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LBI London Library Collection Arrives at Senate House Library
We are delighted to share that the LBI London library collection has now arrived at Senate House Library, following its transfer from Mile End Library at Queen Mary University of London last week.
Meet the fellows – Cyra Sommer, 2025/26 cohort
Through our Meet the Fellows series, we introduce the researchers in our fellowship programme and the questions that shape their work.
Limmud PhD Programme: Registration open for 2026!
Be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK, bridging the gap between Jewish academic and community life, and promoting opportunities for networking and mentoring.&n
World Refugee Day
20 June is World Refugee Day, designated by the United Nations to honour the resilience and courage of people forced to flee their homes.
Carlo Ginzburg
The Leo Baeck Institute London is saddened to learn of the passing of Carlo Ginzburg, the renowned Italian historian and champion of ‘microhistorical’ methodologies, who delivered the Gerhard Riegner Memorial Lecture in LBI London’s 2004/05 lecture series
Remembering Anne Frank
12 June marks the anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929 and would have turned 97 this year.
LBI London Intern Tatiana: On Historical Memory, Oral History and the Year Book
Earlier this year, Tatiana Martin joined LBI London as an intern, bringing a strong background in Modern and Medieval Languages and a deep interest in historical memory in twentieth-century Europe.
71 Years of Bearing Witness: The Founding of the Leo Baeck Institute
On 25 May 1955, a group of German-Jewish intellectuals met in Jerusalem to establish the Leo Baeck Institute. Among them were Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and Siegfried Moses.

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