Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute

The Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 2014 has two focal areas, one of which centers on the 100th anniversary of the "great seminal catastrophe," the outbreak of World War I, while the other deals with the life and work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973). The first focal area explores the complexity of war and the experience of war in literary form. The following draws attention to the particular perspective of the historian, sociologist and language philosopher Rosenstock-Huessy, to whom the Great War was a key epistemological event. The articles relating to Rosenstock-Huessy examine the significance of the 1913 "Leipzig nocturnal discussion" in the history of thought, a dialogue in which Franz Rosenzweig and Rudolf Ehrenberg participated as well.

Furthermore, the regular and special sections of the Yearbook contain articles on the history of concepts, historical semantics, the history of religious conversion, the early Polish opposition movement and historical studies on the biographies of Richard Koebner, Max Horkheimer and Ruth Fischer.