Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930: A Memoir
The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation through Brandeis University Press.
Featured Content Slideshow
Honoring our Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Speakers from 1964 to 2024
This year at the Annual Simon Rawidowicz Lecture, the Tauber Institute honored our past lecture speakers in the form of a slideshow presented at Susannah Heschel's lecture on April 4, 2024.
Modern European Jewish Studies
The Tauber Institute is devoted to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture and society.
New Titles
"Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos" by Sven-Erik Rose and "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946" by Kateřina Králová
Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
The Tauber Institute Series is dedicated to publishing compelling and innovative approaches to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture and society.
Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
This library aims to redefine the canon of modern Jewish thought by publishing primary source readings from individual Jewish thinkers or groups of thinkers in reliable English translations.
The Tauber Institute is devoted to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture and society. It has a special interest in studying the Holocaust and its aftermath within the context of modern European intellectual, political and social history.
The institute is organized on a multidisciplinary basis with the participation of scholars in Jewish studies, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, literature and other disciplines. The institute was founded in 1980 as a result of a major benefaction by Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber and is named in honor of his parents.
Classes with Faculty Associates
The Tauber Institute is pleased to announce the Fall 2026 classes taught by our esteemed faculty associates:
Jonathan Decter
Jews in the World of Islam (NEJS 144A)
Examines social and cultural history of Jewish communities in the Islamic world. Special emphasis is placed on the pre-modern Jewish communities.
Eugene Sheppard
Modern Jewish Philosophy (NEJS 159A)
Surveys the contours of modern Jewish philosophy by engaging some of its most important themes and voices, competing Jewish inflections of and responses to rationalism, romanticism, idealism, existentialism, and nihilism. This provides the conceptual road signs of the course as we traverse the winding byways of Jewish philosophy from Baruch Spinoza to Emanuel Levinas.
Laura Jockusch
Antisemitic Stereotypes: Histories, Consequences, Responses (NEJS 142B)
Jews have been accused of simultaneously being capitalists and communists, powerful and weak, threatening and inferior. This course will explore the history and contemporary relevance of anti-Jewish stereotypes through texts, social media, and film and will teach students to develop strategies to counter and cope with such forms of prejudice in the present.
The Holocaust: History, Memory, and Misrepresentation (NEJS 37A)
We investigate the ideological roots and nature of the National Socialist state, the decision-making and implementation of anti-Jewish policies, and the different kinds of perpetrators involved. We will consider the interconnections between the persecution and murder of the Jews with the treatment of other groups of Nazi victims, such as Roma, people with disabilities, and homosexuals among others. Likewise, we study the Jewish responses to these policies in various European countries and explore the roles of non-Jews as bystanders, collaborators, or rescuers. Students will also learn about some of the historical problems and controversies that characterize the current scholarship on the Holocaust.