Rachel Heuberger
Rachel Heuberger (* 1951 in Tel Aviv ) is a historian , librarian and head of the Hebraica and Judaica departments of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main .
Life
Rachel Heuberger was born in Israel to Holocaust survivors , grew up in Frankfurt am Main and studied history, Jewish history and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . She did her doctorate with a dissertation on Aron Freimann and the science of Judaism . In 1986 she passed her second state examination in library science.
In 1991 she became the head of the Hebraica and Judaica department of the Frankfurt University Library and has been responsible for the collection focus on Judaism and Israel; since 2016 she has been responsible for the Jewish Studies Information Service . Since the 1990s, she has been digitizing the library's historical Judaica holdings, which are available in several online portals on the net. The best known are Compact Memory and the Freimann Collection .
Rachel Heuberger volunteers as a councilor for the Jewish community in Frankfurt as well as in various commissions. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation , as well as the board of the Society of Friends of the University Library, the Commission for the History of Jews in Hesse , the Friends of the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Friends and Supporters of the Leo Baeck Institute . Rachel Heuberger was married to Georg Heuberger .
Publications (books: selection)
- With Helga Krohn: Out of the Ghetto ... Jews in Frankfurt am Main 1800-1950; Book accompanying the permanent exhibition of the Jew. Museum d. Town Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1988, ISBN 3-10-031407-7 .
- Hebrew prints and places of printing in the Frankfurt area. An exhibition by the City and University Library Frankfurt a. M., February 27 to March 11, 1994.
- Library of Judaism. The Hebraica and Judaica collection of the City and University Library Frankfurt am Main - origin, history and current tasks. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1996 (Frankfurter Bibliotheksschriften; 4), ISBN 3-465-02863-5 .
- With Salomon Korn : The synagogue on Frankfurter Börneplatz . Frankfurt am Main: Jewish Museum, 1996.
- With Regine Schneider: Cooking Kosher. 36 classics of Jewish cuisine and their variants. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0678-8 .
- With Regine Schneider: Kosher Style: 80 delicious recipes from the Jewish kitchen. Munich: Coll. Rolf Heyne, 2004, ISBN 3-89910-217-7 .
- Aron Freimann and the science of Judaism. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004 (Conditio Judaica; 51), ISBN 3-484-65151-2 .
- Rabbi Nehemias Anton Nobel: the Jewish renaissance in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main; Societätsverlag, 2005 (series of publications by the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main; 8), ISBN 3-7973-0926-0 .
- Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel: the Jewish Renaissance in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main: Societätsverlag, 2007 (series of publications by the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main; 9), ISBN 978-3-7973-1041-5 ; ISBN 3-7973-1041-2 .
Editorships
- Co-editor of the online journal Judaica Librarianship of the Association of Jewish Libraries , USA.
- With Alexa Brum and others: I am what I am, a Jew. Jewish children in Germany tell stories , with a preface by Ignatz Bubis, Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 1995, ISBN 3-462-02430-2 .
- With Alexa Brum among others: Children's worlds. A Jewish reader , Eichenau: Kovar, 1996, ISBN 3-925845-70-4 .
- With Micha Brumlik u. a .: Travels through Jewish Germany , Cologne: DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8321-7932-1 ; ISBN 978-3-8321-7932-8 .
- With Helga Krohn: An American in Frankfurt am Main: the patron and social reformer Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908) , Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-03589-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rachel Heuberger in the OPAC of the University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main
- Literature by and about Rachel Heuberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frankfurt faces: Rachel Heuberger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jewish Studies - Judaism and Israel on the University Library website
- ^ Specialized Information Service for Jewish Studies
- ^ Digitization of the historical Judaica holdings of the University Library
- ^ Foundation New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heuberger, Rachel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |