As part of the Funding for Outstanding Research Libraries, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has supported our library project. This has made extensive expansion and indexing of our literature holdings on the visual and applied arts and the visual and material culture of Judaism possible.
Even before the project started, our library stock on these topics was relatively comprehensive. There were however numerous historically predicated gaps that we have been largely able to fill through systematic acquisition. Overall, this project has enabled us to expand our holdings by around 3,550 publications.
In the first phase of the project, we focused initially on searching for and acquiring monographs, anthologies, and exhibition catalogs. The focus of the second project phase was the addition of so-called gray literature, i.e. publications that never reached the book trade. To the collection appeal
All titles that we acquired as part of the project were cataloged according to differentiated subject classification. They are researchable in our OPAC (in German). More on our library system
Moreover we digitized 81 art publications, which are now available in full text and can be found here.
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Even after completion of the project, we are continuing to gradually expand our library collection in the area of fine and applied arts and the visual and material culture of Judaism. This collection focus of national importance aims to contribute in the long term to reestablishing the research tradition in Germany that was interrupted in 1933.
The project was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Scientific Library Services and Information Systems program from December 2013 to February 2018.
Selected Publications
Max Liebermann Exhibition at the Zurich Kunsthaus June – July 1923. Complete list of exhibited works, Zurich 1923; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
The Book of Tobit, a narrative in pictures, 25 pen-and-ink drawings for the biblical text by Ludwig Schwerin, Berlin 1937; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
The graphic Work of Hermann Struck, Arnold Fortlage, and Karl Schwarz, Berlin 1911; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
Lesser Ury, Exhibition Marking his 100th Birthday, Berlin 1961; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
A Diary in Pictures: 1917 - 1943, Charlotte Salomon, Hamburg 1963; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
Triers Panopticon, 20 colored pictures after originals by Walter Trier, Berlin 1922; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
List of etchings by E. M. Lilien, Berlin, circa 1912; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
Thorheiten, Thomas Theodor Heine, Munich, circa 1901; photo: Jewish Museum Berlin
Contact
Ulrike Sonnemann
Head Librarian
T +49 (0)30 259 93 564
u.sonnemann@jmberlin.de
Address
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9–14
10969 Berlin