Anton Hieke, M.A.
Library Assistant
(ZUSAS Library Wittenberg)
E-mail: anton.hieke@zusas.uni-halle.de
Tel.: +49. 3491. 46 61 33

Anton Hieke studied History, British and American Studies, and Jewish Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. In 2008, he received his Master’s degree with a thesis on the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis entitled “The German Jewish Immigrants of Reconstruction Georgia and the Carolinas.” Anton Hieke received a Transatlantic Grant from the European Association for American Studies, a Bornblum Grant from the Southern Jewish Historical Society, a library grant from John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin, and a graduate scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. He published “Jews at the Cape Fear Coast: A Portrait of Jewish Wilmington, NC, 1860–1880,” Southern Jewish History 13 (2010) and “Farbrekhers in America: The Americanization of Jewish Blue-Collar Crime, 1900–1931,” aspeers 3 (2010).