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 Early modern period 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

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

Colloquium

“Some things should stay within the family.”

A conversation about the book »Książka« (2011)

with Mikołaj Łoziński

Thursday, 7 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig / Stream

Colloquium

Capturing Life.

German-Jewish Private Photography in the 1930s

with Robert Mueller-Stahl

Thursday, 21 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig / Stream

Colloquium

The Everyday in a Vitrine. Curating the unfolding Present in German Jewish Museums

Sara Soussan in conversation with Alina Gromova

with Talia Tokatly

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig / Stream

Colloquium

Blood Butterfly Formation.

Epigenetic Objects, the Migration of Things from their Original Places and their Metamorphosis in the Work of Talia Tokatly

with Talia Tokatly

Thursday, 11 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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