Language:
English
Pages:
70
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1977
Keywords:
Bookbinders
;
Country life.
;
Emigration and immigration.
;
Hotelkeepers.
;
Jewish families 19th century.
;
Literature.
;
Marriage.
;
Printers
;
Publishers and publishing.
;
Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849.
;
Krotoszyn (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland)
;
Poznań (Poland)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
English translation of an original German manuscript, written in Ostrowo in 1855:
Abstract:
Apprenticeship as bookbinder at age of 14 in the town of Militsch (Posen); work in father's bookbinder's business; nightly study sessions with father, first in traditional Jewish learning, later in German literature; illness and loss of his job as court-file binder, the first in a series of misfortune; falling in love and marriage (1823); setting up marriage-contract; establishment of grocery store; fire destroyed his house and all its contents (1827); did not receive any compensation; had to supply large household (mother-in-law, brother, sisters, brothers-in-law and children); part of the family emigrated to USA and to Australia; only two children out of ten stayed in Posen; outbreak of cholera epidemic in Krotoschin; supervising construction of new synagogue; establishment of printing press; among his publications was Pentateuch in Hebrew with Johlson's German translation; employment of private tutor for Jewish education of his children; marriage of second daughter to the historian Heinrich Graetz five years after engagement, since Graetz did not find a suitable position earlier; marriage contract for Graetz; illness and economic ruin; revolution of 1848; opened tavern in addition to printing-press.
Abstract:
Also included is a copy of his last will (1865).
Note:
Available on microfilm
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=394333&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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