Series

The bilingual »Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook« forms the core of the institute’s publications and orients itself towards both German- and English-language audiences. The Yearbook is a peer-reviewed journal. All submissions undergo an anonymous review procedure, the success of which is the precondition for publication. With its international editorial board, its review procedure, its scholarly style including its thorough editorial process, and its meticulous layout, that Yearbook follows the best traditions of established humanities journals.

The series »Studies of the Dubnow Institute« features dissertations and habilitations completed at or in close cooperation with the institute. These monographs therefore reflect the profile of the research conducted at the Dubnow Institute on Jewish lifeworlds in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of general and pan-European history, from a transnational perspective, and incorporating various disciplines. The series focuses on culturally mixed historical spaces, interactions between Jews and the non-Jewish world, the diversity of Jewish lifeworlds, and the reciprocal relationships between Jewries in East and West.

The Dubnow Institute’s series »toldot. Essays on Jewish History and Culture« presents literary, cultural, and historical scholarship pertaining to this field. »toldot« (Hebrew: »history«) elaborates methodological, institutional, and biographical questions regarding Jewish modernity and the Jewish present. The format of the individual volumes – with a maximum of 200 pages, an essayistic style, without references, yet including a separate section on sources and literature – is what makes this series attractive for a broader interested public.

The Dubnow Institute’s magazine »Jewish History & Culture« is published once a year in the late spring by the Metropol Verlag in Berlin and offers insights into the diversity of Jewish lifeworlds from modernity into the present. The volumes, which contain ample illustrations, are each dedicated to a specific topic, addressing current issues, presenting fundamental connections, and discussing opposing views. Further aspects of the topic at hand are discussed in the sections »Position,« »Critique,« and »Archive.«

The Dubnow Institute also publishes works that are not part of a series. The spectrum here reaches from translations of mostly English- or Hebrew-language monographs through to new editions of out-of-print historiographical works. This is the framework in which for example Viktor E. Kelner’s biography of Simon Dubnow was published as well as Dubnow’s own »Jewish History for Children,« »The Book of Life,« and his three-volume, German-language memoirs that emerged in the period between World War One and 1933.

The Dubnow Institute’s series »hefez. Studies on Jewish History and Material Culture« addresses artefacts in which a Jewish presence is made manifest. The individual volumes constitute microstudies focusing on libraries, archives, collections, estates, as well as pictorial, architectural, and textual testimonies that embody larger cultural contexts. Hailing primarily from the twentieth century, these artefacts reflect the flowering and decline of Jewish cultural centers from Vilnius and Warsaw through to North America and Palestine. The German-language volumes also appear in parallel editions in Hebrew.

The Dubnow Institute’s English-language series »Digital Catalogues« is a modern variant of the classic anthology. In concise essays with few footnotes and ample amounts of photos and documentation, the series presents selected thematic foci in an accessible manner. It is published as an open-access format and is specially designed for digital use, for example offering a zoom function on the illustrations. The catalogues are available free of charge under the Creative Commons License in PDF or EPUB formats. They can also be ordered in book form.

The blog »Mimeo« is a platform run by early career scholars focusing on Jewish history and culture. Its contents relate to the multifaceted history of Jewries from the mid-eighteenth century through to the present. »Mimeo« offers a snapshot of current research, presented in brief essayistic form and usually connecting in some form to current affairs. The aim is to use these extracts to sharpen the ability to formulate historical assessments and thereby to stimulate a greater analytical depth. If you want to be informed regularly about the posts on »Mimeo«, subscribe to our rss-feed or send a short message. Contact: mimeo@dubnow.de

The thematic issues of the Dubnow Institute allow for various aspects of Jewish everyday culture to be discussed in the classroom. They are intended for lessons from the 7th class and up as well as for political adult education and may be used for individual lessons or project days. The issues correspond to the guidelines of the Conference of the Ministers of Culture and the German-Israeli Textbook Commission and disseminate basic knowledge about Jewish religious practices. They focus explicitly on changes undergone by Jewish communities in Germany since reunification. They thereby react to the lack of knowledge and the misperceptions that shape the image of Jewish life in Germany, which currently concentrates on issues such as antisemitism, discrimination, and persecution. The thematic issues for the classroom are published by the Dubnow Institute in collaboration with the Association of History Teachers in Germany in the framework of the project »Turning Object into Subject. Communicating Jewish Everyday Culture in Germany«. They are funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research in the framework of its guidelines regarding the promotion of research associations in the field of antisemitism research, »Current Dynamics and Challenges of Antisemitism.«