Miriam Rürup

Miriam Rürup, born in 1973 in Karlsruhe, is a prominent German historian and professor specializing in German-Jewish history and the history of National Socialism. Since 2020, she has been the director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam. In a recent podcast, she expressed her disappointment with a Bundestag session that she felt undermined democratic values and criticized a resolution against anti-Semitism passed on Holocaust Memorial Day, arguing it could threaten academic freedom and promote self-censorship among institutions.