Language:
English
Pages:
56 pages :
,
bound typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
2001
Keywords:
Goldblum family.
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Reiss, Leonhard.
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Agudat Israel.
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Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- )
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Dachau (Concentration camp)
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Country life.
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Fasts and feasts Judaism.
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Jewish families 20th century.
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Jewish religious education.
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Judaism Customs and practices.
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Kristallnacht, 1938
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Orthodox Judaism.
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Women authors.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
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Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany)
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New York (N.Y.)
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United States Emigration and immigration.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
Abstract:
Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
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