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Toby Simpson
Witnessing the Battlefield of the Jewish Spirit: The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world’s largest and most important collections of evidence of the crimes of the Nazi regime
David Fishman
The Jewish Archival Survey – Jewish Documents and Cultural Treasures in Ukraine
The aggressive Russian war in Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022 continues not only to kill people and annihilate infrastructure...
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...
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.
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...
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
Nathanja Hüttenmeister
From the bookshelves of a Franconian rabbi c. 1600
That the rabbis and scholars in the major religious centers of the Early Modern period were learned men is well known. We know many of their