The Center for Research on Antisemitism

Fields of Research

The Center for Research on Antisemitism, founded in 1982, is the only scholarly institution conducting interdisciplinary researches and teachings focussing on prejudices and their consequences like antisemitism, Antiziganism, xenophobia and racism.

The interdisciplinary research on antisemitism is supplemented by research on related areas such as German-Jewish history and the Holocaust.

Scope and Teachings

The Center for Research on Antisemitism is considered as a public institution not limiting its scope to university teaching. Its teachings (including conferences, workshops, research excursions and consisting of historical, political and social science as well as the study of literature) are open to students of all disciplines and to those interested in our current research fields.
Each year, the Center for Research on Antisemitism organizes research excursions to sites of Jewish persecution. In recent years, for example, study trips were made to Poland, Ukraine, Theresienstadt, Prague, Nuremberg and to the Lieberose and Flossenbürg concentration camps.
In cooperation with the Literaturforum in Brechthaus (Berlin), the center has conducted since 1994 discussions with historical witnesses and authors of new biographical and autobiographical publications as part of the series on Life Testimonies.