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Martha Keil (* 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and Judaist . She has been director of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria since 2004 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Keil lived in Israel for a year . She first studied French and Spanish, then history and Jewish studies in Vienna and Berlin. In 1988, she was with the thesis "former bey the judenn time t" for Dr. phil. PhD.

In 2002/03 she was the recipient of the Charlotte Bühler habilitation grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research . In 2007 she received the venia legendi for Austrian history at the University of Vienna . She works at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna and at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz .

In 1988 she became a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Jews in Austria in St. Pölten. She was deputy director from 1995 to 2004 and has been director of the facility since then. Her research focus is the history of the Jews in the Middle Ages.

She lives in Vienna in her second marriage and is the mother of two children.

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): This is how one should tell stories. Wisdom of the Hasids . Photographs by Roman Vishniac , Herder, Vienna a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-210-24782-X .
• (Ed. With Klaus Lohrmann ): Studies on the history of the Jews in Austria (= manual on the history of the Jews in Austria, series B, volume 2). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-205-98174-X .
• (Ed.): Vienna. Jewish cityscape . Photographs by Erich Leonhard, Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-633-54101-2 .
• (Ed. With Eleonore Lappin): Studies on the history of the Jews in Austria (= Handbook on the history of the Jews in Austria, series B, volume 3). Philo, Bodenheim 1995, ISBN 3-8257-0087-9 .
• (Ed. With Sabine Hödl): The Jewish family in past and present . Philo, Berlin a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-8257-0112-3 .
• with Eveline Brugger, Christoph Lind, Albert Lichtblau , Barbara Staudinger: History of the Jews in Austria (= Austrian History Series, Volume 15). Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8000-7159-2 . (Reprint 2013)
• (Ed.): Property, Business and Women's Rights. Jewish and Christian women in Dalmatia and Prague, 1300–1600 . Solivagus Verlag, Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-943025-00-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martha Keil in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martha Keil  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Martha Keil" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Martha Keil at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research