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 the magazine »Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur«. 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.

Events

Conference

»What is on Trial Here is the Yiddish Language«: The Making and Unmaking of Soviet Yiddish Literature

Annual Conference

with a keynote lecture by Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)

27th to 29th June 2022
Leipzig

Workshop

GYSM – GIF Young Scientist Meetings

Sovereignty, Entitlement, and Belonging: Jewish Legal Responses to Transition and Crisis in the 20th Century

30 May to 2 June 2022
Yearim Hotel, Kibbutz Ma’ale Hahamisha, Israel

Further

Exhibition: Jewish Album

Photographs by Rita Ostrovska

Next guiding tour: 4 April 2022, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute

Book Presentation

Niemandsland. Hader am Berg Scopus

Book Presentation

with Yfaat Weiss

17 March 2022, 6 p.m.
Live streaming from the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Book Presentation

Niemandsland

Hader am Berg Scopus

with Yfaat Weiss (Leipzig/Jerusalem)

19 January 2022, 2 p.m. (Israel); 1 p.m. (Leipzig)
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