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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.

On Monday, 15 May 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«.

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.