Birgit Klein

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Birgit E. Klein

Birgit E. Klein (born October 15, 1962 in Krefeld ) is a ( reconstructionist ) rabbi and professor of Jewish history at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg .

Career

Klein was born in 1962 to Protestant parents. From 1991 she studied Jewish studies at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg as well as Jewish Studies , Theology and Classical Philology , a. a. in Jerusalem and Heidelberg . In 1998, he completed his doctorate in Jewish Studies at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg (speaker: Michael Brocke ; co- speaker : Stefan Rohrbacher ). After completing her habilitation in 2006 in Jewish Studies at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin , she has held the chair “History of the Jewish People” at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg since 2006.

Her research focuses on the history of the Jews in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times, including social and gender-historical issues as well as legal, economic, religious and mentality-related issues, for example Jewish matrimonial property and inheritance law, “Jewish stories of bankruptcy” and Jewish ones Jurisdiction. In this regard, Klein researches in particular Jewish legal autonomy, the use of justice by non-Jewish courts in internal Jewish disputes and the adaptation of non-Jewish legal institutions.

Awards and scholarships (selection)

  • 2017 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: The Whizin Prize in Jewish Ethics
  • 2016 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: The Evelyn R. Mehlman Jewish Music Award
  • 2014–2015 - Fellowship, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
  • 2004 Albert Steeger Prize from the Rhineland Regional Council
  • 2001–2004 Lise Meitner habilitation grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the project "The Jewish matrimonial property and inheritance law of the early modern period: Development since antiquity and its effects on the relationship between the sexes and non-Jewish society".
  • 1993 PhD scholarship from the Studienwerk Villigst.
  • 1992/1993 one-year scholarship from the DAAD for a research stay at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 1984/1985 scholarship from the study group "Study in Israel".
  • 1983–1989 scholarship from the Villigst study center.

Memberships (selection)

  • Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA)
  • KeReM | Knesset Rabbanim Mitkadmim - le Conseil des rabbins libéraux - The Liberal Rabbinical Assembly
  • Board member of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History, Essen
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Central Archives for Research into the History of Jews in Germany”, Heidelberg
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Topographie des Terrors” foundation, Berlin
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the edition “German-Jewish Authors of the 19th Century. Writings on State, Nation, Society "(Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Vienna, Weimar)
  • Member of the editorial board of the series “Machloket. Disputes "(Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin)

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Facing End-of-life Issues in Jewish-Protestant Families (2017, 33 pp.), Published online at: http://www.rrc.edu/ethics-center/Whizin%20Prize.
  • Teaching materials on Jewish emancipation in Baden (2016–), published online at: http://www.hfjs.eu//juedische_emanzipation/start.html.
  • (Ed. With Rotraud Ries), personal testimonies and ego documents of early modern Jews in Ashkenaz. Examples, methods and concepts , Berlin 2011 (minima judaica, vol. 10).
  • (Ed. With Christiane E. Müller), Memoria - Ways of Jewish Remembrance. Festschrift for Michael Brocke on his 65th birthday , Berlin 2005, 847 pp.
  • Benefit and high treason: Elector Ernst von Cologne, Juda bar Chajjim and the Jews in the Old Kingdom , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, 539 pp. (Netiva. Ways of German-Jewish history and culture; 5).

Associate editorships with academic series

  • Co-editor of the research series on the history of the Jews of the "Society for the Study of the History of the Jews" (GEGJ), (2007–2011).
  • Co-editor of the section Jews of the Encyclopedia of Modern Times (Stuttgart: Metzler, from vol. 6, 2007, to vol. 15, 2012).

items

  • 15. Gender. January 15 , Jews , in: Michael Borgolte (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Foundation System in Medieval Societies. Vol. 3: Foundation and Society, Berlin 2017, pp. 147–162.
  • Real and ideal houses in Judaism , in: Joachim Eibach / Inken Schmidt-Voges (eds.), The house in the history of Europe. A manual, Berlin 2015, pp. 299-316.
  • Circumcision in Judaism - A Question of Religious Freedom? , in: Hans-Georg Ziebertz (ed.), Freedom of religion. Positions - Conflicts - Challenges, Würzburg 2015 (Würzburger Theologie, Vol. 12), pp. 133–163.
  • Responsa Literature , in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, Oxford 2015.
  • Ehe , in: Dan Diner (ed.) On behalf of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 2 Co-Ha, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 181–186.
  • R. Elieser b. Nathan von Mainz: Mediator between tradition and innovation , in: General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.) On behalf of the Ministry for Education, Science, Further Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, The SchUM communities Speyer - Worms - Mainz. On the way to world heritage. Editing: Pia Heberer and Ursula Reuter, Regensburg 2013, pp. 235–250.
  • Brit Mila: Inner-Jewish criticism and the construction of gender and gender roles, in: Johannes Heil / Stephan J. Kramer (ed.): Circumcision: The sign of the covenant in criticism. On the debate about the Cologne judgment , Berlin 2012, pp. 233–255.
  • Origin, Marriage and Heredity. The meaning of family and genealogy in Jewish culture , in: Joergens, Bettina (ed.): Jüdische Genealogie in the archive, in research and digital. Source studies and remembrance , Essen 2011 (publications by the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, vol. 41), pp. 19–36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Klein. Everybodywiki, June 27, 2018, accessed February 23, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c HfJS: Lecturers. University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg, July 2, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Birgit E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish rabbi and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld