Abstract
The article describes and analyzes the development of the Israeli historiography of German Jewry in the Nazi era. The beginning of the Israeli research in this field was part of the initiative of the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) in Jerusalem – an organization that was established by former German Jewish Zionist leaders. Whereas the mainstream in Israeli historiography in the 1950s and 1960s tended to deal in general terms with questions regarding the whole European Jewry, LBI initiated a focused research in the leadership forms of German Jewry, mostly in the 1930s. After presenting various positions in this topic, as they were primarily presented in the LBI in the 1950s and 1960s, the article describes the “Israelization” of this research, starting in the 1970s. From this decade on, younger scholars and graduates of Israeli universities began to deal with this topic without having the personal involvement of the LBI founders.
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