Press Releases

Our press releases offer information among other things about recent publications of the Dubnow Institute, current events, as well as ongoing or future research projects. If you have registered for our email newsletter, you will automatically receive these releases and will thus always be up to date.

 

8 April 2024

The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Talk with Andrea Löw on 18 April, 5 p.m. at the Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

27 March 2024

Events in Leipzig on the International Day of Provenance Research on April 10, 2024

12 March 2024

Zweierlei Zugehörigkeit.
Book Presentation on Leo Zuckermann on 21 March, 6 p.m. at the Federal Administrative Court

12 March 2024

Zweierlei Zugehörigkeit. Der jüdische Kommunist Leo Zuckermann und der Holocaust
New release of the Dubnow Institute

5 February 2024

Dovid Bergelson, »Die Welt möge Zeuge sein«
Book presentation and Yiddish-German reading

5 December 2023

Jeder Bürger Soldat. Juden und das polnische Militär (1918–1939)
New release of the Dubnow Institute

4 December 2023

The Determining Gaze
Dubnow Institute shows exhibition with photographs of Jewish life in postwar Poland

27 November 2023

Benjamin Nathans: Juden, Dissidenten, Sowjetmenschen
22nd Simon Dubnow Lecture on 7 December, 6 p.m.

8 November 2023

DFG Funding for German-Israeli Research Training Group
Strengthening Jewish Studies in Leipzig

12 September 2023

Jüdische Diplomatie und zionistische Politik. Richard Lichtheim im Zeitalter der Weltkriege
Book Presentation at the Dubnow Institute

6 September 2023

Jewish Album. Photographs by Rita Ostrovska
Exhibition at the Dubnow Institute only until 22 September

16 August 2023

Emissär der jüdischen Sache. Eine politische Biografie Richard Lichtheims
New release of the Dubnow Institute

5 July 2023

Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 19 (2020/2021)
Available as a free open access publication

13 June 2023

A Jewish Museum in Saxony?
Panel discussion with Alina Gromova, Daniel Ristau, and Johanna Sänger

12 June 2023

Porträt über den israelischen Fotografen Micha Bar-Am
Dokumentarfilm »1341 Frames of Love and War« in der Kinobar Prager Frühling

8 June 2023

Participation and Exclusion at the University as a Place of Knowledge
Events of the Dubnow Institute on the occasion of the Long Night of the Sciences and Humanities

11 May 2023

Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem visits Leipzig
Application for International Research Training Group

2 May 2023

Jewish Museums: Foundation Histories and Current Positionings
Lecture series of the Dubnow Institute

3 April 2023

Book presentation and talk with Katharina Stengel and Axel Doßmann
Die Überlebenden vor Gericht

3 April 2023

Events on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

16 March 2023

Conference on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Leipzig and digital
Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

6 February 2023

Just released: Sixth Issue of the Magazine
Jewish History & Culture. Magazine of the Dubnow Institute

15 December 2022

In Their Surroundings
New Open Access Publication

14 November 2022

Conference on the »Hochschule der Wissenschaft des Judentums« in Berlin and digital
The Hochschule. Material History and Intellectual Legacy

10 November 2022

Eighteenth edition of the Yearbook will be released soon
Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 18 (2019)

9 November 2022

Lecture series at the Dubnow Institute focuses on Jewish university history
Educational Paths

18 October 2022

Dubnow Institute shows the exhibition on Jewish life in the Ukraine for another year
Jewish Album. Photographs by Rita Ostrovska

13 September 2022

Szenen der Wiener Moderne. Vorstellungswelten des Jüdischen
Film »Die Stadt ohne Juden« and Conversation

22 August 2022

Die Überlebenden vor Gericht
Just released

14 June 2022

»Night of the Murdered Poets«
Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute, June, 27 to 29, Leipzig

2 June 2022

»Saxon Cultural Heritage in the Global Age«
SMWK supports project of the Dubnow Institute in cooperation with the Schocken Archive in Jerusalem

23 May 2022

Jewish Scholars at the Leipzig University. Participation, Disadvantage and Exclusion
New webpage now available online

19 May 2022

Jewish Album. Photographs by Rita Ostrovska
Guided tours through the exhibition at the Dubnow Institute

17 May 2022

Offenbarungsphilosophie und Geschichte
Just released

12 May 2022

Dan Diner: Kontingenz. Das Jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg
21st Simon Dubnow Lecture on 12 May, 6 p.m.

13 April 2022

The Material and Intellectual Legacy of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin
German-Jewish Cultural Diasporic Heritage

17 March 2022

Book Presentation with Yfaat Weiss
Niemandsland. Hader am Berg Scopus

11 March 2022

Jewish Album. Photographs by Rita Ostrovska
Exhibition on Jewish Emigration from Ukraine since the 1990s at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig

10 March 2022

Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein. Europa nach dem Holocaust
Just released

9 December 2021

Two new publications of the Dubnow Institute
hefez. Studies on Jewish History and Material Culture

19 November 2021

Postponement of the 21st Simon Dubnow Lecture

6 October 2021

»The Search for Traces«. Current Discussions on Provenance Research
Lecture Series and Exhibition

13 September 2021

Yfaat Weiss: Niemandsland
Just released

5 August 2021

Just released: Fifth Issue of the Magazine
Jewish History & Culture. Magazine of the Dubnow Institute

22 July 2021

Udi Greenberg: Weimarer Erfahrungen
Just released

19 July 2021

BMBF funds project at the Dubnow Institute
»Das Objekt zum Subjekt machen. Jüdische Alltagskultur in Deutschland vermitteln«

23 June 2021

»Die Grabstätten meiner Väter. Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Wien«
Digital Book Presentation, 29 June 2021, 19.30 p.m.

20 November 2020

Theresa Eisele: »Szenen der Wiener Moderne«
Just released

4 November 2020

Digital Lecture Series of the Dubnow Institute
»Let My People Go!« Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe since the 1960s

13 October 2020

Yair Mintzker: »Die vielen Tode des Jud Süß«
Just released

4 September 2020

First visit of the Minister of Science Sebastian Gemkow
25th anniversary of the Dubnow Institute

27 July 2020

Mimeo blog online since one year now
Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut

27 June 2020

Just released: Fourth Issue of the Magazine
Jewish History & Culture. Magazine of the Dubnow Institute

13 May 2020

Just published: »Dubnow Institute Yearbook«
Dubnow Institute Yearbook 17 (2018)

16 January 2020

69. National Jewish Book Awards
Award for publication from the Dubnow Institute

12 December 2019

Leibniz Association selected a three-year project for funding
Research Project: The Short Life of Soviet Yiddish Literature

10 December 2019

Just released: »Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property«

21 November 2019

Ministry of Science supports research on Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe
Project »Shifting Knowledge« at the Dubnow Institute

18 November 2019

Just released: Anna Pollmann: »Fragmente aus der Endzeit«

28 October 2019

20th Simon Dubnow Lecture, 14.11.2019, 6 p.m.
Renée Poznanski: East European Jews in the Résistance

10 October 2019

Lecture at the Literaturhaus Leipzig, 21.10.2019, 5 p.m.
Jeremy Adler: Zur Philologie des Bösen

18 June 2019

Just released: Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur
Jewish History & Culture. Magazine of the Dubnow Institute

17 June 2019

»Polens letzte Juden. Herkunft und Dissidenz um 1968«
Book presentation, 24.06.19, 5 p.m.

17 June 2019

German-Israeli Cooperation in the Humanities
Event with Israeli Ambassador on 13 June at the Leipzig University

24 April 2019

Now online: Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut

25 March 2019

Lecture Series of the Dubnow Institute
Jewish Material Cultures in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century

8 March 2019

Discussion and lecture with Natasha Gordinsky, 21.03.19, 6 p.m. at Café Franz Morish
»Ein elend-schönes Land«

21 February 2019

Lecture with Gerald Stourzh (Vienna), 7.3.2019, 6 p.m.
»Denn es ist nicht alles gleich, was Menschenantlitz trägt«

18 January 2019

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute
»Das Hebräerland« – Else Lasker-Schüler und die deutsch-jüdische Palästina-Dichtung ihrer Zeit

18 January 2019

Discussion with Thomas Sparr and Joachim Kalka
»Jerusalem als literarischer Ort der Moderne«

3 December 2018

Just released: Natasha Gordinsky: »Ein elend-schönes Land« Gattung und Gedächtnis in Lea Goldbergs hebräischer Literatur

8 November 2018

Festive event, 19.11.2018, 5 p.m.
Archives of German-Jewish Scholarship

5 November 2018

19th Simon Dubnow Lecture, 15.11.2018, 6 p.m.
Frank Golczewski: Grenzland-Erfahrungen. Die ukrainische Nationsbildung und die Juden

17 October 2018

Public reading with Efrat Gal-Ed, Sabine Koller, and Hans Henrik Wöhler
»Weiße Sprache« – Moderne jiddische Lyrik

16 October 2018

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute
Shared Space – Contact Zones

24 August 2018

Christoph Schmidt: »Israel und die Geister von ’68. Eine Phänomenologie«
Just released

22 August 2018

Scientist of the Dubnow Institute takes up visiting professorship
PD Dr. Jan Gerber in the winter semester at the University of Gießen