Email nwahrmanEastern and Western Europe (Jewish Studies)
The Leo Baeck Institute is devoted to studying the history of German-speaking Jewry from its origins to its tragic destruction by the Nazis and to preserving its culture. Dating back almost 2000 years, when Jews first settled along the Rhine, the Jewish communities of Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking areas of Europe had a history marked by individual as well as collective accomplishments in communal organization and welfare, commerce, industry and politics, the arts and sciences, and in literature, philosophy and theology. To appreciate the impact of German-speaking Jewry in modern times, one need only recall such names as Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka, and Karl Marx.
In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania), by key European intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. From its inception, YIVO was deeply concerned that the language and culture of East European Jewry were undergoing radical change in a rapidly modernizing world.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
East European Jews in Two Worlds: Studies from YIVO Annual. Ed. Deborah Dash Moore. Evanston: Northwestern University Press and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1990. (1 of 4 pages)
The timeline does not include all dates relating to events that involved persecution of Jews in Germany or elsewhere. Rather, it has endeavoured to focus on those that are regarded as being particularly causally efficacious in creating the conditions favourable to the extermination of European Jewry.
Results from a Google Scholar search using the keywords: western+european+jewry+academic+sources.
Israel, Jonathon I. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750. Oxford: University Press, 1985 (pp.xii).
An article from: The Jewish Quarterly Review, LXXVIII, Nos. 1-2 (July- October, 1987) 154-159.
