Join us for a panel discussion following the publication of the book: State of Emergency: Institutions of Higher Education in the German-Speaking World after October 7

Join Us to Welcome the Year 5787 and for an Evening Dedicated to Prof. Aya Elyada’s Book: A Lasting Legacy: Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938

Join us for the evening ‘Are there Jeckes in the audience?’: The Jeckes from an Israeli-German perspective

Literature in Times of Crisis

Storylistener and Storyteller: An Anthropologist’s Journey from Oral History to Historical Fiction

Join Us for the Launch of the Book: The Mosse Women: German-Jewish Life Stories By Elisabeth Wagner

8th Else Lasker-Schüler Lecture

Join us for the seventh session of the annual oral history series – Voices from Gaza: How do you create human agency in times of war? – Ghousoon Bisharat, Editor-in-Chief; Magazine +972

Erich Fromm: Love, Jewish Philosophy, and Theopolitics – A Conference Marking 70 Years of “The Art of Loving”

Last Meeting in the Annual Series on the Wheels of Time: Issues Related to Time in Jewish-German History: Reflections on Time in the Context of Jewish-German History

Virtual Witnessing – Emotional Remembrance through Interactions with AI-based Representations of Holocaust-Survivors

Sixth Meeting in the Annual Series: In the Wheels of Time | Never Again is Now – Time Out of Time

Join Us for the Fifth Meeting of the Annual Oral History Series: The Galilee and Western Negev Project: Kibbutzim Discourse Culture as a Documentary Tool

Fifth Meeting in the Annual Series: In the Wheels of Time: Reading Time: Yiddish, Gender, and Nostalgia in Ashkenazi Judaism

In Search of the Political in the Memory of an East German Village – Reflections on an Oral History Teaching Project in 2025

An Evening in Honor of Tibor Shalev Schlosser’s Book: After the Fall of the Wall

Fourth Meeting in the Annual Series: In the Wheels of Time: Time-Related Issues in German-Jewish History

Join us for an evening in honor of Dr. Assaf Ziderman’s book: Martin Buber’s Dialogic Thought as a Philosophy of Action

Annual Oral History Workshop: Video Documentation as a Gateway to Family Continuity

Beyond the Line of Redemption: 105 Years Since the Birth of Yosl Bergner

Third Meeting in the Annual Series: In the Wheels of Time: Time-Related Issues in Jewish-German History

An evening in honor of the new edition of Naftali Herz Wiesel’s book: Words of Peace and Truth

Hannah Arendt – Facing Tyranny

Oral Testimonies on Intimate Violence During the Holocaust

Jewish Literary Circle: “Germans and Jews.”

An evening following the research workshop Egodocuments – Theory and Practice; It’s Nice to Docu-Meet You: A Conversation on Visual Egodocuments in Research and Film

Opening Session of the Annual Oral History Workshop: How Much Should We Record? – Methodological Dilemmas in Jewish Ethnomusicology

An Evening Celebrating Meirav Reuveny’s Book – Not Just a Symbol: The Making of Modern Hebrew

Annual Conference for German Studies: Language, Culture, History, Society

LBI 70th Anniversary Celebrations – Eva Reichmann Memorial Lecture

Opening Session of the Annual Series – In the Wheels of Time: Issues Related to Time in Jewish-German History

Jewish Literary Circle: Queer life in Germany and Israel

Book Launch Event for Florentin by Dorothea Mendelsohn – The First Novel by a Jewish Woman

Jewish Literary Circle: Stiftung Neue Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, In Cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem -“Visual Worlds after October 7th”

7th Else Lasker-Schüler lecture (will be held in English)

A Festive Launch Evening Following the Seminar Day “Sand And Stars” By Siddi Wronsky: A scholarly Edition Of the 1930s Novel In The Context Of Jewish History, Gender And Social Work

Zoom Meeting In The Oral Documentation Series: The Multivoiced Archive: Connecting Oral (Hi)stories of Historical Injustices

Festive Event Marking The 70th Anniversary Of The Leo Baeck Institute

Seventh Meeting In The Series Laws, Contracts And Agreements: Justice vs. Law In Cinema: Fritz Bauer vs. The Federal Republic of Germany

Kafka in Contemporary Research: A Scholars’ Discourse – A session within the conference: Kafka In Jerusalem 100 Years After His Death

Unfortunately, the event has been canceled. Listening Against The Grain: Oral Testimonies On Intimate Violence During The Holocaust

Sixth Online Meeting- A Look At Law In German Jewish History And Culture

Actually Kafka – Another Look At Franz Kafka On His 101st Birthday

Oral Documentation As A Bypass Strategy: Studies On The Activities Of The Mossad

An Evening In Honor Of The Book: “Letters On Jews And Judaism” By Stefan Zweig

“Contract Laws and Agreements” – From The “Law of the Jews” To The “Sanhedrin”: The (excessive?) Price Of Emancipation

An Evening In Memory Of Prof. Henry Wassermann

Fifth Zoom Meeting In The Oral Documentation Series: Listening For Colonialism, Migration And Ethno-Religious Identities

An Evening Discussing Mascha Kaleko’s New Anthology: “Under A Foreign Roof”, Translated From German: Dina Von Schwarze

Fourth online meeting in the Oral Documentation Series on the topic: The beginnings of oral documentation in Israel and its contribution to my research

Fourth Online Meeting – Law, Culture And Jewish Identity 1900 – 1970

Book Launch: The Policy of Persecution And Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: A Selection of Documents 1933-1945

A Russian Novel – Oral Documentation And The Struggle For Immigration To Israel From The Soviet Union

An Evening in Honor of Eyal Winter’s Book “Anna’s Children”

Launch Of the Journal of “Chidushim” Dedicated To Prof. Shmuel Feiner

Book launch of Dr. Miriam Szamet’s new book: “We Are the Novelty”- Jewish Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in Pre-State Israel

Third online meeting in the series “Contract Laws and Agreements” – Jewish life under different authorities in the early modern era

An evening in honor of Amit Levy’s new book: A new Orient From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut

Speaking truth to Power: Oral Testimonies and Crimes against humanity in the Argentinean province of Jujuy

Film screening at the Jerusaelm cinematheque – “A Contract with the Devil?” directed by: Avida Livni

“For I am am sick with love”: Poetry, Translation and Gender – Between Hebrew, German and Arabic

An evening marking 40 years since the passing of Prof.Uriel Tal

Exhibition Launch in Israel – Library of Lost Books

Law and Gender in the Jewish courts during the Middle Ages- Between Ashkenaz and Egypt

“Book Launch of Karin Neuburger Twito’s new book: ” Green Mountain and Love- The young Uri Zvi Greenberg and The History of The New Jewish Hebrew Poetry

A discussion evening in memory of the late Paul Mendes-Flor on the 30’s of his death

Opening Lecture of the Oral History Workshop with the author: Haim Be’er

“Launch event of the Journal “Tabur – Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought

International Conference: “Revisiting Jewish Feminism” The Jüdischer Frauenbund: a contemporary perspective on its 120th JubileeI

Movie screening to mark the 110th anniversary of Hedy Lamar’s birthday at the Jerusalem Cinematheque

Israeli Law – From British Control to German Influence

Jewish Journalism: History and Methodology

An Evening in Memory of Rabbi Prof. David Ellenson

Annual Conference of German Studies: Language, Culture, Society

Oral Documentation During War

Last Meeting of the Annual Lecture Series: “Boycott, Banishment, Exclusion”

Launch of the 26.1 Issue of the Journal Chidushim

Missed encounters: Else Lasker-Schüler, Leah Goldberg and Zelda Mishkovsky at Cafe Zichel in Jerusalem, 1940s

The Seventh Meeting of the Annual Lecture Series: “Boycott, Banishment, Exclusion”

Echoes of Children’s Survival: Unveiling the Kestenberg Archive Online

City with(out) Jews – On the Jewish Presence in Vienna after the First World War

Evening in Memory of Dr. Rachel Freund Following Michal Greenboim’s Book “The Journey Home”

The 100th anniversary of the film “The City Without Jews”

“Book launch of the Hebrew translation of the book: “When Kafka Says We

Mourning. Two meetings on Memory, Commemoration and Coping with Trauma

Workshop of the Research Group: Between Jewish Languages: Literature, Thought and History

Book Launch: Tree Trunks in the Snow: Four Jewish-Viennese Authors by Dekel Shai Schori

Oral History Workshop

An Event in honor of the 80th birthday of Prof. Moshe Zimmermann – Israeli Research on German History

A Dialogue

Boycott, Banishment, Exclusion. Second meeting of the Lecture Series: Crime and Exclusion: Body, Space and Time in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

In others People‘s Houses. Poles and Jews in Lower Silesia after 1945 by Anna Holzer-Kawalko

Oral History Workshop

The Launch of the 25.2 Issue of the Journal Chidushim

Opening lecture in the online series: Boycott, ostracism, removal

“An evening in honor of David Witzthum’s book “A Cultural Community on the Edge of an Abyss

The Annual Conference for German Studies 2023: Language, Culture, Society

Oral History Workshop

A DOUBLE BURDEN

Evening in the Memory of the late Prof. Itta Shedletzky

Else Lasker-Schüler

Reform – Seventh meeting – History, Religion, Culture

A conference in memory of Judge Gabriel Bach

The Launch of the 25.1 Issue of the Journal Chidushim

Oral History Workshop

The Population History of German Jewry by Steven Mark Lowenstein

Reform – Sixth meeting – History, Religion, Culture

Oral History Workshop

The Jewish-Austrian jurist, Hans Kelsen

Oral History Workshop

CANINE PIONEER

The new Jewish Almanach: “Consensus – Dissent”

Thinking Germany – Israeli dialogue by Moshe Zuckerman and Moshe Zimmerman

Berlin in Jerusalem – Rehavia” by Thomas Sparr”

Reform – Fifth meeting – History, Religion, Culture

Oral History Workshop

Language – Testimony – Poetry: Female Jewish Poets in the German speaking diaspora

Reform – Fourth meeting – History, Religion, Culture

German–Jewish Studies: Next Generations

Oral History Workshop

Translation of Moshe Mendelssohn’s book Jerusalem: or about religious power and Judaism

Reform – Third meeting – Education, gender, language

German History through Jewish Eyes: Another History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Prof. Shulamit Volkov’s

The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany by Debra Kaplan

Oral History Workshop

Annual Heinrich Heine lecture

Reform – Second meeting – Tradition and secularisation

The Journey to the Magic House by Christoph Schmidt

The Legend of Joseph, Queer Desire in Richard Strauss’s Ballet and Thomas Mann’s Novel

Oral History Workshop

“Gender and Sexuality in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages” by Eyal Levinson

Jewish researchers in German academy – or what is left from Noether?

Reform – first meeting – Martin Luther and the Jews

Scholarships and the Launch of the 24th Issue of the Journal Chidushim

Rosh HaShanah Event & Lecture “Social Modernism in the work of Lotte Cohn”

When Gronemann meets Alterman

The Annual Conference for German Studies 2022: Language, Culture, Society

Else Lasker-Schüler

Voyages: Tourism and Sanitarum

In the shadow of the Nazi regime: the Jewish community in Breslau 1941-1933

Oral History Workshop

In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism By Prof. Michael Brenner

Voyages: Property and reparations

Oral History Workshop

Voyages: A musical journey

Oral History Workshop

Great Wolf Krakauer -The pioneering puppet theater

To be a Jew in a Nazi Germany – Space and time

Great Wolf Krakauer – An Immigration Story

Voyages: Languages between East and West

Oral History Workshop

Book Launch ‘I will not show you’ by Omri Ben Yehuda

Voyages: In Children’s Literature

Oral History Workshop

Book Launch Niemandsland: Hader am Berg Scopus

Publication of the new Jewish Almanach – Nature – Explorations from the Jewish World

Voyages: Migration, Knowledge, and Property in the German-Jewish World

Oral History Workshop

Between Jewish languages: Literature, Thought and History

Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times

Immigration – Deportation – Return

Oral History Workshop

The Prize by Mati Shemoelof

Time, Map, Wandering

Oral History Workshop

Join us for the online book launch by Dr. Sebastian Schirrmeister

An Evening to Launch the New Issue of our Journal “Chidushim”

Come and Welcome the New Year with us

Jewish Life In Germany Today And The Role of History  

Oral History Workshop

Jeckes – die deutschen Juden Israels. Virtuelles Einführungsgespräch und Film-Screening von „Rehavia. Das Lächeln Jerusalems“

German-Jewish artists in the collection of the Department of Modern Art

Philanthropist, Rescuer, Collector: Remembering Wilfrid Israel

The Third Else Lasker Schüler Lecture

Scholar and Witness – An Evening in Memory of Otto Dov Kulka 1933-2021

Researching German Jewry: A Continuous Past

Building a New Land: Women Architects and Women’s Organizations in Mandatory Palestine

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

The Relevance of Martin Buber in Today’s Israeli Society: Dialogues with the Eternal Wandering Jew

On Masculinity Among German Jews

The Relevance of Buber in Today’s Israeli Society: A Call to Anarchy, Since Then to the Present Day

The Relevance of Buber in Today’s Israeli Society: I and Thou. The Buberian Dialog in Therapy and Education

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

An evening to celebrate Amir Eshel’s book of poems

On the Relevance of Martin Buber to Contemporary Israel Society

Right, Identity and Citizenship

The Many Faces of Antisemitism

An evening to mark Dr. Gilead Sharvit’s book

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

Launching of the book of Dr. Doron Avraham “German Neo-Pietism, the Nation and the Jews”

Landscapes of the Homeland

ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry

Between Apostasy and Secularism

How to Teach and how to Write About Nature?

An Evening on the Book by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi “Three Poets: Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Yehuda Amichai”

Jewish – Christian Relations