The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German and Central European Jewry, founded in 1955, is a
research institute
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based in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, Israel. While affiliated with the
Leo Baeck Institute
The Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955, is an international research institute with centres in New York City, London, and Jerusalem that are devoted to the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Baeck was its first intern ...
and its affiliates in New York/Berlin (
Leo Baeck Institute New York
The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research institute in New York City dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955. It is one of three independent research centers founded by a group of German-speaking ...
) and London (
Leo Baeck Institute London
The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955.
It researches the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry from the 17th century to the present day. The i ...
), it is an independent organization under Israeli law. Since 2019, the institute has been led by Galili Shaḥar.
History
As the second generation took over, the LBI Jerusalem transformed from a memorial community to a research centre. Almost all members of the LBI Jerusalem’s second generation were professional historians; most had left Germany as children or adolescents and had either little of no share at all in the founders memories. For this reason the “memorial function” of the historiography now lost significance. In its place came more strictly scholarly aspirations.
Through their publications, scholarly seminars, academic and cultural events, alongside an archive, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem has been the leading venue for German-Jewish
historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...
and documentation in Israel. Its archives consist of a microfilm collection of Jewish newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as a collection of family papers, genealogical materials and community histories.
Leadership
Chairpersons of Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, have been:
* 1956–1979: Hans Tramer
* 1981–1992:
Jacob Katz Jacob Katz (Hebrew: יעקב כ"ץ) (born 15 November 1904 in Magyargencs, Hungary, died 20 May 1998 in Israel) was an internationally known Jewish historian and educator, recognized as "one of this century's greatest and most influential historian ...
* 1993–1994: Josef Walk
* 1995–1997:
Avraham Barkai
Avraham Barkai (1921 in Berlin – 29 February 2020 in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan) was a German-born Israeli historian and researcher of antisemitism. He died at age 99 on 29 February 2020 in Lehavot HaBashan.
Publications
*Barkai, Avraham. ''Fro ...
* 1997–2003: Robert Liberles
* 2003–2007: Zvi Bacharach
* 2008–2019: Shmuel Feiner
* 2019-present: Galili Shaḥar
References
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