Nathanja Hüttenmeister M.A.

Jewish Studies

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
for German-Jewish History
at the University of Duisburg-Essen

hut@steinheim-institut.org

External profile page

Main research areas

  • Epigraphy / Jewish Sepulchral Culture
  • Memory books
  • Jews in the early modern period

Career

  • Since 2003

    Research assistant, Steinheim Institute

  • 1998-2002

    Research assistant, DFG project Germania Judaica IV, Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg, 2002 and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

  • 1996-2003

    Freelance research assistant, Steinheim Institute

  • 1998

    Magister Artium, Free University of Berlin

  • 1992-1998

    Studied Jewish Studies, Arabic Studies and History at the Free University of Berlin

  • 1990-1992

    Study of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • 1989-1990

    Studied Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin

  • 1987-1989

    Study of Islamic Studies and Semitic Studies, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Publications (selection)

  • Hüttenmeister, Nathanja: ‘But my time for picking flowers is over’. The Jewish cemetery in Essen’s Segeroth district, Thursday issues on politics, culture and society 9 (2016).

  • Hüttenmeister, Nathanja: ‘The very last things’ – Jewish cemeteries in Germany, in: Introductions to the material cultures of Judaism, ed. Nathanael Riemer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016 (Jewish culture 31), 219-253.

  • Hüttenmeister, Nathanja: Cemeteries of Jewish rural communities in the early modern period, in: Jews and rural society in Europe between the Middle Ages and the early modern period (15th-17th century). Continuity and crisis, inclusion and exclusion in a time of transition, ed. Sigrid Hirbodian and Torben Stretz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016 (Research on the history of the Jews A 24), 233-251.

  • Hüttenmeister, N. / Lehnardt A.: Newly found Medieval Gravestones from Magenza, in: Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities, ed. Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt, Avriel Bar-Levav. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2014 (Studia Judaica 78), 213-223.

  • Hüttenmeister, Nathanja: Everyday togetherness or separate communities: Life in the village using the example of the Pappenheim lords, in: Spaces and paths. Jewish history in the Old Kingdom 1300-1800 , ed. Rolf Kiessling, Peter Rauscher, Stefan Rohrbacher, Barbara Staudinger. Berlin: Academy Publisher 2007 (Colloquia Augustana 25), 107-120.

  • Hüttenmeister, N. / Müller, C. E. : Controversial spaces: Jewish cemeteries in Berlin. Große Hamburger Straße and Schönhauser Allee. Berlin: Metropol 2005 (Minima Judaica 5).

  • Hüttenmeister, Nathanja: The Jewish cemetery in Laupheim. A documentation. Laupheim : Traffic and beautification association 1998.

Lectures (selection)

  • 10.09.2024

    „Formula and Freedom: The Walsdorf Cemetery in Comparative Perspective“, International Conference "Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.