Dirk Sadowski

Dr Phil, studied Israel studies, Jewish studies and modern history at the Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin and at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as project manager in the Israel Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Herzliya. From 2001 to 2009, he was research associate at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish history and culture, Leipzig, where he also worked as assistant to the director until November 2006. In June 2008, he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the Maskil Herz Homberg and the Jewish German schools in Galicia. His research interests are in the fields of Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) and enlightened Jewish pedagogy, early modern Jewish lifeworlds and Hebrew printing from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Dr Sadowski also specialises in Israeli history and society. Dirk Sadowski has been a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute since January 2010.

Projects

At the Georg Eckert Institute, Dirk Sadowski is a member of the work area 'Europe'. He coordinates the German-Israeli textbook commission and is involved in establishing a new research area on history, theory and methods of educational media research.

Publications

• Haskala und Lebenswelt. Herz Homberg und die jüdischen deutschen Schulen in Galizien 1782–1806 (Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts, Bd. 12), Göttingen 2010
• Jupitermonde und 'verschlossene Gärten'. Tuvija Cohens Enzyklopädie der Naturwissenschaften und der Medizin Ma'ase Tuvija (1707), in Yearbook of the Simon Dubnov Institute 9 (2011), 247-277
• „Gedruckt in der Heiligen Gemeinde Jeßnitz“ – Der Buchdrucker Israel bar Avraham und sein Werk, in: Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 7 (2008), 39–69
• „Aus der Schule gehet schon der künftige Heuchler hervor“ – Herz Homberg zwischen Berlin und Lemberg und die Reform der jüdischen Erziehung im Geiste der Nützlichkeit (1782 – 1787), in: Trumah 16 (2006), 73–103
• „DasWerk des Tuvija“ (1721) – ein Wissenschaftskompendium der frühen Haskala, in: Bulletin des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 7 (2005), 40–47
• Maskilisches Bildungsideal und josephinische Erziehungspolitik – Herz Homberg und die jüdisch-deutschen Schulen in Galizien 1787–1800, in: Leipziger Beiträge für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur 1 (2003), 143–166
• (Ed.), Israel 2025 – Szenarien der zukünftigen Entwicklung. Ein Projekt des Israel-Büros der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Herzliya 2001 (also in Hebrew and English)

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