The Leopold Zunz Archive is a collection of documents related to Leopold Zunz, the founder of academic Jewish studies [Wissenschaft des Judentums], and Jewish intellectual life in Berlin more broadly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. After a tumultuous history, included being saved from destruction by National Socialists at the last minute in Berlin in 1939, the Leopold Zunz Archive is presently located under the Archives Department of the National Library of Israel and its documents are being digitized, reorganized, and rendered accessible to a wider public vis the Internet thanks to a project supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The archive comprises approximately 25,000 pages and contains four distinct collections: 1) the estate of Leopold Zunz, 2) the estate of Lazarus Bendavid (a German Jewish philosopher and mathematician, active between Berlin and Vienna), 3) the archive of the "Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews," of which Zunz and Bendavid were members, and 4) the archive of the Zunz Foundation. Each collection comprises a "History" or "Biography" section describing the collection, a "Bibliography" section listing published works or secondary literature related to the topic, and a "Documents" section which has digitized versions of documents as well as metadata related to that particular collection. While most documents are digitized and available on the Leopold Zunz Archives website, several are not digitized and only available as a description on the catalog service "Kalliope" [Verbundkatalog Kalliope], in which case a link to their entry on this catalog is provided.
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The Leopold Zunz Archive is a collection of documents related to Leopold Zunz, the founder of academic Jewish studies [Wissenschaft des Judentums], and Jewish intellectual life in Berlin more broadly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. After a tumultuous history, included being saved from destruction by National Socialists at the last minute in Berlin in 1939, the Leopold Zunz Archive is presently located under the Archives Department of the National Library of Israel and its documents are being digitized, reorganized, and rendered accessible to a wider public vis the Internet thanks to a project supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The archive comprises approximately 25,000 pages and contains four distinct collections: 1) the estate of Leopold Zunz, 2) the estate of Lazarus Bendavid (a German Jewish philosopher and mathematician, active between Berlin and Vienna), 3) the archive of the "Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews," of which Zunz and Bendavid were members, and 4) the archive of the Zunz Foundation. Each collection comprises a "History" or "Biography" section describing the collection, a "Bibliography" section listing published works or secondary literature related to the topic, and a "Documents" section which has digitized versions of documents as well as metadata related to that particular collection. While most documents are digitized and available on the Leopold Zunz Archives website, several are not digitized and only available as a description on the catalog service "Kalliope" [Verbundkatalog Kalliope], in which case a link to their entry on this catalog is provided.
(Description adapted from information on project website)