Leo Baeck Institute

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Tomorrow night Peter Schrag will be speaking about his new memoir, which documents the experience of his family... http://fb.me/7Js77ODX4 

Gurs is the best-known of the French internment camps. A prison for Jewish refugees living illegally in France,... http://fb.me/82Jnv4lWa 

A web of concentration / internment camps spread across the south of France under the German occupation beginning... http://fb.me/2NrRUdYKR 

Members of the Steiner family on vacation in Marienbad, ca. 1930. Marienbad was a popular spa town that was... http://fb.me/2Gy6MRLOs 

A Jewish family on vacation in the Harz mountains, 1929. From the Leo Baeck Institute Archives. http://fb.me/Y6y0ScpD 

A Jewish fraternity in Heidelberg, ca. 1900, pose for an informal photograph. Notice that one of the students... http://fb.me/4AHny5Jt3 

A scene of the internment camp of St. Cyprien, in the southeast of France along the ocean coast, 1940.... http://fb.me/4m4ZqmM85 

Our theme this week are the places and events that surround the new memoir by Peter Schrag, "When Europe Was a... http://fb.me/7JqAZewfm 

Our theme this week are the places and events that surround the new memoir by Peter Schrag, "When Europe Was a... http://fb.me/7m3NrCdC9 

This time, we tried making a potato strudel, also called potato knishes. The recipe is from a four-volume online... http://fb.me/5oyP9dRqb 

Read about our exhibit "Stolen Heart" in the The Jewish Week. http://fb.me/7VWAUesmI 

Time is running out to register for this all-day symposium at the Center for Jewish History. http://fb.me/8yi2ksCT7 

Alfred Neumayer was a public prosecutor and a judge ("Oberlandesgerichtsrat") at the "Oberstes Landesgericht" in... http://fb.me/5t4pEHWp7 

A page from a Leo Baeck memoir in our archives relates the feelings of a German-Jewish man and his wife (of East... http://fb.me/12lXdITVn 

"Flagstad: A Personal Memoir" by Edwin McArthur. The book jacket is designed by the German-Jewish emigre George... http://fb.me/2P1FAOWFt 

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The strange story of former right-wing Hungarian politician Szegedi, and his discovery that he was Jewish. http://fb.me/IPkqSU1N 

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The Leo Baeck Institute includes the World War I diary and memoirs of Rabbi Arnold Taenzer. Taenzer was the... http://fb.me/JoHAaqHs 

"No Stone Unturned: Letters from Bamberg, 1938 - 1941" is a collection of translated letters that can be found in... http://fb.me/2NsRijguH 

A book conversation with Peter Schrag about his new memoir. "When Europe Was a Prison Camp" weaves together two... http://fb.me/2GQhjpXt0 

The @lbinyc will host Peter Schrag for a book talk on 'When Europe Was a Prison Camp' @cjewishhistory May 5 at 7 pm http://ow.ly/10bGYy 

Here is a last minute Passover recipe, which may need some fine-tuning. This apple compote with currants, lemon... http://fb.me/1lopDGj41 

Philip Oberlaender with a monkey, ca. 1910. Philip Oberlaender was part of a wealthy Jewish textile... http://fb.me/24Bjld4K3 

"My father, David Weiler, was born in Noerdlingen on November 27, 1884......In this big old frame and stucco... http://fb.me/119P2UBLt 

Five Genealogy Lessons I Learned From B’nai B’rith (Once I Stopped Sulking) | Freud’s Butcher http://fb.me/7F9eufxHf 

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Carl Joseph Melchior (pictured) was born in Hamburg in 1871. He was the legal advisor of the Warburg banking... http://fb.me/4LgvGRzRi 

Our theme this week is memoirs. The Leo Baeck Institute has an extensive collection of handwritten and typed... http://fb.me/4HHtpE600 

Hedwig Pinkus (on the right), Neustadt (now Prudnik, Poland) in August 1916. Hedwig's husband, Hans Pinkus, was... http://fb.me/1hL5Kf1A0 

A published booklet owned by a German Jew who served in the First World War. The owner had been part of the 54th... http://fb.me/7G1xfQl3k 

Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher (1850 – 1921), often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian-Jewish scholar... http://fb.me/2wwQiv3yV 

Passover veal roast and compote A popular Passover dish recommended for Passover in cookbooks from the 1900s was... http://fb.me/7Qc94rUq4 

The story of Franz Ginsburg (1862 - 1936) a German-Jewish senator in South Africa who fought the growing forces... http://fb.me/3u7TJzD9I 

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) was an English, later German author of books on political philosophy,... http://fb.me/J135jVtp 

A statue of the Spanish-Jewish philosopher Maimonides on the left, and on the right a statue of Socrates. The... http://fb.me/4Al296sZX 

Albert Einstein in 1935. That year he gave a speech at a Passover Seder held at the Metropolitan Opera House in... http://fb.me/7htHS8TGq 

The archives and the library of the Leo Baeck Institute are accessible via the Reading Room for the Center for... http://fb.me/4NkORDNzE 

Abraham Geiger (1810–1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who laid the foundation of Reform Judaism.... http://fb.me/7OdtQKbni 

The exterior of the Leipzig Synagogue. The synagogue, built for the Reform community, was inaugurated in 1855.... http://fb.me/7TqyI2Q7L 

The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin, 1865. The building was completed in 1866. The... http://fb.me/4ubpbrdyD 

Pischinger Cake was invented by Oscar Pischinger in 1881. It quickly became a favorite not just in current-day... http://fb.me/7RDnZtAzH