Leo Baeck Institute

The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI ) is a documentation and research center for the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry with the three sub-institutes in the centers of Jewish emigration in Jerusalem, London and New York City.

The Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem was founded in 1955, among others, Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Ernst Simon and Robert Weltsch with the aim to preserve the largely destroyed in Germany and Austria history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. It bears the name of the rabbi and Holocaust survivor Leo Baeck as one of the leading representatives of German Jewry.

The Institute is responsible for the publication of many relevant publications. His most important is the periodical since 1956, published in the London Institute and since 2001 in New York appearing Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook ( LBIYB ). A synthesis of research income from four decades offers published by the Leo Baeck Institute in four volumes German - Jewish History in Modern Times (1996 /97). Since 1996, the Jewish Almanac appears.

The New York Leo Baeck Institute, the largest part of Institute awards annually the Leo Baeck Medal. The Swiss historian Raphael Gross is since 2001 director of the London Institute, and since 2002, co-editor of LBYB.

Then there are the scientific work of the Leo Baeck Institute in the Federal Republic of Germany. Chairman 's Stefanie student Springorum, director of the Center for Antisemitism Research in Berlin and former director of the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg. Moreover, since 2001, is located in the Jewish Museum Berlin, a branch of the archive of the New York Leo Baeck Institute. Almost the entire holdings of this important archive of German -Jewish history are, mostly on microfilm, are also made available in Berlin.

Annually afford at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, two Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant within the Austrian Heritage Collection project their alternative civil service

By Digibaeck project, which was presented in 2012, around 75 % of the archives are now digitized. Thus, over 3.5 million pages of searchable online.