Profile
Every semester, scholars from the Dubnow Institute conduct seminars, tutorials, and a research colloquium on Jewish history and culture at Leipzig University. The courses form a part of the regular semester program of the Historical Seminar and are conducted either in English or German. They are open to students of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, the Faculty of Philology, and the Faculty of Law, as well as to students of the interdisciplinary European Studies Masters at the Institute for Cultural Studies. The Dubnow Institute moreover participates in teaching at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and in the Master’s in »History and Politics of the 20th Century« at Jena University.
Teaching Coordinators
Dr. Martin Jost
Janina Chlosta
Research Colloquium
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
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Colloquium
“Some things should stay within the family.”
A conversation about the book »Książka« (2011)
Thursday, 7 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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Colloquium
Capturing Life.
German-Jewish Private Photography in the 1930s
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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Colloquium
The Everyday in a Vitrine. Curating the unfolding Present in German Jewish Museums
Sara Soussan in conversation with Alina Gromova
Thursday, 4 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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Colloquium
Blood Butterfly Formation.
Epigenetic Objects, the Migration of Things from their Original Places and their Metamorphosis in the Work of Talia Tokatly
Thursday, 11 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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Colloquium
Lard on Challah.
Soviet Jewish Food Practices in the 1920s – 1950s
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 5.15 p.m.
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