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Call for Submissions: LBI Year Book Essay Prize 2028
Statelessness and Visions of Belonging: Miriam Rürup in Conversation
We’re pleased to share an upcoming event featuring Miriam Rürup, a valued member of LBI London’s Editorial Board for our Schriftenreihe series and our Fellowship Advisory Board.
A German-Jewish New Year Card from a French Chocolate Box
L’shanah tovah u’metukah!
Job Vacancy: Librarian & Archivist
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New in the German Jewish Cultures Series: German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust
We are pleased to share the publication of a new title in our German Jewish Cultures series, published by Indiana University Press: German-Jewish Libraries After the Holocaust: A History of Disappearance, by Anna Hołzer-Kawałko.
LBI Snapshot Published in AJR Journal
We are pleased to share that an article by former LBI London intern Katharina Hadassah Wendl has been published in the latest issue of the AJR Journal.
Giacomo Meyerbeer at 235: Berlin's Forgotten Opera Giant
On 5 September 1791, Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer was born near Berlin into one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Prussia. In 1817 he changed his first name to Giacomo during his period of study in Italy and the world would come to know him as Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Remembering Gloria Steinem (1934–2026)
We note the passing of Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist writer and activist who died this week at 92.

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