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Quedlinburg

    Title: Juden in Quedlinburg

    Author: Eberhard Brecht and Manfred Kummer

    Publication Date: 1996

    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 Q44 E24 1996

 


R

Raesfeld

    Title: Die juedische Gemeinde von Raesfeld; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Juden in Westfalen

    Author: Adalbert Friedrich

    Publication Date: 1988

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 R24 F7 1988



Randegg

    Jewish history of Randegg, including synagogue and cemetery



Rastatt

    Title: Geschichte und Schicksal der Juden im Landkreis Rastatt 

    Author: O. Stiefvater

    Publication date: 1965

    No. of Pages: 41

    Comments:  Chapter/Article in Um Rhein und Murg 5, pp. 42-83



    Title: Geschichte der Juden von Rastatt

    Author: H. Translateur

    Publication Date: 1931

    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 R28 T7



Rathenow  

    history of Rathenow Jews during the Nazi regime



Ratingen

    Title: Juden in Ratingen seit 1592 : eine Dokumentation

    Author: Erika Muenster

    Publication Date: 1996

    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. q DS 135 G4 R30 J83 1996



Rhauderfehn

    Jewish families in Rhauderfehn



Regensburg

    Title:  Regensburger Juden. Juedisches Leben von 1519 bis 1990 (Regensburger Studien und Quellen zur Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 6)

    Author:  Wittmer, Siegfried

    Publication Date:  1990

    Publisher:  Erschienen im Universitaetsverlag Regensburg

    Comments:  ISBN: 3-930480-10-7, ISSN: 0946 -1574

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



Reichelsheim

    Title:  Gegen das Vergessen. Juden in Reichelsheim

    Author:  Reinhard Gruenewald

    Publication date:  1998

    Publisher:  Suin Buchverlag, Lindenfels

    Comments:  ISBN 3-921559-26-X. 

Some of the Jewish vital records available for Reichelsheim are included in this book



Reichenberg

    Title: Die ehemaligen juedischen Gemeinden im Landkreis

Wuerzburg [The former Jewish communities in Wuerzburg county]

    Author: J. Sporck-Pfitzer

    Publication Date:  1988



Reilingen

    Title: Geschichte der Reilinger Juden

    Author: Phillip Bickle

    Publication date: 1986

    No. of Pages: 8

    Publisher: Ortschronik Reilingen

    Comments: pages 361 - 368; History of the Jews in Reilingen from early beginning to 1940. lists name changes and occupations 1830, detailed regulations of the Synagogenbauverein, deportation 1940. In German.  To obtain a copy, contact:

   BUERGERMEISTER

   D 68795 REILINGEN

   DEUTSCHLAND

   EMAIL reilingen@kurpfalz-online.de



Reiskirchen

    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia

    Author: Nathan Reiss

    Publication Date: 2006

    No. of Pages: 1,100+

    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase



Reutlingen

    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Reutlingen 

    Author: Th. Schoen

    Publication date: 1894/1895

    No. of Pages: 5

    Comments: Chapter/Article in Reutlinger Geschichtsblaetter V; V pp. 36ff, 59-62; VI (1895) p. 64.



Rexingen

    Jewish history of Rexingen, including synagogue and cemetery



    Title: In Stein gehauen : Lebensspuren auf dem juedischen Friedhof in Rexingen ; Dokumentation des Friedhofs und des Schicksals der 300 Jahre in Rexingen ansaessigen juedischen Gemeinde

    Author: Renate Karoline Adler

    Publication Date: 1997

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. GT 3250 R49 1997



Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (county)

     Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

     Publication date: 2003

     Publisher: Hunsrücker Geschichtsverein

     Comments: Available through Leo Baeck Institute Library, q 702; see http://tinyurl.com/ltfr76t



Rheinböllen

     Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis

     Author: Christof Pies et al

     Publication date: 2003

     Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein

     Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum



Rheindahlen

    Jews in Rheindahlen



    List of Rheindahlen Jews who perished in the Holocaust



Rheine

    Jewish families from Rheine



Rheinhessen

    Title: Menschen zwischen Hoffnung und Verzweiflung. Der

Alltag juedischer Mitmenschen in Rheinhessen, Mainz und Worms waehrend des 'Dritten Reichs'

    Author:  Michael Brodaecker

    Publication Date:  1999

    Publisher:  Gesellschaft fuer Volkskunde in Rheinland-Pfalz c/o Deutsches Institut, Abt. Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde

Universitaet, 55099 Mainz, tjas@mail.uni-mainz.de

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title: '... wir sind doch Deutsche.' Zu Geschichte und Schicksal der Landjuden in Rheinhessen

    Author: Dieter Hoffmann

    Editor: Stadt Alzey

    Year of publication: 1992 

    No. of pages:  409

    Comments:  ISBN 3-87854-087-6.  In German; incl. 34 photos and some maps Index: History until end of ancien régime, after French Revolution until  1933, and nine chapters 1933 -1945. Annex: Documents, List of abbreviations. Register of names and of places. Bibliographie. 

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



Rhein-Lahn

    Der Rhein-Lahn-Kreis im Internet



Rheinland 

    Title: Stille Gaerten - beredte Steine. Juedische Friedhoefe im Rheinland. Fotografien

    Author:  Maren Heyne

    Publication Date:  1994

    No. of pages: 192

    Publisher:  Dietz

    Comments: ISBN 3801202143



    Title: Die Kristallnacht im Rheinland

    Author: Anselm Faust

    Publication Date: 1987

    No. of Pages: 224

    Publisher: Schwann Duesseldorf

    Comments: ISBN 3-590-18152-4



    Title: Zur Geschichte und Kultur der Juden im Rheinland

    Author: Falk Wiesemann

    Publication Date: 1985

    No. of Pages: 219

    Publisher: Schwann 

    Comments: ISBN 3-590-32009-5



Rheinland-Pfalz

    Germany WorldGenWeb Project for Rheinland-Pflaz



    Title: Beitraege zur juedischen Geschichte und zur Gedenkstaettenarbeit in Rheinland-Pfalz

    Author:  Matthias Molitor and Hans-Eberhard Berkemann, eds.

    Publication Date:  bi-annual

    Publisher:  Verlag Matthias Ess, Bleichstrasse 25, D-55543 Bad Kreuznach. Germany

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title:  Juedische Grabstaetten im Kreis Bad Kreuznach - Geschichte und Gestaltung - Teil 1

    Author:  Kreisverwaltung Bad Kreuznach und des Paedagogischen Zentrums Rheinland-Pfalz

    Publication Date:  1995

    No. of pages:  574

    Publisher:  Kreisverwaltung Bad Kreuznach und des Paedagogischen Zentrums Rheinland-Pfalz

    Comments:  in German; gives full listing of all gravestones extant in all Jewish cemeteries in Kreis Bad Kreuznach (located in Rheinland-Pfalz, some 55 km. east of Darmstadt). 

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der juedischen...., Vol. 20, Part 3

    Author: Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland (Germany) Landesarchiv



    Juedische Friedhoefe in Rheinland-Pfalz



Rhina



    Title: Die Juden von Rhina; aus der Chronik eines osthessischen Dorfes

    Author: Renate Chotjewitz-Haefner and Peter Chotjewitz

    Publication Date: 1988

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 R53 C4



Rhineland Westphalia 

    Title:  Geschichte der Juden im Rheinland und in Westfalen

    Author:  Michael Zimmermann

    Publication Date:  1988

    No. of Pages:  329

    Publisher: Kohlhammer



Ribnitz

    Title:  Spurensuche, juedisches Leben in Ribnitz und Umgebung

    Author:  Eleanore Rosel

    Publication Date:  1996

    No. of Pages:  48

    Publisher: Scheunen-Verlag, Kuckenshagen

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



Ribnitz-Damgarten

    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg- Vorpommern 

    Author: Irene Diekmann 

    Publication Date: 1887 

    No. of Pages: 544 

    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam



Rimpar

    Title: Die ehemaligen juedischen Gemeinden im Landkreis

Wuerzburg [The former Jewish communities in Wuerzburg county]

    Author: J. Sporck-Pfitzer

    Publication Date:  1988



Rixheim

     Rixheim



Rockenhausen

     Title: Die Juden des Kantons Rockenhausen und das napoleonische Namensdekret vom 20. Juli 1808. (the Jews on the canton Rockenhausen and the Napoleonic naming decree of July 20,1808) 

     Author: Bernard Kukatzki

     No. of Pages: 22

     Publication Date: 1996

     Publisher: Landau by Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit Pfalz

     Comments:  many reproductions of documents; available at Leo Baeck Institute Library (DS 135 G4 R6 K8)



Roes

    Title: Spuren der Vergangenheit

    Author: Angelika Schleindl

    Publication Date: 1996

    Publisher: Rhein-Mosel Verlag, Briedel

    No. of Pages: 320

    Comments: Only available only at http://www.mosella-judaica.de



Rohrbach

     Jewish history of Rohrbach, including synagogue



Rosendahl (Osterwick und Darfeld)

    Title:'Juden in Kreis Coesfeld'

    Author: Aschoff, Dieter (ed.)

    Publication Date: 1990

    No of pages: 351 

    Publisher; Kreis Coesfeld, Der Oberkreisdirektor, Coesfeld?



Rossdorf

    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia

    Author: Nathan Reiss

    Publication Date: 2006

    No. of Pages: 1,100+

    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase



Rostock

    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg- Vorpommern 

    Author: Irene Diekmann 

    Publication Date: 1998 

    No. of Pages: 544 

    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam



Roth

    Title: Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd

    Author: Peter Kuhn

    Publication Date: 2006 

    Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH

    No. of pages: 728

    Comments: ISBN 3422065598 



Rottweil

    Title:  Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside

    Author:  Emily C. Rose

    Publication Date:  2001

    No. of Pages:  372

   Publisher:  The Jewish Publication Society, 2100 Arch St., 2nd Fl., Philadelphia, PA  19103; tel: 800-234-3151; fax: 215-568-2017; http://www.jewishpub.org

    Comments:  over 75 illustrations, maps, tables, family trees; bibliography

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



   Jewish history of Rottweil, including prayer hall and cemetery



Ruesselsheim

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof Gross-Gerau

    Author: Angelika Schleindl

    Publication Date: 1993

    No. of Pages:158

    Publisher: Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt, Germany

    Comments: ISBN: 387390103X



    Title: Juden in Ruesselsheim; Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 12 Okt. - 31 Dez. 1980

    Publication Date: 1980

    Publisher: Ruesselsheim Museum

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 R84 R8



Ruhrgebiet

    Title: Juden im Ruhrgebiet

    Author: Jan-Pieter Barbian et al

    Publication Date: 1999

    No. of Pages: 639 

    Publisher: Klartext Verlag

    Comments: ISBN 3-88474-694-4



Ruppichteroth

    Title: Die Juden in den Gemeinden Eitorf und Ruppichteroth

    Author: Karl Schroeder

    Publication Date: 1974

    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 E43 S37



Rust

    Title: Schicksal und Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinden: Ettenheim, Altdorf, Kippenheim, Schmieheim, Rust, Orschweier; ein Gedenkbuch 

    Author: Bernhard Uttenweiler et al 

    Publication Date: 1988 

    No. of Pages: 456 

    Publisher: Historischer Verein fuer Mittelbaden e.v. - Mitgleidergruppe Ettenheim



    Title:  Der juedische Friedhof in Schmieheim

    Author:  Naftali Bar-Giora Bamberger

    Publication Date:  1999

    No. of pages:  550

    Comments:  Historic documents first time published in facsimile of contracts for lease of the land from 1682 and 1714, annotated by G. Boll. First time published 'Tena-im' contract from 1819. Album size, about 2,500 photos of all tombstones, 500 inscriptions of the old section (1701 - 1800), deciphered, annotated and translated. Over 2,000 photos and personal data of all nearly 3,000 persons buried in Schmieheim, based on tombstone inscriptions, Jewish and official records. Alphabetical (first names and family names), chronological, planner, geographical registers and maps.

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Jewish families in Rust



Ruttershausen

    Title:  Geschichte der Juden in den heutigen Ortsteilen Staufenbergs Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg und Treis

    Author:  Volker Hess


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Saarland
    Title: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der juedischen...., Vol. 20, Part 3
    Author: Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland (Germany) Landesarchiv

Sachsen
    Title: Juden in Sachsen : ihr Leben und Leiden
    Publication Date: 1994
    Publisher: Gesellschaft fuer christlich-juedische Zusammenarbeit Dresden e.V
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. q DS 135 G35 J8

Salzhemmendorf
     Die juedische Gemeinde Salzhemmendorf

Salzkotten (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
    Salzkotten, including its Jewish history. (German)

Samter
    Title: Zur Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde und der juedischen Familien in Samter waehrend der letzten 100 Jahre
    Author: Rabbiner Dr. A. Posner
    Publication Date:  1948
    No. of Pages: 101
    Publisher: Jerusalem: self-published
    Comments: Covers the years of 1831 - 1925. Typewritten book. Copy at Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati), Leo Baeck Institute (New York), and Library of Congress (Washington); B. Algaze (Algaze3@gmail.com) also has a copy and has offered to do a lookup for anyone interested in this town

Scheinfeld
    Jewish community in Scheinfeld, Middle Franconia, 1842-1935

Schlichtingsheim
    Jewish Cemeteries of Poland

Schlesien
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schlesien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert : Dokumentation einer Tagung in Breslau /. ; German 
    Author: Peter Maser and Friedrich-Carl Schultze-Rhonhof
    Publication Date: 1995
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 S56 G47 1995

Schmieheim
    Title: Schicksal und Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinden: Ettenheim, Altdorf, Kippenheim, Schmieheim, Rust, Orschweier; ein Gedenkbuch 
    Author: Bernhard Uttenweiler et al 
    Publication Date: 1988 
    No. of Pages: 456 
    Publisher: Historischer Verein fuer Mittelbaden e.v. - Mitgleidergruppe Ettenheim
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

    Title:  Der juedische Friedhof in Schmieheim
    Author:  Naftall Bar-Giora Bamberger
    Publication Date:  1999
    No. of pages:  550
    Comments:  over 2,500 tombstone photos and inscriptions dating back to 1701.

    Jewish history of Schmieheim, including synagogue and cemetery

    Schmieheim (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schneidemuehl
    Title: History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemuehl: 1641 to the Holocaust
    Author: Peter Simonstein Cullman
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of pages: 408
    Publisher: Avotaynu
    Comments: several indexes, glossary, 1939 census data, numerous photos and maps
Schneidemühl (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schoenlanke
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schoenlanke
    Author: Dr. M. L. Bamberger
    Publication Date: 1912
    Publisher: Verlag von Luis Lamm
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute and Brandeis Univ. (Waltham,MA)

    Title: History of the Jewish Community of Schönlanke: 1736 - 1940: A Memorial to the Vanished
    Author: Peter Simonstein Cullman
    Publication Date: 2016
    No. of pages: 474
    Publisher: Avotaynu
    Comments: Complete history of this community, extensive annotated community registers of the early 1800s, several indexes, glossary, 1939 census data, numerous photos and maps
Schönlanke (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schopfloch 
    Jews of Schopfloch, including Schopfloch Jewish Cemetery Database

Schornsheim
   Title: Die juedischen Bewohner der Selztalgemeinden und ihrer Nachbardoerfer
    Author: Walter Schwamb
    Publication Date: 2012
    No. of pages: 169
    Publisher: Selbstverlag des Autors - Druckhaus Seibert, Osthofen 
    Comments: ISBN 978-3-00-037378-7; extensive family trees and notes on descendants known to be Holocaust victims; includes separate indexes of male and female names

Schwabach
    Title: Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd
    Author: Peter Kuhn
    Publication Date: 2006 
    Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH
    No. of pages: 728
    Comments: ISBN 3422065598

Schwaben
    Title:  Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Schwaben. Bd. 2: Neuere Forschungen und Zeitzeugenberichte / Redaktion 
    Author:  Gerhard Willi 
    Publication Date:  2000
    No. of Pages:  444 p., 8 p. of plates : ill.
    Publisher:  Stuttgart : Thorbecke
    Comments:  (Irseer Schriften; Bd. 5) ISBN 3-7995-4176-4 (paperback) : DM 58.00 (Bd. 4 was published in 1994 (ISBN 3-7995-4172-1)

    Title:  Die juedische Gemeinde von Marktbreit im 19ten Jahrhundert
    Author:  Wenzel Johannes
    Publication Date:  1985
    Publisher:  Verlag Siegfried Gross Marktbreit

    Title:  Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern
    Author:  Israel Schwierz
    Publication date:  1988
    Publisher:  Herausgeber: Bayerische Landescentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit
    Comments:  history of the communities, synagogues and cemeteries, with many pictures
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Schwaebisch Hall
     Jewish history of Schwaebisch Hall, including Unterlimperg prayer room and Schwall prayer room

    Title: Geachtet - Ausgegrenzt - Verfolgt (Juedische Einwohner in
Schwaebisch Hall 1933-1943)
    Author: Elke Daeuber and Andreas Maisch
    Publication Date: 2008
    Publisher: Stadt Schwaebisch Hall
    Comments: ISBN 3-932146-27-1

    Title: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbruecken
    Author: Jorchen Gerz

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Schwaebisch Hall-Steinbach; eine Dokumentation. Erstellt von schuelern der realschule im schulzentrum west
    Publication Date: 1985
    Comments: Leo Baeck Instittue, ID # q GT 3250 S38 J8.

    Title: Kein kleines Jerusalem - Geschichte der Juden in Landkreis Schwaebisch Hall'
    Author: Gerahrd Taddey
    Publication Date: 1992
    Publisher: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen

Schwaebisch Gmuend
    Title: Zur Geschichte der Juden in Schw. Gmuend
    Author: Joachim Albrecht Grimm
    Publication date: 1962
    Publisher: Hochschule Schw. Gmuend
    Comments: Thesis
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

    Jewish history of Schwaebisch Gmuend, including synagogue

Schwerin
    Title: Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung: Juden in Schwerin 1933-145 
    Author: Berndt Kasten 
    Publication Date: 1995 
    No. of Pages: 82 
    Publisher: Historisches Museum Schwerin

    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 
    Author: Irene Diekmann 
    Publication Date: 1998 
    No. of Pages: 544 
    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

Schwerin/Warthe
    Jewish Cemeteries of Poland

Schwanfeld
    Schwanfeld

Schwerte 
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schwerte
    Author: Liselotte Hagenah
    Publication Date: 1988
    No. of Pages: 120
    Publisher: Viktor Verlag Schwerte
    Comments: ISBN 3-925260-09-9

Schwetzingen
    Title: Sie gehoerten zu uns. Geschichte und Schicksale der Schwetzinger Juden
    Author: A. Lohrbaecher and M. Rittmann
    Publication date: 1978
    Publisher: Schriften der Stadt A. Schwetzingen 7. (City archive).

Seeheim
    
Title: Juden in Seeheim und Jugenheim 
    AuthorRobert Bertsch
    Publication date: 1992
    Publisher: Gemeindevorstand Seeheim-Jugenheim

    Title: History of a Family Dispersed
    Author: Marion Mayer
    Publisher: MM Press, Chicago
    Comments: ISBN 0-9644869-0-3; Cambridge in the UK and the Library of Congress in the US have copies

Seesen
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Seesen
    Author: Gerhard Ballin
    Publication Date: 1979
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S44 B25

Selzen
   Title: Die juedischen Bewohner der Selztalgemeinden und ihrer Nachbardoerfer
    Author: Walter Schwamb
    Publication Date: 2012
    No. of pages: 169
    Publisher: Selbstverlag des Autors - Druckhaus Seibert, Osthofen 
    Comments: ISBN 978-3-00-037378-7; extensive family trees and notes on descendants known to be Holocaust victims; includes separate indexes of male and female names

Sembach
    Title:  Mahnende Zeugen der Vergangenheit
    Author:  Lothar Horter and Michael Tilly
    Publication Date:  1998
    No. of Pages:  110
    Publisher:  Verlag Franz Arbogast, Otterbach
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Senhals
    Title: Spuren der Vergangenheit
    Author: Angelika Schleindl
    Publication Date: 1996
    Publisher: Rhein-Mosel Verlag, Briedel
    No. of Pages: 320
    Comments: Only available only at http://www.mosella-judaica.de

Senheim
    Title: Spuren der Vergangenheit
    Author: Angelika Schleindl
    Publication Date: 1996
    Publisher: Rhein-Mosel Verlag, Briedel
    No. of Pages: 320
    Comments: Only available only at http://www.mosella-judaica.de

Sennfeld
     Jewish history of Sennfeld, including synagogue

Sickenhofen
    Title: Die Juden von Babenhausen; Beitraege zur Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinden von Babenhausen, Langstadt, Sickenhofen und Hergershausen
   Author: Loetzsch, Klaus; Wittenberg, Georg ; Loetzsch, Klaus; Wittenberg, Georg, eds
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: Available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 B15 J8

Simmern/Hunsrueck
     Title: Juden in Simmern/Hunsrueck; Versuch der geschichtlichen Darstellung; 600 Jahre Verbundenheit der Juden mit der Stadt Simmern/Hunsrueck und der juedischen Kultusgemeinde Simmern
    Author: Karl Faller, Karl and J.B. Weber
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library; call no. DS 135 G4 S58 F3

     Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
     Author: Christof Pies et al
     Publication date: 2003
     Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
     Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sinsheim
        Judetum im Kraichgau - eine Spurensuche:  'Judaism in the Kraichgau region - a search for traces.' Site contains a variety of sources of information about the Jewish history of towns in this region of Baden. There is quite a bit of Holocaust information, including some lists of Jews who lived in the various towns in the 1930's. Also maps, older historical info, a list of 'Jiddish' words and their German equivalents and other kinds of info. Overall this is an interesting site if you have an interest in this area of Baden, including Sinsheim and Waibstadt. 

    Jewish history of Sinsheim, including synagogue and graveyard

Soest
    Title: Juedische Nachbarn in Soest bis 1942; Ein Stadtrundgang
    Author: Sasse-Voswinckel, Ulrike und Koehn, Gerhard
    Publication Date: 2001
    No of pages: 64 
    Publisher: Verein fuer Geschichte und Heimatpflege, Soest

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Soest : eine Dokumentation in Text und Bild
    Author: Michael Brocke, Michael-; Andreas Hemstege and Gerhard Koehn
    Publication Date: 1993
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. q GT 3250 S62 J8 1993

Sohren
     Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
     Author: Christof Pies et al
     Publication date: 2003
     Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
     Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sommerhausen
    Title: Die ehemaligen juedischen Gemeinden im Landkreis
Wuerzburg [The former Jewish communities in Wuerzburg county]
    Author: J. Sporck-Pfitzer
    Publication Date:  1988

Sontheim
    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Affaltrach
    Author: Benjamin Nir and Martin Ritter

    Jewish history of Sontheim, including synagogue and cemetery

Sontra
    Jewish Cemetery information including photographs and transcriptions of grave inscriptions available free (in German). [An English user guide to the website can be found in the SIG Archives (Sept. 2007)]

Southern Germany (region)
    Title:  Jewish Life in the Village Communities of Southern Germany
    Author:  Hugo Mandelbaum
    Publication Date:  1985
    No. of pages:  95
    Publisher:  Feldheim Publishers, New York/Jerusalem
    Comments:  in English; remembrances and reminiscences of the author's childhood.
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Spandau
    Title: Juden in Spandau: vom Mittelalter bis 1945
    Author: Alois Kaulen and Joachim Pohl
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 B46 K3

Speyer
    Title:  Schicksale Speyerer Juden
    Author:  Johannes Bruno
    Publication Date:  2000
    Publisher:  Speyer city administration
    Comments: contains biographies of Jewish community leaders and appendices listing persons buried in the 'israelitische Friedhof' or Jewish cemetery of Speyer, Germany. The cemetery list contains 314 names, including about 60 different surnames, and dates of birth and death as recorded on the grave markers. The earliest burial date is 1888 and the last is 1938.

    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Speyer. 
    Publication Date: 1981
    Comments: Available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S64 G4

Springe
    Title: 'Wir sind Deutsche mit juedischer Religion' : Gescichte der Juden in Eldagsen und Springe, Bennigsen, Gestorf, Voelksen
    Author: Hans-Christian Rohde
    Publication Date: 1999
    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 S67 R663 1999

St. Gallen (Switzerland)
    Title: Hirschfeld, Strauss, Malinksy
    Author: Sabine Schreiber
    Publication Date: 2006
    Publisher: Chronos Verlag, Zuerich

St. Goar/Werlau/Hirzenbach
     Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
     Author: Christof Pies et al
     Publication date: 2003
     Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
     Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Stadlengsfeld
    Title:  Juden in Suedthueringen
    Author:  Hans Nothnagel
    Publication Date:  1999
    No. of Pages:  259
    Publisher:  Verlag Buchhaus Suhl
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Stadtoldendorf
    Title: Sie waren unsere Nachbarn: Die Geschichte der Juden in Stadtoldendorf 
    Author: Christoph Ernesti 
    Publication Date: 1996 
    No. of Pages: 96 
    Publisher: Verlag Joerg Mitzkat Holzminden, Allersheimer Str. 45, 37603 Holzminden
    Comments:  ISBN 3-931656-02-0
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Staufenberg
    Title:  Geschichte der Juden in den heutigen Ortsteilen Staufenbergs Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg und Treis
    Author:  Volker Hess

Steinbach
     Jewish history of Steinbach, including synagogue and cemetery

Steinsfurt
     Jewish history of Steinfurt, including synagogue

Steppach 
    Die Jüdische Gemeinde zu Steppach

Stettin
    Title: Die Geschichte der Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Stettin. Eine Studie zur Geschichte des pommerschen Judentums.
    Author: Jacob Peiser
    Publication Date: 1965 (2nd ed.)
    No. of Pages: 165
    Publisher: Wuerzburg, Holzner
    Comments: available in the Bielefeld University Library, call no. 148/556824, http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/

Stockstadt
    Title: Der juedische Friedhof Gross-Gerau
    Author: Angelika Schleindl
    Publication Date: 1993
    No. of Pages:158
    Publisher: Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt, Germany
    Comments: ISBN: 387390103X

Storndorf
    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia
    Author: Nathan Reiss
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of Pages: 1,100+
    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase 

Stralsund
    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 
    Author: Irene Diekmann 
    Publication Date: 1998 
    No. of Pages: 544 
    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

Stebbach
    Title: Juedische Persoenlichkeiten im Kraichgau (Jewish Personalities of Kraichgau)
     Author:  Michael Heitz and Bernd Roecker
     Publication Date:  2013
     No. of Pages:  319
     Publisher:  Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg
     Comments:  ISBN 978-3-89735-802-7; available at Amazon.de

Steinbach
    Title: Der Jüdisch Friedhof in Schwäbisch Hall Steinbach
    Author: Heinrich Kohring et al.

Steinhart
     Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia

Steppach
     Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia

Sterbfritz
    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia
    Author: Nathan Reiss
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of Pages: 1,100+
    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase

Sternberg
    Title:  Die Juedische Geschichte der Stadt Sternerg (Mecklenburg)
     Authors:  Juergen Gramenz, Sylvia Ulmer
     Publication Date:  2015
     No. of Pages:  456
     Comments:  Hardcover ISBN 978-3-7323-4812-1; Paperback ISBN 978-3-7323-4811-4; eBook ISBN 978-3-7323-4813-8

Stipshausen
    Title: Juden in Hottenbach und Stipshausen : eine Spurensuche
    Author: Hilde Weirich
    Publication Date: 1998
    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. st 393

Stuttgart
    Jewish history of Stuttgart, including Hoppenlau cemeteryPrag cemeterySteig cemeterySteinhaldenfeld cemeteryold synagogue and new synagogue

    Title: Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden
    Author: Maria Zelzer
    Publication Date: 1964
    No. of Pages: 588
    Publisher: Ernst Klett Verlag

     Title: Juedisches Leben in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
     Author: Rachel Dror, Alfred Hagemann & Joachim Hahn
     Publication Date: 2006
     Publisher: Klartext, issued by Landeszentgral fuer politische Bildung Baden-Wuerttemberg and two other organizations
     No. of pages: 24
     Comments: ISBN 3-89861-625-8; paperback pamphlet with map of Cannstatt and photographic history of the community, 1872-present day

     Title: Juedisches Leben in Wandel der Zeit
     Author: Paul Sauer & Sonja Hosseinzadeh
     Publication Date: 2002
     Publisher: Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen
     No. of pages: 325
     Comments: ISBN 3-88350-338-X; four pages of further references on the subject; pp. 1-147 by Dr. Sauer on Stuttgart Jewish history up to NZ times; body of the remainder on the renaissance of the community after the war

Suedniedersachsen
     Title: Juden in Suedniedersachsen : Geschichte, Lebensverhaeltnisse, Denkmaeler ; Beitraege zu einer Tagung am 10. November 1990 in Goettingen
    Author: Rainer Sabelleck
    Publication Date: 1994
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G35 S3 1994

Suechteln
    Title:  Die juedischen Familien in Duelken, Suechteln, Viersen im 19. Jahrhundert
    Author:  Klaus H. S. Schulte
    Publication Date:  1998
    Publisher: Stadt u. Kreis Viersen 

Suhl
    Title: Juden in Suhl : ein geschichtlicher Ueberblick /. 
    Author: Hans Nothnagel, Ewald Daehn and Erhard Roy Wiehn
    Publication Date: 1995
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 T52 N6

Sulz
    Title: Die Juden von Sulz; eine juedische Landgemeinde in Vorarlberg,1676-1744
    Author: Bernhard Purin
    Publication date: 1991
    Publisher: Bregenz: Vorarlberg. Autoren Gesellschaft
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Sundern
     Title: Die Geschichte der Juden in Sundern; eine geschuldete Erinnerung an die Familie Klein
    Author: Irmgard Harmann-Schuetz and Franz Blome Drees
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S86 H3

Sulzburg
    Title: Citadel of Splendor, The 500 Year Legacy of Jewish Sulzburg
    Author: Bezalel Kahn
    Publication date: 1995
    Publisher: Feldheim Publishers, New York
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

   Jewish history of Sulzburg, including synagogue and cemetery

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Talheim

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Affaltrach

    Author: Benjamin Nir and Martin Ritter



    Jewish history of Talheim, including synagogue



Tann (Rhoen)

    Jewish Cemetery information including photographs and transcriptions of grave inscriptions available free (in German). [An English user guide to the website can be found in the SIG Archives (Sept. 2007)]



Tauberbischofsheim

    Jewish history of Tauberbischofsheim, including synagogue and graveyard



Tauberrettersheim

    Title: Die ehemaligen juedischen Gemeinden im Landkreis

Wuerzburg [The former Jewish communities in Wuerzburg county]

    Author: J. Sporck-Pfitzer

    Publication Date:  1988



Teterow

    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 

    Author: Irene Diekmann 

    Publication Date: 1998 

    No. of Pages: 544 

    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam



Thalfang

     Title: Juedisches Leben in Thalfang. Geschichte und Schicksale

     Author: Elmar Ittenbach

     Publication Date: 2011



    Title: Dr. Samuel Hirsch (1815-1889), Rabbiner - Religionsphilosoph - Reformer

    Author: Elmar Ittenbach

    Publication Date: 2014

    Publisher: Hentrich & Hentrich



Thalmessing

    Title: Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd

    Author: Peter Kuhn

    Publication Date: 2006 

    Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH

    No. of pages: 728

    Comments: ISBN 3422065598



Theresienstadt

    Title: Kinderzeichnungen aus dem Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt

    Publication Date: 1990

    No. of Pages: 238

    Publisher: Staatliches Juedisches



Thueringen

    Title:  Denkmale juedischer Kultur in Thueringen

    Author:  Monika Kahl

    Publication Date: 1997

    Publisher: : Thueringisches Landesamt fuer Denkmalpflege

    Comments:  lists many towns in Thuringen; many pictures, particularly of Jewish cemeteries and synagogues or buildings that had been synagogues; list of towns that have synagogues, cemeteries, memorial plaques, etc.

    Comments: Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title:  Juden in Suedthueringen

    Author:  Hans Nothnagel

    Publication Date:  1999

    No. of Pages:  259

    Publisher:  Verlag Buchhaus Suhl

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title:  Juedische Familien in Weimar

    Author:  Erika Muller and Harry Steinl

    Publication Date:  1998



    Title:  Die Entjudung Thueringens

    Author: Juliane Rauprich and Siegfried Wolf (editors)

    Publication Date: 2002

    Comments: a volume from a journal series



    Title:  Denkmale juedischer Kultur in Thueringen

    Author: Monika Kahl

    Publication Date: 1997

    Comments: Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



    Title: Juden in Thueringen in der fruehen Neuzeit (1520-1650)

    Author: Stefan Litt

    Publication Date: 2003

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. st 2566



    Title:  Juden in Theuringen 1933-1945: biographische Daten

    Publisher:  Europaeisches Kulturzentrum in Theuringen - Erfurt

    Comments: available through Leo Baeck Institute Library, call number q 109 v.2; contents Vol. 1 Buchstaben (letters) A-L; Vol. 2 Buchstabel M-Z



Tiefenort

    Title:  Juden in Suedthueringen

    Author:  Hans Nothnagel

    Publication Date:  1999

    No. of Pages:  259

    Publisher:  Verlag Buchhaus Suhl

    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute



Tirschtiegel

    Jewish Cemeteries of Poland



Tost

    Jewish Cemeteries of Poland



Trebur

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof Gross-Gerau

    Author: Angelika Schleindl

    Publication Date: 1993

    No. of Pages:158

    Publisher: Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt, Germany

    Comments: ISBN: 387390103X



Treis

    Title:  Geschichte der Juden in den heutigen Ortsteilen Staufenbergs Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg und Treis

    Author:  Volker Hess



Tremessen

    Jewish Cemeteries of Poland



Treptow

    Title: Juden in Treptow. Sie haben geheissen wie ihr heisst.

    Publication Date: 1993

    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 B465 B4



Treysa

    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia

    Author: Nathan Reiss

    Publication Date: 2006

    No. of Pages: 1,100+

    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase



Tuebingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)

   Jewish history of Tuebingen, including synagogue and cemetery


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