The Kulturbund Deutscher Juden (Cultural Federation of German Jews) was founded in Berlin in June 1933 in order to help provide subsistence for Jewish artists and scholars who had lost their position because of the National Socialist racial legislation. At the same time, the organization – renamed as the Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation) in 1935 – sought to offer German Jews …
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Rovit, Rebecca, “Kulturbund”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 29 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0430>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20200106
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