Anja Siegemund

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Anja Siegemund (* 1967 ) is a German historian and director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum .

Life

Siegemund completed her studies in Munich , Münster and Jerusalem and received her doctorate. She worked in the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and in the House of the Wannsee Conference, and since 2009 has headed the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for six years .

Her research focuses on German and Central European Zionism and its protagonists, the history of Central European migration to Palestine and Israel, and the history of German Jews and cultures of remembrance in Germany and Israel.

Publications

  • Understanding in Palestine: German and Prague Zionists and the "Arab Question" (Dissertation 2005)
  • German and Central European Jews in Palestine and Israel , Neofelis Verlag 2016 (collaboration and compilation of the book)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anja Siegemund (ed.): German and Central European Jews in Palestine and Israel. Cultural transfers, lifeworlds, identities - examples from Haifa. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Centrum Judaicum: New director introduced | Jewish general. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur - Studio 9. Accessed November 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Anja Siegemund: CV. (PDF; 373 kB) Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Siegemund, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and director of the Centrum Judaicum
DATE OF BIRTH 1967