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Bettina Farack, MA | The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

Bettina Farack, MA

Farack
Bettina
Farack, MA
Visiting Research Fellow (PhD)

Academic Interests: Library history, collection theory and provenance research.

Bettina Farack is a PhD candidate at the University of Erfurt. Her research focuses on the history of the library of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and is part of the project “German-Jewish Heritage Relocated: Postwar Dispersion of the Library of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums”, a joint research project of Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig.


Bettina Farack has studied library and information science, philosophy and Protestant theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2019 to 2022, she managed the library and the archive of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. Her research focuses on library history, collection theory and provenance research.
 

Recent Publications

  •     „Die Bibliothek von Leo Baeck: Raub und Rekonstruktion“,  (Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft Heft 485, Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Berlin 2022.
  •     “Die Träume der Arbeitssklaven: Zwangsarbeit für die ‚Judenbibliothek‘ des Reichssicherheitshauptamts“, in Trumah: Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg 25 (2023): forthcoming.