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

Studies of the Dubnow Institute

Volume 36
Erwartungen an Évian

Martin Jost

Göttingen 2024

toldot

Volume 16
Mission »Eynikayt«

Jakob Stürmann

Göttingen 2024

Topical Textbook

Sichtbarkeit jüdischen Lebens

Leipzig 2024

Events

Further

The Determining Gaze. Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland

Guided Tour

Next guided tour: Thursday, 20 February 2025, 12.30 p.m.
Dubnow Institute

Book Presentation

Erwartungen an Évian. Jüdische Positionen zur Flüchtlingspolitik 1938

Book presentation with Dr. Martin Jost and Dr. Kim Wünschmann

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 6 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Colloquium

Antisemitism among the Educated

Lecture series in the winter semester 2024/2025

Thursdays, 5.15 to 6.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream

Colloquium

Gelehrter Antisemitismus. Spannung und Kontroverse im Zeitalter der Emanzipation

Rescheduled date for Shulamit Volkov's lecture

with Shulamit Volkov

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 5.15 p.m.
SAW Leipzig/Stream

Further

Zygmunt Bauman's Life in Fragments. The History of a Jewish Family in Poland

Lecture and diskussion with Izabela Wagner, Paris

Thursday, 10 April 2025, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig