Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute

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Former rabbi house in Essen

The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History e. V. (named after the Jewish physician, religious philosopher and scholar Salomon Ludwig Steinheim ) based in Essen researches the history of culture, religion, literature and events of the Jews in the German-speaking area. The Steinheim Institute is a founding member of the Johannes Rau Research Association . It cooperates in research and teaching with the University of Düsseldorf .

history

The institute was founded in 1986 and was entered in the register of associations on October 9, 1986. It has been continuously funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1988. It has been located in the former rabbi house in Essen since May 2011 .

Until 2002, the institute contributed to the courses in "Jewish Studies" at the then history of the University of Duisburg . In 2003 the subject was relocated to the University of Düsseldorf , while the Steinheim Institute remained affiliated to the University of Duisburg-Essen and regularly offers courses there.

Directors

Research and Teaching

The fields of research include the areas

  • Religious, literary and cultural history
  • Regional, economic and social history
  • Anti-Semitism research
  • Editions, Documentations and Bibliographies
  • Further education and placement

A research focus is the documentation of Jewish cemeteries and Hebrew gravestone imagery . This includes the inventory of still existing and the reconstruction of destroyed cemeteries, the recording of the grave inscriptions and their translation from Hebrew. The inscriptions are historical sources that not only contribute to the Jewish sepulchral culture and genealogy , but also allow conclusions to be drawn about the history and culture of the Jewish communities .

More recent projects include research and documentation of German-Jewish journalism in the 19th century as well as engagement in the field of digital humanities for German-Jewish history and Jewish studies.

Publications

In addition to individual publications, the institute publishes the scientific book series Schriften , minima judaica , Netiva ( ISSN  1437-8965 ), bibliographies and the free quarterly magazine Kalonymos ( ISSN  1436-1213 ).

Library and archive

The Daniel J. Cohen Library of the Steinheim Institute contains over 20,000 books on German-Jewish history. The archive houses various holdings:

  • The Jonas Cohn Archive was given to the Steinheim Institute in 2001. It includes the scientific and a large part of the private estate of the philosopher Jonas Cohn . This estate includes diaries, memories, manuscripts, personal documents and letters from the years 1893 to 1947.
  • The Gidal picture archive contains the collection of the photo journalist Nachum Tim Gidal , pictures from the estate of the actress Ruth Klinger, photos with a focus on Eastern Europe from the Werner Seewi collection and the picture collection from the Georg Goldstein estate.
  • The estate of actress and cabaret artist Ruth Klinger includes programs, sheet music, reviews and contracts of the Jewish-literary cabaret Kaftan , personal notes, letters and journalistic works by Ruth Klinger.
  • The estate of the doctor and photographer Georg Goldstein includes an extensive photographic collection (private photos of his family, travel photos, pictures from the life of the Düsseldorf Jewish community 1934–1936, photos from Palestine and Israel 1936–1953 ...), letters, books and a collection of newspapers and newspaper clippings.
  • Jakob Steinhardt's print graphic collection of a total of 87 works was divided between the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg Foundation and the Steinheim Institute in 2001. The 31 works created in Israel in the 1950s are accessible on the premises of the Steinheim Institute.

Databases and online resources

The website's search engine offers extensive options for online research. For example, some of the institute's holdings can be searched online, such as the library catalog, the Haskala catalog (a collection of Hebrew writings by Jewish enlighteners in Germany) or the Gidal picture archive, which currently comprises 3,000 images and is constantly being expanded. You can also search the more than 22,000 recorded grave inscriptions online in the epigraphic database epidat (status: autumn 2011), with both full-text searches and targeted searches in various indices (lists of names, Hebrew word index, list of abbreviations) possible. As an online tool, the Rabbi Index provides access to the printed Biographical Handbook of the Rabbis ( ISBN 3-598-24871-7 ), a bio-bibliographical directory of all rabbis who have worked in German-speaking countries since the Age of Enlightenment.

The comprehensive search enables research in several databases. You can search through the individual databases as well as the institute's websites and the Kalonymos archive of the institute's journal at the same time . Research in external sources is also possible at the same time - including Compact Memory , the Bookplate Collection and the Rare Books and Manuscripts collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary , or the Deutsche Exilpresse 1933-1945 digital collections of the German National Library and the Yiddish prints of the Frankfurt University Library on the Main river.

Memberships

Web links

Commons : Steinheim Institute  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
  2. ^ Register of associations at the Duisburg District Court, number 2654.
  3. ↑ The website of the Steinheim Institute contains an epigraphic database ( memento of the original dated May 30, 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. with documentation of Jewish cemeteries and lists numerous printed publications on it. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steinheim-institut.de
  4. ^ Together with the Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research , see State, Nation, Society
  5. ↑ See Building Research Infrastructures for the e-Humanities
  6. ↑ Library catalog [1]
  7. ↑ Haskala catalog [2]
  8. ↑ Gidal picture archive [3]
  9. ↑ Epigraphic database Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 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.steinheim-institut.de
  10. ↑ Biographical Handbook of Rabbis [4]
  11. ↑ Search engine databases [5]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.steinheim-institut.de  
  12. ^ Collections of German Exile Press 1933-1945 digital [6]
  13. ↑ Yiddish prints from the University Library Frankfurt am Main [7]

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '22.5 "  N , 7 ° 1' 1.1"  E