From 2009 to 2024, Ruth Leiserowitz was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Starting in April 2025, she will be a senior researcher at the Institute of Baltic History and Archaeology within Klaipeda University, a place where she had also previously taught and conducted research She continues to teach at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she received her doctorate, habilitated, and was appointed adjunct professor of Eastern European history in 2015. Her research interests include the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on transnational, Baltic, and Jewish history, on which she has published extensively. In her free time, she is Chair of the Association Jews in East Prussia (www.judeninostpreussen.de).
As part of this work, she curated a permanent exhibition for the Jewish Museum in the rebuilt Kaliningrad Synagogue. (For more on this, see “Representations of the Holocaust in the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad.” In: Eastern European Holocaust Studies 2,2 (2024), pp. 457–480, https://doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2024-0008). She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Jews in the Borderlands of East Prussia and Lithuania (ca. 1795–1945)”.
As part of this work, she curated a permanent exhibition for the Jewish Museum in the rebuilt Kaliningrad Synagogue. (For more on this, see “Representations of the Holocaust in the Jewish Museum in Kaliningrad.” In: Eastern European Holocaust Studies 2,2 (2024), pp. 457–480, https://doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2024-0008). She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Jews in the Borderlands of East Prussia and Lithuania (ca. 1795–1945)”.
(Picture: Gintautas Beržinskas)
