Chaim Weizmann: A Biography
The complete and definitive biography now available 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
"Antisemitism and the Politics of History" edited by Scott Ury and Guy Miron and "Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity's Highest Good" by Jeremy Fogel
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 2024 classes taught by our esteemed faculty associates:
Jonathan Decter
Biblical Narratives in the Qur'an (NEJS 191A)
The Qur'an tells versions of stories known from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and post-biblical Jewish and Christian literature. Compares the Qur'anic renditions with those circulating in the Near East with a focus on major characters (Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary, etc).
ChaeRan Freeze
Women, Genders, and Sexualities (WGS 5A)
Introduces central concepts and topics in the field of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Explores the position of women and other genders in diverse settings and the impact of gender as a social, cultural, and intellectual category in the United States and around the globe. Asks how gendered institutions, behaviors, and representations have been configured in the past and function in the present, and also examines the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with many other vectors of identity and circumstance in forming human affairs.
Eugene Sheppard
Spinoza Now (NEJS 157A)
Students will be introduced to Spinoza’s Ethics and the philosophical method he employed in facing fundamental challenges of religion, science, and politics. Students will follow Spinoza’s work alongside a set of 20th-21st century re-interpretations and responses that emerged first in France by Marxists and constituting the “New Spinoza,” one of which prompted a re-evaluation of the fundamental problems raised when seeing aspirations for liberation and more adequate knowledge of God or nature have morphed into the emergence of deeper forms of human subjugation and the pernicious rule of will of the few in the name of the multitude.