Founded:

1955

Homepage:

www.lbi.org/de/about/visit-lbi/

The Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955, is an international research institute with centres in New York City, London, Jerusalem and a branch-office in Berlin, that are devoted to the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry.The institute was founded in 1955 by a consortium of influential Jewish scholars including Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem.

Mentioned in

• A Home of Human Rights? The German-speaking Jewish Diaspora in France (1930s–1940s) (Patrick Farges)
• A Safe Haven Full of Contradictions: German-speaking Jews and Their New Lives in the United Kingdom (Andrea Hammel)
• AJR Journal: The Monthly Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, London (Anthony Grenville)
• Eva G. Reichmann (1897–1998) (Christine Schmidt)
• Homecoming to a Foreign Country. German-speaking Jews in Palestine/Israel (Lisa Sophie Gebhard)