Leo Baeck Institute

This article examines the wartime fate of the book collection from the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Higher Institute for Jewish Studies), one of the most significant Jewish libraries in pre-war Europe. Confiscated by the Nazis and absorbed into the holdings of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) for antisemitic research, little was known about its fate after the war, leading many to assume it was lost for good. The article uncovers previously unknown aspects of the collection’s history, highlighting how it was appropriated, cataloged, and exploited by the Nazis as well as how remnants were discovered after the war. By focusing on this specific case, the article sheds light on the broader patterns of Nazi book plundering during World War II.

Kanon im Exil is an interdisciplinary biographical study of the reading canon and writings of five German-Jewish authors who emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s.

The digitization of the Freimann Collection, unique works belonging to the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Academic Study of Judaism), was a collaborative, international initiative to virtually reconstruct a cultural Jewish heritage collection that suffered losses during World War II. These works comprised the first engagement with pre-modern Jewish religious texts using modern research methods of academia. Building off a pre-war published catalog, the project brought together remnants of the original library collection in Germany and collections that were gathered in one of the main exile locations of German-speaking Jews in the United States. The freely accessible texts ensure the enhancement of scholarship by providing long-term discovery to an unlimited audience. Digitization and virtual reconstruction are not only crucial from a digital preservation standpoint, but also allow researchers to envision the works in the context of their intellectual and historical significance. The project also generated models for international collaboration and large-scale digitization workflows.

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One of the most striking things about the seventeen archives under Jewish auspices in New York Cityl is the extent to which they mirror the structure and range of the Jewish community itself.2They divide not only along the numerous lines which split Jewish society philosophically and ethnically, illustrating the kinds of institutions which _ serve the city's Jewish population, but also in terms of functional distinctions made by archivists.Functionally, there are institutional archives (that is, repositories which care primarily for the records of their sponsoring organizations), such as the archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Agudath Israel of America, Hadassah, the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, Congregation Shearith Israel, and Congregation Rodeph Sholom; and there are manuscript repositories which collect the papers of individuals and records of organizations other than their own, generally relating to a specific area of interest.These include the two large Jewish academic institutions in New York, the Jewish Theological

Der moderne Antisemitismus beginnt nach einer Konvention der Historiker im Deutschen Kaiserreich um die Mitte der siebziger Jahre des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Als Anhaltspunkt für diese Datierung dient u.a. eine Serie von Artikeln in der deutschen Familienzeitschrift Die Gartenlaube: ihr Autor, Otto Glagau, beschuldigte die Juden, durch unehrliche Spekulationen den Sturz der Aktienpreise von 1873, der für ihn ein Börsenschwindel war, herbeigeführt zu haben.