Research

The library collections can be researched through the K10 Union Catalogue of the German universities and institutes for higher education as well as the Leibniz Institutes, the Helmholtz Centers, the Max Planck Institutes, and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

The regional Leipzig catalogue Lerxe connects the metadata of the libraries in Leipzig and allows them to be researched under one common web interface.

The Judaica Portal allows for targeted searches in the specialist libraries and Judaica collections of the partner institutions, in the article index RAMBI (the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies) of the Israeli National Library, and in the Digital Judaica Collection of the University Library Frankfurt am Main.

The Special Information Service (SIS) Jewish Studies offers researchers access to discipline-specific documents and information from all fields of Jewish studies and Israel studies. This offer includes both freely accessible and licensed resources.

The Frankfurt University Library contains the largest Judaica and Hebraica collection in Germany, one of the most significant collections of its kind in the world. This valuable historical collection is for the most part digitized and freely accessible online.

The EZB is a directory of electronic specialist journals from over 600 scholarly libraries. All the journals of a given field can be found via the search box, either by subject list or individual titles. More than half of these titles are freely accessible.

LeibnizOpen offers central access to openly available digital publications authored by Leibniz Association researchers. The platform records Open Access publications authored by researchers at all Leibniz institutions and makes the associated full texts directly available. It thus reflects the entire range of topics and types of publications that are generated through research and teaching within the Leibniz Association.

The full-text server SSOAR, which is maintained at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access on the Internet in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

Pinkasim – the minute books of Jewish communities – widespread in Ashkenazic Europe and northern Italy – are a central historical source for Jewish history and culture in Early Modern Period. Previously contained spread across archives and collections in Israel, Europe and the United States, the communal Pinkassim were made accessible on the webpage »The Pinkasim Collection: The International Repository of Communal Ledgers«.

The webpage »Jewish Scholars at the Leipzig University. Participation, Disadvantage and Exclusion« of the Dubnow Institute and the Leipzig University Archive provides information on the life and work of Jewish academics at the Leipzig University. Based on their biographies, it sheds light on the ambivalent process of emancipation and modernisation in the 19th and 20th centuries.