The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) is dedicated to interdisciplinary research across multiple eras of Jewish life worlds in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Middle Ages through to the present. This research adopts a pan-European perspective and includes areas of Jewish emigration, especially Israel as well as North and Latin America.

Through events, university courses, and a broad range of publications, the research findings are presented both to a specialist audience and the interested public. This includes the internationally renowned bilingual »Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook«; the essay series »toldot« and »hefez«, and the magazine »Jewish History & Culture«. On the blog »Mimeo,« scholars offer an overview of their current research projects. The special collection of the institute library is also open to students and guests.

Publications

Volume 3
In fremden Häusern

Anna Holzer-Kawałko

Göttingen 2025

toldot

Volume 17
Ausgeschlagenes Erbe

Philipp Graf

Göttingen 2025

Events

Book Presentation

Das Verschwinden des Holocaust. Zum Wandel der Erinnerung

Book presentation with Jan Gerber and Thomas Schmid as part of »Leipzig liest«

Thursday, 19 March 2026, 8 p.m.
Felsenkeller, Naumanns Tanzlokal

Book Presentation

Gaëlle Fisher (ed.), Schlojme Bickel, Rumänien. Geschichte, Literaturkritik, Erinnerungen

Conversation with Carolin Piorun, moderated by Jessica Hughes

Friday, 20 March 2026, 3 p.m.
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig

Workshop

Jewish Literature under Muslim Rule

Textual Transformations and Inter-Religious Encounters

14 to 16 April 2026
LMU Munich

Colloquium

Passing Through Hands: Objects in Jewish Everyday Lives

Research colloquium in cooperation with the IRTG »Belongings«

On five Thursdays, 5.15 to 6.45 p.m. at the Dubnow Institute: May 7, May 21, June 4, June 11, and July 2
Dubnow Institute/digital

Lecture

Un/Visible. Four Kippahs and the Making of Jewish Life in Europe

English lecture with Itamar Ben Ami (Utrecht)

Tuesday, 23 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Further

Refuge on the Mediterranean

A Staged Reading With Students from Leipzig University on the Forced Migration of German-Jewish Scholars from Nazi Germany

Thursday, 26 June 2026, 8 p.m.
Cammerspiele Leipzig e. V. in der Kulturfabrik Leipzig