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This chair has been endowed by the State of Baden-Württemberg and is the only chair in the religion of Israel and the Middle East in the German-speaking world. This chair is a joint research professorship between the
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since 2009. Throughout the course of construction in the 1980s the institution’s professors were acting lecturers at other universities. Today the HfJS has 11 professorships and just as many research assistantships.
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moved to establish an educational institution for rabbis, cantors and teachers of religious education. The institute was meant to be formed according to the tradition of the academies of the
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denominational orientation to establish a scholarly institution at which all interested academic parties could seek higher education.
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Ignatz Bubis Endowed Chair of History, Religion and Culture of European Judaism
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