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4 unusual facts about Leo Baeck


Ernst Simon

(Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany. 2).

Leo Baeck

The asteroid 100047 Leobaeck is named in his honour, as is Leo Baeck College, the Reform/Progressive rabbinical college in London.

Baker, Leonard (1978) Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews.

Viktor Frankl

On 29 July 1943, Frankl organized a closed event for the Scientific Society at Theresienstadt, and with the help of Leo Baeck he offered a series of open lectures, including "Sleep and Sleep Disturbances", "Body and Soul", "Medical Care of the Soul", "Psychology of Mountaineering", "How to keep my nerves healthy?", "Medical ministry", "Existential Problems in Psychotherapy", and "Social Psychotherapy".


North Western Reform Synagogue

It has around 2000 adult and 1000 child members, and is twinned with the Leo Baeck Community Centre in Haifa and the Jewish community in Kerch, a city in Ukraine.


see also

Böckler

Annette M. Böckler (born 1966), librarian at the Leo Baeck College London, writer and translator on Jewish subjects

Leo-Baeck-Medal

1997 - Helmut Sonnenfeldt, political advisor, former member of United States National Security Council