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Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the research unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the historian Joseph Wulf on Tuesday, 25 February 2025, under the title »Viele Worte für den Begriff Mord«. The lecture will take place at the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung in cooperation with the Deutsch-Israelischen Gesellschaft.

In her lecture on Tuesday, 11 February 2025, Dr. Julia Roos, responsible for science communication at the Dubnow Institute, will present three examples of how Jewish history was exhibited in non-Jewish museums in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s. The lecture will take place as part of the interdisciplinary conference »Zur Polyphonie jüdischen Erbes: Aushandlungen, Konstruktionen, Autorisierungen«, which will be held at the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg from 11 to 13 February 2025. Prof. Dr. Olga Radchenko, who was a fellow at the Dubnow Institute until autumn 2023, will also give a lecture.

Dr. Julia Roos, Coordinator of Science Communication at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about museums, politics and Jewish history on Saturday, 25 January 2025, using three specific examples from the Federal Republic of Germany. The lecture will take place as part of the Museums and Memory Working Group Inaugural Online Conference »Museums, Memory, Politics«, which will be held exclusively online from 24 to 25 January 2025.

On Wednesday, 15 January 2025, in Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Martin Jost, scientific officer of the directorate at the Dubnow Institute, will present his publication »Erwartungen an Évian. Jüdische Positionen zur Flüchtlingspolitik 1938«. The study was published in 2024 as volume 36 in the »Studies of the Dubnow Institute« series. The book presentation is organized by the Fritz Bauer Institute.

Dr. Zahiye Kundos, research associate at the Dubnow Institute and visiting professor for Arab-Israeli Coexistence at LMU Munich, will speak on Wednesday, 15 January 2025, about motherhood in contemporary Arabic and Hebrew literature and history. The event, organized by the Center for Israel Studies at LMU Munich, will take place at 7.15 p.m.; registration in advance is requested.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will open the conference »Jewish Studies: Between Past and Future«. The conference will take place from January 7 to 9, 2025 at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

On Monday, 6 January 2025, Dr. Miriam Szamet will present her new publication »'We Are the Novelty' – Jewish Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in Pre-State Israel«. Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will be one of the speakers. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Israel time and will also be broadcast live via Zoom.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will take part in an event on university history at Tel Aviv University on Monday, 30 December 2024. The event will focus on two publications: »The History of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem«, edited by Yfaat Weiss with Uzi Rebhun, which deals with the history of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the first two decades after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948–1967), and the publication »Thinking about the University. Knowledge, Politics and Academia in Israel.« In addition to Yfaat Weiss, Eyal Chowers and Adi Livni, who both contributed to the anthology, will also take part in the event.

On Monday, 23 December 2024, Dr. Amit Levy will present his new publication »A New Orient. From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut«. Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will be one of the speakers. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Israel time and will also be broadcast live via Zoom.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will present her publication on the history of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, edited with Uzi Rebhun, on Wednesday, 18 December 2024. The 1000-page volume covers the first two decades after the founding of the State of Israel (1948–1967). The event will take place at 6.30 p.m. at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Dr. Zahiye Kundos, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 6 December 2024, in Munich about dealing with Kafka's Nachlass. The lecture will take place as part of the international workshop »Franz Kafka: Local Readings« at LMU Munich.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Monday, 2 December 2024, under the title »Destruktive Anführungszeichen« about how Stöcker and Treitschke turn malice into language. The lecture is part of the international conference »Alltäglicher Antisemitismus«, which will take place at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the research unit »Knowledge«, will speak on Thursday, 21 November 2024, about debates on capitalism around 1900 and modern anti-Semitism. The lecture is part of the conference »Antisemitismus und Geld. Unselige Versuchungen der Kapitalismuskritik« at the Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at the Museo del Prado on Monday, 18 November 2024, about German-Ottoman relations and the relics of the past, 1898–1918. The event will take place as part of the  »Cátedra del Prado Colloquium« under the title »The Museum’s Times«.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will take part in the conference »Denkraum Ukraine / Think Space Ukraine« of the newly founded Regensburg Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies from Monday, 11 November to Wednesday, 13 November 2024. . The program includes a two-day workshop focused on developing collaborative research approaches in the fields of Romance and Slavic studies. The workshop will explore transregional perspectives on landscapes and cityscapes and their various mediatized representations, considering how local environments are experienced and communicated.

On Thursday, 7 November 2024, 7 pm, the film »Joseph Wulf - Leben und Werk eines jüdischen Historikers im Nachkriegsdeutschland« will be shown at Cineding in Leipzig. Following the screening, Alexandra Bandl, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak with Berlin historian Alex Carstiuc about the film and Wulf's life and work. The event is organized by TaMaR Germany as part of the Action Weeks against Anti-Semitism.

Stefan Hofmann, research associate at the Academy Project and affiliated PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 6 November 2024 about Karl Emil Franzos and the relationship of Jews to theater in the 19th century. The lecture will take place at 5.15 pm as part of the colloquium of the Chair of Modern Cultural and Ideological History at Leipzig University in the GWZ, H3 2.15.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the research unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 30 October 2024 about Walter Boehlich's »Der Berliner Antisemitismusstreit« from 1965. His lecture »Widerstand gegen die Aktualität alter Muster« will take place as part of the Berlin Symposium 2024 »Gegen Antisemitismus: (Weiter-)Bildung als Intervention« organized by the Berlin Office for Transfer & Cooperation of the FernUniversität in Hagen in cooperation with CoVio - Forschungsverbund Kollektive Gewalt and the Evangelische Akademien in Deutschland e.V. on the Berlin campus of the FernUniversität in Hagen.

Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will take part in a panel discussion on the Paper Brigade and cultural resistance in Vilna on Sunday, 27 October 2024. She will speak with Hadas Kalderon, the granddaughter of Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, who was the leading figure of the resistance network, and Prof. Jonathan Brent, Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The event begins at 2 p.m. US Eastern Time; registration is required.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will give the evening lecture »Heritage under Fire. The European Discourses of Heritage Preservation in the Middle East between WWI and Now« on Thursday, 24 October 2024 together with Dr. des. Zoya Masoud. On Friday, 25 October 2024, they will hold a workshop on »Challenges of Researching Wartime Monument Protection«. Both will take place as part of the CRC »Socio-Cultural Dynamics in the Management of Resources« at the University of Tübingen.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 5.30 p.m. about Jews and the university in modern history, using Saxony as an example. The lecture will take place as part of the Felix Bloch Lecture in the Lecture Hall for Theoretical Physics at Leipzig University. The lecture is intended to honor Felix Bloch as the namesake of the Institute of Solid State Physics and to pay tribute to his scientific legacy.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Reseach Unit »Politics«, will present the publication »Erinnern als höchste Form des Vergessens?« together with Andreas Stahl in Leipzig on Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 7 p.m. Annika Padoan, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will moderate the discussion. The event is organized by the Leipzig Forced Labour Memorial in cooperation with Verbrecher Verlag at Conne Island.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 11 October 2024, about prisoners of war in Soviet state policy and in cinematic reflections. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Visualizations of War Captivity – Performativity, Reconciliation, Irreconcilability« at the University of Bonn.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will moderate the panel »What & Why? – Objects« on Thursday, 10 October 2024. This is part of the international conference »Art and Diplomacy«, which is taking place at the Technical University of Berlin.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 4 October 2024 about conflicts over the ownership of antiquities in German-Ottoman relations. The lecture will take place as part of the ERC-funded project »BeyondRest« in Istanbul.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 27 September 2024, about the Liberal Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin in the years from 1933 to 1942. The lecture will take place as part of the Forty-Eighth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia.

On Monday, 16 September 2024, PD Dr. Philipp Graf and Alexander Weidle will present the thematic issues of the Dubnow Institute as part of the Summer Academy of the Research Network Antisemitism in the 21st Century. The academy »Antisemitismus und Antisemitismusprävention im Bildungsbereich« will take place in cooperation with the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and the Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism in the university library of the TU and UdK Berlin.

From Monday,16 September to Friday, 20 September 2024, Dr. Caroline Jessen, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will be conducting the second of a total of four Research Training Group Weeks for the German National Academic Foundation.

PD Dr. Philipp Graf, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will present his publication »Zweierlei Zugehörigkeit. Der jüdische Kommunist Leo Zuckermann und der Holocaust« on Thursday, 5 September 2024. The lecture is organized by the Alte Synagoge meeting center and the Hermann-von Helmholtz Realschule in Wuppertal, where Leo Zuckermann was born in 1908 as the first son of the Jewish sewing machine dealer Samuel Zuckermann.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 29 August 2024 in Washington D.C. about challenges of Jewish transnational academic escape assistance in the 1930s and 1940s from the Black Sea to the Atlantic. The lecture is part of the Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop »From the Atlantic to the Black Sea: Local Relief and Rescue Operations on the Margins of the Holocaust« at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Andrea Kirchner, research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute, will present her publication »Emissär der jüdischen Sache« about the Jewish politician and diplomat Richard Lichtheim (1885–1963) on Wednesday, 17 July 2024. The study was published in 2023 as volume 35 of the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute.« The event will take place at 6.15 p.m. at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and is organized by the Fritz Bauer Institute in cooperation with the Martin Buber Professorship for Jewish Philosophy of Religion.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics«, will speak on Thursday, 4 July 2024, about postcolonial anti-Semitism. The lecture is part of the series »'das ganze Grauen' – Psychoanalytische Aufklärung nach dem 7. Oktober« at the IPU Berlin.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, Coordinator of the Research Unit »Law« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 2 July 2024, about forced academic migration to Palestine and directed knowledge migration during the Mandate Period. The lecture will take place in Prague as part of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies/12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge«, will take part in a roundtable discussion on Till van Rahden's publication »Vielheit« on Friday, 28 June 2024. The event will conclude the conference »Das Gedächtnis der Pluralität«, which will take place at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge«, will give the keynote speech on Tuesday, 25 June 2024, at the conference »Carl Katz and others: False Accusations of Collaboration against Jews in Holocaust Historiography«. The conference will take place in cooperation between the Leo Baeck Institute New York and the University of Bremen at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

On Tuesday, 25 June 2024, Alexander Weidle will speak about how »Germans from Bukovina« became »Buchenland Germans« under the title »Vergemeinschaftung mit Grenzen«. The lecture will take place as part of the colloquium of the Chair of Eastern European History at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Maya Kreiner, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Monday, 24 June 2024, about colonial legislatures and legal transfers in the British Empire using the case of the Mandatory Palestine. The lecture will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics«, will take part in a panel discussion on post-colonial anti-Semitism on Saturday, 22 June 2024. The discussion will take place as part of the congress »Grenzen der Aufklärung. October 7 and the Present of Anti-Semitism« in Cologne.

Dr. Monika Heinemann, Research Coordinator at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, about photographic Holocaust narratives in Polish historical museums in the 21st century. The lecture will take place at 4.15 p.m. as part of the Research Colloquium on Eastern European History/Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale).

Philip Emanuel Bockelmann, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the constitutional and administrative lawyer Walter Jellinek on Wednesday, 19 June 2024. The lecture will take place at 6 p.m. as part of the Contemporary History Colloquium of the Institute of History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will present his recently published book »Kulturbesitz. Konflikte um archäologische Objekte in der deutsch-osmanischen Politik« on 13 June 2024. The English book talk with Banu Karaca will take place at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 7 June 2024, about the German-Ottoman agreement on the partage of finds and its impact (1899–1918). The lecture is part of the international workshop »Digging Up the Past« organized by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/ANAMED.

Alexander Weidle, who works at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, about the »Buchenland Germans” between 1775 and 2019. The lecture will take place as part of the advanced seminar »History of the 19th and 20th Centuries« at Justus Liebig University Giessen.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 4 June 2024, about the Hebrew-led network of Jewish secular education »Tarbut« in Lithuania before the Second World War. The lecture will be held in German at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and will be translated into Polish.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 30 May 2024, about the »Berlin Anti-Semitism Controversy« and German-Jewish history in the 19th century. The lecture will take place at 5.15 p.m. as part of the Seniorenkolleg at Leipzig University.

Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 23 May 2024, about Schocken Books, S. Fischer and the first Kafka editions for the German book market after 1945. The lecture will take place as part of the lecture series »Kafka verstehen« at the University of Heidelberg.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 22 May 2024, under the title»Zeitgeist & Social Imaginary« about two 20th century conceptions of Historical Totality. The lecture will take place as part of the 5th conference of the International Network for Theory of History »History & Responsibility. Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands« in Lisbon.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute,  will speak about the Postcolonial Studies and anti-Semitism on Thursday, 16 May 2024. The lecture is organized by the Evangelische Studierendengemeinde (ESG) Tübingen.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will give this year's Carlebach Lecture on Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 6.15 p.m. under the title »Nach Jerusalem. Einschreibungen in der Zeit«. The Carlebach Lecture has been organized once a year by the Hamburg Carlebach Working Group since 2021. Outstanding personalities whose research and commitment have set important accents in the interdisciplinary field of Jewish history, culture and religion are invited to Hamburg.

Alexandra Bandl, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 15 May 2024, about the planned anti-Zionist show trial against Gábor Péter in Hungary in 1953. The lecture will take place as part of the interdisciplinary colloquium on Eastern European History/Polish Studies at the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Martin Luther University Halle.

Dr. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 14 May 2024, about stakeholders, strategies and structures of German-Ottoman wartime monument protection between 1912 and 1923. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »'Art Protection' in World War I and the Historiographies of Art and Culture in the First Half of the 20th Century« at the European University Viadrina in Słubice.

Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 14 May 2024, about Jewish initiatives to punish and compensate Nazi crimes in the early postwar period. The lecture will take place as part of the research colloquium on modern history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, will discuss anti-Semitism, criticism of Israel and the task of historical scholarship with Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching (Munich) on Wednesday, 8 May 2024. The discussion will take place at 7 p.m. at RWTH Aachen University.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge«, will speak online on Monday, 6 May 2024, 6 p.m. about the logic of collective hostility and the language of modern anti-Semitism based on the Berlin anti-Semitism dispute of 1879/80. The lecture is organized by the Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the end of the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums on Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4 p.m. The lecture will take place as part of the »Colloquium on Contemporary History« at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the FU Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will present the fifth volume of the history of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which she co-edited with Prof. Dr. Uzi Rebhun, on Wednesday, 1 May 2024, at 5 p.m. The 1000-page publication covers the first two decades after the founding of the State of Israel (1948–1967). Many researchers closely associated with the Dubnow Institute contributed as authors. In addition to Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, speakers at the book launch include Adv.-Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston and Dr. Amit Levy. The event will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

On Monday, 15 April 2024, Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will present the research project »Possibilities of and Limitations to Jewish Participation in Saxon Institutes of Higher Education«. The lecture will take place as part of the Research Day with a mid-term review of the DIKUSA project of the KompetenzwerkD.

On Friday, 22 March 2024, Alexander Weidle will talk about dimensions of the (un)sayable in oral history interviews with »Buchenland Germans« under the titel »Mach mal kurz das Gerät aus!«. The lecture will take place as part of the conference of the Oral History Network on the topic »Nähe und Distanz in der Arbeit mit mündlichen Quellen« at the University of Erfurt.

Maya Kreiner, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Sunday, 17 March 2024, about the Legislative Council in Mandatory Palestine and constitutional knowledge transfers in the British Empire. The lecture will take place as part of the Israeli History & Law Association Annual Conference in Jerusalem.

On Tuesday, 12 March 2024, at 7 p.m., Dr. Monika Heinemann and Dr. Julia Roos will present the exhibition they curated, »The Determining Gaze«, at the Ariowitsch House in Leipzig. The lecture takes place at the invitation of the Bürgerverein Waldstraßenviertel e. V., AG Jüdisches Leben.

From Friday, 8 March to Saturday, 9 March 2024, the SPIN 2030 Science Festival will take place at the Technische Sammlungen Dresden. The Dubnow Institute is represented there with two offers: During the entire festival period, the PodCast »Die tiefen Wurzeln des Nahostkonflikts« by Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss can be heard on site. Friday, 8 March 4.30 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 9 March, 10 to 11 a.m. Dr. Julia Roos will also be available at »Meet a Scientist« to talk about science communication explained on the basis of Jewish museums.

Prof. Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, will present the publication »Erinnern als höchste Form des Vergessens?« together with Jakob Hoffmann on Monday, 4 March 2024 at 7 p.m. The event is organized by the German-Israeli Society and will take place in the State and University Library on the Dammtor Campus of the University of Hamburg.

Alexander Weidle will take part in a discussion on Monday, 26 February 2024, on the topic of »Vertriebene(n) Erinnerung« which will take place following a book presentation by Lena Gorelik. The event will take place as part of the Monday Café of the Staatschauspiel Dresden.

PD Dr. Philipp Graf,Hannah Sassim, and Alexander Weidle, will present the thematic issue »Jüdische religiöse Traditionen« at didacta in Cologne on Thursday, 22 February 2024. The thematic issue for the classroom, which is dedicated to teaching the basics of Jewish religious practice such as the course of the year, dietary laws, shechita and circumcision, was created as part of the BMBF project »Turning Object into Subject. Communicating Jewish Everyday Culture in Germany.«

Dr. Tom Navon, affiliated researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will present his publication »Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust. Otto Heller (1897–1945)« in Haifa on Tuesday, 13 February 2024. The study on German-speaking intellectual and prominent communist theoretician of the Jewish question is based on Navon's research at the Dubnow Institute.

Dr. des. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 8 February 2024, about the Ottoman Antiquity Law, German Excavation Campaigns, and the Exodus of Antiquities. The lecture will take place as part of the international workshop »The Forensics of Provenance: Colonial Translocations through the Lenses of Legal Pluralism« at the University of Münster.

On Tuesday, 6 February 2024, Dr. Katharina Stengel research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute, will present her research on Auschwitz prisoners as witnesses in Nazi trials in the Federal Republic of Germany in conversation with Prof. Dr. Boris Burghardt. Her publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht« was published in 2022 in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute.« The event will take place at Philipps-Universität Marburg.

On Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 7 p.m., Dr. Katharina Stengel will take part in a panel discussion on survivors as witnesses before German courts. Her publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht« was published in 2022 in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«. The event at the Bavarian Administrative Court in Regensburg is being held in cooperation between the Center for Remembrance Culture and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial; another panelist is Thomas Walther, former judge and investigator for the central office of the state justice administrations.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak about her academic path as a Fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) in Jerusalem. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 31 January 2024 in hybrid form.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, Fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 18 January 2024, about the Political Red Cross in the early Stalinist time, the paradoxes and forms of public solidarity. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »The Red Cross and the Red Star« at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

On Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 5.15 p.m., Alexandra Bandl, PHD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the planned anti-Zionist show trial against Gábor Péter in Hungary in 1953. The lecture will take place as part of the colloquium »Basic Problems of the History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe« at Leipzig University.

Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 7.15 p.m. about Jewish material politics and the history of the Heine edition after 1945. The lecture will take place as part of the Leipzig Literary Studies Colloquium at Leipzig University.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, has re-edited and introduced the 2023 collection published by Suhrkamp. Using selected sources by Heinrich von Treitschke, Ludwig Bamberger, Berthold Auerbach, Moritz Lazarus and others, he will show how hatred of Jews spread in the late 19th century and how long it took for the anti-Semitic traditions at German universities to become the subject of critical historical research in a discussion with Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, on Thursday, 11 January 2024, 7.30 p.m. at the Leipzig Literaturhaus.

On Wednesday, 20 December 2023, PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« will give a lecture at the University of Bayreuth on »Nationalsozialismus und Kolonialismus. Der Fall Gillo Pontecorvo«.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will take part in an round table event on Monday, 18 December in honor of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Moshe Zimmermann. This will take place at the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem at 7 p.m. Israeli time/6 p.m. German time and will also be broadcast digitally.

Dr. Jakob Stürmann, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Monday, 18 December 2023 about the world tour of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of 1943. The lecture will take place as part of the research colloquium at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum.

PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 13 November 2023, 6.15 p.m. about Postcolonialism and the Holocaust. The lecture will take place as part of the Contemporary History Colloquium at the University of Jena.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the diary of the Jewish doctor Albert Tsessarsky as Ego Document on the Holocaust in Central Ukraine on Tuesday, 12 December 2023. The lecture is part of the conference »Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents« at the University of Graz.

On Friday, 8 December 2023, 4 p.m., Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will give the keynote lecture at the public autumn session of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Her lecture, which will take place in the Bibliotheca Albertina, is entitled  »Unheilige Zeiten im Heiligen Land«.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 7 December 2023, about the political discussions on freedom and equality in Ukrainian society in the 1990s and 2000s on the basis of TV laughter shows. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Freedom and Equality in the Political Thought of Ukraine and East Central Europe from the 18th Century to the Present« at the  Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg.

On Thursday, 30 November 2023 Dr. Anna Pollmann, research associate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ), will present her publication »Fragmente aus der Endzeit«in Berlin, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«.

PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics«, will speak on Thursday, 30 November 2023, at the University of Cologne about the Slánský trial in Prague in 1952. The lecture will take place as part of the Action Week against Anti-Semitism.

On Thursday, 30 November 2023, 2023, 5 p.m.,  Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the transmission paths of books from private collections. The lecture »Bücher aus Prag« will take place at the German Literature Archive Marbach.

On Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 5 pm (6 pm Israel time), Dr. Anna Holzer-Kawalko will present her publication »In others People‘s Houses. Poles and Jews in Lower Silesia after 1945«, published in the »hefez« series The discussion in Hebrew with Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Prof. Dr. Marcos Silber and Attorney Michael Sfard will be broadcast via Zoom and YouTube.

On Monday, 27 November 2023, Dr. Felix Steilen, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the end of a tradition of Jewish Learning at the Université de Montréal.

PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics«, will take part in the panel discussion »Braucht es eine neue Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland?« on Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 4 p.m. This will take place as part of the symposium »Holocaust und Kolonialismus – Deutungskämpfe um das Erinnern?«, organized by Erich-Zeigner-Haus e.V., in Leipzig's New Town Hall.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture on Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 5.15 pm as part of the lecture series »Von Gerüchten zu Fake News« at the Leipzig University. He will talk about the long duration of anti-Jewish agitation in the 19th century.

On Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 7 p.m. PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the Barbie trial, opened on 11 May 1987 in Lyon, France, as a primordial scene of competing memories under the title »Nationalsozialismus und Kolonialismus«. The lecture will take place as part of the »Action Weeks against Anti-Semitism« at the State Centre for Political Education in Bremen.

Dr. Enrico Lucca, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 14 November 2023, about Martin Buber's first visit to Palestine in 1927. The lecture will be held in Italian as part of a conference at the University of Trento.

At the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will present his newly edited publication »Der Berliner Antisemitismusstreit« on Monday, 13 November 2023, 6 p.m. Afterwards, he will talk with Prof. Dr. Monika Wienfort and Dr. Thomas Sparr about the collection of texts that Walter Boehlich first published in 1965.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture on Thursday, 9 November 2023 at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, OH. Entitled »Berlin in Cincinnati: Scenes from the End of an Intellectual Tradition« he will speak about the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin.

John de Lima, visiting scholar at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on 9 November 2023 in London about »'The Value of the Civil' and 'Rose and Rosenzweig on Hegel and the State'«.

On Tuesday, 31 October 2023, Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will participate in a conference on the conception and historiographical foundation of an exhibition project on Herschel Grynszpan in Bielefeld. He will speak as part of the panel »Die Ausstellung im Spiegel historiographischer Debatten«.

Dr. des. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 24 October about the migration of Jewish academics to Turkey in the 1930s and 1940s. The lecture will take place as part of the author conference »Migration in der Moderne: Systeme – Wege – Erfahrungen – Konflikte« of the Archive for Social History at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at a conference in Bratislava on the political socialisation of children in the Soviet Union. The conference »Political Socĺalization in East Central Europe« will take place from 19 to 21 October and is organised by the lnstitute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will take part in the panel discussion »Anders lesen. Ruth Klüger und die Holocaustforschung«. The event at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt will also be streamed.

Dr. Zahiye Kundos, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will take part in the discussion panel »Apocalyptics and Political Theology« on Tuesday, 10 October 2023. This will take place as part of the Jewish-Christian Summer School »Apocalypse Now – Living in the End?« at Humboldt University Berlin.

On Monday, 9 October 2023, 6.16 p.m. Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will give the opening lecture of the Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies at the University of Zurich »Zeugenschaft, Beobachtungen, Herausforderungen«. Under the title »Der genaue Blick der Shoa-Zeitzeugen« he will speak about the epistemological dimension of diaries, letters and memoirs from Switzerland, Germany and the wider Europe.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 6 October 2023 about the legacy of Victor Klemperer and the perceptions of German political philosophy in the Soviet and post-Soviet times. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Mastering Hitler – Outside Views: Continuities and discontinuities of functional elites in Germany from the 1920s to the 1970s and its recent historical research discourse in international perspective« at the University of Zurich.

Dr. Tetiana Perga, historian at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and currently visiting research fellow at Dubnow Institute, will give the lecture »Jewish waste-pickers in the Ukrainian SSR on the Eve of the Holocaust« at the 48th European Studies Conference online. Based on previously unexplored documents from Ukrainian archives, she will speak about Jewish life in Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, Fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will talk about images of old men in post-Soviet cinema on Thursday, 28 September 2023. The lecture will take place as part of the international conference »From Birth to Death. Age and Ageing in the Postsocialist Transformation« at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (HAIT) at the TU Dresden.

Dr. Enrico Lucca, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak with Dr. Thomas Sparr in Barcelona on 27 September 2023 about the Spanish translation of his publication»Grünewald im Orient«. The event is organised by the Goethe-Institut as part of a Jewish book festival.

On Thursday, 21 September 2023, Dr. Nicolas Berg, head of the research unit »Knowledge,« together with Prof. Dr. Mona Körte (Bielefeld), will chair the section »Die Konstruktion antijüdischer »Fakten«: Die Sprache des Antisemitismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert« at the 54th German Historians' Conference in Leipzig. As part of the section, he will speak about the Berlin Anti-Semitism Controversy of 1879/80.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 21 September 2023, about the memory of the Holocaust in Soviet cinema, especially about the little-known cinematic narratives about Jewish victims and their rescuers. The lecture will take place as part of the workshop »Working in the Holocaust Translation Zone: Ethics and Poetics of Literature« at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Hamburg.

Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director, and Dr. Jakob Stürmann, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will chair the section »Fragiler Rahmen: Jüdische Initiativen der Dokumentation und Ahndung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen in der Sowjetunion« at the 54th German Historians' Conference in Leipzig on 19 September 2023. As part of the section, Jakob Stürmann will speak about the 1943 world tour of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and Elisabeth Gallas will speak about »Dokumentation und Anklageschrift – Das transnationale Black Book: The Nazi Crime against the Jewish People 1946«.

As part of the »Book a Scientist« format, 25-minute digital one-on-one talks with researchers from the Leibniz Association can be booked on 12 September 2023. The Dubnow Institute is offering a conversation on the topic of »Exhibiting Jewish History - in Jewish and non-Jewish Museums« with Dr. Julia Roos, Coordinator of Science Communication at the DI.

Prof. Dr. Malachi H. Hacohen, Professor at Duke University, USA, and Leibniz Professor at the Leipzig University in the summer semester 2023, will give a talk on Tuesday, 12 September, 3 p.m. about »Religion and Crisis: Ḥurban in Jewish History«. The lecture will take place in person in Leipzig and will also be streamed via zoom.

Carolin Piorun, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 6 September 2023 under the title »Repräsentanz einer Literatur« about the Yiddish PEN Club in the international PEN. The lecture will take place as part of the Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany at the University of Trier.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »Drei Beispiele moderner Politischer Theologie: Jaime Balmes – Juan Donoso Cortés – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon« on Thursday, 27 July 2023. The lecture will take place in the framework of the workshop »Politische Theologie. Genealogien, Konstellationen, Figuren« at the University of Halle.

Dr. Julia Roos, Coordinator of Science Communication at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 18 July 2023 about three exhibitions on Jewish history in non-Jewish museums in the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s. The lecture will take place as part of the EAJS Congress »Branching Out: Diversity of Jewish Studies« in Frankfurt am Main.

PD Dr. Philipp Graf,  research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 13 July 2023 at 6 p.m. online about the handling of the Jewish heritage of Halberstadt in the GDR.

Lukas Böckmann, Doctoral Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on religious traditions and political theology of the Latin American Guerrilla during the 1960s on Monday, 10 July 2023. The lecture will take place as part of the 20th International Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association at Brandeis University. During the conference, Lukas Böckmann will also participate in a roundtable discussion on Jewish Youth in Latin America.

Margarita Lerman, affiliated researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Galician Jews between Habsburg and Ottoman authorities in the late 19th century at the workshop »Jews in Trans-Imperial Ukraine« at Tel Aviv University on Monday, 3 July 2023.

Dr. des. Sebastian Willert, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at a workshop in Braunschweig on Monday, 3 July 2023, about monument preservation in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, asking how it was valorized and how it contributed to the construction of Jewish cultural heritage.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 29 June 2023, 10 a.m., about her publication »Niemandsland. Hader am Berg Scopus.« The lecture will take place as part of the ZZF Colloquium in the summer semester 2023 as a hybrid event.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Friday, 23 June 2023, about the doctor Albert Tsessarsky and his testimony about the Holocaust in Ukraine. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »The Right to Testify« at the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin.

Moritz Schmeing, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Jews in the Fascist Party of Italy on Friday, 23 June 2023. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Kulturtransfer zwischen Italien und den deutschsprachigen Ländern im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert« at the Bibliotheca Albertina Leipzig.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on the legacy of the Hochschule in the United States and Canada on Thursday, 22 June 2023, as part of the panel »The Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Exile«. The lecture, part of the Association of Jewish Libraries meeting, will take place digitally.

Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the publisher Salman Schocken and his Heine collection at the Wednesday Soirée of the Heine Haus Hamburg on Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 7 p.m.

On Thursday, 15 June 2023,PD Dr. Philipp Graf, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at 7.30 p.m. about the treatment of Halberstadt's Jewish heritage in the GDR. The lecture will take place at the Berend Lehmann Museum for Jewish History and Culture in Halberstadt.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »Resort, Sanatorium and the 'Jewish world' in Sholom Aleichem’s Marienbad« on Tuesday, 13 June 2023. The lecture is part of the conference »Resorts, Spas, and Sommerfrische: Jewish Cultures of Rest and Recreation« at the University of Graz.

On Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 7 p.m., Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Reseach Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will present the publication »Der Berliner Antisemitismusstreit«, which he recently re-edited. Nicolas Berg will be joined on the podium by Dr. Thomas Sparr, Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, and Cathedral Preacher Dr. Petra Zimmermann. Garry Fischmann will read individual passages from the text. The event will take place in the Oberpfarr- und Domkirche zu Berlin.

On Wednesday, 7 June 2023, Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, together with Mike Rottmann, University of Düsseldorf, will speak about unpublished manuscripts in Ernst Simon’s Nachlass. The lecture will take place in Hamburg as part of the workshop »Imag(in)ing Materiality. German-Jewish Archives in the Digital Age«.

On Tuesday, 6 June 2023, Dr. Katharina Stengel, research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute, will present her publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht. Auschwitz-Häftlinge als Zeugen in NS-Prozessen (1950–1976)«, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »Soviet Science and Scientists during World War II: Challenges and Achievements« on Thursday, 1 June 2023 in Vienna. The lecture will take place in the framework of the conference »Developing Science Policy in occupied and liberated Europe«.

Lukas Böckmann, doctoral candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 4 p.m. about the religious imprints of the Latin American guerrilla war in the 1960s. His lecture will take place as part of the Research Colloquium on the History of Latin America at the Latin America Institute of Freie Universität Berlin.

Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about Karl Löwith's epoch thinking on Thursday, 11 May 2023, in Berlin. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Mensch-Sein inmitten der Geschichte. Karl Löwith und die Kritik der historischen Vernunft« at the Catholic Academy Berlin.

Dr. Caroline Jessen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will give the keynote address at the conference »Autobiografie & Archiv« in Munich on Thursday, 11 May 2023. Under the title »Streitbar« she will speak about Max Brod's archival rhetoric and archival practices after 1945.

Maya Kreiner, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »Palestine in the British Empire: The Legislative Council as a Case Study« on 9 May 2023. The lecture is part of a workshop for Polish and Israeli PhD candidates and young scholars, which will take place in Cracow.

Prof. Dr. Victoriya A. Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on how women of non-European nations and cultures were presented in the painting of the 19th century. The lecture is part of the workshop »Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in pre-Modern Times (1600–1900),« to be held in Regensburg, Germany, 4 to 6 May 2023.

On Sunday, 30 April 2023, Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak about Mount Scopus in Jerusalem at the conference »75 Years of Israel« at Schloss Elmau.

Margarita Lerman, affiliated researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Monday, 24 April in Berlin about: “No One Sees the Hump on Their Own Back.” Inner-Jewish Deliberations on Jewish Delinquency and Sexual “Deviance”. The lecture is part of the conference »Sex Work and Jewish History«, organised by the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism and Queens Mary University of London.

Carolin Piorun, PhD Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the early years of the Yiddish PEN Club on Tuesday 28 March 2023, 5 p.m. The lecture in the framework of the Modern Jewish History Seminar in Prague will take place online and in English.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, Fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture on the Jewish doctor Albert Tsessarsky at the conference »Jewish Medicine during the Holocaust: Up-To-Date Research and Challenges for the Future«, which will take place in Akko on 27 to 28 March 2023.

On Tuesday, 28 February 2023, Dr. Katharina Stengel, research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute, will present her publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht. Auschwitz-Häftlinge als Zeugen in NS-Prozessen (1950–1976)«, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«.

On Monday, 27 March 2023, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director and Head of a Research Unit at the Dubnow Institute, will give the lecture »In Anticipation of Violence: Legal Legacies of the Schwarzbard Trial 1927«. This will take place as part of the conference »Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History« at the University of Hamburg.

Dr. Caroline Jessen, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, 22 March 2023, about Erich Mendelsohn, Salman Schocken and the (Zionist) cultural scene in Berlin, 1918-1933. The lecture is part of the symposium »Erich Mendelsohn Architecture of Dialogue«, which will take place in Haifa from 21 to 24 March 2023.

At the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History, Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and political theology on Saturday 18 March 2023 in Detroit.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will take part in an interdisciplinary discussion on the relevance of interreligious issues in research on Friday, 17 March 2023. This will take place within the framework of the Forum Art History of Italy in Leipzig.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak at an evening event of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem on Thursday, 9 March 2023, 7 p.m. The event will focus on the publication »Grundewald im Orient. The German-Jewish Jerusalem« by Thomas Sparr, which is now also available in Hebrew. The event will be broadcast via Zoom; a Hebrew/English translation will be offered on site.

Sebastian Willert, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will examine the Prussian Lepsius Expedition to Egypt (1842-45) and its influence on science, art and politics at a discussion event on Tuesday, 28 February 2023, together with Bénédicte Savoy, Head of the Department of Modern Art History at TU Berlin, archaeologist Aslı Özyar, Professor at Boğaziçi University Istanbul, and Egyptologist Tarek Tawfik, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University.

Dr. des. Sebastian Willert, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, morders a conversation between the Historian of Science and Writer Dr. Edna Bonhomme and the Filmmaker, Archivist and Curator Akram Zaatari on Tuesday 14 February 2023 in Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Olga Radchenko, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, February 9 in Berlin about the potential and dangers of Ukrainian and Russian film productions about World War II. The lecture will take place as part of the international conference »The Politics of Memory as a Weapon. Perspectives on Russia’s War against Ukraine.«

Dr. Jakob Stürmann, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will present his current research project on the 1943 world tour of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee on Wednesday, 25 January 2023 under the title »Ein Moment jüdischer Einigkeit?« The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. as part of the colloquium of the Chair of 19th-21st Century History at the History Department of the Leipzig University.

Dr. Tom Navon, Fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 19 January in Berlin about »Jewish self-assertion: the example of the Warsaw Ghetto«. The lecture is part of the event Veranstaltung »...and to alarm the whole world. Jewish Resistance and Self-Assertion in Response to the Shoah« organised by the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site. You also can participate via Zoom stream.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 on»Women’s emancipation in Ukraine and Russian empire of the 18-19th centuries and its key figures«. The lecture will take place at 5.15 p.m. as part of the lecture series "Gender Studies in the Scientific Disciplines" of the Centre for Gender Studies at the Leipzig University.

On Monday, 16 January 2023 Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, takes part in the round table discussion »History and Memory Debates«. It is part of the conference »Between Jerusalem and Warsaw«, which takes place in Jerusalem in Honor of Prof. Daniel Blatman.

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya Sukovata, Fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 10 January 2023, in Düsseldorf Holocaust in the Kharkov Region and its contemporary commemoration.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak about Jewish scholars and their biographies on a conference on the occasion of Prof. Shulamit Volkovs 80th birthday in The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem.

Dr. Arndt Engelhardt will speak on »Enlightened Tradition and Cosmopolitan Typography: Jewish Book Culture in Leipzig around 1840« at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem on Sunday, 11 December 2022.

On Thursday, 8 December 2022, Prof. Dr. Viktoriya A. Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »Evolution of the "elder" masculinity in the Soviet cinema« at the conference »The Social and Cultural History of Old Age in the Soviet Union, 1945–1991« in Basel.

On Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 4 p.m., Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak at the opening event of the series "We talk about history - about Germans and Jews", at which Guy Miron's latest publication will also be presented.

On Friday, 18 November 2022, Prof. Dr. Viktoriya A. Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »Images of Soviet Sportive Women in the painting of Alexander Deineka« at the conference »Gender and Sport in the long-term historical perspective« in Rome.

On Sunday, 13 November 2022, Margarita Lerman, affiliated researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »'Dealers of Souls'. Jewish Criminals in the Habsburg Empire at the Fin-de-Siècle.« at the 54th Annual Convention der Association for Slavic, East European, and Euroasian Studies in Chicago.

On Friday, 11 November 2022, Dr. Nicolas Berg, Head of the Research Unit »Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on German-speaking Jews and their critique of the mother tongue after 1945 under the title »Alles vergißt – nur die Sprache nicht«. The lecture will take place as part of the conference »Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte und Gegenwart. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts« in Hamburg.

On Tuesday 8 November, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946« at the »Jewish Studies Colloquia« of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University. The event will also be streamed live on Zoom.

From 6 to 8 November, the Goethe University Frankfurt will host the conference »Das jüdische Frankfurt. Zerstörung und fragiler Neuanfang, 1933 bis 1990.« Here Zarin Aschrafi, affiliated doctoral candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about Jewish intellectuals in the Federal Republic of the 1980s under the title »Babylon in Frankfurt«. Dr. Katharina Stengel, whose publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht« recently appeared in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«, will give the lecture »Zur Sprache bringen: Die jüdischen Zeug:innen in den Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozessen.«

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya A. Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at the conference »Victorian Antipathies«, which will take place from 3 to 5 November 2022 at the University of Stuttgart, on »Victorian Antipathies in the Novels of Agatha Christie.«

Prof. Dr. Viktoriya A. Sukovata, fellow at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at the conference »Ladies in Arms. Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture«, which will take place from 19 to 21 October 2022 at the University of Vienna, on »The "new women with weapons" in the late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.«

On Wednesday, 5 October, Dr. Katharina Stengel, research associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute, will present her publication »Die Überlebenden vor Gericht. Auschwitz-Häftlinge als Zeugen in NS-Prozessen (1950–1976)«, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«.

On Thursday, 22 September 2022, Dr. Brett Winestock and Jakob Stürmann from the Dubnow Institute and Dr. Alexandra Polyan from the University of Regensburg will present new research on Soviet Yiddish history and literature on the panel »Zwischen modernem Universalismus und Tradition« at the 14th German Slavic Studies Day.

On Saturday, 17 September 2022, Dr. Caroline Jessen, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »The Temporality of Manuscripts and Archival Politics: Collecting and Editing Novalis«. The lecture takes place at the Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Houston, Texas.

On Thursday, 25 August 2022, Dr. Felix Steilen, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »Proudhon and Donoso Cortés on the Good in Society« on a conference in Helsinki.

On Sunday, 14 August 2022, the Jewish Museum Berlin (Academy) and the Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Literature are organising a one-day symposium highlighting the activities of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the tragic end of its members. In the second panel, Sabine Koller and Alexandra Polyan (both from the University of Regensburg) and Jakob Stürmann (Dubnow Institute) will present excerpts from their work in the collaborative project »The Short Life of Soviet Yiddish Literature.« Funded by the program »Leibniz Cooperative Excellence« of the Leibniz Competition 2020, this project researches Yiddish literature in the Soviet Union between 1917 and the 1970s in cooperation with the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin and the Professorship for Slavic Jewish Studies at the University of Regensburg (UR). The lectures will be followed by a literary evening in Yiddish and German.

On Monday 8 August 2022, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will show the documentary film »1341 Frames of Love and War« about the photographer Micha Bar-Am. Composed entirely of 1341 images taken by Bar-Am, the film mines his extraordinary archive of over half a million negatives. In addition to the director Ran Tal, the following will participate in the discussion on the film: Dr. Noam Gal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Dubnow Institute); moderated by: Dr. Yochi Fisher (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

On Wednesday 20 July, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on »An Assassination against Silence: Scholem Schwarzbard’s Indictment of the Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Ukraine 1918–1920« at the conference »Jewish Responeses to Nationalism in Central and East Central Europe« in Potsdam. Yechiel Weizman from Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, who is also an affiliated researcher of the Dubnow Institute, will give the lecture »Embracement and Rejection: Jewish Political Strategies in Contemporary Poland« on Friday, 22 July.

From 17 to 20 July 2022, the international congress »Der Stern der Erlösung – ein Jahrhundert später: Franz Rosenzweig und die Geschichte« will take place in Frankfurt am Main. During an evening lecture on Monday, 18 July, 6 p.m., Dr. Inka Sauter will speak on »Vielerlei Geschichte. Franz Rosenzweig und der Grundbegriff der Moderne« uand will present her recently published book »Offenbarungsphilosophie und Geschichte« in the series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute«. On Tuesday 19 July, Dr. Enrico Lucca, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will give the lecture »"The Master of the Kabbala.” Solving the Mystery of a Rosenzweig Source«.

The International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry will take place in Wrocław from 3 to 7 July 2022. Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Jakob Stürmann, and Dr. Brett Winestock will be taking part from the Dubnow Institute.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will present the research project »The Material and Intellectual Legacy of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin« together with Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David and Bettina Farack from the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem at a kick-off event in Hanover on Tuesday, 5 July 2022. The joint project of the Dubnow Institute and the LBI Jerusalem, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of its Jewish Cultural Heritage Program, focuses on the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, founded in Berlin in 1872 and active until its closure by the Nazis in 1942.

On Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 6.15 p.m, Dr. Philipp Graf, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will give his inaugural lecture at the Leipzig University. With the public lecture he will conclude his habilitation procedure.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Deputy to the Director at the Dubnow Institute, will moderate the first section of the conference »Mendelssohn & Wagner. Leitfiguren der Leipziger Musikgeschichte«. The conference, which will take place at the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Leipzig University from 23th June to 25th June 2022, will examine the relationship between the two composers from this specific Leipzig perspective.

On Wednesday, 19 June 2022, 9 a.m., Dr. des. Walid Abdelgawad, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »Jussuf im Islam.«

On Saturday, 18 June 2022, Prof. Dr. Victoryia A. Sukovata, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about non-normative masculinities in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. The lecture is part of the conference »Socialism’s Divergent Masculinities. Representations of Male Subjectivities in Soviet Constellations and Beyond«, organized by the Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin.

On Thursday, 16 June 2022, 7 p.m. Sarah Grandke, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, will talk with Prof. em. Dr. Frank Golczewski (University of Hamburg), Jakob Stürmann (Dubnow Institute) and Halyna Roshchyna (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg) about historical and remembrance policy aspects of the war in Ukraine. The event will take place in the program accompanying the exhibition »Wir hatten ein normales Leben. Ukraine 2006–2022« of the St. Nikolai Memorial in Hamburg.

On Monday, 13 June 2022, Margarita Lerman, Affiliated Researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at a Young Historians conference in Be’er Sheva on »Mobile Women. Female Jewish “Criminals” in the Habsburg Empire at the End of the 19th Century.«

On Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 6 p.m., Dieter Daniels (Leipzig), Nausikaä El-Mecky (Barcelona), Caroline Jessen (Dubnow Institute) and Mischa Kuball (Düsseldorf) will discuss under the title »Monument – Material – Wissen. Erinnerungskultur(en) in der Gegenwartskunst II«. Organized by the Central Institute for Art History, the event will take place in Munich and will be streamed via Zoom.

On Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 2 p.m. Alexander Weidle, academic Assistant at the Dubnow Institute, will speak at the GWZO Colloquium about the Landsmannschaft and life stories of the Buchenland Germans.

From 31 May to 1 June 2022, the Leibniz Association's »Leibniz im Bundestag« format will offer members of the German Bundestag one-on-one talks with researchers on a variety of topics. Among others, Dr. Philipp Graf, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, reports on the research project »Turning Object into Subject. Communicating Jewish Everyday Culture in Germany«.

On Thursday, 26 May 2022, Prof. Dr. Victoryia A. Sukovata, researcher at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about the Shakhty Case as an example for trials and repressions against scientists during Stalinism. The lecture will take place in the framework of the international conference  »Stalinist Show Trials: Staging - Media - Reception« at the University of Düsseldorf.

Dr. Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk, Research Associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Tuesday, 27 April 2021, at the online conference »Kobieta zydowska- nowe badania i perspektywy badawcze« about a Zionist women's organisation in Lviv.

PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, will participate in the online book launch of the new publication »Wahrheit und Revolution« on Tuesday, 15 December 2020, at 6 p.m. He will discuss with the authors Matthias Bohlender, Anna-Sophie Schönfelder and Matthias Spekker.

Dr. Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk, research associate at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 10.45 a.m. about »A past that is not closed: Agency, Netzwerke und Transfer am Beispiel zionistischer Frauenvereine in Galizien«. The lecture will take place as part of the final conference of the Doctoral College Galicia and its multicultural heritage.

On Monday, 16 November 2020, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, head of the research unit »Law« at the Dubnow Institute, will speak about »A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946« as part of the Monday seminars at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.

On Wednesday, 11 November 2020, Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, together with Dr. Stefan Litt, will open the lecture series »1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany: A Single History through Many Voices« of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. A recording of the digital event can be viewed on the LBI Facebook page.

On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, head of the research unit »Law« at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture at the online annual conference of the Forum Justizgeschichte. At 6 p.m. she will speak about »Anerkennung und Gedenken: Zu den Anfängen jüdischer Kulturrestitution nach Kriegsende«.

Tom Navon, Minerva fellow at the Dubnow Institute, speaks tonight at the presentation of Volume 22 of the journal »Chidushim« of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. The theme of his lecture is »At the Front of Jewish and Marxist Historiography«. The event will be broadcast live on Facebook and will be held in Hebrew.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, about the British cemetery on Mount Scopus. The digital lecture is part of a series of lectures at Tel Aviv University.

Zarin Aschrafi, Doctoral Candidate at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture on Monday, June 22, 2020, at 10:30 a.m., in the online colloquium of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Under the title »Intellectual Exile« she will speak about leftist Jews in post-war Germany.

In the framework of »Leibniz im Bundestag«, Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, head of the research unit »Law« at the Dubnow Institute, will this year speak with members of the German Bundestag about restitution of and provenance research on Jewish cultural properties after 1945. With the format »Leibniz im Bundestag«, the Leibniz Association has been offering members of the German Bundestag one-on-one talks with scholars on various topics since 2008. This year, most of the talks will take place on 26 and 27 May, either on video or by telephone.

On Monday, May 11, 2020, Zarin Aschrafi, PhD student at the Dubnow Institute, will give a lecture in a digital colloquium at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center. At 10.15 a.m. she will speak about »Growing up in the Land of the Murderers. Education and Self-Formation of the Jewish Youth in Post-War Germany.«

Martin Jost, Doctoral Candidate at the Dubow Institute, will take part in the conference »German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis, 1914–1938« at the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK). On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, he will speak »“It is not about your prestige, it is about our future.” Possibilities and Expectations of German Jews at the Évian Conference«.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, February 6, 2020, at 7 p.m. in the Erfurt City Hall under the title »Souveränitätssplitter« about the Jerusalem Question 1948–1967.

Dr. Monika Heinemann, research coordinator at the Dubnow Institute, will speak on Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 7 p.m. about »Gesellschaft im Spiegel des Museums – aktuelle Konzepte und Debatten im polnischen Museumsboom«. The lecture will take place in the library of the Center for Historical Research Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, director of the Dubnow Institute, will chair a discussion in Jerusalem today, on Thursday, January 30, 2020, at 6 p.m., on the occasion of the translation of the book »The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Tyranny« by Ernst Fraenkel. Prof. Barak Medina, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Prof. Dan Diner will participate in the discussion.

On Wednesday, 29th January 2020, two lectures on literary studies will take place at 4.30 p.m. at the Institute of Slavonic Studies at the Leipzig University. Among others, Dr. Yechiel Weizman from the Dubnow Institute will speak about »Ambivalent Presence. The Material Jewish Remnants in Poland, 1945–1989«.

Today at 5 p.m., Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, director of the Dubnow Institute, will speak About »A Jew in Public: Reflections on Invisibility and Conspicuousness« at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan. The lecture is part of the book launch of »Jacob and Esau: Jewish European History between Nation and Empire« by Malachi H. Hacohen.

On Tuesday, 26 November 2019, Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute, took part in a round table discussion in the Office of the Federal President. The topic of the expert panel was how National Socialism, the Shoah and the commemoration of it are dealt with in Germany today and in the future. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited the experts in preparation for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps and the end of the Second World War, which will be held in 2020.

PD Dr. Jan Gerber, Head of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Dubnow Institute, spoke on Monday, 29 April 2019 about »Karl Marx in Paris. Die Entdeckung des Kommunismus«. The lecture took place at the Marx Research Center of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Jan Gerber had published a book of the same name in 2018.