Selma Stern

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Selma Stern (born July 24, 1890 in Kippenheim , † August 17, 1981 in Riehen ) was a German historian and Judaist .

Life

Selma Stern grew up in an educated, middle-class Jewish medical family in Baden . Her parents were Julius Stern (1861–1908) and Emilie Durlacher (1869–1931). As the first girl she attended the Grand Ducal Badische Gymnasium in Baden-Baden . In 1909 she passed the Abitur with the grade very good . Stern studied history at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where she received her doctorate in 1913 . This made her one of the first German historians.

She was looking for a job where she could combine literature , philosophy , science and life. In 1920 she found a job at the Berlin Academy for the Science of Judaism . There she laid the foundation for German-Jewish historiography ; She was able to complete the first two volumes of the work The Prussian State and the Jews in Germany (1925 and 1938). In 1927 she married the director of the academy, Eugen Täubler ; the marriage remained childless.

After she was released by the National Socialists, she moved to England with her husband in 1933. However, the couple returned to Berlin in 1935. In 1941 they fled to the USA, supported by Erhard Oewerdieck . There they lived first in New York , then in Cincinnati ; Stern-Täubler worked there from 1947 to 1957 as director of the American Jewish Archives. In 1951 she was a founding member of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. In 1960 she moved to Basel, Switzerland, to live with her sister Margarete Horowitz and stayed there until her death in 1981. In Basel, she also wrote the outstanding volumes of her major work, The Prussian State and the Jews , which she began in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • The court Jew in the age of absolutism. A contribution to European history in the 17th and 18th centuries ( The Court Jew, Philadelphia 1950). Series of scientific papers of the Leo-Baeck-Institut , Volume 64., ed. v. Marina Sassenberg, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147662-X .
  • The Prussian state and the Jews . Mohr, Tübingen 1962–1975 (4 parts; 1st edition Volume 1/2 [= Part 1] Berlin 1925/1938).
  • Josel von Rosheim . Commander of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Anacharsis Cloots , the orator of the human race. A contribution to the history of the Germans in the French Revolution . Kraus Reprint, Vaduz 1965 (Ebering, Berlin 1914, also dissertation University of Munich 1914).
  • Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand. Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg . August Lax, Hildesheim 1921.
  • Jud Suss . A contribution to German and Jewish history . Gotthold Müller, Munich 1973 (unchanged new edition, Berlin 1929).
  • You are my witnesses. A short story wreath from the time of the Black Death 1348/19 . Gotthold Müller Verlag, Munich 1972.

literature

Essays
  • Alexandra Przyrembel , Jörg Schönert (Ed.): Jud Süß. Court Jew, literary figure, anti-Semitic caricature . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-37987-6 . In this:
    • Irene Aue: "Jud Suss" and the science of history. The example of Selma Stern , pp. 57–74.
    • Itta Shedletzky: The tragedy of premature emancipation. Topography of Jewish mentality; the interpretation of “Jud Suss” in Selma Stern and Lion Feuchtwanger , pp. 139–150.
    • Mona Körte: "Jud Suss" and the science of history. The example of Selma Stern , pp. 175–188.
  • Uri R. Kaufmann : Stern-Täubler, Selma . In: Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien , Volume 2. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-17-014117-9 , pp. 444ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Christhard Hoffmann: Destroyed History. On the work of the Jewish historian Selma Stern . In: Claus-Dieter Krohn (Ed.): Women and Exile. Between adaptation and assertion . Exilforschung , Volume 11. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 1993, pp. 203-215, ISBN 3-88377-446-4 .
  • Michael Schmidt: Selma Stern (1890–1981). Eccentric orbits. In: Barbara Hahn (Hrsg.): Women in the cultural studies. From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Hannah Arendt. Beck, Munich 1993, pp. 204-218 and 345-349, ISBN 3-406-37433-6 .
  • Marina Sassenberg: Landscapes. About a topos in the life and work of the historian Selma Stern (1890–1981) . In: Irene Pill (Ed.): "What world is my world?" Jewish women in the German southwest . Laupheim Talks , 2004. Winter, Heidelberg 2009, pp. 151–163, ISBN 978-3-8253-5636-1 .
  • Marina Sassenberg: Biographies of Jewish women: Selma Stern (1890–1981) - "Grand Old Lady" of German-Jewish historiography . In: Medaon 12 (2018), 22 ( online ).
Monographs
  • Irene Aue-Ben-David, German-Jewish historiography in the 20th century. On the work and reception of Selma Stern (series of publications by the Simon Dubnow Institute 28). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-37051-3 .
  • Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon on life and work . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6 .
  • Marina Sassenberg: Selma Stern (1890–1981). The own in the story. Self-drafts and historical drafts by a historian. Series of scientific papers of the Leo-Baeck-Institut , Volume 69. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148417-7 (also dissertation , University of Halle 2003).
  • Marina Sassenberg: Selma Stern. First woman in the science of Judaism . Jewish miniatures, volume 30. Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz 2005, ISBN 3-938485-07-8 .
  • Marina Sassenberg: Speaking of Selma Stern . Apropos , Volume 14. New Criticism, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8015-0323-2 .
  • Annedore E. Gisbert: Selma Stern. Historian of the Weimar Republic . Master's thesis at the University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg 2000.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Jews at the University of Heidelberg. Documents from seven centuries . Exhibition in Heidelberg and Jerusalem 2002, pp. 107-109 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Selma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern-Täubler, Selma (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kippenheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1981
Place of death Basel