EAJS Trustee/Director and President-Elect
(Elected as EAJS President for 2027-31)
Professor Rürup is the Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and a Professor for European-Jewish Studies at Potsdam University. From 2012 to 2020 she was the Director of the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg (IGdJ) and between 2010 and 2012 worked as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Washington, D.C. (USA). From 2006 to 2010 she was assistant professor at the history department of Göttingen University, working on a history of Jewish responses to statelessness in Europe after WWII. She holds a PhD in Modern History from Technical University of Berlin with a doctoral thesis on the history of German-Jewish Student Fraternities in Imperial and Weimar Germany (published with Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen in 2007).
Since January 2020 she has been chairwoman of the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft (academic working group) of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany. As such she is currently working on a project on the German-Jewish Diaspora after 1933.
She is an advocate of working with Digital Humanities in Jewish History and Jewish Studies. She thus developed the online source edition “Hamburg Keydocuments on German-Jewish History” which went online in 2016 and will also be part of a soon to be launched online-portal on Jewish History Online.
She serves on various boards such as the Advisory Board of the Neue Synagoge – Foundation Centrum Judaicum (Berlin), the Board of Directors of the German Israeli Foundation (till July 2023), the Academic Advisory Board of the Minerva Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University and others.
Miriam Rürup is co-editor of various academic journals such as Aschkenas (since 2013) and the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (since 2014) as well as the founding editor of the online source edition “Key Documents on German-Jewish History.” Her research areas and topic of interest are German-Jewish History of the 19th and 20th Century, German contemporary history, women and gender history, history of law and human rights and migration history, with a strong interest in diaspora cultures.