...
Ahead of our free online screening, LBI London spoke with Sir Bernard Zissman about Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel – a film that explores one of the most important figures in modern Jewish history.
Watch the film FREE here until April 24: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...
We are pleased to share a new interview with Sir Bernard Zissman, one of the producers of Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel, ahead of our free online film club screening.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaX...
Watch the film FREE here starting this Thursday: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/film-club-he...
On 15 April 2026, the 125th anniversary of Leo Haas’s birth offers an opportunity to remember an artist whose work became part of the historical record of Nazi persecution.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/04...
Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
14 April 2026, 9:00AM – 5:00PM
University of Southampton, Highfield Campus
Admission to the conference is free, but advance registration is required. Please register at www.lbilondon.ac.uk/crossing-bor...
A new edited volume, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections, has recently been published, featuring a chapter by LBI London Director Joseph Cronin.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
#GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #LBILondon
We wish all our supporters and the wider community a very happy and peaceful Passover.
Chag Sameach!
Following significant engagement with our recent session, ‘Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture’, the full recording is now live on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
A vital conversation, now available to stream: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...
Tony Sender (1888–1964) was a pioneering German socialist, feminist, and trade unionist, whose life and political achievements are now known to only a few: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/eng...
Our latest Snapshot of German-Jewish History and Culture is now online. Please visit our website to read ‘Between Refuge and Future: The Applecroft Refugee Hostel in Welwyn Garden City’.
Read the full story: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...
After the significant interest in our recent roundtable, ‘Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture’, we are pleased to release the full recording across all platforms.
Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...
Siegfried Aufhäuser was one of the most important representatives of the trade union left in the Weimar Republic. In this interview, Christian Zech talks about Aufhäuser’s life, his political legacy, and his relevance today.
Read now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/eng...
Honoured and delighted to have launched our new edited volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust, this week @lbilondon.bsky.social! With huge gratitude to them, especially Dr Magda Wrobel and @joannasliwa24.bsky.social @claims-conference.bsky.social
for all their work planning this terrific event!
History in the GDR is rarely a straightforward story of ‘failure’ or ‘success’. Our new series, LBI Scholars in Conversation, opens by exploring exactly these grey areas with our Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Alexander Brown.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/lbi...
The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association invite you to an online roundtable discussion on Thursday, 19 March at 7:00 PM.
Admission is free. Please register at the link below to receive the Zoom invitation.
Book here: lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-2026
The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association invite you to an online roundtable discussion on Thursday, 19 March at 7:00 PM.
Admission is free. Please register at the link below to receive the Zoom invitation.
Book here: lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-2026
A new edited volume, Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections, has recently been published, featuring a chapter by LBI London Director Joseph Cronin.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
#GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory #LBILondon
Exploring sources ranging from international archives to refugees’ own words, the discussion considers how the Kindertransport has been remembered, interpreted, and mobilised in British culture, and why it continues to matter today. (2/3)
This Thursday, we are delighted to partner with the @lbilondon.bsky.social on an event on Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture.
The online event will be chaired by Dr Joseph Cronin with speakers Dr Amy Williams, Dr Monja Stahlberger and Howard Falksohn. (1/3)
Call for Papers: “Between Revolution and Reaction – German-Speaking Jews and the Ideas, Politics, and Cultures of the Right”
Submission guidelines: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
#Conference #CallForPapers #LeoBaeckInstituteLondon #GermanStudies #JewishStudies #GermanHistory
Boxes are open again! After several years in storage, archival materials and institutional records belonging to the Leo Baeck Institute London have arrived at our new base at Senate House in Bloomsbury.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/03...
Next month our Senior Archivist is joining a roundtable discussion @lbilondon.bsky.social, Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture
The event will bring together scholars and practitioners to examine the Kindertransport through archives, testimony, and reflective practice 🔗
The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling!
The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026.
For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/
How has the Kindertransport shaped British culture and memory?
Join the Leo Baeck Institute and the British-German Association for an online roundtable.
🗓 19 March 2026 🕖 19:00 – 20:00 💻 Online via Zoom
Attendance is free of charge. Register now: lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-2026
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), the trailblazing Jewish feminist known as ‘Anna O.’ in Freud’s studies, who overcame personal hardship to lead social reform.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/sna...
www.lbilondon.ac.uk/research/eng...
#IWD2026
The Leo Baeck Institute London and the British-German Association are pleased to invite you to
KINDERTRANSPORT IN BRITISH MEMORY AND CULTURE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Please join us online only on
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 7.00 – 8.00 PM (GMT)
Book now: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransp...