Ruth P. Goldschmidt-Lehmann

Ruth Pauline Goldschmidt-Lehmann (born February 11, 1930 in Altona , † January 5, 2002 in Jerusalem ) was a German-British-Israeli librarian .

As a Jew, Ruth Lehmann had to emigrate to England in 1939 . There she attended the Wimbledon County Grammar School and from 1948 worked as a librarian at the library of Jew's College in London , which she directed from 1955 to 1973. In 1973 she moved to Jerusalem, where she married Josef Goldschmidt . She published numerous bibliographies .

Publications (selection)

• Nova bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica. A bibliographical guide to Anglo-Jewish history 1937–1960 . London 1961.
• Anglo-Jewish bibliography, 1937–1970 . London 1973.
• Anglo-Jewish bibliography, 1971–1990 . London 1992.
• Moše Monṭefîôrî 1784–1885; bibliôgrafiyā / Sir Moses Montefiore. 1784-1885. A bibliography . Jerusalem 1984
• Beowulf. An imitative translation . University of Texas Press, Austin 1988, ISBN 0-292-70768-1 .
• Britain and the Holy Land, 1800-1914 . A select bibliography. London 1995.

literature

• Aron Prys: Bibliography of the published works of Ruth P. Goldschmidt-Lehmann . In: Jewish Historical Studies 38, 2002, pp. 2-11.
• Joe Hillaby, Caroline Hillaby: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2013, ISBN 978-0-230-27816-5 . Pp. 338-339.