Last week, the 2025-26 Leo Baeck Fellows gathered at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, for their summer workshop.
Over two days, ten doctoral researchers presented their work to each other and to senior scholars, covering an extraordinary range of subjects: early Zionist thought, citizen responses to antisemitic violence in post-war Germany, the economic networks of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, Ashkenazi Hebrew script in the thirteenth century, Yekkes in Israel after 1945, Salomon Maimon, third-generation Jewish poetry and film, Adorno’s reflections on antisemitism, and the pre-1948 idea of a Jewish state.
The workshop also included a public lecture by Dr Itamar Ben-Ami of Utrecht University, held in the framework of Leipzig’s Jüdische Woche, on Jewish visibility in contemporary Europe, followed by a museum visit and talk on provenance research with Dr Ulrike Saß of the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig.
We are grateful to our colleagues at the Dubnow Institute for hosting.
Find out more about the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme at https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship
