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The lecture explores the engagement of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German-Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. Although Old Yiddish literature ceased to be published in the German territories already in the beginning of the nineteenth century, various texts of this early modern corpus gained a rich afterlife in modern German-Jewish culture, serving as the focus of lively discussions on a range of pertinent topics: tradition and secularization, acculturation and nostalgia, emancipation and antisemitism, gender relations, and religious…

The New Generation Group invites you to its third annual conference: Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation, held at UCL on Monday 11 May 2026.

A world premiere from writer and director Julia Pascal (Blueprint Medea; Crossing Jerusalem) that blends satire, physical theatre and cabaret to reveal forgotten histories of women caught between exile, imprisonment and survival.

Generously supported by the Hans & Berthold Finkelstein Foundation

Public Keynote of the Conference, “Between Revolution and Reaction” October 25-27

Join us when Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, delivers the second annual Eva Reichmann Lecture to open LBI’s academic conference on German-Jewish engagement with right-wing politics. Lilla will trace an intellectual genealogy of conservative and reactionary thought among German-Jewish thinkers who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of…

Established in January 2026, this research group focuses on the history of liberalism and liberal thought in exile, in particular in the British and Anglophone context more generally. 

London became a meeting point for numerous exiled German-speaking intellectuals, many of them with Jewish backgrounds, who sought to rethink the foundations of liberal democracy. Among them were figures who would later become distinguished scholars and writers: sociologists like Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein, economists including Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi, and writers and…

Writing a history of modern Britain and Germany necessarily encompasses reflections on exile and emigration. How should we think of those who have moved and were forced to move between the two countries in the past? For many of the refugees who escaped Nazi Germany, there remained a tension between assimilation into British society and their own sense of identity. In this lecture, Jan Rüger explores this tension through a series of biographical studies. His focus is on the 1930s and 40s, but he places the experiences of these decades within a longer timeframe,…

Established in January 2026, this research group focuses on the history of liberalism and liberal thought in exile, in particular in the British and Anglophone context more generally. 

London became a meeting point for numerous exiled German-speaking intellectuals, many of them with Jewish backgrounds, who sought to rethink the foundations of liberal democracy. Among them were figures who would later become distinguished scholars and writers: sociologists like Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein, economists including Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi, and writers and…

Jewish law is often presented as a comprehensive, self-contained, and all-encompassing legal system. Yet beyond the classics on the bookshelf and in the classroom, lived experience and theoretical inquiry challenge this conception. To explore these tensions and their implications, the Jewish Law Association invites scholars from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to reflect on the theme of the Jewish Law Association’s International 2027 Conference, Inside/Outside: Jews, Law,
and Jewish Law.

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