Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem

The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German and Central European Jewry, founded in 1955, is a research institute based in Jerusalem, Israel.

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.

[1] 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 and documentation in Israel.