East European Jews in the German-Jewish Imagination
Web Exhibits - Special Collections Research Center - The University of Chicago Library
  • Introduction About this Exhibit  
  • "New Jews" vs. "Old Jews"
    Emancipation, Assimilation, and the Ostjuden as Other
  • The Ghetto Comes to Germany
    Ostjudenas Welfare Cause
  • "Old Jew" Turned "New Jew"
    Jewish Renaissance and the Romanticized Ostjuden
  • Germany Goes to the Ghetto
    German-Jewish Soldiers on the Eastern Front
  • The End of German-Jewish Life
    Ostjuden as a Metaphor for All Jews

About this Exhibit

This Web exhibit is based on the exhibit “East European Jews in the German-Jewish Imagination from the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica,” held in the Special Collections Research Center, the University of Chicago Library, September 2008 – June 2009. The exhibit was curated by graduate student Rachel Seelig. Alice Schreyer, Director, Special Collections was the coordinator and editor of the exhibit; Kerri Sancomb, Special Collections Exhibit Specialist, produced the exhibit.

The text for this exhibit is available online.

This Web site was created in the summer of 2009 with a templating system developed by Marc Gasser, Digital Library Development Center (DLDC), University of Chicago Library, with input from Alice Schreyer, Director, Special Collections Research Center (SCRC); Daniel Meyer, Associate Director, SCRC; Elisabeth Long, Co-director, DLDC;  and Kerri Sancomb, Exhibit Specialist, SCRC.  Web site design by Marc Gasser and Kerri Sancomb.

Rights and Reproductions

East European Jews in the German-Jewish Imagination. From the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica.
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