Monika Richarz
Monika Richarz (born June 8, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German historian who has mainly dealt with the social history of the Jewish minority in Germany and with German-Jewish relations. From 1993 until her retirement in 2001 she was director of the Hamburg Institute for the History of German Jews .
Life
After studying history in Bonn and Berlin, Richarz began her academic work as a member of the Historical Commission in Berlin . She wrote a dissertation on the "Entry of Jews into Academic Professions", with which she received her doctorate in 1970. From 1970 to 1972 she worked for the German Bundestag in the exhibition “Questions to German History”, which was located in the Berlin Reichstag building.
She then went on an eight-year research stay at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. During this time, she worked on the three-volume documentation "Jewish Life in Germany - Self-Testimonies on Social History 1780–1945". From 1984 to 1993 she was director of the Germania Judaica in Cologne , a library on the history of German Jewry. In 1993 she took over the management of the Hamburg Institute for the History of German Jews.
Awards (selection)
Festschrift for Richarz
- Marion Kaplan, Beate Meyer (ed.): Jüdische Welten. Jews in Germany from the 18th century to the present , Wallstein-Verlag , Göttingen 2005 (= Hamburg contributions to the history of German Jews , 27), ISBN 3-89244-888-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Monika Richarz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Report on their adoption to "Uni-Protocols" (2001)
- Review of the Festschrift for Richarz
- The History of the Jews in Europe during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Lecture by Richarz at "The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program"
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| SURNAME | Richarz, Monika |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |