70 years of the Leo Baeck Institute ꟾ Ceremonial event

The keynote speech will be given by writer Doron Rabinovici, with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner, President of LBI International.
‘On the reality of yesterday and the possibilities of tomorrow – On Jewishness in Germany.’

‘Jewish life in the successor states to Nazi rule could only emerge because it was not a return to the German or Austrian Jewry of the past, nor was it a completely new beginning. Only in open societies that allowed them to be equal and yet different could Jewish communities after 1945 hope to be more than an obituary of themselves and flourish again.’
Doron Rabinovici

The evening will be accompanied by musicians from the Barenboim-Said Academy.
Afterwards, the Leo Baeck Institute invites you to a reception.


The anniversary year is themed ‘LBI at 70 – Bridging Generations’ and will be accompanied by numerous projects and events in Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.

The Leo Baeck Institute is one of the world's largest independent Jewish research institutions today.
It was founded in 1955 by German-speaking Jewish emigrants. Among the founding fathers and mothers were Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Selma Stern and Robert Weltsch. They wanted to preserve the living cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry, from which they themselves came and which was almost completely destroyed in the Holocaust. The institute was named after and its first president was Rabbi Leo Baeck, the last representative of German Jewry under National Socialism.

The Leo Baeck Institute was established as a place of living memory with three independent research centres in Jerusalem, London and New York. Thanks to its three locations, it has always operated in a transnational, intercultural and bridge-building manner. It houses one of the most comprehensive archives on German-speaking Jewry and the German-Jewish diaspora and actively contributes to a vibrant culture of remembrance.

• Admission free, with prior registration