Leo Baeck Institute London Podcast
1) Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Reflections 100 Years On
Lisa PineInstitute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of LondonHitler and the history of the Nazis remain extremely popular topics and ones that never cease to attract people...Show More
2) (Un)Welcome Returns? Re-Naturalisation Rights of German Jews in Germany
Nicholas CourtmanKing’s College LondonSince 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany has allowed former citizens, whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis due to their Jewish faith or ‘race’, to reclai...Show More
3) Hermann Beck - Online Book Talk
Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi TakeoverSpeaker: Hermann BeckHermann Beck has just been announced winner of the Yad Vashem...Show More
4) Grzegorz Kwiatkowski: More Light – Art Against Hate
More Light – Art Against Hate: Fighting Holocaust Denial and The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism In Poland Grzegorz Kwiatkowski The ability to accurately describe the past is not confined to historian...Show More
5) A German-Jewish Athlete During The Age of Extremes: Alex Natan (1906–71)
Prof. Kay Schiller University of Durham, UK As a gay high-performance runner, antifascist intellectual and sportswriter, Alex Natan was a quintessential outsider in Weimar Berlin. His marginal status...Show More
A German-Jewish Athlete During The Age of Extremes: Alex Natan (1906–71)
1:21:15 | Oct 11th, 2024
6) LBI London Summer Lecture: Psychologists in Auschwitz: Accounting for Survival
Prof Dan Stone The writings of Dutch Auschwitz survivors Eddy de Wind, Elie Cohen and Louis Micheels merit analysis not only because they anticipated what later became known as PTSD and much of the u...Show More
LBI London Summer Lecture: Psychologists in Auschwitz: Accounting for Survival
1:25:06 | Jul 12th, 2024
7) Regina Jonas – The First Woman Rabbi
Rabbi Prof Dr Elisa Klapheck Wiener Holocaust Library Can women hold rabbinical office? This was one of the questions discussed at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, Berlin, in the 1920s and 19...Show More
8) Jewish Life In Contemporary Germany
Prof Dani Kranz Germany is home to Europe’s third largest Jewish community. Yet surprisingly little is known about them. After the Shoah, about 15,000 German Jews returned to Germany or emerged from h...Show More
9) Heinrich Zimmer, Nazi Racial Politics and The University of Heidelberg, 1933–1938
Dr. Baijayanti Roy University of Frankfurt This talk examines the grey zones that exist between the established paradigms of persecution and exile in the ‘Third Reich’, as demonstrated by the traject...Show More
Heinrich Zimmer, Nazi Racial Politics and The University of Heidelberg, 1933–1938
1:11:05 | May 3rd, 2024
10) Writing The Lives of Those That Stayed Behind. Georg Hermann’s Long-Lost Exile Novel ‘Die Daheim Blieben’
Godela Weiss-Sussex ILCS (University of London) In the winter of 1939–40, exiled in the Dutch city of Hilversum, Georg Hermann was working on a novel that he regarded as one of his most important. Ent...Show More