Miriam Rürup Explained

Miriam Rürup (born 1973 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German historian and director of the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam (Germany).[1]

Academic career

Miriam Rürup studied history, sociology and cultural anthropology at the universities of Göttingen (Germany), Tel Aviv (Israel) and Berlin (Germany). She worked as a research assistant at the "Topography of Terror" Foundation in Berlin, and as a doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel), and the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig (Germany).

In 2006, she received her doctorate from the Centre for Anti-Semitism Research (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung / ZfA) at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her book on the history of German-Jewish student fraternities in Imperial and Weimar Germany was published in 2007.[2] Between 2006 and 2010 she was a postdoctoral fellow/assistant professor at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Generationengeschichte"[3] as well as at the history department of the University of Göttingen. Afterwards, she worked for two years as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. In July 2012 Rürup became the director of the IGdJ in Hamburg,[4] where she also taught at the history department of the Hamburg University. In December 2020, she became the director of the MMZ in Potsdam.

Her research focuses on German-Jewish history, contemporary history (especially the history of Nazi Germany and the aftermath), as well as the history of migration and gender. Her ongoing research project deals with a history of statelessness in Europe after both World Wars.[5] [6]

Miriam Rürup serves a member on the advisory boards of several scientific journals, e.g. WerkstattGeschichte (since 2002), Aschkenas (since 2013), and the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (since 2014).[7] Furthermore, she heads the editorial board of the digital bilingual (German/English) online edition of sources: "Key Documents of German-Jewish History" and she is one of the review editors for Jewish History with the online forum H-Soz-Kult.[8]

She is also a member of the International Advisory Board Bergen-Belsen,[9] of the Study Group Human Rights in the 20th Century by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne),[10] and the Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft of the Leo-Baeck-Institut in Germany.[11]

Selected works

References

  1. Web site: Professorin Miriam Rürup wird neue MMZ-Direktorin. 1 December 2020.
  2. Book: Rürup, Miriam. Ehrensache: Jüdische Studentenverbindungen an deutschen Universitäten, 1886–1937. Wallstein. 2007. 978-3-8353-0311-9. Göttingen.
  3. Web site: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Generationengeschichte. 13 March 2017.
  4. Web site: Neue Leitung am Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden in Hamburg. 2 July 2012. Press Release of the Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Gleichstellung der Stadt Hamburg. 13 March 2017.
  5. Rürup. Miriam. 2014-01-01. The Citizen and its Other: Zionist and Israeli Responses to Statelessness. The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. 59. 1. 37–52. 10.1093/leobaeck/ybu006. 0075-8744.
  6. Rürup. Miriam. 2016-08-21. Das Geschlecht der Staatenlosen.Staatenlosigkeit in der BundesrepublikDeutschland nach 1945. Journal of Modern European History. en. 14. 3. 411–436. 10.17104/1611-8944-2016-3-411. 152199184 . 1611-8944.
  7. Web site: Editorial and Advisory Board. Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. 13 March 2017.
  8. Web site: Editors. H-Soz-Kult. 13 March 2017.
  9. Web site: International Advisory Board Bergen-Belsen. Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation. 25 June 2017.
  10. Web site: Study Group Human Rights in the 20th Century. Fritz Thyssen Foundation. 25 June 2017.
  11. Web site: Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (WAG). 25 June 2017.

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