Salamander Archives

Documentation of literature on Judaism after 1945

Making Jewish cultural

and intellectual life visible

Making Jewish cultural

and intellectual life visible


Mission

Foregrounding the revival of Jewish culture in Germany after the Holocaust and restoring the forgotten and erased intellectual heritage of Jewish literature, culture, and scholarship to the collective memory.

The publicist, literary scholar and founder of the "Literaturhandlung" in Munich, Rachel Salamander, has donated her unique collection to the City of Munich. It includes key documents and records from the past 40 years covering all aspects of intellectual history of Jewish literature, culture and science as well as the reality of Jewish life in Germany. The Alfred Landecker Foundation is supporting the cataloguing, academic processing, conservation and digitisation of the Salamander archives as well as the preparation of a permanent and travelling exhibition.

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The Monacensia is the literary memory of the City of Munich. It unites the city‘s literary archive, the Monacensia library, and a museum and event space under one roof. Since 1973, it has been housed in the Hildebrandhaus, the former villa of sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand. The Jewish history of the house is only partially known so far. The permanent exhibition “The Hildebrandhaus. Biography of an Artists’ Villa" aims to inspire further scholarly research. The Salamander Archives provide important information on the history of the artists’ villa, as well as the lives and networks of its residents up to the present day.
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