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Biographical/Historical Information

The historian Selma Stern was born in Kippenheim in 1890. Studying in Heidelberg and in Munich, she was one of the first fellows at the newly founded ‘Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums’ in Berlin in 1920. Stern emigrated to the U.S. in 1941, settling in Cincinnati, where her husband Eugen Täubler taught at ‘Hebrew Union College’ and she worked as an archivist. Selma Stern was instrumental in founding the Leo Baeck Institute in New York; she died in Basel, Switzerland in 1981.

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Selma Stern-Taeubler : studio portrait, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3444.