Miriam Rürup

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Miriam Rürup (* 1973 in Karlsruhe ) is a German historian , director of the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ) in Hamburg and professor at the University of Hamburg .

Career

Miriam Rürup studied history, sociology and European ethnology in Göttingen , Tel Aviv and Berlin. She was a research assistant at the Topography of Terror Foundation in Berlin , at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and at the Franz Rosenzweig Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

In 2006 she received her doctorate at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on Jewish student associations at German universities (1886–1937). She then worked at the DFG - Research Training Group "Generation history" and as a research assistant at the Department of Medieval and Modern History of the University of Goettingen . From 2010 to 2012 she was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Washington, DC (USA). She has been head of the IGdJ since July 2012. She also teaches at the History Department at the University of Hamburg, which she appointed professor in September 2018.

Her research interests include German-Jewish history, contemporary history (especially the history and post-history of National Socialism) as well as migration and gender history. In a current research project she is working on the history of statelessness .

Miriam Rürup is co-editor of the journals WerkstattGeschichte (since 2002), Aschkenas (since 2013) and the Leo Baeck Year Book (since 2014) as well as the online source edition “Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History”; She also works as a specialist editor for Jewish history at the Internet forum H-Soz-Kult .

She is u. a. Member of the Bergen-Belsen International Advisory Board , the Human Rights in the 20th Century Working Group of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , the commission for the promotion and further development of memorial work in Lower Saxony of the Lower Saxony Memorial Foundation and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Minerva Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University. Since January 2020 she has been chairwoman of the scientific working group of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany.

She regularly brings in discussions about memorable cultural issues as well as dealing with Jewish heritage one, last, especially to the discussion about the reconstruction of the destroyed by the Nazis Bornplatz synagogue in Hamburg as well as a neglected cultural monument, the ruins of the first specifically as a liberal temple constructed building from 1844 in Poolstrasse in Hamburg's Neustadt district.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed. With Doerte Bischoff): Excluded. Citizenship, Statelessness, and Exile (Exile Research; 36). Edition text + kritik, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-721-3 .
  • (Ed. With Simone Lässig ): Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History (New German Historical Perspectives; 8). Berghahn, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-78533-553-2 .
  • Everyday Life and Society (Perspectives on German-Jewish History, edited by the Scientific Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute). Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-77175-9 .
  • (Ed. With Uffa Jensen , Habbo Knoch , Daniel Morat): Violence and Society. Classics of modern thought reread. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0901-2 ( review ).
  • (Ed.): Practices of Difference. Diaspora cultures in contemporary history. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0509-0 ( review ).
  • A matter of honor. Jewish student associations at German universities, 1886–1937. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0311-9 ( download from IGdJ website) ( review ) ( review ).
  • (Ed. With Sabine Moller, Christel Trouvé): Closed chapters? On the history of the concentration camps and the Nazi trials. edition diskord, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89295-726-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Rürup on the website of the Research Training Group
  2. ↑ Press release of the Authority for Science, Research and Equality of the City of Hamburg from July 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Miriam Rürup: The sex of the stateless. Statelessness in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Journal of Modern European History . tape 14 , no. 3 , 2016, p. 411-429 , doi : 10.17104 / 1611-8944-2016-3-411 .
  4. ↑ Miriam Rürup: The Citizen and its Other: Zionist and Israeli Responses to Statelessness . In: Leo Baeck Institute Year Book . tape 59 , 2014, p. 37-52 , doi : 10.1093 / leobaeck / ybu006 .
  5. ↑ Miriam Rürup: On the openness of history. Dealing with statelessness and the cosmopolitan idea . In: Bernhard Gißibl, Isabella Löhr (Ed.): Bessere Welten. Cosmopolitanism in History . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50613-5 , p. 71-102 .
  6. ↑ Miriam Rürup: On the right of those without rights. Statelessness as a time signature of the first post-war decade . In: Arndt Engelhardt, Lutz Fiedler, Elisabeth Gallas , Natasha Gordinsky and Philipp Graf (eds.): A paradigm of modernity. Jewish history in key terms. Festschrift for Dan Diner on his 70th birthday . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-30084-8 , p. 79-92 .
  7. ↑ Editors. Workshop History, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Hamburg key documents on German-Jewish history
  9. ↑ Miriam Rürup as a member of the editorial team at H-Soz-Kult
  10. ↑ Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation: International Advisory Board Bergen-Belsen. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ List of members on the website of the working group ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de
  12. ^ Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorials: Scientific commission for the promotion and further development of memorial work in Lower Saxony. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  13. ^ Scientific working group of the Leo Baeck Institute. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  14. ^ Historian criticizes planned new synagogue building in Hamburg | DOMRADIO.DE. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  15. ^ NDR: Historian against reconstruction of synagogue. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Jewish cultural heritage in Hamburg: Save the synagogue ruins in the Neustadt! November 27, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Rürup, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe