Jewish Studies

The Behrend Lehmann Museum for Jewish history and culture is named after the Court Jew
Behrend Lehmann (1661-1730), one of the most eminent Court Jews of the period. Born in Halberstadt, Lehmann served the courts of Prussia, Hannover, Brandenburg and, most significantly of all, August the Strong of Saxony.

Site of Hitler’s holiday retreat, now an education center with links to current research

The German Resistance Memorial Center is a site of remembrance, political studies, active learning, documentation, and research. An extensive permanent exhibition, a series of temporary special exhibitions, events, and a range of publications document and illustrate resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom of action they had.

In this house – a former industrialist’s villa built in 1915 and used from 1941 to 1945 by the SS as a conference centre and guest house – on 20th January 1942, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the SS, the NSDAP and various ministries met to discuss their cooperation in the planned deportation and murder of the European Jews.

In our work we use the diary and the biography of Anne Frank as a unique tool to promote tolerance and educate people about the consequences of discrimination and racism. The educational center Anne Frank puts emphasis on human rights and the dialogue between people from different backgrounds, social status and lifestyles.

Since opening its doors in 2001, the Jewish Museums Berlin has joined the ranks of Europe’s leading museums. Its exhibitions and permanent collection, educational activities, and diverse program of events make the museum a vibrant center of reflection on Jewish history and culture as well as about migration and diversity in Germany.

The Jewish Museum in Munich

The Jewish Museum in Rendsburg was one of the first Jewish museums to be founded in Germany after World War 2. It provides an insight into the history of the Jews in Schleswig-Holstein, the Jewish religion and identity. Moreover, it exhibits the works of selected Jewish artists. The museum is housed in the oldest maintained synagogue in Schleswig-Holstein and is therefore not only an exhibition house, but also a historic architectural monument and memorial place.

NS-Documentation Center
of the City of Cologne

Between 1933 and 1945, the central institutions of Nazi persecution and terror – the Secret State Police Office with its own “house prison,” the leadership of the SS and, during the Second World War, the Reich Security Main Office – were located on the present-day grounds of the “Topography of Terror” that are next to the Martin Gropius Building and close to Potsdamer Platz.

Only available online, The Gathering Storm: Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s features items produced by or pertaining to European Jewry before the advent of the Second World War. While the subject of Jewish experience during the war has been widely explored, life for Jewish people in the period immediately before the war is less well known and demand for relevant resources is increasing. Showcased here are rare German and Yiddish newspapers and periodicals, as well as ephemeral publications such as calendars, yearbooks and other communally inspired commemorative works. The selected materials form part of a much larger hidden collection of un-cataloged works held in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. The Gathering Storm also serves as a prelude to the upcoming exhibition Testimony featuring primary sources relating to the Holocaust.

An interactive site that follows the stories of German-Jewish émigrés and the generations that followed.

Published in Frankfurt and Vienna between 1923 and 1932 (Online Exhibit, Yale University)

New York City-based research library devoted to the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry

Online Exhibit Yale University

"A democratic, pluralistic association, aimed at fostering Jewish communal development"

Judaica-Europeana
"Jewish Contribution to Europe's Cultural Heritage"

am Historischen Seminar der Universität München (in German)

Universität Trier (in German)

Comprehensive lists of subject specific links. (in German)

An interactive site that follows the stories of German-Jewish émigrés and the generations that followed.

Institute in Hamburg (in German)

(General description of post 1945 research in English)

Halle (Newsletters available in English)

Potsdam (Current research in English)

Look for full text journal Kalonymos under Publikationen

Universität Frankfurt am Main

Some research available in English.

Description of anti-Semitism research is in English, full-text of newsletter

Jewish German periodicals published between 1837-1938

A Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe

The online catalog of the European network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries

The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This website makes accurate, reliable, scholarly information about East European Jewish life accessible to everyone.