Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner
The Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner is an online encyclopedia provided by the Salomon L. Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish history at the University of Duisburg-Essen, edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach.
The Steinheim Institute does research in the field of German-Jewish history as of the Middle Ages to the present. It investigates the complex patterns of interrelations between Jewish and general history from a religious and social historical, as well as literary and cultural studies perspectives. By virtue of paying special attention to intra-Jewish contexts, traditions and sources, the institute’s research provides new insights into how Jews in German-speaking areas and in the whole of Europe shaped their identities and their history in many various fields with self-confidence.
The goal of this encyclopedia is to be a complete directory of all rabbis who lived and worked in or originated from German-speaking areas since the age of enlightenment.
The encyclopedia consists of two parts:
Part 1: Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit in den deutschen, böhmischen und großpolnischen Ländern (1781 – 1871), edited by Carsten Wilke.
Part 2: Die Rabbiner im Deutschen Reich (1871 – 1945), edited by Katrin Nele Jansen.
| Kind: | Records |
|---|---|
| Method: | Scraped |
| Source: | http://www.steinheim-institut.de/wiki/index.php/Biographisches_Handbuch_der_Rabbiner_%28BHR%29 |
| Example: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/bhr/1 |
| URI namespaces: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/bhr/ |
| Maintained by: | Kai Eckert |
| License: |
CC BY 4.0
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| FID portal: | This dataset in the catalogue of the FID Jewish Studies |
| Generator: | generators/bhr (how every version was made) |
| All locations: | Where the files of this dataset are (data finder) |
Versions
2026-10-18 stable · Kai Eckert
Made from the portal harvest of 2026-10-16; the vocabulary links its terms to the common layer.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bhr-beacon.ttl.gz | 6.7 kB | 805 | 4474eeebbd44… |
| bhr-vocabulary.ttl.gz | 0.6 kB | 44 | 0b660e99e29c… |
| bhr.ttl.gz | 2.4 MB | 80,775 | d623747814a0… |
| bhr-meta.ttl.gz | 2.9 kB | 97 | 80218068e022… |
2026-10-16 older · Kai Eckert
Made again from the source: a full harvest of the Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner (2,703 entries, 2026-10-16), true to the portal; IRIs from the BHR ids; the GND numbers from the portal’s BEACON in a file of their own.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bhr-beacon.ttl.gz | 6.7 kB | 805 | 5378c6f76daf… |
| bhr-vocabulary.ttl.gz | 0.5 kB | 42 | d9c4c0ad89e4… |
| bhr.ttl.gz | 2.4 MB | 80,775 | f03b2b1e2571… |
| bhr-meta.ttl.gz | 2.9 kB | 89 | 4b9edfbcd439… |
2026-10-12 older · Kai Eckert
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entityfacts-bhr-sameas.ttl.gz | 29.6 kB | 4,358 | 9f62e0d592c8… |
| bhr-final-05.ttl.gz | 1.4 MB | 26,394 | 333b321a0641… |
| bhr-meta.ttl.gz | 2.4 kB | 77 | 03631e16f3b5… |
2018-10-24 older · Maral Dadvar
Data files of the catalogue state judaicalink-site 81b42a5 (the state Frankfurt loaded). The EntityFacts links were on the dumps server but not in the catalogue.
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bhr-final-05.ttl.gz | 1.5 MB | a64d950ecc57… |
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| Entityfacts-bhr-sameas.ttl.gz | 32.5 kB | 2f1706d67e03… |
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| bhr-meta.ttl.gz | 2.6 kB | 83 | 38843d50dc0f… |
Changelog
- 2026-10-18 (version 2026-10-18), Kai Eckert: Vocabulary: the terms publication and dissertation are rdfs:subPropertyOf jl:hasPublication.
- 2026-10-16 (version 2026-10-16), Kai Eckert: Made from the portal: 2,703 records data/bhr/
with names, dates, places, biography, handbook reference and the sections of the pages; the 805 GND numbers of the BEACON (bhr-beacon.ttl.gz); the EntityFacts lookups of 2018 not carried over (links come from the linksets, decision 0029); the name IRIs of 2026-10-12 replaced by the records of their BHR id or name (2,773), 127 without a successor deprecated. - 2026-10-12 (version 2026-10-12), Kai Eckert: Errors of the 2018 generator fixed (decision 0024): owl:sameAs to the DNB EntityFacts service page (783) and links with empty identifiers (9) removed, empty literals (2,141) and the GND placeholder “NA” (1,692) removed, the mixed records of Glückmann and Gunzenhausen separated (15 values of other records removed), jl:occpation stated as jl:occupationURI (2,900). Made from 2018-10-24 by generators/bhr/generate.py.
- 2026-10-12, Kai Eckert: Licence name corrected to CC BY 4.0 (was “CC4.0”); the licence URI is unchanged.
- 2025-06-24, Benjamin Schnabel: A script of the generator reformatted for Python 3 (judaicalink-generators); the published version was not regenerated.
- 2017-10-02, Maral Dadvar: Links to JudaicaLink added (EncycBHR-ID-GND-JL.ttl.gz).
- 2017-09-14, Maral Dadvar: First version (EncycBHR-ID-GND.ttl.gz).
