Events

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to invite you to another free online screening from the LBI Film Club, starting on Thursday 24th September 2026. 

Our latest selection offers a fascinating and unconventional portrait of Sigmund Freud, exploring his Jewish identity, exile and the experiences of marginalisation that shaped his life and work.

(Yair Qedar, Israel/Austria/Germany, 2025)

What role did Jewish survivors in the German Democratic Republic play in the cultural debate on the Holocaust and National Socialism? How could Jewish experiences of persecution and antifascist convictions be negotiated and articulated in the face of history, politics, and state- imposed acts of remembrance? Drawing on personal documents and works by authors like Arnold Zweig and neglected historian Helmut Eschwege, the talk explores these questions and shows Jewish and, in some cases, non-Jewish actors’ motivations and options for action. In doing so, the talk examines the tension between…

Once the driving force of antisemitism worldwide, Nazi Germany waged war against Jews everywhere, radicalising antisemitism in word and deed. After 1945, Germany was pacified by the Allies, and open antisemitism became the antithesis of the new democratic Staatsräson. Yet today, antisemitism has returned – from the far right, parts of the radical left, Islamist movements, and the centre of society. This lecture examines the German case in a global context and asks whether the postwar Staatsräson – the commitment to Jewish life and Israel’s security – can hold, and what this means for…

The Leo Baeck Institute London invites you to the launch of our Library of Lost Books exhibition at Leo Baeck College Library. The Library of Lost Books is a project that tells the story of one of the most important Jewish scholarly libraries of the twentieth century - and asks the public to help find its missing volumes.

The LBI London presents the latest event in the Library of Lost Books project, which explores the fate of one of the most important Jewish scholarly libraries of the twentieth century: an exhibition hosted by Leo Baeck College and installed in the Leo Baeck College Library, where it will be on view from November 2026 to October 2027.

How did German Jews experience life as refugees from Nazism in the British Empire? Scholars of the Holocaust have often turned to frameworks of racial triangulation to answer this question, emphasizing Jews’ ‘Other-ing’ in Nazi Germany to place refugees ‘in-between’ the binaries of coloniser and colonised, European and non-European. This talk, however, takes a deep dive into the history of Indian constitutional development and legislative reform to understand the place of Holocaust refugees in the racialised socio-political hierarchy of the British Raj. Focusing on the Government of India…

Dr Max Czollek

Lyricist and Essayist, Germany/USA 

This lecture is the LBI Summer Lecture 2027