Use
The special collection of the institute’s library is open to students and guests. The books may only be used in the library and are not loanable. The entire collection of the library can be viewed via the online catalogue.
The library has nine working stations, including an accessible working station for guests with sight or mobility impairments, two research stations, one reading station with a microfilm scanner, and Wi-Fi.
Library Catalogue: Opac
Registration
anmeldung-bibliothek(at)dubnow.de
Librarian
Grit N. Scheffer
Academic Assistant
Baptist Gabriel
Opening Hours and Terms of Use
The library can be used in accordance with the hygiene regulations after prior registration and confirmation by the library. When registering at anmeldung-bibliothek(at)dubnow.de, please indicate your surname, first name, telephone number and the requested time slot (Monday till Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon respectively from 1.30 to 4 p.m.).
A minimum distance of 1.5 to 2m to other persons must be maintained. In addition, please wear a medical mouth-nose protection or FFP2/KN95 mask without exhalation valve in the library or when talking to the library staff without a minimum distance. There is a strong recommendation to wear the above-mentioned mask at the reading desks as well.
The library is equipped with QR code of CoronaWarnApp for digital contact detection. The library rooms will get fresh air regularly and the workstations are disinfected. Used books are returned to the green return trolleys and are to be put back to the shelves by the staff only.
New Arrivals
Luca Lévi Sala (ed.), Jewishness, Jewish identity and music culture in 19th century Europe, Bologna 2020.
Vladimir Khazan, “A Double Burden, a Double Cross.” Andrei Sobol as a Russian-Jewish Writer, Boston 2017.
Theodore H. Friedgut, Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America. Identity transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, Odessa, Oregon, New York, 1881–1891, Boston 2014.
Danielle Spera/Julia Windegger (Hg.), Herzls Töchter - 100 Jahre WIZO. Wiener Frauen für Israel, Wien 2020.
Ellendea Proffer Teasley, Brodsky Among Us. A Memoir, Boston 2017.
David Barak-Gorodetsky, Judah Magnes. The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist, Philadelphia 2021.
Debra Kaplan, The Patrons and Their Poor. Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany, Philadelphia 2020.
Kenneth Collins, Zev's children. An International Jewish Family, Chicago 2021.
Jonathan Boyarin, Yeshiva days. Learning on the Lower East Side, Princeton 2020.
Dresdner Geschichtsverein e.V. (Hg.), Jüdisches (in) Dresden. Sammlungen und Objekte, Dresden 2022.
Natalia Aleksiun/Hana Kubátová (eds.), Places, spaces and voids in the Holocaust, Göttingen 2021.
Yaron Ben-Naeh/Dan Shapira/Aviezer Tutian (eds.), Debar sepatayim. An Ottoman Hebrew Chronicle from the Crimea (1683-1730). Written by Krymchak Rabbi David Lekhno, Boston 2021.
David Joshua Malkiel, Isaac’s Fear. An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism, Boston 2022.
Ross Brann, Iberian Moorings. Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism, Philadelphia 2021.