Jüdisches Hamburg erzählen

Geschichte(n) präsentieren – Vielfalt abbilden. Ein Interviewprojekt zum jüdischen Leben in Hamburg seit 1945

The online platform “Jüdisches Hamburg erzählen” (Telling Jewish Hamburg) presents a collection of short interviews with Jewish women and men from Hamburg, conducted in 2022 as part of a project based at the Institute for the History of German Jews. The excerpts from the interviews provide insights into the diverse paths of life and survival, the different origins and self-perceptions, personal experiences, and family traditions, without claiming to represent the Jewish community or tell the story of a particular group.

The aim of the website is to break down the blanket perception of Jews as “the others” or as victims of antisemitic discrimination by presenting pluralistic affiliations and lifestyles. Taken together, the subjective narratives presented in the short interviews create a mosaic that reveals the diversity and plurality of Hamburg's Jewish community, questioning simple attributions, clichéd representations, and monocausal explanations, and pointing to the complexity of affiliations and histories that make up a diverse immigrant society.

Reuse of the interviews for private or academic purposes is regulated by CC licenses.