The last Geschichtomat project weeks, the first for a long time, dealt among others with various aspects of our online dossier „Martha Glass.“ A total of four of videos created by the participating students deal with the biography of Martha Glass, the deportation of Hamburg Jews, the concept of the online dossier or the family research work of Matthias Brandis on the history of his family. We are excited about this addition to our existing offerings! All videos will also be included in the teaching materials section.
The Key Documents project participated with two events at the ReIReS School, hosted by the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg: In April, Daniel Burckhardt and Anna Menny gave a virtual hands-on session on tagging according to TEI P5 using the Oxygen editor; in June, Anna Menny presented concept and goals of the online edition.
We are delighted about the extensive and positive article in the Jüdische
Allgemeine. Under the headline „Showing Female Diversity“
Moritz Piechler acknowledges the conception and realization of our current
online exhibition „Women’s Lives“. Read here!
Our new dossier on Martha Glass initiated the new season “Persecution, Remembrance, Reappraisal” of the podcast Jewish History Compact, jointly produced by IGdJ and MMZ. Listen in (interview in German)!
On January 31, 2021, the dossier on the diaries of Martha Glass was ceremonially launched. The dossier provides the original diary pages, the transcripts, a detailed introduction as well as a collection of material with further relevant sources and suitable online resources. Additional dossiers will be added in the future.
In “Hafen und Heimat,” the first episode of the new podcast series Jewish History Compact, Sonja Dickow-Rotter and Björn Siegel provide insights into the background, conception and implementation of our current online exhibition “On the Ship – ‘as on another Earth’” (the interview in German).
Since April 2019, the editorial staff of the Key Documents has been working in a new constellation: During her parental leave, Anna Menny is substituted by Sonja Dickow as project coordinator. And after successfully completing her Master’s degree, Ute Schumacher left the Edition. Her successor as a student assistant is Tabea Henn, who has been supporting the project since May 2019.
As part of the online source edition “Key Documents of German-Jewish History”, the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg has developed two tours along the traces of Hamburg’s Jewish past. The entries could partly be taken from the digitized version of the map “Places of Jewish Life and Jewish History in Hamburg.”
The two tours (in German):
Historical tour through Hamburg’s Grindelviertel
On the trail of Jewish heritage – the various stations provide insights into the long and varied Jewish past in the Grindelviertel.
Bicycle tour along the traces of the Jewish past between the Hamburg Neustadt and Altona.
The individual stations of the bicycle tour follow Jewish traces between Hamburger Neustadt and Altona, from the former “Judenbörse” in Elbstraße or the temple in Poolstraße to the Jewish Hospital in today’s Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße and the cemetery at Königstraße.
You can download the app for free at Google Play (Android devices) or in the German Apple App Store.
We are pleased to welcome two new members to our advisory board: Dr. Henning Borggräfe, Head of Research and Education at the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, and Stefan Wilbricht, KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, project “Documentation Center denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof”.
Reinhard Rürup passed away last Friday, April 6, 2018, at the age of 83. We are deeply saddened by this loss. Reinhard Rürup has critically accompanied and actively supported the project from the very beginning as a member ouf our advisory board . We thank him for his great commitment and hope that we can continue to live up to the confidence he has placed in our project. He will leave a big gap as a scholar and as a human being.
Anna Menny and Daniel Burckhardt presented the key document edition with a poster at the annual conference of digital humanities in the German-speaking countries in Cologne.
We would like to thank Sandra Morath from edelweiss* büro für grafik und design for the excellent graphic design.
Under About this edition > Presentations and Publications you will now find an up-todate compilation of lectures, publications and reviews about the Key Documents Edition.
Annette Haller died on September 16th far too early. Annette Haller has been an active member of the advisory board of our key documents edition from the first moment on, and has always been at our disposal for discussions. We would like to thank her for this important support. We will miss her qualified advice and kindness. We are deeply affected by her loss.
The obituary of the Germania Judaica can be found at https://www.wirtrauern.de/traueranzeige/drannette-haller
On September 15 the „Key Documents“-Edition was presented during the conference „German-Jewish history – research and education“ at the training center for teachers in Hamburg (Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung Hamburg). The workshop participants were highly interested.
We are now on Twitter! Follow @keydocuments for new sources and interpretations.
