The shelving order of our print items follows a shelfmark classification that has been developed for this library since the 1960s.
Reading room
- RABI
Classical RABbinical literature = sources, original and in translation (Mishnah, Talmud, Tosefta, Midrash).
- RABII
Secondary literature to the sources in RABI.
- MIN
„MINhag“. Practical halakhah. Ritual, custom, annual and life cycle; liturgical and prayer texts; liturgical music.
- MA
History and literature from the Jewish Middle Ages in the Islamic and Christian worlds; philosophy, poetry, and commentary; Genizah literature; inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula; hekhalot literature and Haside Ashkenaz; the crusades.
- KAR
KARaism.
- L
Reference Library. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, concordances, bibliographies.
- LAK
Regional Studies („LAndesKunde“). History and Society of Palestine after the Muslim conquest; Zionism; History and Society of the yishuv and of the State of Israel; geography, travel guides; Modern Middle East.
- SPR
Language ("SPRache"). Semitic studies (Hebrew, Aramaic); grammars and language textbooks.
Compact shelves
- NEUZ
Modernity. ("NEUZeit"). Modern history, communities, and societies of the Jewish Diaspora.
- FEST
Festschriften.
- JID
"JIDdisch". Literary editions in original and in translation. Yiddish linguistics, dictionaries, literary studies.
- LAD
LADino. Literary editions in original and in translation. Ladino linguistics, dictionaries, literary studies.
- ANT
ANTiquity. Ancient history of the people of Israel and the Near East; archaeology.
- SCRI
SCRIpta. Ancient epigraphics, numismatics, papyrology.
- ML
Modern Hebrew literature. Original and translated editions. ModernJewish literature in Hebrew (and other languages).
- RELPH
RELigion and PHilosophy. Modern Jewish philosophy; haskalah; mysticism (Zohar und Kabbalah) and Hasidism; modern religious currents (Reform, Orthodoxy...); sects and fringe groups; Jewish identity, external perceptions and stereotypes; gender and sexual orientation in relation to Jewish tradition.
- AUS
AUStriaca. Intellectual and political history of the Jews of Austria from the Middle Ages to World War II; Austrian Jewish communities after 1945, remigration, restitution (debate); diplomatic and other relationships between Austria and Israel.
- ASEM
AntiSEMitism. Christian anti-Judaism; modern antisemitism and Shoah; history of exile; "new", left-wing, and Muslim Antisemitism, anti-Zionism.
- KU
The arts (= „KUnst") and material culture. Jewish arts; Jewish museums; architecture; film; illumination and codicology; music and literature; Jewish artists.
- BIB
The Hebrew BIBle. Targum and other Jewish translations of the Bible; commentaries; biblical history and narrative.
- NT
New Testament. Early christianity in relation to Judaism; church fathers and Judaism; Jewish-Christian dialogue.
- H
Hellenistic-Jewish literature and culture; Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria.
- AP
APokrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew Bible.
- Q
Qumran. The Dead Sea Scrolls - source editions, original and in translation, analysis.
- SAM
SAMaritans.
- HAB
Habilitation theses.
- DISS
Doctoral theses.
- MAG
Master theses.
- K
Maps.
- Z
Journals.
- R
Series.
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