Research Section: Jewish History
Our political-, social-, and intellectual history-oriented research and teaching revolves around the European history of the Jews in the Early Modern and Modern Age. We explore both the Sephardic cultures on the Iberian and Apennine peninsulas and the Ashkenazi cultures of Prussia and Poland. Special emphasis laid on German-Jewish relations in the 19th and 20th century, including issues of emancipation, acculturation-assimilation, identity and mentality. We are also especially interested in the history of the Landjuden as well as the history of the Jews in Brandenburg-Prussia.
In terms of institutional affiliation, the Research Section is in part carried by the Chair of Modern History II (German-Jewish History, page in German). Close cooperation exists with the Moses Mendelssohn Center (page in German) as well as with the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg.
For more information on research and teaching in the Research Section Jewish History, go to the websites of the respective associates.
The following staffers work in this area
- Prof. Thomas Brechenmacher, PhD
German-Jewish and European Jewish modern history, esp. of the 19th and 20th century
- Tanja Zakrzewski, M.A.
Construction of group identities in religious and ethnic minorities
- Prof. Christoph Schulte, PhD
Jewish religious and cultural history, history of the Wissenschaft des Judentums
- Dr. Mariusz Kałczewiak
Modern Eastern European Jewish History, Yiddish Studies, Migration Studies, Urban Studies
- Prof. Sina Rauschenbach, PhD
Jewish-Christian history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Jews in the colonial Americas and the Atlantic world
Katja Martin, M.A.
German-Jewish cultural history in the 19th and 20th century, Jewish local history on the Oder-Neisse line
- Dr. Michael K. Schulz
Polish-Jewish and German-Jewish history