Biography

Olaf Glöckner, PhD, is a Senior researcher at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam (MMZ). He is also Lecturer at the Historical Institute and at the Department of Jewish Studies at Potsdam University. Glöckner’s main foci of research are on Jewish Migration, European Jewry after 1989/90, German-Israeli relations and modern anti-Semitism.

Glöckner has worked and participated in several empirical studies on Jewish migration, Jewish education, and Jewish experiences with modern anti-Semitism (incl. the Studies of the Fundamental Rights Agency on Anti-Semitism, 2012/13 and 2017/18). From 2021 till 2025 he was subproject leader in a joint project “ASJUST – Struggling with Antisemitism. The judiciary in Germany's handling of anti-Semitism”, funded by the German Ministry of Science.