Regular Collaborative Event Formats
The Dubnow Institute maintains close contacts with academic institutions in Israel, the United States, Europe, and Germany. It has long-standing collaborative relationships with a number of institutions, as reflected among other things in regular event formats. These serve to foster productive academic exchange and to promote early career academics.
International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry
The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been running the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry since 2004 in collaboration with leading academic institutions in Europe and North America. Aside from the Dubnow Institute, its collaboration partners include Israel Bartal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Oleg Budnitskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), David Engel (New York University), Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Eli Lederhendler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Gabriella Safran (Stanford University), and Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto).
Each forum hosts around fifteen advanced doctoral candidates along with additional early career academics from various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences who focus on East European Jewry. The seminar offers the participants an opportunity to present and further develop their research in dialogue with peers and a group of recognized experts.
Leo Baeck Fellowship Program
Funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Dubnow Institute runs the Leo Baeck Fellowship Program together with the Leo Baeck Institute London. Through this program, ten international doctoral candidates are selected on the basis of a competitive selection process and accompanied for a year, advised in the course of two seminars, and brought into exchange with one another.
The international Leo Baeck Fellowship Program is advertised once per year and is open to doctoral candidates writing their dissertations on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewries. The program welcomes projects from all eras, disciplines (e.g. literature, philosophy, history, and cultural studies), and geographical spaces (such as Europe, the Americas, and Israel).
Aside from funding for the duration of the fellowship year, the program offers opportunities for academic exchange and networking. It is open to doctoral candidates of all nationalities and all institutions of higher education worldwide. Fellows remain at their respective universities and come together for two workshops, one of which takes place in London and the other at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig.
Leo Baeck Fellowship of the German Academic Scholarship
Leo Baeck Fellows and Alumni
Multilateral PhD Workshop in Central and Eastern European Jewish History and Culture
The workshop serves young academics to network at key research locations focusing on Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe. Aside from the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, participating institutions include the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Charles University in Prague, and the Central European University, which moved from Budapest to Vienna in 2019.
Currently, a meeting is being organized every two years at one of the partner institutions, at which two doctoral candidates and senior scholars from all institutions can discuss their current research projects and open questions in an intensive and interdisciplinary environment.
Workshop Series on »Jewish History and Literary Scholarship«
Since 2017, the Dubnow Institute runs an annual workshop together with the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin (ZfL), which is dedicated to examining the methodological intersections between Jewish history and literary scholarship. The workshops alternate between Berlin and Leipzig and are each dedicated to a specific topic.
Previous workshops:
Theoriegeschichte und jüdische Geschichte (2017)
Zeitbeobachter. Beschreibungen der Gegenwart in der Moderne (2018)
Das kurze Leben der sowjetisch-jiddischen Literatur (2019)
Schulen, Gruppen, Stile. Denken, kollektiv betrachtet (2020)
Epochenschwellen und Epochenzäsuren (2021)
Unvollendetes, Zerbrochenes, Verlorenes: Über das Fragment (2023)
Freundschaftsbriefe im 20. Jahrhundert (2024)
Reparatur(en). Verfahren der Wiederherstellung zerstörter Wissens- und Erfahrungsbestände (2025)
Gegenerzählungen: Dissidenz und Widerstand in Literatur und Geschichte (2026)