,Inventing a Discipline: The Leo Baeck Institute and German-Jewish Studies

Inventing a Discipline: The Leo Baeck Institute and German-Jewish Studies


 

Publication Date: January 2004

Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies

Author(s): Frank Mecklenburg; Frank Mecklenburg

Research Area: Education; Social conditions

Keywords: Judaic Studies; Language; History; Culture

Type: Brief

Coverage: Germany Germany

Abstract:

The author describes the mission and work of the Leo Baeck Institute, the center of world scholarship on German-speaking Jewry. The author describes the holdings of the LBI's archives, its publications, and the impact of the LBI upon the scholarly world.