Renate Evers

Renate Evers has served as the Bruno and Suzanne Scheidt Director of Collections at the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin (LBI) since 2016. She oversees LBI’s Archives, Art, and Library collections, supporting their care, growth, and accessibility for scholars and the public alike. Renate holds graduate degrees in Jewish Studies, library and information science, and information systems from Columbia University, Rutgers University, and German universities. She has worked across special collections, archives, and academic libraries, with a strong commitment to preserving and expanding access to both physical and digital collections. Her research interests center on German-Jewish history in the early modern period

Publications related to German-Jewish History:

Renate Evers, Julia und Petra Hammid, “Die Kunst von Lette Valeska: Schülerin und lebenslange Freundin von Galka Scheyer,” in Lette Valeska: Stars ohne Glamour : eine Braunschweiger Fotografin in Hollywood / hrsg. von Andreas Büttner und Peter Joch für das Städtische Museum Braunschweig (Petersberg: Imhof Verlag, 2023), 19-29.
The Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone: Alois von Sonnenfels’ ‘אור נגה—Splendor Lucis’, Vienna 1745', in The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2023.
Renate Evers and Julia Hammid, 'The Art of Lette Valeska - Student and Lifelong Friend of Galka Scheyer from Braunschweig to Hollywood,' in Galka Scheyer - a Jewish Woman in International Art Business, ed. Katrin Keßler, Schriftenreihe der Bet-Tfila-Forschungsstelle für Jüdische Architektur in Europa 13; Galka Scheyer International Conference in Braunschweig [...] November, 2019 (Petersberg: Imhof, 2021).
The Complete Horse Connoisseur - Two essays for LBI's online SharedHistoryProject, 2021.
‘The 1484 Nuremberg Jewry Oath (More Judaico)’ in The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2020.
'Philipp Alexander & Crona David: a conversion, divorce, and custody case, Braunschweig, 1752/53' in Jewish Culture and History. 20:2, 2019.
‘Der Vollkommene Pferdekenner, 1764: Jewish Horse Traders in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Their Language at the Threshold of Modernity’ in The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2018.
‘The Schockenbücherei in the Collections of the Leo Baeck Institute’ in Konsum und Gestalt: Leben und Werk von Salman Schocken und Erich Mendelsohn vor 1933 und im Exil Berlin, 2016.
Die “Schocken-Bücherei” in den Nachlasssammlungen des Leo Baeck Institutes New York [in German].' in Medaon, April 2014.

Publications related to the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin

'The Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin: Access to Jewish Life Stories in the Digital Age,' in “Through Their Eyes…” – Biographical Research in the Digital Age, PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. vol. 30 (Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2024).
Das Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin: Eine Spezialsammlung zur deutsch-jüdischen Kultur und Geschichte stellt sich vor,' Bibliotheksdienst 57, no. 12 (December 1, 2023): 691–99, https://doi.org/10.1515/bd-2023-0097.
Posts from the Past & Shared History: Die Aktivitäten und Sammlungen des Leo Baeck Institutes - ein Beitrag zu Von Büchern und ihren Orten, ein BlogProjekt der Germania Judaica Köln und des Steinheim Institutes, 2021.
'In Echtzeit: Die Aktivitäten und Sammlungen des Leo Baeck Institutes New York | Berlin,’ in Nurinst 2020; Jahrbuch des Nürnberger Instituts für NS-Forschung und Jüdische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schwerpunktthema: Zeitenwende – neue Formen der Erinnerungs- und Gedenkkultur, 2020.
'The Challenges of Reconstructing Cultural Heritage: An International Digital Collaboration' in IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 41:3, 2015.
'Digitizing the Rare Book Collection of the Leo Baeck Institute' in Digitization in the real world: Lessons learned from small and medium-sized digitization projects. New York : Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2010.

Book Reviews

Renate Evers. “Review of Rebekka Voß’s Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture.” In Geveb July 2024 (Special Issue: Old Yiddish Literature).
Renate Evers. “Book Review: Caroline Jessen, Kanon im Exil: Lektüren Deutsch-Jüdischer Emigranten in Palästina/ Israel. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 398 p. ISBN: 9783835333482. [German].” Judaica Librarianship 22 (December 31, 2022): 173–81.

Education

MA in Jewish Studies, Columbia University, US
MIS, University of Konstanz, Germany
MCIS, Rutgers University, US
MLS, Library School, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz , 1930, cover designed by George Salter.

A collection of more than 300 books, book covers, and individual graphic designs shows the scope and development of the eclectic and innovative design talent of George Salter.