German Jewish Community Histories

(GerSIG)

Saarland
Title: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der juedischen...., Vol. 20, Part 3
Author: Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland (Germany) Landesarchiv

Sachsen
    Title: Juden in Sachsen : ihr Leben und Leiden
    Publication Date: 1994
    Publisher: Gesellschaft fuer christlich-juedische Zusammenarbeit Dresden e.V
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. q DS 135 G35 J8

Salzhemmendorf
Die juedische Gemeinde Salzhemmendorf

Salzkotten (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Salzkotten, including its Jewish history. (German)

Samter
    Title: Zur Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde und der juedischen Familien in Samter waehrend der letzten 100 Jahre
    Author: Rabbiner Dr. A. Posner
    Publication Date: 1948
    No. of Pages: 101
    Publisher: Jerusalem: self-published
    Comments: Covers the years of 1831 - 1925. Typewritten book. Copy at Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati), Leo Baeck Institute (New York), and Library of Congress (Washington); B. Algaze (Algaze3@gmail.com) also has a copy and has offered to do a lookup for anyone interested in this town

Scheinfeld
Jewish community in Scheinfeld, Middle Franconia, 1842-1935

Schlichtingsheim
Jewish Cemeteries of Poland

Schlesien
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schlesien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert : Dokumentation einer Tagung in Breslau /. ; German
    Author: Peter Maser and Friedrich-Carl Schultze-Rhonhof
    Publication Date: 1995
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 S56 G47 1995

Schmieheim
    Title: Schicksal und Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinden: Ettenheim, Altdorf, Kippenheim, Schmieheim, Rust, Orschweier; ein Gedenkbuch
    Author: Bernhard Uttenweiler et al
    Publication Date: 1988
    No. of Pages: 456
    Publisher: Historischer Verein fuer Mittelbaden e.v. - Mitgleidergruppe Ettenheim
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Schmieheim
    Author: Naftall Bar-Giora Bamberger
    Publication Date: 1999
    No. of pages: 550
    Comments: over 2,500 tombstone photos and inscriptions dating back to 1701.

Jewish history of Schmieheim, including synagogue and cemetery

Schmieheim (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schneidemuehl
    Title: History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemuehl: 1641 to the Holocaust
    Author: Peter Simonstein Cullman
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of pages: 408
    Publisher: Avotaynu
    Comments: several indexes, glossary, 1939 census data, numerous photos and maps
Schneidemühl (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schoenlanke
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schoenlanke
    Author: Dr. M. L. Bamberger
    Publication Date: 1912
    Publisher: Verlag von Luis Lamm
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute and Brandeis Univ. (Waltham,MA)

    Title: History of the Jewish Community of Schönlanke: 1736 - 1940: A Memorial to the Vanished
    Author: Peter Simonstein Cullman
    Publication Date: 2016
    No. of pages: 474
    Publisher: Avotaynu
    Comments: Complete history of this community, extensive annotated community registers of the early 1800s, several indexes, glossary, 1939 census data, numerous photos and maps
Schönlanke (JewishGen KehilaLinks)

Schopfloch
Jews of Schopfloch, including Schopfloch Jewish Cemetery Database

Schornsheim
Title: Die juedischen Bewohner der Selztalgemeinden und ihrer Nachbardoerfer
    Author: Walter Schwamb
    Publication Date: 2012
    No. of pages: 169
Publisher: Selbstverlag des Autors - Druckhaus Seibert, Osthofen
Comments: ISBN 978-3-00-037378-7; extensive family trees and notes on descendants known to be Holocaust victims; includes separate indexes of male and female names

Schwabach
    Title: Jüdischer Friedhof Georgensgmünd
    Author: Peter Kuhn
  Publication Date: 2006
    Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH
    No. of pages: 728
    Comments: ISBN 3422065598

Schwaben
    Title: Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Schwaben. Bd. 2: Neuere Forschungen und Zeitzeugenberichte / Redaktion
    Author: Gerhard Willi
    Publication Date: 2000
    No. of Pages: 444 p., 8 p. of plates : ill.
    Publisher: Stuttgart : Thorbecke
    Comments: (Irseer Schriften; Bd. 5) ISBN 3-7995-4176-4 (paperback) : DM 58.00 (Bd. 4 was published in 1994 (ISBN 3-7995-4172-1)

    Title: Die juedische Gemeinde von Marktbreit im 19ten Jahrhundert
    Author: Wenzel Johannes
    Publication Date: 1985
    Publisher: Verlag Siegfried Gross Marktbreit

    Title: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern
    Author:  Israel Schwierz
    Publication date: 1988
    Publisher: Herausgeber: Bayerische Landescentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit
    Comments: history of the communities, synagogues and cemeteries, with many pictures
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Schwaebisch Hall
Jewish history of Schwaebisch Hall, including Unterlimperg prayer room and Schwall prayer room

    Title: Geachtet - Ausgegrenzt - Verfolgt (Juedische Einwohner in
Schwaebisch Hall 1933-1943)
    Author: Elke Daeuber and Andreas Maisch
    Publication Date: 2008
    Publisher: Stadt Schwaebisch Hall
    Comments: ISBN 3-932146-27-1

Title: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbruecken
Author: Jorchen Gerz

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Schwaebisch Hall-Steinbach; eine Dokumentation. Erstellt von schuelern der realschule im schulzentrum west
    Publication Date: 1985
    Comments: Leo Baeck Instittue, ID # q GT 3250 S38 J8.

    Title: Kein kleines Jerusalem - Geschichte der Juden in Landkreis Schwaebisch Hall"
    Author: Gerahrd Taddey
    Publication Date: 1992
    Publisher: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen

Schwaebisch Gmuend
    Title: Zur Geschichte der Juden in Schw. Gmuend
    Author: Joachim Albrecht Grimm
    Publication date: 1962
    Publisher: Hochschule Schw. Gmuend
    Comments: Thesis
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Jewish history of Schwaebisch Gmuend, including synagogue

Schwerin
    Title: Ausgrenzung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung: Juden in Schwerin 1933-145
    Author: Berndt Kasten
    Publication Date: 1995
    No. of Pages: 82
    Publisher: Historisches Museum Schwerin

    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
    Author: Irene Diekmann
    Publication Date: 1998
    No. of Pages: 544
    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

Schwerin/Warthe
Jewish Cemeteries of Poland

Schwanfeld
Schwanfeld

Schwerte
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Schwerte
    Author: Liselotte Hagenah
    Publication Date: 1988
    No. of Pages: 120
    Publisher: Viktor Verlag Schwerte
    Comments: ISBN 3-925260-09-9

Schwetzingen
    Title: Sie gehoerten zu uns. Geschichte und Schicksale der Schwetzinger Juden
    Author: A. Lohrbaecher and M. Rittmann
    Publication date: 1978
    Publisher: Schriften der Stadt A. Schwetzingen 7. (City archive).

Seeheim
    Title: Juden in Seeheim und Jugenheim
  Author: Robert Bertsch
    Publication date: 1992
    Publisher: Gemeindevorstand Seeheim-Jugenheim

    Title: History of a Family Dispersed
    Author: Marion Mayer
    Publisher: MM Press, Chicago
    Comments: ISBN 0-9644869-0-3; Cambridge in the UK and the Library of Congress in the US have copies

Seesen
    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Seesen
    Author: Gerhard Ballin
    Publication Date: 1979
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S44 B25

Selzen
Title: Die juedischen Bewohner der Selztalgemeinden und ihrer Nachbardoerfer
    Author: Walter Schwamb
    Publication Date: 2012
    No. of pages: 169
Publisher: Selbstverlag des Autors - Druckhaus Seibert, Osthofen
Comments: ISBN 978-3-00-037378-7; extensive family trees and notes on descendants known to be Holocaust victims; includes separate indexes of male and female names

Sembach
    Title: Mahnende Zeugen der Vergangenheit
    Author: Lothar Horter and Michael Tilly
    Publication Date: 1998
    No. of Pages: 110
    Publisher: Verlag Franz Arbogast, Otterbach
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Senhals
Title: Spuren der Vergangenheit
Author: Angelika Schleindl
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Rhein-Mosel Verlag, Briedel
No. of Pages: 320
Comments: Only available only at http://www.mosella-judaica.de

Senheim
Title: Spuren der Vergangenheit
Author: Angelika Schleindl
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Rhein-Mosel Verlag, Briedel
No. of Pages: 320
Comments: Only available only at http://www.mosella-judaica.de

Sennfeld
Jewish history of Sennfeld, including synagogue

Sickenhofen
    Title: Die Juden von Babenhausen; Beitraege zur Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinden von Babenhausen, Langstadt, Sickenhofen und Hergershausen
   Author: Loetzsch, Klaus; Wittenberg, Georg ; Loetzsch, Klaus; Wittenberg, Georg, eds
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: Available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 B15 J8

Simmern/Hunsrueck
     Title: Juden in Simmern/Hunsrueck; Versuch der geschichtlichen Darstellung; 600 Jahre Verbundenheit der Juden mit der Stadt Simmern/Hunsrueck und der juedischen Kultusgemeinde Simmern
    Author: Karl Faller, Karl and J.B. Weber
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library; call no. DS 135 G4 S58 F3

Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
   Author: Christof Pies et al
   Publication date: 2003
   Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
   Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sinsheim
Judetum im Kraichgau - eine Spurensuche: "Judaism in the Kraichgau region - a search for traces." Site contains a variety of sources of information about the Jewish history of towns in this region of Baden. There is quite a bit of Holocaust information, including some lists of Jews who lived in the various towns in the 1930's. Also maps, older historical info, a list of "Jiddish" words and their German equivalents and other kinds of info. Overall this is an interesting site if you have an interest in this area of Baden, including Sinsheim and Waibstadt.

Jewish history of Sinsheim, including synagogue and graveyard

Soest
    Title: Juedische Nachbarn in Soest bis 1942; Ein Stadtrundgang
    Author: Sasse-Voswinckel, Ulrike und Koehn, Gerhard
    Publication Date: 2001
    No of pages: 64
    Publisher: Verein fuer Geschichte und Heimatpflege, Soest

    Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Soest : eine Dokumentation in Text und Bild
    Author: Michael Brocke, Michael-; Andreas Hemstege and Gerhard Koehn
    Publication Date: 1993
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. q GT 3250 S62 J8 1993

Sohren
Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
   Author: Christof Pies et al
   Publication date: 2003
   Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
   Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sommerhausen
    Title: Die ehemaligen juedischen Gemeinden im Landkreis
Wuerzburg [The former Jewish communities in Wuerzburg county]
    Author: J. Sporck-Pfitzer
    Publication Date: 1988

Sontheim
Title: Der juedische Friedhof in Affaltrach
Author: Benjamin Nir and Martin Ritter

Jewish history of Sontheim, including synagogue and cemetery

Sontra
Jewish Cemetery information including photographs and transcriptions of grave inscriptions available free (in German). [An English user guide to the website can be found in the SIG Archives (Sept. 2007)]

Southern Germany (region)
    Title: Jewish Life in the Village Communities of Southern Germany
    Author: Hugo Mandelbaum
    Publication Date: 1985
    No. of pages: 95
    Publisher: Feldheim Publishers, New York/Jerusalem
    Comments: in English; remembrances and reminiscences of the author's childhood.
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Spandau
    Title: Juden in Spandau: vom Mittelalter bis 1945
    Author: Alois Kaulen and Joachim Pohl
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 B46 K3

Speyer
    Title: Schicksale Speyerer Juden
    Author: Johannes Bruno
    Publication Date: 2000
    Publisher: Speyer city administration
    Comments: contains biographies of Jewish community leaders and appendices listing persons buried in the "israelitische Friedhof" or Jewish cemetery of Speyer, Germany. The cemetery list contains 314 names, including about 60 different surnames, and dates of birth and death as recorded on the grave markers. The earliest burial date is 1888 and the last is 1938.

    Title: Geschichte der Juden in Speyer.
    Publication Date: 1981
    Comments: Available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S64 G4

Springe
    Title: "Wir sind Deutsche mit juedischer Religion" : Gescichte der Juden in Eldagsen und Springe, Bennigsen, Gestorf, Voelksen
    Author: Hans-Christian Rohde
    Publication Date: 1999
    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. DS 135 G4 S67 R663 1999

St. Gallen (Switzerland)
    Title: Hirschfeld, Strauss, Malinksy
    Author: Sabine Schreiber
    Publication Date: 2006
    Publisher: Chronos Verlag, Zuerich

St. Goar/Werlau/Hirzenbach
Title: Jüdisches Leben im Rhein Hunsrück-Kreis
   Author: Christof Pies et al
   Publication date: 2003
   Publisher: [Mengerschied]: Hunsrücjker-Geschichtsverein
   Comments: ISBN 3980791971 (hd. bd.); available at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Stadlengsfeld
    Title: Juden in Suedthueringen
    Author: Hans Nothnagel
    Publication Date: 1999
    No. of Pages: 259
    Publisher: Verlag Buchhaus Suhl
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Stadtoldendorf
    Title: Sie waren unsere Nachbarn: Die Geschichte der Juden in Stadtoldendorf
    Author: Christoph Ernesti
    Publication Date: 1996
    No. of Pages: 96
    Publisher: Verlag Joerg Mitzkat Holzminden, Allersheimer Str. 45, 37603 Holzminden
    Comments: ISBN 3-931656-02-0
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Staufenberg
Title: Geschichte der Juden in den heutigen Ortsteilen Staufenbergs Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg und Treis
Author: Volker Hess

Steinbach
Jewish history of Steinbach, including synagogue and cemetery

Steinsfurt
Jewish history of Steinfurt, including synagogue

Steppach
Die Jüdische Gemeinde zu Steppach

Stettin
    Title: Die Geschichte der Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Stettin. Eine Studie zur Geschichte des pommerschen Judentums.
    Author: Jacob Peiser
    Publication Date: 1965 (2nd ed.)
    No. of Pages: 165
    Publisher: Wuerzburg, Holzner
    Comments: available in the Bielefeld University Library, call no. 148/556824, http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/

Stockstadt
    Title: Der juedische Friedhof Gross-Gerau
    Author: Angelika Schleindl
    Publication Date: 1993
    No. of Pages:158
    Publisher: Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt, Germany
    Comments: ISBN: 387390103X

Storndorf
    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia
    Author: Nathan Reiss
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of Pages: 1,100+
    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase

Stralsund
    Title: Wegweiser durch das juedische Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
    Author: Irene Diekmann
    Publication Date: 1998
    No. of Pages: 544
    Publisher: Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

Stebbach
   Title: Juedische Persoenlichkeiten im Kraichgau (Jewish Personalities of Kraichgau)
   Author: Michael Heitz and Bernd Roecker
     Publication Date: 2013
   No. of Pages: 319
   Publisher: Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg
   Comments: ISBN 978-3-89735-802-7; available at Amazon.de

Steinbach
Title: Der Jüdisch Friedhof in Schwäbisch Hall Steinbach
Author: Heinrich Kohring et al.

Steinhart
Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia

Steppach
Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia

Sterbfritz
    Title: Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia
    Author: Nathan Reiss
    Publication Date: 2006
    No. of Pages: 1,100+
    Comments: ISBN 1-4243-0069-X; see http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6 for more info or to purchase

Sternberg
Title: Die Juedische Geschichte der Stadt Sternerg (Mecklenburg)
   Authors: Juergen Gramenz, Sylvia Ulmer
   Publication Date: 2015
   No. of Pages: 456
   Comments: Hardcover ISBN 978-3-7323-4812-1; Paperback ISBN 978-3-7323-4811-4; eBook ISBN 978-3-7323-4813-8

Stipshausen
    Title: Juden in Hottenbach und Stipshausen : eine Spurensuche
    Author: Hilde Weirich
    Publication Date: 1998
    Comments: at Leo Baeck Institute, call no. st 393

Stuttgart
Jewish history of Stuttgart, including Hoppenlau cemetery, Prag cemetery, Steig cemetery, Steinhaldenfeld cemetery, old synagogue and new synagogue

    Title: Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden
    Author: Maria Zelzer
    Publication Date: 1964
    No. of Pages: 588
    Publisher: Ernst Klett Verlag

   Title: Juedisches Leben in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
   Author: Rachel Dror, Alfred Hagemann & Joachim Hahn
   Publication Date: 2006
   Publisher: Klartext, issued by Landeszentgral fuer politische Bildung Baden-Wuerttemberg and two other organizations
   No. of pages: 24
   Comments: ISBN 3-89861-625-8; paperback pamphlet with map of Cannstatt and photographic history of the community, 1872-present day

    Title: Juedisches Leben in Wandel der Zeit
     Author: Paul Sauer & Sonja Hosseinzadeh
   Publication Date: 2002
   Publisher: Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen
   No. of pages: 325
   Comments: ISBN 3-88350-338-X; four pages of further references on the subject; pp. 1-147 by Dr. Sauer on Stuttgart Jewish history up to NZ times; body of the remainder on the renaissance of the community after the war

Suedniedersachsen
     Title: Juden in Suedniedersachsen : Geschichte, Lebensverhaeltnisse, Denkmaeler ; Beitraege zu einer Tagung am 10. November 1990 in Goettingen
    Author: Rainer Sabelleck
    Publication Date: 1994
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G35 S3 1994

Suechteln
    Title: Die juedischen Familien in Duelken, Suechteln, Viersen im 19. Jahrhundert
    Author: Klaus H. S. Schulte
    Publication Date: 1998
    Publisher: Stadt u. Kreis Viersen

Suhl
    Title: Juden in Suhl : ein geschichtlicher Ueberblick /.
    Author: Hans Nothnagel, Ewald Daehn and Erhard Roy Wiehn
    Publication Date: 1995
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 T52 N6

Sulz
    Title: Die Juden von Sulz; eine juedische Landgemeinde in Vorarlberg,1676-1744
    Author: Bernhard Purin
    Publication date: 1991
    Publisher: Bregenz: Vorarlberg. Autoren Gesellschaft
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Sundern
     Title: Die Geschichte der Juden in Sundern; eine geschuldete Erinnerung an die Familie Klein
    Author: Irmgard Harmann-Schuetz and Franz Blome Drees
    Publication Date: 1988
    Comments: available at Princeton Univ. library, call no. DS 135 G4 S86 H3

Sulzburg
    Title: Citadel of Splendor, The 500 Year Legacy of Jewish Sulzburg
    Author: Bezalel Kahn
    Publication date: 1995
    Publisher: Feldheim Publishers, New York
    Available at: Leo Baeck Institute

Jewish history of Sulzburg, including synagogue and cemetery