Jewish reading room
The Jewish Reading Hall was a public lending library in Berlin that was founded in 1894 as part of the reading hall movement. The initiative came from Zionist -minded Russian-Jewish students. The project was supported by a Jewish Reading Hall and Library Association, which was founded by Martin Philippson and Julius Isaac as chairmen and Willy Bambus as secretary. Leo Winz held the position of librarian in the reading hall from 1895 to 1902 .
The reading hall was initially housed in two rooms in the Hotel Cassel at Burgstrasse 16, before it was established in 1897 in the side wing of Oranienburger Strasse 28 right next to the New Synagogue . The book inventory grew rapidly, and the rooms used soon proved to be inadequate, so that in 1903 the reading hall moved to the front building of the same building and in 1908 to Oranienburger Strasse 58. In 1920 the holdings of the Jewish reading hall formed the basis of a branch of the library of the Jewish community founded in 1910 in the synagogue Fasanenstrasse 79/80.
literature
- Johannes Giskala: For the tenth foundation day of the association. Jewish reading room and library. In: East and West . 2, 1905, col. 137-142.
- Jewish Reading Hall and Library (Ed.): Review of the first decade of the reading hall 1895–1905. Jewish Reading Hall and Library Berlin eV, 1905.
- Jüdische Lesehalle und Bibliothek eV (Ed.): Report for the year [...]. Jewish Reading Hall and Library Berlin eV, 1906–1910, ZDB -ID 2183696-6 .
- Markus Kirchhoff: Houses of the Book. Pictures of Jewish libraries. Reclam, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-379-00786-2 .
- Renate Kirchner: Opening of a Jewish library in Berlin. In: News sheet of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR. 3, 1978, ZDB ID 955181-5 , pp. 14-18.
- Josef Lin: The Berlin Jewish Reading Hall in your new home. In: East and West. 11, 1908, col. 683-690.
swell
- ↑ Anonymous. "Correspondence and news: Germany: Berlin [2]." The church commandment, January 25, 1895, 1.