At the Dubnow Institute, around 30 scholars conduct interdisciplinary research with a pan-European perspective on Jewish lifeworlds from modern times to the present, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe. Spaces of Jewish emigration, especially Israel and America, are included. The internationally renowned research institute is committed to the secular tradition of its namesake, the Jewish-Russian historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), who acted as a cultural mediator between Eastern and Western European Jewry.