Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg
Contact details
Sophienstraße 22aBerlin
10178
Germany
Tel: +49(0)30-2093 66310
Email: info@selma-stern-zentrum.de
https://http://www.zentrum-juedische-studien.de
Contact person
Prof. Dr. Sina Rauschenbach
Tel: +49 (331) 977-1367 and -4253
Email: sina.rauschenbach@uni-potsdam.de
Activites
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Due to its conception, structure and composition, the Selma Stern Center has developed into an internationally recognized research center since it was founded.
The structure of the center connects the seven most important actors in the scientific investigation of Judaism in its religious and cultural manifestations in the scientific region of Berlin-Brandenburg. The active collaboration between the scientists at the Selma Stern Center provides an excellent basis for innovative and future-oriented research. With the PostDoc Academy, the promotion of young talent in the phase between doctorate and professorship is particularly encouraged. The postdocs at the center, who are committed to different disciplines, are trained both in terms of content and in the field of science management and are actively entrusted with supervising doctoral students.
The fact that the center focuses on the entire spectrum of Judaism is of central importance for the successful work. On the one hand, this requires that the center does not limit itself to a leading discipline such as historical studies or cultural studies, but rather shifts the historical, philosophical and religious dimensions of Judaism into the scientific focus. At the same time, the multidiversity of Judaism provides the hermeneutical, methodological questions and subjects that require interdisciplinary research.
Historically and currently, in no other region of Germany has the development of Jewish religious traditions through religious-scientific self-reflection (exegesis, theology, religious philosophy) to academic research (history, sociology, cultural studies) been institutionally anchored as comprehensively as in the Berlin / Brandenburg region. This includes classical Jewish studies at the FUB, the Jewish Studies and the School of Jewish Theology at the UP, the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU, the German-Jewish literary and cultural history at the Viadrina and the Jewish studies associated with various subjects the HU and FUB. With the professorship for the history of Jewish music at the FRANZ LISZT Weimar University of Music, the spectrum is supplemented by an important field of research.
On this basis, research into the development of the science of Judaism from its beginnings to the Jewish studies of the 21st century is a concern of the center. To this day, Jewish Studies continue to follow the history and results of the science of Judaism, but have greatly expanded its range of subjects and methods. The ZJS makes the history of science of Jewish studies its subject at the place of origin and the most important international center of the science of Judaism until 1933: Berlin and Brandenburg. It benefits from the genius loci due to its proximity to the places, traditions, libraries and archives of this science.
The profile of the ZJS is shaped by four main research areas, which are justified by the special location of the ZJS, the current scientific discourses and at the same time the importance and scope of Jewish studies for the solution of current social questions and problems and by the proven competencies of the colleagues involved - Directors and the professors appointed by the BMBF.
Research focus:
The monotheistic triangle
Witness - memorial culture (after) the Shoah
Sephardic Perspectives
Diaspora - Migration - Transnationality
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