Jewish History Resources

Partners of the Center for Jewish History

• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Sephardi Federation
• Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin
• Yeshiva University Museum
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Archives, Libraries, and Museums

• AGGB - Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Gedenkstättenbibliotheken
• AGGB Catalog: The union catalog of the AGGB features 1 million library holdings of 24 libraries in memorial institutions
• Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris, France
• Alte Synagoge Erfurt, Germany
• American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Archives of the JDC
• Archive at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex near Brighton
• Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution, formerly: International Tracing Service
• Auschwitz Jewish Center, Oswiecim, Poland
• Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel, featuring the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
• Bibliothek Albert Einstein, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg
• Bildarchiv Schweizer Juden/ Image Archives Swiss Jews (BASJ)
• The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem
• Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
• Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, featuring an online catalog of their archives, and extensive links
• The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• Dom Pamięci Żydów Górnośląskich / Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance, Gliwice, Poland
• Ets Haim Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• The Franz Rosenzweig Research Centre, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• Germania Judaica, Stadtbibliothek Koeln, Cologne, Germany
• Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion - Libraries, Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles, Jerusalem
• Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest, Hungary
• Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs/ Institute for Jewish History in Austria (INJOEST), St. Pölten
• Institut für Jüdische Studien und Religionswissenschaft, Universität Potsdam, Germany
• Judaica Collections of the Penn Libraries, Philadelphia, Pa, United States
• Judaica-Sammlung Frankfurt – Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
• Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
• Jüdisches Museum Hohenems, Austria
• Jüdisches Museum München, Germany
• Jüdisches Museum Schweiz, Basel, Switzerland
• Jüdisches Museum Wien, Austria
• Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
• Leo Baeck Institute, London, UK
• Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
• Leopold Zunz Zentrum zur Erforschung des europaeischen Judentums, University of Halle, Halle, Germany
• Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY
• Memorial Book for the Victims of National-Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Europaeisch-Juedische Studien, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
• Museum of Jewish Heritage – a living memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
• The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
• New York Public Library: Dorot Jewish Division, New York, NY
• Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum, Eisenstadt
• Orpheus Trust – Verein zur Erforschung und Veröffentlichung vertriebener und
  vergessener Kunst, Vienna, Austria
• Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
• Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU Library, New York, NY, featuring an online exhibit, Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
• Rothschild Archive, London, UK
• Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut fuer deutsch-juedische Geschichte, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
• Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies and Asher Library, Chicago, IL
• Stiftung “Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum”, Berlin, Germany
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
• University of Southampton Libraries, Special Collections, Southhampton, UK, containing significant holdings on German-Jewish emigres and emigre organizations in Britain, as well as a comprehensive database of Jewish archival holdings in the UK
• Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance/ Dom Pamięci Żydów Górnośląskich, Gliwice, Poland
• Wiener Library, London, UK
• Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
• Yeshiva University Libraries, New York, NY, USA
• Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Heidelberg, Germany, including Friedshofsdokumentation
• Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universitaet, Berlin, Germany

Cultural Centers & Organizations

• Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
• Austrian Gedenkdienst
• Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
• German Embassy, Washington DC
• Goethe-Institut New York
• Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, Austria
• Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland
• Zentrum für jüdische Kulturgeschichte, Universität Salzburg

Online Documentations/Exhibitions/Digital Humanities Projects

• AJL Jewish Collection Directory
• ANNO- Austrian Newspapers Online
• Archivportal-D Digital archival material and information on archival facilities in Germany, see also Kalliope and ZDN
• Ashkenaz House, project commemorating the heritage of orthodox German-Jewish communities
• Auktionskataloge – digital -access to over 10,000 auction catalogs published between 1901-1945 , a project of the University Library Heidelberg, Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin & the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the catalogs are also searchable by publication year
• Bavaria Judaica: documentation of Bavarian-Jewish history since the end of the 19th century
• The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art at The Center for Jewish Art (CJA), Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
• Compact Memory – Wissenschaftsportal für Jüdische Studien (contains digitized versions of German-Jewish journals and newspapers)
• Directory of Contemporary Jewish Archives and Research Institutions (Jason Lustig's Research Guide to Jewish Archives)
• #everynamecounts - an initiative by the Arolsen Archives which aims to establish a digital memorial to the people persecuted by the Nazis.
• Exilpresse digital – Digital Exile Press – German-language exile journals 1933–1945 at the Exile Archive of the German National Library
• FID - Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien =Special Information Service (SIS) Jewish Studies, University Library of Frankfurt
• Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, Footprints traces the history and movement of Jewish books since the inception of print
• Forced Academic Migration, University of Bern
• Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
• German Heritage in Letters - a digital crowdsourcing project of German-language correspondence between German-speaking lands to immigrants in the United State, a project of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, in close cooperation with the Max Kade Institute of the University of Wisconsin and the Horner Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Auswandererbriefe aus Nordamerika project in Germany
• German History in Documents and Images – is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany’s political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present from the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC
• German Illustrated Art- and Satirical Journals, 19-20th century
• German Refugee Rabbis in the United States of America, 1933–1990
• Germany Online, the German Information Center of the German Embassy, Washington, DC
• Getty Provenance Index based on archival inventories of works of art from private collections, sales catalogs, and art dealer stock books
• Hamburger Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte, a project of the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
• Hörspuren – Excerpts from a variety of interviews illustrate the year 1938 in Vienna, Austria and its importance for Jewish history between ‘Anschluss’ and ‘Kristallnacht’ (a project of Philipp Haydn and Maria Ecker at the Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, Universität Salzburg).
• An exhibit of selected works from the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection
• Immigrant Entrepreneurship – This research project by the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC explores the entrepreneurial and economic capacity of immigrants by investigating the German-American example in the United States, including many Jews
• Jewish Book Cultures in the Early Modern World, an online resource created for students at Columbia University, by Michelle Chesner Margolis, Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies, Columbia University
• JewishGen’s Holocaust Database (HDB) features more than 3.8 million records of Holocaust victims and survivors.
• Jewish Life in Berlin, Germany
• Jews in East Prussia by Ruth Leiserowitz
• JudaicaLink , a linked data resource for data professionals, University Library of Frankfurt
• Judentum in Europa
• Jüdische Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930-1945, Database of Jewish Businesses in Berlin 1930-1945
• Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller in Westfalen, ein Projekt der Universität Paderborn in Zusammenarbeit mit der Literaturkommission für Westfalen (Hartmut Steinecke, Günter Tiggesbäumker, Iris Nölle-Hornkamp)
• Kalliope is the German National Union Catalog for collections of personal papers, manuscripts, and publishers' archives in German libraries, see also ZDN and Archivportal-D
• A Letter to the Stars
• MEDIATE, Radboud University (The Netherlands), studies the circulation of books and ideas in eighteenth-century Europe based on a database of eighteenth-century private library auction catalogues, including Jewish-owned private libraries
• NS-Medicine in Vienna, a project by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
• Nürnberger Videoarchiv der Erinnerung
• On books and their places – Jewish libraries worldwide =Von Büchern und ihren Orten – jüdische Bibliotheken weltweit, a 2021 blog project by Germania Judaica & the Steinheim Institute
• PEACE – Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary Culture
• Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the destroyed synagogues of Germany, a comprehensive directory of the destroyed synagogues in Germany with more than 1400 entries
• Registration by Name: Austrian Victims of the Holocaust
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• Synagogen-Internet-Archiv
• Talmud.de, Jewish communities in Germany
• Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Germany, 1898-1939.
• ULY - Union List of Yiddish (Yiddish collections at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center, NYPL and the National Library of Israel)
• ZDN - Die Zentrale Datenbank Nachlässe provides information about more than 25.000 archival collections, see also Kalliope and Archivportal-D
• Zeitgeschichte Open is a joint open access project of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and the Bavarian State Library.

Genealogy

• Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Epidat - The Database of Jewish Epigraphy, Steinheim Institut, Essen
• Ellis Island: American Family Immigration History Center, New York, NY
• Genealogy.com
• International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
• Israel Genealogical Society
• Jewish Genealogical Society, New York, NY
• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
• Maajan : Die Quelle : Zeitschrift für Jüdische Familienforschung / Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie und der Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie e.V
• Personenstandsregister jüdischer Gemeinden in Württemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern (Jewish registers of South-Western Germany)
• Stammbaum, the Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, 1993-2007
• Swiss Society for Jewish Genealogy

Old German Script

• Old German typewriter - A helper tool for old German texts

Holocaust Claims

• Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
• Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Task Force Project HEART is a nonprofit initiative of the Government of Israel in cooperation with the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI). Project HEART seeks to reach eligible persons, Jewish Holocaust victims and their heirs worldwide, who or whose families owned movable, immovable, or intangible personal property that was confiscated, looted, or forcibly sold in countries governed or occupied by the Nazi forces or Axis powers during the Holocaust era.
• Holocaust Claims Processing Office New York State residents may find information on filing property, insurance, banking and art restitution claims on this site or may file a claim through this office.
  Holocaust-era Swiss bank accounts
• Lost Art Internet Database A project of the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste, Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property, which registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners.
• Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project Objects of questionable provenance in American Museums are indexed through this site.

Current Online Periodicals

• Aufbau: Das jüdische Monatsmagazin (Zürich, 2005 ff), access fees, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version
• Die Gemeinde insider: Offizielles Organ der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien, free access
• Maajan : Die Quelle Zeitschrift für Jüdische Familienforschung / Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie und der Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie e.V, free access for members
• Medaon: Magazin für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, free access
• Judaica Librarianship, free access
• Jüdische Allgemeine: Wochenzeitung für Politik, Kultur, Religion und jüdisches Leben, published by the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version
• Das Jüdische Echo, free access
• Jüdisches Europa: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland, Österreich und Frankreich, free access to current issue, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version
• Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, free access onsite
• Nu: Jüdisches Magazin für Politik und Kultur, free access to current issue, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version
• Tachles: Das jüdische Wochenmagazin, free access to current issue, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version
• WINA – Das jüdische Stadtmagazin, free access to current issue, LBI provides onsite access to the paper version

Publications related to LBI

• Renate Evers, 'Das Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin: Eine Spezialsammlung zur deutsch-jüdischen Kultur und Geschichte stellt sich vor,' Bibliotheksdienst 57, no. 12 (December 1, 2023): 691–99, https://doi.org/10.1515/bd-2023-0097.
• Renate Evers, 'In Echtzeit: Die Aktivitäten und Sammlungen des Leo Baeck Institutes New York | Berlin,’ in Nurinst 2020; Jahrbuch des Nürnberger Instituts für NS-Forschung und Jüdische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schwerpunktthema: Zeitenwende – neue Formen der Erinnerungs- und Gedenkkultur, 2020.
• Miriam Bistrovic, “Digitale Erinnerungskultur und das Gedenkjahr 1938,” Medaon 13, no. 25 (2019): 12.
• Stefan Altevogt (article) & Karl-Heinz Krauskopf (photos ) “...der Mensch, hilfreich und gut: Volunteers im Leo Baeck Institut.” Die Beste Zeit: Magazin für Lebensart 32 (2015): S. 24–30.
• Heuberger, Rachel, Laura E. Leone, and Renate Evers. “The Challenges of Reconstructing Cultural Heritage: An International Digital Collaboration.” IFLA Journal 41, no. 3 (October 1, 2015): 223–29.
• Renate Evers “Die „Schocken-Bücherei“ in den Nachlasssammlungen des Leo Baeck Institutes New York.”Medaon 8, no. 14 (2014)
• Roger Cohen, Leo Baeck Institute 60, 1955-2015: New York, Berlin, London, Jerusalem (New York ; Berlin: Leo Baeck Institute, 2015).
• Huberta von Voss, “Leo-Baeck-Institut – Deutsch-Jüdisches Gedächtnis bedroht,” Cicero Online, 2012.
• Christhard Hoffmann, ed., Preserving the Legacy of German Jewry: A History of the Leo Baeck Institute ; 1955 - 2005, Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo-Baeck-Instituts 70 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005).
• S. Moses, “Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany,” The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1, no. 1 (January 1, 1956): xi–xviii.