Our Mission
The Tauber Institute is dedicated to exploring the lived experiences and intellectual traditions of European Jewry with a special focus on the shifting boundaries of Jewish belonging and exclusion. Our work includes the study of the Holocaust and its aftermath, as well as historical and contemporary antisemitism. The Tauber Institute promotes student and faculty research through grants, workshops, and seminars, and hosts lectures, colloquia, and conferences to foster and circulate new ideas and scholarship.
We publish innovative scholarly works in the Tauber Institute Series at Brandeis University Press, as well as curated collections of original sources in the Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Our programming and publications are multidisciplinary and represent the intersections of history, philosophy, literature, arts, and culture.