Publications

Dévényi, K. & Schmidtke, S. (2026). The Other Half of a Republic of Letters: Locating, Reuniting, and Publishing the Scattered Letters of Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921): A Programmatic Statement. Albert, IAS. https://doi.org/10.48706/K7PM-YX14
Dévényi, K. (2025). A Preliminary Catalogue of Documents of the Ignaz Goldziher Archive at the National Library of Israel. IAS Occasional Papers. https://doi.org/10.48706/ws6e-jf76
Dévényi, K. & Schmidtke, S. (2024–). The Published Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher: A Bibliographical Guide. Continuously updated. https://doi.org/10.48706/XSDD-CQ10
Schmidtke, S. (2024). Moritz Steinschneider Correspondence at the JTSA (ARC. 108): An Inventory. Dataset. https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8200
Becker, H.-J., Dévényi, K., Günther, S. & Schmidtke, S., eds. (2024). Building Bridges: Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents. Leiden: Brill.

Bourouba, H. (2026). "Arabic as Seen by British Orientalists: E. G. Browne as an Example" [Arabic]. The Arabist 49. https://doi.org/10.58513/ARABIST.2026.49.1
Friedmann, Y. (2026). "Ignác Goldziher's Reception in the Arab World." Acta Orientalia Hung. https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2025.00528
Bourouba, H. (2025). Tārīkh al-ʿalāqāt al-thaqāfiyya al-jazāʾiriyya al-majariyya. Algiers: Fekracom.
Maslo, A., Muhedinović, A. & Selmeczi, P. (2024). "The Letters of Šaćir Sikirić to Ignaz Goldziher." Radovi 2: 167–197.
Schmidtke, S. (2024). Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and "Wissenschaft des Judentums". Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Turán, T. (2024). "'Scholarship Has No Country, but the Scholar Does Have His Country': Ignác Goldziher in 1919." REGIO 32/4: 193–222.
Dévényi, K. (2023). "On Ignaz Goldziher's Election to the Arab Academy of Damascus." The Arabist 45: 17–26.
Schmidtke, S. (2023). The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence … Philadelphia: APS Press.
Turán, T. (2023). Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Sagaria Rossi, V. & Schmidtke, S. (2022). "The Beginnings of Yemeni and Zaydi Studies in Europe: The Eugenio Griffini Archive, Milan." Shii Studies Review 6: 76–223.
Sagaria Rossi, V. (2021). "Eugenio Griffini and Zaydi Studies in the Light of His Correspondence with Ignaz Goldziher." Shii Studies Review 5: 139–199.

September 2026 — Programmatic statement published. "The Other Half of a Republic of Letters" by Kinga Dévényi and Sabine Schmidtke is now available in open access on Albert (https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/10922). It sets out the project's aims, surveys known holdings worldwide, and issues an open invitation to scholars and institutions.
September 2026 — Working visit to Budapest. Sabine Schmidtke spent 7–10 September at the Oriental Collection of the LHAS, the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, the Avicenna Institute, and OR-ZSE, discussing the technical integration of scattered materials with the LHAS team. Travel blog. The Jewish Museum's box of Goldziher papers is to be digitized and made accessible through the LHAS.
February 2026 — Partner institutions invited. A first group of holding institutions in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, the United States, and Israel has been approached with an invitation to participate in the project.
2025 — Preliminary catalogue of the Goldziher Archive at the National Library of Israel. Kinga Dévényi's catalogue of the papers that travelled to Jerusalem with Goldziher's library in 1924 is published in the IAS Occasional Papers.
2024 — Building Bridges published. The proceedings of the 2021 conference appear with Brill, together with the first version of the bibliographical guide to the published correspondence.