Renate Evers

Renate Evers is the Bruno and Suzanne Scheidt Director of Collections of the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin. She holds an MA in Jewish Studies from Columbia University, New York, an MIS from Konstanz University, Germany, as well as MLS degrees from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA and the former Library School in Frankfurt, Germany. She has worked in academic libraries and special collections and published about German-Jewish history and book history. Recent publications include "The Quest for the Philosophers' Stone: Alois von Sonnenfels' 'אור נגה—Splendor Lucis,' Vienna 1745," The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (2023), online; "The 1484 Nuremberg Jewry Oath (More Judaico)," The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (2020), online; "Philipp Alexander & Crona David: a conversion, divorce, and custody case, Braunschweig, 1752/5," Jewish Culture and History (2019), online; " 'Der Vollkommene Pferdekenner,’ 1764: Jewish Horse Traders in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Their Language at the Threshold of Modernity," The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (2018), online; "The Schocken Bücherei 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: Hentrich & Hentrich), 2016, online.