Leo Baeck Institute
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[edit] Address and Contact Info
Address: 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011-6301
Phone: (212) 744-6400
Fax: (212) 988-1305
E-mail: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Web page: http://www.lbi.org
Executive Director: Carol Kahn Strauss
Online Finding Aid: The catalog to the holdings of the library and archives is available online.
Archivists (principal contacts for advice on the collection):
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[edit] Collection Summary
The 60,000-volume library of the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) is recognized as the foremost reference source in the field of German-speaking Jewish history. Rich in rarities ranging from early 16th-century writings to Moses Mendelssohn first editions and dedication copies of works by prominent writers of recent generations, many of the library’s volumes were salvaged from famous Jewish libraries destroyed by the Nazis. The library includes a comprehensive collection of belles lettres written by Jews, extensive material on the “Jewish Problem” and anti-Semitism, and more than 750 periodicals published by Jews from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
The Leo Baeck Institute Archives is the outstanding documentation center of its kind in the world. Thousands of family, business, institutional, and community records touch upon virtually every phase of German Jewish life during the past 200 years. Material in the archives relates not only to famous names of the past; a unique collection of 1,100 memoirs and more than 30,000 photographs mirrors the life of the average Jew.
One hundred twenty paintings as well as several thousand drawings and prints further enhance the significance of the institute as an impressive repository of the cultural legacy of German-speaking Jewry.
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