Digital Books

Freely Browse the Digital Copies in Our Library

We’ve digitized rare and valuable books and made them available online for you to read and enjoy.

A complete list of our digitized books can be found in the online catalog (in German), and you can research the presented topics and authors in our online collection (in German).

A Guide Through the Jewish Museum from the collection of the Jewish Community of Berlin, Berlin 1933
Digitized books about the first Jewish Museum
Moses by Uriel Birnbaum, Thyrsos-Verlag, Berlin/Vienna 1924
Digitized books about Uriel Birnbaum
Synagoga. Cult objects and works of art Catalog of the exhibition at the municipal art gallery, Recklinghausen 1961
Digitized books about the exhibition Synagoga
Die Wunschkiste. The Best Stories, Games, and Riddles from the Children's Pages of the C.-V.-Zeitung from the C.-V.-Zeitung series, Philo Verlag und Buchhandlung G.m.b.H., Berlin 1936
Digitized books related to the Wunschkiste
Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly of the German-Israelite Community Association Leipzig 1872
Digitized books related to the German-Israelite Community Association
The Jews in Germany. An Almanac edited by Heinz Ganther, Gala Publishing House Hamburg 1959
Digitized books on German-Jewish post-war history
Jews in the German Cultural Sphere edited by Siegmund Kaznelson, Jewish Publishing House Berlin 1934/1962
Digitized book

The Library of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Landing Page: Our Library: Books, films, and more about Jewish art, culture, and history; Library Catalog (OPAC)
Information for Visitors: Reading Room: Opening hours, catalogs, databases, requesting archive material; Registration Form: Register to view rare holdings from our library and documents from our archive; Terms of Use: Requirements for visitors to the archive and library of the Jewish Museum Berlin; Our Library’s Classification Scheme: The focuses and thematic areas according to which our collection is organized and grouped; List of Fees: Prices and rates for services at the reading room of our library and archive
Collections and Projects: Collections on Jewish Art and Culture: Volumes printed by the Soncino Society, the publications of the Centralverein, Hebrew Printing, and special collections on Jewish art and visual culture; The Artur Brauner Collection: Twenty-one films by the successful film producer; Digitizing Book Holdings: Publications of the Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book, 2016; Enlarging and Indexing Our Holdings in Jewish Art: DFG Project on visual and material culture of Judaism, 2013–2018

Digital Content: Highlights from the Library Collection: A medieval manuscript, a cookbook from 1900, an elaborate Hebrew children’s book and other treasures; Digital Books: A complete list of our digitized books (in German); Current page: Rare Digital Books: Curated selection of valuable digitized material from our holdings; Story Time in Our Library: Why Noah Chose the Dove by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2023; “Hörmahl:” A Feast for the Ears: Podcast series about Rahel Varnhagen, Lina Morgenstern and other women writers, 2021–2022, in German
See also: Judaica Portal: Online database of Judaica holdings at various institutions, including our library’s holdings; Periodicals in the ZDB: Research tool for magazines, newspapers, and databases in German and Austrian libraries; Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB): Our digitized publications accessible via the DDB; AG Jüdische Sammlungen: Website of the Jewish Collections working group (in German); Library Holdings: Search engine for our online collections (in German); Literature; Literature for Children and Young Adults