Large Frankfurt university launches new Jewish studies program – Frankfurt’s Goethe University launches new Jewish studies program, honoring philosopher dismissed by Nazis. | Israel National News

A new center for Jewish studies has opened at Goethe University in Frankfurt, joining a growing number of Jewish studies programs at universities across Germany.The announcement of the Buber-Rosenzweig-Institute for Modern and Contemporary Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History was made on Monday, the 143rd anniversary of the one of the institute’s namesakes, Martin Buber, a philosopher who taught at the university from 1924 until he was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933.