Grimme Award for the Library of Lost Books
Congratulations to our colleagues from LBI Jerusalem and LBI London!
The Library of Lost Books was honored with the Grimme Online Award in the category Culture and Entertainment.
Jury statement: “The ‘Library of Lost Books’ opens up a digital space that makes it possible to experience a part of German-Jewish history that is almost never shown in this way. It is therefore much more than an online archive. The focus is on the people at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums: their resistance, their solidarity, their modernity and enlightenment - and their library.”
The lost books were once in the library of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums Berlin. As one of the most important Jewish teaching and research institutions before the Second World War, the university housed one of the most important Jewish book collections. Tens of thousands of volumes on Jewish history and culture were looted during the Holocaust and are now scattered around the world. With the project Library of Lost Books, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and London, as well as the Friends and Sponsors of the Leo Baeck Institute e.V., initiated a global book search.