European Traditions – Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures

Original project title:
Europäische Traditionen – Enzyklopädie jüdischer Kulturen

The aim of the project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences “Europäische Traditionen - Enzyklopädie jüdischer Kulturen” was the development and conceptual penetration of Jewish life worlds in Europe from the early modern period to the middle of the 20th century. It was based on the “Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture”. Completed in 2017, the work, which contains around 800 articles in seven volumes and also appears in English translation, explores phenomena of the transition from pre-modern to modernity.

The history of the experience of the Jewish population is understood here as being seismographic for the challenges and upheavals of modernity. This focus also applies to the two other publication formats of the project.

The series of editions “Library of Jewish History and Culture” offers a targeted selection of little-known, inaccessible or unpublished works on the political and knowledge history of the Jews.

The series “Archive of Jewish History and Culture” brings together sources on specific questions and topics of Jewish political experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Encyclopedia

German

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur (EJGK), ed. by Dan Diner on behalf of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, published with Metzler (Stuttgart/Weimar),

• Band 1 (A–Cl), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2011;
• Band 2 (Co–Ha), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2012;
• Band 3 (He–Lu), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2012;
• Band 4 (Ly–Po), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2013;
• Band 5 (Pr–Sy), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2014;
• Band 6 (Te–Z), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2015;
• Band 7 (Register), Stuttgart/Weimar 2017.

English

Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, ed. by Dan Diner on behalf of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, published with Brill (Leiden/Boston),

• Vol. 1 (A–Cl), Leiden/Boston 2017;
• Vol. 2 (Co–F), Leiden/Boston 2019;
• Vol. 3 (G–Le), Leiden/Boston 2020;
• Vol. 4 (Li–PH), Leiden/Boston 2021;
• Vol. 5 (Pi-Sm), Leiden/Boston 2022;
• Vol. 6 (So–Z), Leiden/Boston 2023;
• Vol. 7 (Index), Leiden/Boston 2025.

Editions:

• Jüdische Gemeindestatuten aus dem aschkenasischen Kulturraum 1650–1850, hg. v. Stefan Litt, Göttingen 2014 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 1).
• Simon Dubnow: Geschichte eines jüdischen Soldaten. Bekenntnis eines von vielen, a. d. Russ. übers. von Vera Bischitzky und hg. v. Vera Bischitzky und Stefan Schreiner, Göttingen 2012 (Bibliothek jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 1).
• The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard 1926–1927. A Selection of Documents, ed. by David Engel, Göttingen 2016 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 2).
• Jewish Refugees in Shanghai 1933–1947. A Selection of Documents, ed. by Irene Eber, Göttingen 2018 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd.3).
• Kriegsverbrechen, Restitution, Prävention. Aus dem Vorlass von Benjamin B. Ferencz, hg. v. Constantin Goschler, Marcus Böick und Julia Reus, Göttingen 2019 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 4).
• Simon Rawidowicz: Between Babylon and Jerusalem. Selected Writings, ed. by David N. Myers and Benjamin C. Ravid, Göttingen 2020 (Bibliothek jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 2).
• Jüdische Fürsprache. Quellen aus Gemeindeprotokollbüchern (pinkasim) des aschkenasischen Kulturraums 1586–1808, hg. v. Stefan Litt, Göttingen 2021 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 5).
• Khurbn-Forshung. Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland, ed. by Laura Jockusch, Göttingen 2021 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 6).
• Von Konstantinopel nach Genf. Quellen zum Wirken Richard Lichtheims, hg. v. Andrea Kirchner, Göttingen 2022 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 7).
• Lazar Gulkowitsch. Schriften zur begriffsgeschichtlichen Methode 1934–1940/41, hg. v. Ernst Müller in Zusammenarbeit mit Annett Martini, Göttingen 2022 (Bibliothek jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 3).
• Oyfn Sheydveg. Issue 1, 1939 (April), ed., annotated, and introduced by Joshua M. Karlip, translated by Yankl Salant and Joshua M. Karlip, Göttingen 2023 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 8).
• Zur Wissenschaft des Judentums. Aus der Gelehrtenkorrespondenz Markus Branns, hg. v. Christian Wiese u. Daniel Ristau, Göttingen 2023 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 9).
• The Surviving Remnant. Documents on Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany 1945–1950, ed. by Atina Grossmann, Alexandra M. Kramen, Tamar Lewinsky, and Avinoam J. Patt, Göttingen 2024 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 10).
• The Jewish National Councils 1917–1919. A Selction of Documents, ed. by Marcos Silber, Göttingen 2025 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 11).
• Oyfn Sheydveg. Issue 2, 1939 (August) and Issue 3, (1940), ed., annotated, and introduced by Joshua M. Karlip, translated by Yankl Salant and Joshua M. Karlip, Göttingen 2025 (Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Bd. 12).
  

Running time: 2007–2025

This research project is part of German Academies' Programme which is the largest long- term research Programme in the humanities and cultural studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.
It is co-financed by tax revenue based on the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.