Selma Stern
| Selma Stern-Täubler | |
|---|---|
 Selma Stern-Täubler by Jack Warner, c. 1950 | |
| Born |
Selma Stern 24 July 1890 Kippenheim, [{Germany]] |
| Died |
17 August 1981 (aged 91) Basel, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Historical works on the history of German-speaking Jews |
| Spouse(s) | Eugen Taubler |
Selma Stern-Täubler (born 24 July 1890, Kippenheim, Germany – died 17 August 1981, Basel) was a German historian.[1]
Life
Selma Stern grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Baden. She was the first girl to attend the Großherzogliches Badisches Gymnasium in Baden-Baden, from which she graduated in 1909. She studied history at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and she earned her doctorate from the latter in 1913. She was one of the first women to become a professional historian in Germany.[2]
Shortly after the founding of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin in 1919, Stern accepted an invitation to become one of its first research fellows. There, she began work on the first two volumes of her magnum opus Der preussische Staat und die Juden (She was the author of a four-volume German work, The Prussian State and the Jews), a study of Jewry in eighteenth-century Prussia. In 1927, Stern married the director of the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, historian Eugen Täubler.
In 1941, Stern and her husband, Eugen Täubler,[3]fled to the United States, first to New York, and later to Cincinnati. From 1947-56, she was in charge of Jewish-American Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.[4]
Last years and death
In 1960, Stern-Täubler moved to Switzerland, where she lived until her death in Basel in 1981, aged 91.[5]
Works (selected)
- The Court Jew; a contribution to the history of the period of absolutism in Central Europe. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1950. Full text online at archive.org
- Der preußische Staat und die Juden. Mohr, Tübingen 1962 (7 vols.)
- Josel of Rosheim, commander of Jewry in the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1965. Translated by Gertrude Hirschler. 1965.
- Anacharsis Cloots, der Redner des Menschengeschlechts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen in der Französischen Revolution. Kraus Reprint, Vadut 1965 (EA Berlin 1914, zugl. Dissertation Universität München 1914).
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand. Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg. Lax, Hildesheim 1921.
- Jud Süß. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen und jüdischen Geschichte. Müller Verlag, München 1973 (unaltered new ed., Berlin 1929).
- Ihr seid meine Zeugen. Ein Novellenkranz aus der Zeit des Schwarzen Todes 1348/19. Müller Verlag, München 1972.
- with Ludwig Lewisohn (trans.). The Spirit Returneth: a novel. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946.
References
- ↑ "Guide to the Papers of Selma Stern-Taeubler (1890-1981)". Leo Baeck Institute. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ↑ G.P.Z. (2006). "To Our Readers" (PDF). American Jewish Archives Journal. 58 (1&2): vii–x.
- ↑ Freidenreich, Harriet Pass (21 June 2002). "Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women". Indiana University Press – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Selma Stern-Täubler Is Dead; A Specialist on German Jews". The New York Times. August 19, 1981. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- ↑ Reichmann, Eva. J (July 1970). "Selma Stern-Täubler, 80" (PDF). AJR Information [Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain]. XXV (7): 6.
External links
- Selma Stern-Täubler Collection, AR 7160 Archival Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
- Laxton, Susan. "Selma Stern-Taeubler", Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Jewish Women's Archive, 20 March 2009; accessed 4 May 2014.