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

Catalogue

In Their Surroundings

Ed. by Efrat Gal-Ed, Natasha Gordinsky, Sabine Koller, and Yfaat Weiss

Göttingen 2022

Yearbook

Volume 18 (2019)
Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts /Dubnow Institute Yearbook

Ed. by Yfaat Weiss

Göttingen 2022

Studies of the Dubnow Institute

Volume 34
Die Überlebenden vor Gericht

Katharina Stengel

Göttingen 2022

Mimeo

בין הפרטי ללאומי
Contribution of the »Festblog«

Rotem Giladi
26 January 2023

Mimeo

Hermann Cohen in Jerusalem. On the Changing Perception of German-Jewish Heritage in Israel
Contribution of the »Festblog«

Anna Holzer-Kawalko
26 January 2023

Events

Further

Exhibition: Jewish Album

Photographs by Rita Ostrovska

Next guiding tour: 7 February 2023, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

»The largest country in Europe. Yet it was mostly missing from our mental maps.« (Olesya Khromeychuk)

Leipzig Lecture Series on Literature, Culture and History of the Ukraine

Winter semester 2022/2023, wednesday, 5 p.m.
GWZO, Specks Hof, Eingang A, and online

Workshop

Unvollendetes, Zerbrochenes, Verlorenes: Über das Fragment

ZfL-DI-Workshop: Jüdische Geschichte und Literaturforschung

10 February 2023
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Europe’s Jewish Armed Forces: Through the Long Nineteenth Century to the Wars of Galician Succession

Lunchtalk with Dr. Jan Rybak

15 February 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Conference

Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

International Conference

17 to 19 April 2023
Paulinum, Leipzig University / Salles de Pologne, Leipzig

Press

DI on the Go

9 February 2023
Berlin

Ukrainian and Russian film productions about the Second World War: potential and dangers
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Olga Radchenko

News

3 February 2023

Jewish Scholars at the Leipzig University
Presentation of the web portal at the SPIN 2030 launch event

DI in the Media

31 January 2023

Spuren in Tausenden Büchern: Folge 1/5 - Anfänge
PodCast der Arbeitsstelle Provenienzforschung an der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin

DI in the Media

26 January 2023

Conference Report »Between Deviance and Marginalization. Gendered Perspectives on Transnational Crime«
H-Soz-Kult

DI in the Media

26 January 2023

Jüdischer Widerstand: Sie ließen sich nicht wie Lämmer abführen
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DI in the Media

21 January 2023

The Black Book
BBC Radio

News

6 January 2023

In Other People’s Houses
New publication in the series »hefez. Studies on Jewish History and Material Culture«