Der im Jahr 2019 begonnene "Podcast Jüdische Geschichte" der Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München bietet Vorträge, Podiumsdiskussionen, Interviews und studentische Beiträge zu Themen der jüdischen Geschichte. Die Inhalte werden sowohl von MitarbeiterInnen des Lehrstuhls und Studierenden der LMU als auch durch zahlreiche Gäste und GastwissenschaftlerInnen vorgetragen. Das Team des Lehrstuhls von Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner und Dr. Martina…
In this Interview Prof. Martina Niedhammer and Prof. Marcin Wodzinski discuss the evolution of Hasidism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Prof. Wodzinski explains his approach to researching the topic with methods of Digital Humanities. A special interest of Prof. Niedhammer is the evolving role of woman for the movement of Hasidism.
Zum Sommersemester 2026 übernimmt Dr. Martina Niedhammer die Lehrstuhlvertretung für Prof. Michael Brenner. Zum Semesterstart hat sie uns über ihren Werdegang, die kommenden Lehrveranstaltungen und ihre Ideen für die Zukunft berichtet. Herzlich Willkommen am Lehrstuhl für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Martina Niedhammer!
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
International Conference “Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and Germany in the Light of the War in Ukraine (1991-2025). Narratives, Memory and Identity Formation” December 2025 in Munich. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has triggered one of the largest refugee crises in recent European history. Over 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens have received temporary protection…
Modern scholarship identifies a series of “temporal turns” in Jewish studies stemming from the early 1900s, 1945, and the present notion that “time is running out.” Homo Temporalis: German-Jewish Thinkers on Time follows thinkers who watched catastrophes unfold but imagined a new world rising from their ashes. Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan shaped our understanding of…
Wie können wir ein hebräisches Gebet ins Deutsche übersetzen, wie können wir Spuren der Stimme Gottes hören, und welche Gefahren birgt die Säkularisierung der Heiligen Sprache in Palästina? Dies ist nur ein Teil der Fragen, die der junge Gershom Scholem in den Jahren 1916–1928 zu beantworten versuchte, bevor er sich dem Studium der Kabbala widmete. In seiner kürzlich erschienenen Monografie…