Selma Stern

Selma Stern-Täubler
Selma Stern-Täubler by Jack Warner, c. 1950
Born
Selma Stern

(1890-07-24)24 July 1890
Died17 August 1981(1981-08-17) (aged 91)
OccupationHistorian
Known forHistorical works on the history of German-speaking Jews
SpouseEugen Taubler

Selma Stern-Täubler (born 24 July 1890, Kippenheim, Germany – died 17 August 1981, Basel) was one of the first women to become a professional historian in Germany,[1] and the author of a seven-volume work (3,740 pages) The Prussian State and the Jews, her opus magnum.

Life

Selma Stern grew up in an upper-middle-class Jewish family; her father was a physician. In 1901 the family moved to Baden-Baden. In 1904 she was the first girl to attend the Großherzogliches Badisches Gymnasium, a boys highschool, from which she graduated in 1908. She studied history, philosophy and philology at the University of Heidelberg, but left after three semesters and graduated at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1913 on Anacharsis Cloots. In 1914 she moved to Frankfurt to live with her mother and sister and started a career in German-Jewish history on a freelance basis.[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 research fellows in 1920.[3] There, she began work on the first two volumes of Der preussische Staat und die Juden, a study of Jewry under Frederick William I of Prussia, published in 1925. In 1927, Stern received her doctorate and married the director and founder of the academy, the historian Eugen Täubler.[4] In 1936 the Täublers moved to England in an attempt to move the academy, but returned to Germany a year later.

The quondam building of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums at Tucholskystraße 9 in Berlin (since 1999 named Leo-Baeck-Haus and seat of the Central Council of Jews in Germany)

In 1938 one of the volumes was ready to be published by the Schocken Verlag, but due to Nazi policy all the stock, including her manuscript and many documents were burned during Kristallnacht. Stern was not allowed to visit any public libraries or archives, but got help from several scholars to finish her work. In the introduction of Der preussische Staat und die Juden Stern mentions that one copy, dealing with the Jews under Frederick the Great, was saved by an anonymous female employee of Schocken publishing company, who came to their apartment in Charlottenburg at the end of November, 1938.

In 1941, Stern and Täubler fled to the United States, crossing the Atlantic on the last boat before the USA entered the Second World War. (She was allowed by the Nazis to take the only surviving copy with her.) First they lived in New York; from 1947 to 1955, she was in charge of Jewish-American Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where she worked as an archivist.[5] Stern became a widow in 1953 without having children. In 1955 she retired and was involved in founding the Leo Baeck Institute.[6]

In 1960 Stern moved to Basel, where her sister lived. Between 1961 and 1972 she published Der preußische Staat und die Juden, carefully referenced. Topics covered include quotas of Jews or Jewish families (Schutzjuden), bank ownership, the minting activities by the court Jews Veitel Heine Ephraim and Daniel Itzig and their trade in silver and debased coins during and after the Seven Years' War, interest, taxes and fees. In 1974 a complete index was published with the help of three co-workers.[7] Stern obviously liked the quote "What man understands he is able to withstand", which she used more than once in the introduction of her books.

Selected works

  • 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).
  • with Ludwig Lewisohn (trans.). The Spirit Returneth: a novel. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1946.
  • 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.) 1. Teil: Die Zeit des Großen Kurfürsten und Friedrichs I. 2 Abteilungen: Darstellung/Akten. 2. Teil: Die Zeit Friedrich Wilhelms I. 2 Abteil. 3. Teil. Die Zeit Friedrichs des Großen. 2 Abt.: Darstellung/Akten in 2 Halbbänden. 4. Teil. Gesamtregister.
  • 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.
  • Ihr seid meine Zeugen. Ein Novellenkranz aus der Zeit des Schwarzen Todes 1348/19. Müller Verlag, München 1972.

References

  1. ^ G.P.Z. (2006). "To Our Readers" (PDF). American Jewish Archives Journal. 58 (1&2): vii–x.
  2. ^ Freidenreich, Harriet Pass (21 June 2002). Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253109272 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ In 1921, there were 63 full-time and 45 part-time students enrolled in the "Hochschule".
  4. ^ The Court Jew A Contribution To The History Of The Period Of Absolutism In Central Europe by Selma Stern
  5. ^ "Selma Stern-Täubler Is Dead; A Specialist on German Jews". The New York Times. August 19, 1981. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Guide to the Papers of Selma Stern-Taeubler (1890-1981)". Leo Baeck Institute. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  7. ^ Der preussische Staat und die Juden, Band 1;Band 3 von Selma Stern

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