Preface

Abstract

The 2021 volume of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book brings together two collections of articles that strike out into less-charted territory, reflecting the Year Book’s commitment to publishing innovative and original scholarship. The first section, ‘German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis’, developed from a February 2020 conference on this theme held at the University of Sussex and sponsored by the university’s Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies/Centre for German-Jewish Studies. The second section, ‘Perceptions of Emotions in Modern Jewish History’, similarly emerged from a conference, ‘Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900’, held at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC in October 2018 as part of the German-Israeli research project ‘Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and Cultural Transformation in the Face of Modernity’. We are grateful to our colleagues David Jünger and Anna Ullrich for suggesting the first section and to Kerstin von der Krone for the second.