Professor Miriam Rüerup

Miriam Ruerup is a historian of modern German-Jewish history. She works on the history of statelessness from a Jewish perspective. Since 2020 she has been director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and teaches as a full professor of history and European Jewish studies at the University of Potsdam which is part of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. Currently she is working on a project of the German-Jewish Diaspora, focussing on German-Jewish history outside Germany after its expulsion under National Socialism. For the academic year 2025-2026, she is the Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the European Studies Centre.Her most recent book is a brief introduction into German-Jewish history with Berghahn (Social History of German Jews. A Short Introduction, New York 2024).