About us
The Specialized Information Service for Jewish Studies (FID Jewish Studies) offers researchers access to information, resources and services in all ares of research relevant to Jewish Studies and Israel Studies. The FID is a joint project of the University Library Johann Christian Seckenberg at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Hochschule Mannheim - University of Applied Sciences (until 2023 Stuttgart Hochschule der Medien) and has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2016 as part of the “Specialised Information Services” Program (German: Fachinformationsdienste and hence "FID"). The FID Jewish Studies is currently in its third funding phase (2022-2025).
The FID focuses on providing access to literature and digital resources, information and data services. This includes subject specific library services such as cataloguing and indexing of printed and electronic media. We aim to generate high quality meta data and authority records for researchers and libraries, most significantly related to Hebrew-language publications. For that purpose, the FID has developed Revrit, a tool that automatically converts transliterated Hebrew-language title data and thus fundamentally improves the findability of Hebraica in library reference systems.
In addition, the JudaicaLink project processes subject-specific data for Jewish Studies as linked open data and makes it available via a knowledge graph and further digital tools.
The FID Jewish Studies is a joint project between the Frankfurt University Library and the Hochschule Mannheim - University of Applied Sciences, supported by Hebis, the Hessian Library Information System.
The Academic Advisory Board advises the FID Jewish Studies. Its members represent key research areas with in Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Jewish Studies, and Israel Studies. The two major associations – the German Association for Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology and the Vereinigung Jüdische Studien e. V. – are also represented in the Academic Advisory Board.
The FID Jewish Studies and the Hebraica & Judaica Collection of the Frankfurt University Library cooperate with various research institutions, professional associations, and libraries and museums, as well as other FID in related research fields.
The FID Jewish Studies is part of a network of around 40 specialized information services, which, in addition to their respective specialized work, organize themselves into a network of various committees and forums.
Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | Campus Bockenheim
Freimannplatz 1
60325 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: info[at]jewishstudies.de