Research and constant contact with the international Jewish research community is of utmost importance for an Institute of Jewish Studies in Germany. The members of the institute are part of the Verband der Judaisten, the European Association of Jewish Studies and the World Union of Jewish Studies. The countless institutes related to Jewish Studies abroad, both inside and outside of Europe, allow for a close cooperation, especially with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Florence.

The following research projects are currently conducted at the Institute for Jewish Studies:

• The Kabbalistic Library of Pico della Mirandola
• A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud
• The Impact of the Sefer ha-Zohar on the Christian World 17th-19th Centuries
• A Digital Synopsis of the Mishnah and the Tosefta
• Die hebräischen Handschriften der „Erfurter Sammlung“ als kulturhistorische  Zeugen jüdischen Lebens im Mittelalter

The following research projects have been completed or are in the closing stages:

• A collection of texts on Jews and Judaism on perishable material from Egypt: 330 BCE to 700 CE
• DFG Projekt Yohanan Alemanno
• Lexicon of Jewish Names: Erfassung sämtlicher jüdischer Namen und Personen in der Antike in Palästina und in der Diaspora
• Schulprojekt: History und Oral History. Jüdisches Leben in Berlin

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