Lecture Series
Aside from the events geared toward the academic professional context, the Dubnow Institute also offers a lecture series addressed to the broader public as well as the scholarly community in Leipzig. This regular series features renowned scholars as well as public figures, whose talks offer new impulses for the thematic focal points of the institute.
A further series of so-called lunch talks offers Fellows and Guests at the institute the opportunity to present their ongoing projects and to discuss their current findings.
Lecture
Erinnerungsstücke und Migrationsgeschichten
How the Jewish Museum Berlin collects and exhibits Jewish life in Germany since 1945
Monday, 26 May 2025, 7.30 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Nach der »Weltkatastrophe«: David P. Boders DP-Interviews von 1946
Lunchtalk with Axel Doßmann
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 11.15 Uhr
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Looking for Justice. Post-Shoah Jewish Writing and the Art of Revenge
Lunchtalk with Sebastian Schirrmeister
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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A New Orient. From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
Lunch Talk with Dr. Amit Levy
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Ein Jahr später. Das europäisch-israelische Verhältnis vor dem Hintergrund globaler Transformationen
Lecture by Claus Leggewie
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5.30 p.m.
GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
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Between Belongings. Toward a Global History of the 'Second Repatriation'
Lunch Talk with Dr. Frankee Lyons
Tuesday, 19 November 2024,11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Jewish Efforts to Prosecute Nazi Criminals in Poland (1944–1959)
Lunch Talk with Olga Kartashova
Thursday, 24 October 2024,11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Jews and the Fight against Racial Discrimination in Western Europe, 1944–1992
Tea Talk with Ludwig Decke
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Rise, Development, and Decline of Yiddish Theatre in Argentina (1930-1960)
Lecture by Dr. Paula Ansaldo
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Von den Hofjuden zur Kultusgemeinde: Jüdische Gemeinschaftsstrukturen in Österreich im Wandel seit der Frühen Neuzeit
Lecture by Dr. Tim Corbett
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Kritischer Konstruktivismus. Richard Koebners Wortbedeutungsforschung
Lunchtalk Peter Tietze
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Jewish activism in Soviet Belarus between the fight against discrimination and the decision to leave the country, 1950s–1960s
Lunchtalk with Uladzimir Valodzin
Monday, 27 November 2023, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Die rumänisch-jüdische Frage. Eine transatlantische Geschichte (1872–1938)
Lunchtalk with Dr. Andreas Pfützner
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Macht und Machtlosigkeit: Wilhelm Filderman und die Juden Rumäniens, 1938–1944
Lunchtalk with Dr. Gaëlle Fisher
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Lecture
Jacob & Esau, Catastrophe, and Jewish European History
Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dr. Malachi H. Hacohen
8 May 2023, 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall
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“It's nothing. It's in the Ghetto.” Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jan Tomasz Gross
17 April 2023, 6 p.m.
Paulinum, Leipzig University and digital
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Lyricism and Violence: On Isaiah Spiegel's »Flamen fun der erd«; a Novel from the Łódź Ghetto
Lunchtalk with Prof. Dr. Julian Levinson
29 March 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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Europe’s Jewish Armed Forces: Through the Long Nineteenth Century to the Wars of Galician Succession
Lunchtalk with Dr. Jan Rybak
1 March 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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»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
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Strategies of Survival of Jews in Kyiv Region in 1930s
Lunchtalk with Dr. Tetiana Perga
27 September, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
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»Wir halten es für fahrlässig, über uns zu schweigen.« (Serhij Žadan)
Leipzig Lecture Series on Literature, Culture and History of the Ukraine
7 July, 5.15 p.m.: Panel discussion with refugee scholars from the Ukraine
Polnisches Institut
Lecture
Jewish Scholars at the Leipzig University
Presentation of the web portal by Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Josefine Klaus, and Sophie Rabenow
5 July 2022, 7 p.m.
Ariowitsch-Haus
Lecture
Bücher in »fremden Händen«
Die Privatbibliothek Franz Rosenzweigs in Tunis und Versuche des Transfers nach Jerusalem
7 June 2022, 10 a.m.
Dubnow Institute
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Dem Holocaust entkommen: polnisch-jüdisches Überleben in der Sowjetunion (1939–1946)
Lunch talk with Markus Nesselrodt
9 November 2021, 11.30 a.m.
Seminar Building of the Leipzig University, Universitätsstraße 1, room S 420
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The US National Security Establishment on Zionism and then Israel in 1947–1948:
From Outright Opposition to Unenthusiastic Acceptance
15 January 2020, 11:58 am
Dubnow Institute
Lecture
Flaubert – Abramovitsh – Martin Walser:
Wie positioniert man jiddische Literatur?
22nd November 2019
Dubnow Institute
Lecture
Zur Philologie des Bösen:
Sprachkritik als Widerstand
21 October 2019, 5 p.m.
Literaturhaus Leipzig
Lecture
A Visit to the Capital of Nowhere:
The End of the Polish State and the Beginning of the Jewish Shtetl
17th October 2019
Dubnow Institute
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Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand. Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina of the 1960s and the 1970s
26th September 2019
Dubnow Institute
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Jewish Immigration to Mexico during Nazism and the Strange Case of Consul Gilberto Bosques
24th April 2019
Dubnow Institute
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Europe, Europeanness, and Yiddish Literature: The Case of Dovid Hofshteyn
28th March 2019
Dubnow Institute
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»Denn es ist nicht alles gleich, was Menschenantlitz trägt«
Die NS-Doktrin der Ungleichheit der Menschen im Lichte eines Reichsgerichtprozesses vom Jahre 1936
7 March 2019, 6 p.m.
Bundesverwaltungsgericht
Lecture
Martyr Memorial Services and the Formation of New Jewish Identities in Early Post-War Hungary
17th January 2019
Dubnow Institute
Lecture
Public reading Weiße Sprache – Moderne jiddische Lyrik
24th October 2018, 7.15 p.m.
Ariowitsch-Haus e. V., Hinrichsenstraße 14, Leipzig
Lecture
»Neue Menschen« im Angesicht einer neuen Ordnung.
Bat'as Industrieutopie in Zlín unter deutscher Besatzung (1939–1945)
17th September 2018
Dubnow Institute
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Cecylja Klaftenowa's Trade School for Girls in Lwow:
Pedagogy and Ideology
7th August 2018
Dubnow Institute
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Swinging the Pendulum Again:
Historicising our View of the Jews and the Russian Revolution
11th July 2018
Dubnow Institute
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Zeitschichten. Bernardo Kucinski (São Paulo) über jüdische Geschichtserfahrung in Brasilien
Moderation: Lukas Böckmann
15th May 2018
Dubnow Institute
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The Jewish Community in the Free City of Danzig, 1919–1939
27th February 2018
Dubnow Institute
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Sephardi »Aufklärung«: Jewish Enlightenment in the Ottoman East
20th February 2018
Dubnow Institute
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YIVO Paris: Modern Eastern European Jewish Scholarship in the Capital of European Culture and Thought
19th June 2017
Dubnow Institute
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»The Only University in Jerusalem«:
The Hebrew University and the Never Realized Projekt(s) of a Local University in Palestine (1920–1935)
23rd May 2017
Dubnow Institute
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»Nobody’s Autobiography«:
Memoirs by Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
27th April 2017
Dubnow Institute
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Beziehungskonstellationen:
Juden und Nichtjuden in Polen (1918–1956)
23rd February 2017
Dubnow Institute
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The Tsaddik as Performer:
Rituals and Ceremonies in Eastern European Hasidism
31st January 2017
Dubnow Institute