Partnerships

Since the beginning of the concept phase, the Research Center has assisted the Jewish Places team with their interest and expertise.

Thanks to this partnership, biographies of Jewish collectors were compiled based on research findings from the Proveana database, then linked to the interactive map.

mit:forschen is the central platform for citizen science in Germany. Jewish Places has been represented there since June 2021.

The partnership aims to develop programs for pupils and continuing education for teachers in order to expose young people to the topic of Judaism and Jewishness in greater detail.

In 2019 and 2021, students in the Public History masters' program worked with Jewish Places to research and prepare city tours and biographies.

Together with Jewish Places, during the winter semester of 2020, students researched city tours and biographies for places in Thuringia and located them on Jewish Places.

The institute presents selected materials on Jewish Places to provide resources for independent research into Hamburg's Jewish history.

This partnership featured one of the first Jewish Places seminars in which students enriched Jewish Places with their research. In addition, the MMZ helped shape Jewish Places as a founding partner.

As a founding partner with expertise and valuable experience, the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute supported the conceptual design and implementation of Jewish Places.

During the 2021 summer semester, students at the University of Cologne and the Freie Universität Berlin collaborated to research Jewish sites in Berlin and Cologne and developed new entries for Jewish Places.

This partnership began in 2023 as part of the project "Aunt Ly and the Twins: A Digitization Project on Alice Solomon's Family History."

This founding partner has contributed both technical advice and content to Jewish Places, for example by linking the "Memorial Book."

The Online Achive has been collaborating closely with Jewish Places since the concept phase. The red location markers on our map were generated using geo-information from the Archive's database.

We have embarked on a series of exciting cooperative projects with this founding partner. We are grateful to them for contributing important elements of the project's concept as well as interesting sites on our map.

As part of our partnership with the cultural education department of Jewish Museum Munich, pupils at a Munich secondary school created a fantastic audio biography of the actor Therese Giehse.

In 2021, there was a major collaboration between MiQua, Jewish Places, the FU Berlin, and the University of Cologne. 40 students added Jewish places to the map. In addition, MiQua presented the Jewish Places website as part of its traveling exhibition.

Thanks to an extensive import from this founding partner's database, there were already thousands of German synagogues to discover on our map at the time of our launch in 2018.

At the very beginning of the concept phase, this founding partner supported the creation of Jewish Places with their interest and expertise.

Education, technical development and internationalisation

Multilingualism

mit Schwerpunkt Ilmenau/Thüringen

The Working Group provides important groundwork for the content of Jewish Places. This founding partner remains in close contact with our editorial team.

This association makes Jewish locations in former East Prussia visible on Jewish Places and has also incorporated our interactive map into its page.

This founding partner assisted us during the implementation phase with their extensive knowledge on topics such as CC licences, collective intelligence, and citizen science, as well as providing imports of substantial data.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany has supported the creation and conceptual development of Jewish Places with the knowledge of its numerous institutions and projects.

The Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (Museum of Bavarian History) shares materials about Bavarian Jewish cemeteries from their own database with Jewish Places, making this knowledge accessible to new audiences.

The partnership with the Jewish Lower Rhine project marked a major milestone. As part of this partnership, Jewish Places embedded as a map in another website for the first time.

KulturRegion Stuttgart organizes edit-a-thons, public writing marathons at which information about Jewish Places is compiled and added together with interested laypeople.

As part of "Chai OF," an outdoor festival in 2021, there was a partnership to link the two mapping projects conceptually and digitally.

Thanks to the partnership with the Stumbling Stones in Hamburg initiative, 3660 "stumbling stone" memorials have been mapped on Jewish Places.