The FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar is one of eight key partners supporting the Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies in Berlin-Brandenburg (ZJS). The Centre is dedicated to the academic study of the history and culture of Judaism in its religious and cultural manifestations. PhD students at the University of Music are working alongside Prof. Jascha Nemtsov, for example, on the interdisciplinary doctoral programme “Broken Traditions? Jewish Literature, Philosophy and Music in Nazi Germany”.

The centre’s structure brings together the key players in the academic study of Judaism, in both its religious and cultural dimensions, within the Berlin-Brandenburg research region. The active collaboration between researchers at the Selma Stern Centre provides an outstanding foundation for innovative and forward-looking research.

Other members of this supra-regional network, founded in 2012, include: the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin, the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the University of Potsdam, the Abraham Geiger College and the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies. Under the new cooperation agreement, the centre’s headquarters will move from Humboldt University of Berlin to Freie Universität Berlin.