Network

The Dubnow Institute has been a member of the Leibniz Association since 2018 and actively participates in the association’s collective research and networking initiatives. The Leibniz Association connects around 100 independent research institutions, whose orientation ranges from the humanities over economics, spatial research, and social sciences through to natural sciences, engineering, and environmental studies.

Located in the same city, Leipzig University is the main cooperation partner of the Dubnow Institute. Since 2000, the DI has also been connected to the university through its status as an affiliated institute. With the International Research Training Group »Belongings. Jewish Material Culture in 20th Century Europe and Beyond«, the DI's collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Leipzig University was taken to a new level in 2024. The intensive collaboration between the institutions encompasses teaching, the promotion of early career scholars, particularly in the field of doctoral training, and the organization of scholarly events aimed at a broad academic audience.

The Academy Project »European Traditions – Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures« was a Research Project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig and cooperation partner of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow. The aim of the Academy Project »European Traditions – Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures« is to contribute to an understanding of modern Jewish history and culture in Europe. The project focuses on the promises and challenges as well as the cataclysms of political modernity, which particularly affected Jews in and after the emancipation era, from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. The project work is devoted to the formulation of appropriate terms, the presentation of knowledge in encyclopaedic form and the collection of sources on specific thematic complexes.