Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup

Director

Phone: +49-331-28094-0
Fax: +49-331-28094-50
mosesmmz.uni-potsdam.de

Born 1973 in Karlsruhe, Germany

 

1992/93-1999 Studies of Medieval and Modern History, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of Göttingen and Tel Aviv

1997-2001 Research Fellow at the „Topography of Terror“ Foundation, Berlin

2000 Magistra Artium (M.A.) in Modern History and Contemporary History, Sociology and European Ethnology at the Technical University of Berlin

2001-2002 Research Fellow at Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2002-2004 Doctoral Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History, Leipzig, Germany

 

2007 Dr. phil., Technical University of Berlin Dissertation, History „Deutsche Studenten – Jüdische Juden. Jüdische Studentenverbindungen an deutschen Universitäten 1886 bis 1937“
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz (Centre for Anti-Semitism Research at the Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Dan Diner (Simon Dubnow Institut, Leipzig), published in 2008 under the title
„Ehrensache. Jüdische Studentenverbindungen an deutschen Universitäten (1886-1933)“, Wallstein Verlag Göttingen.

2006 – 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow and Coordinator at DFG-Graduate School (Graduiertenkolleg) “History of Generations“, University of Göttingen, Germany

2007-2010 Assistant Professor (Assistenz) with Prof. Bernd Weisbrod, History Department, University of Göttingen, Germany

 

2010-2012 Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Washington, D.C. (USA)

 

2012-2020 Director of the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg (IGdJ)

 

Since December 2020, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies

 

Research Areas and Topics:

German-Jewish History of the 19th and 20th Century, German contemporary history with an emphasis on history of National Socialism and Memorial Culture, women and gender history, history of the law and human rights and migration history (esp. statelessness in Europe in Postwar Europe), with a strong interest in diaspora cultures

Jewish Memorial Culture – Repercussions of the National Socialist Era in the Discourse on Jewish Heritage

Non-University Activities

Miriam Rürup is co-editor of the academic journals WerkstattGeschichte (since 2002), Aschkenas (since 2013) and the founding editor of the online source edition “Key Documents on German-Jewish History.” Since 2014 she is also member of the advisory board of the Leo Baeck Yearbook. She also works as Review Editor for Jewish History for Online-Forum and Mailing List H-Soz-u-Kult. And she serves on the advisory board of the Historische Zeitschrift and Chilufim.

She is also a member of the Bergen-Belsen International Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the German-Israeli Foundation, the chairwoman of the Advisory Board Memorial Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin,  member of the Comittee of Experts, Memorial Site of former Concentration Camp Neuengamme and of the Foundation of Memorials of Lower Saxony . She is also on the Academic Advisory Board of the Minerva Institute for Germans History at Tel Aviv University. Since January 2020 she has been chairwoman of the academic working group (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft) of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany.