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Library


Photo: shelved hallway

The library of the Jewish Museum Berlin

The Jewish Museum Berlin's library is a scientific reference library currently comprising 60.000 media. Its holdings can be researched online and viewed in the Reading Room.

Alongside primary and research literature on German-Jewish history, culture, art, religion, and philosophy, the collection also includes historical magazines and current periodicals. An extensive collection of German-Jewish periodicals is available on microfiche and microfilm.

Contact

Ulrike Sonnemann
Head Librarian
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 93 564
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 441
u.sonnemann[at]jmberlin.de

The library's special collections include books published in Germany in Hebrew and Yiddish, Berlin rabbinical and Hebraic literature, prints of the works of well-known Jewish artists as well as the complete printings of the Soncino Society of Friends of Jewish Books founded in 1924.

Background:

A Jewish woman during ritual cleansing, illustration from a prayer book, Germany 1427-1428
© Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek »Carl von Ossietzky«, Hamburg

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