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Andreas Lehnardt
An Archive of Jewish Life: Mainz Jewish Library
There are many reasons to consider Mainz Jewish Library a rare jewel. Uniquely reflecting centuries of Jewish community life
Ursula Reuter
David Oppenheim(er) – a man and his library
Some time around 1688 David Oppenheim, scarcely yet 25 years old, made a list of all the books he had gathered in his library...
Kerstin von der Krone
The Hebraica & Judaica Collection of Frankfurt University Library
With some 350,000 items, the Frankfurt collection of Hebraica & Judaica is the biggest in mainland Europe. Its roots reach back...
Bernhard Jensen
The Jewish Bibliophiles’ Society - The Soncino Society at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Five years ago, the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin began to digitize selected holdings, starting with the Soncino Society’s collection.
Elisabeth Gallas
Library in Transit: Offenbach Archival Depot 1946-1949
In the short time in which it existed, the Archival Depot established in 1946 by the American Military Government in Offenbach...
Barbara Engelbach
A Library in the Art Museum
Cologne’s Museum Ludwig is currently hosting a video installation by the Israeli artist Boaz Kaizman. Grünanlage (“Green Area”)
Cordula Lissner
The Libraries in the Rabbi’s House
The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute has found its home in the ideal setting of the historic Rabbi’s House next to the Old Synagogue...
Franziska Krah
Education, entertainment, encounter – the library of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
Making old things new. How a specialist library for museum staff, especially for preparing new exhibitions, became a public library for all.
Christiane Hoffrath
The Elise and Helene Richter Collection:The story of books is always the story of people
In 1942 the Viennese philologists Elise and Helene Richter sold part of their private library to the University and City Library of Cologne.
Thomas Ridder
From Attic to Museum – the Bottrop Book Hamper
Bottrop, Kirchhellener Strasse 46, January 1989: A big old house is for sale; the owner has moved into sheltered accommodation
Renate Evers
Posts from the Past & Shared History: Activities and collections of the Leo Baeck Institute
The LBI is a special research collection which has been dedicated to preserve and to promote the history and culture of German-speaking Jews
Constanze Baumgart
Germania Judaica – Presenting the whole spectrum of Jewish life
Germania Judaica (GJ): Behind the Latin name – which can be read as both “Jewish Germany” and “German Jewry” – stands a unique treasury of