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Meine Lebenserinnerungen : geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919. (1919-1962)

Rosenthaler, Maier. ; Rosenthaler, L.

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Language: German

Pages: 19 + 13 pages : , manuscript + transcript. +

Additional Material: 11 pages typescript + clippings.

Year of publication: 1919-1962

Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen

Keywords: Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Pharmacists. ; Shehitah. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Maier Rosenthaler’s memoirs (original handwritten manuscript + typed transcript), written during the ceasefire following WW I in Strasbourg; January 1919:

Abstract: Rural Jewish life in Wuerttemberg; unsuccessful search for employment as ritual slaughterer in Frankfurt am Main; return to Heilbronn as ritual slaughterer and butcher; providing good education for seven children; one son became editor-in-chief of the "Strassburger Neue Zeitung"; Strasbourg in World War I.

Abstract: Also included are memoirs by his son Leopold (childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere; education and apprenticeship as a pharmacist) and Leopold Rosenthaler's obituary.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Rosenthaler, Leopold : Lebenserinnerungen, Heilbronn, 1920, 11 pages.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen, geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, handwritten manuscript, 19 pages.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, typed transcript, 13 pages.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Offprint: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Leopold Rosenthaler, 1875-1962 , in: Schweizerische Apotheker-Zeitung 100 (1962), pages 577-583.

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Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Juden und Paedagogen. (1941-1956)

Stern, Heinemann, 1878-1957.

Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 283 , typescript (carbon copy) +

Additional Material: addenda

Year of publication: 1941-1956

Keywords: Bildungsanstalt für jüdische Lehrer in Hannover. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Correspondence ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Nordeck (Hesse); murder of two Nordeck Jews (1883); antisemitism; Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover; teacher in Guntersblum (Rhineland), Sarstedt (Lower Saxony), Repzin (Pommerania), Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia) and Katowice; description of Jewish communities of Upper Silesia; soldier in World War I; teacher and headmaster in Berlin; Jewish politics and education in inter-war Berlin; reflections on Prussian Federation of Jewish Communites and Federation of Jewish Teachers; changes under Nazi rule; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; emigration to Brazil; contains information on Georg Kareski, Michael Holzmann, Joseph Gutmann, Hermann Falkenberg, Michael Abraham, Jakob Stiebel, Leo Baeck, Ismar Freund and Meier Spanier.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lebenserinnerungen

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Juedische Jugend im Umbruch : A collection of circa 160 letters from former students written to Stern before and after their emigration from Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Australia, 1937-1956.

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To my grandchildren : John Paul and Jacqueline Diane. (1951)

Schwabacher, Alfred.

[Basel] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 34 + 6 pages : , private printing.

Year of publication: 1951

Former Title: Meine Lebensgeschichte

Keywords: Benario family. ; Mosse (Rudolf) Buchverlag, Berlin. ; Advertising Management. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Swabia (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish family in Fellheim and Wertheim; work for Mosse publishing house in Berlin and Zuerich.

Abstract: Also available is a family tree of the Benario family from Wertheim (Baden).

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Geschichte der Familie Guembel aus Albisheim, Bayern. (1950)

Gümbel, August.

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Language: German

Pages: 4 notebooks : , manuscripts; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1950

Keywords: Gümbel family. ; Guembel family. ; Jewish communities. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Albisheim (Pfrimm, Germany)‏. ; Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogy

Abstract: Four numbered, handwritten booklets bound in black carton, including copies of original documents and illustrations from archives, church registers and village halls in the German Palatinate: they contain the genealogy of the Guembel family, beginning with Elias Guembel (1776-1843), who moved to the village of Albisheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate before 1803.

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Die Entwicklung der juedischen Bevoelkerung in Deutschland von 1800 bis 1945. (1950)

Blau, Bruno, 1881-1954.

New York City :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 385 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1950

Keywords: Demography Jews. ; Jews Statistics, Vital. ; Jews History. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Statistical survey of the development of the Jewish population in Germany.

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Aus der Geschichte der Israelitischen Gemeinde in Schlüchtern : Familie Preuss und derh. Anhang. (1950)

Reis, Victor, 1880-1974.

[Long Island City] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 20 pages : , handwritten notebook.

Year of publication: 1950

Keywords: Preuss family. ; Rothschild family. ; Schwarzschild family. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews History. ; Schlüchtern (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

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Das Preusje von Schlüchtern. (1950)

Reis, Victor, 1880-1974.

Köln a. Rh.,

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Language: German

Pages: 5 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1950

Keywords: Grimm, Ludwig Emil, ; Preuss, Mordechai Loeb, ; Jews History. ; Peddlers. ; Schlüchtern (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Stories about the Jewish peddler Mordechai Preuss from the town of Schlüchtern, whose portrait was drawn as “the little Prussian” by the artist Ludwig Emil Grimm in 1815.

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Geschichte der Familie Mende aus Frankfurt an der Oder. (1950)

Mende, Käthe, 1878-1963. ; Mende, Max.

Berlin-Zehlendorf :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 104 pages : , typescript (carbon copy) +

Additional Material: 'Wir Mendes', typescript, 48 pages

Year of publication: 1950

Former Title: [The Mende family]

Keywords: Mende family. ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Citizenship. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Emancipation. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: History of Mende family in Frankfurt an der Oder: Kaethe Mende's grandfather established the Louis Mende bank in the early 19th century, which existed until 1912; her father studied agriculture and purchased a farm in Brandenburg, but later took over his father's bank. Description of the city of Frankfurt an der Oder, social life of Jewish families, domestic life.

Abstract: Also included are essays under the title “Wir Mendes” by Max Mende about his grandmother Sarah Mende and his father Louis Mende, containing transcripts of "Buergerbriefe" from 1809 and 1813, and a betrothal contract of 1816.

Description / Table of Contents: Geschichte der Familie Mende aus Frankfurt an der Oder by Kaethe Mende, Berlin, 1950

Description / Table of Contents: Wir Mendes by Max Mende

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Tante Adele erzaehlt... (1929-1950)

Mises, Adele von, 1858-1937. ; Eliasberg, Elisabeth.

Vienna / New York :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 156 + 17 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1929-1950

Keywords: Eisenstadt, Meïr ben Isaac, ; Kallir family. ; Kolir, Elasar, ; Landau family. ; Mises, Adele von, ; Nathanson family. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Politicians. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was written between 1929 and 1931 (in Vienna). Recollections of the author's childhood in Brody, Galicia. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the grandparents Kallir. Detailed descriptions of Jewish festivals and customs. Charity traditions within the family. Domestic life and family servants. Traditions of "Kaschern" and "Chumez sales" before the Passover holidays. Description of family characters. Welfare activities of the Landau family. Recollections of the great fire in Brody (1867). Stories and anecdotes of Adele's uncle, the lawyer Dr. Joachim Landau. Outings and summer vacations in Podhorce. Description of daily life activities in the family. School system and private lessons in German and Hebrew. In 1876 the Landau family moved to Vienna. Genealogy of the Nathanson and Kallir family. Addendum: Family history by Dr. Joachim Landau. Notebook of Adele's grandmother Esther Landau with birth dates and family chronicles in the Hebrew calendar. Biographical sketches of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt (1670-1744) and Rabbi Eleasar Kallir (1739-1801). Collection of letters by Esther and Alexander Landau. Appendix: Lecture by Leopold Lourie on the "Galizischer Hilfsverein" in Vienna.

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Aus meinem Leben : Erinnerungen, (1921-1941)

Czellitzer, Arthur, 1871-

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Language: German

Pages: 139 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1921-1941

Keywords: Hospitals. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Ophthalmologists. ; Physicians. ; Students' societies. ; Voyages and travels. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood memories of Breslau, student in Breslau and Munich, assistant in Paris, Heidelberg, and Strasbourg.

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[Judenfamilienregister Zaberfeld], (1850-1939)

Gemeinde Zaberfeld. ; Schönfeld, Wolfgang.

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Language: German

Pages: Digital file.

Year of publication: 1850-1939

Keywords: Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Registers of births, etc. ; Zaberfeld (Germany) ; Archival materials ; Genealogical tables ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids.

Abstract: These are pages from the original family register of the town of Zaberfeld in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, recording the households of Jewish families from the mid-1800s to the 1930s. Mentioned are the names and dates of male and female members of the households; the names of their respective parents; and the households’ children.

Abstract: Family names include Herbst; Jordan; Kahn; Kaufmann; and Warszawsky.

Abstract: Also included are ‘Beilagen zu den Familien-Registern‘, being correspondence from and to the register office pertaining to Jewish families and Jewish institutions in Zaberfeld; 1906-1988.

Abstract: Also included is the family tree of Heinz (Enrique) Jordan in Montevideo, reaching back to an alleged ‘protected Jew’ (Schutzjude) in Zaberfeld in the early 1800s.

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Die Jugend-Gemeinde, (1931-1937)

Schorsch, Emil, 1899-1982.

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Language: German

Pages: circa 80 pages : , bound notebook +

Additional Material: 14 pages

Year of publication: 1931-1937

Keywords: Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jewish youth Societies and clubs. ; Jews History. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Scrapbooks

Abstract: Scrapbook in a bound notebook containing materials pertaining to the Jewish youth-organization “Jugendgemeinde” as part of the Jewish congregation in Hannover, Germany; 1931-1937.

Abstract: Handwritten notes by Emil Schorsch about the youth organization’s history since 1927 are followed by newspaper clippings and carbon-copies of various typescripts.

Abstract: Also included is a makeshift booklet (14 pages) with handwritten notes and photographs from the youth organization ‘Jugendgemeinde’ on occasion of Dr. Schorsch’s birthday on January 12, 1936.

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Die Vorfahren der Frau Ida Ledermann geb. Pringsheim geb. am 18. Februar 1842 in Oppeln : Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Familie Pringsheim. (1934)

Brilling, Bernhard

Breslau :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 14 pages : , typed manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1934

Keywords: Ledermann, Ida (née Pringsheim), ; Ledermann family. ; Pringsheim family. ; Silesia. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Manuscripts.

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Aus Nikolsburgs vergangenen Tagen : Ein Kulturbild. (1934)

Fehl, Siegfried.

Wien :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 16 pages : , annotated typescript.

Year of publication: 1934

Keywords: Jewish communities. ; Jews History. ; Rabbis. ; Mikulov (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Text of a lecture at the organization of people from Nikolsburg in Vienna ('Verein der Nikolsburger in Wien') about the Moravian town’s history and cultural achievements.

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Zum 100. Geburtstag des Koenigl. preuss. Kommerzienrat Louis Ledermann : Die Geschichte der schlesischen Familie Ledermann. (1934)

Brilling, Bernhard

Breslau :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 20 pages : , typed manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1934

Keywords: Ledermann, Louis. ; Ledermann family. ; Silesia. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables

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Erinnerungen : [1864-1934]. (1930-1934)

Spanier, Meier, 1864-1942.

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Language: German

Pages: 193 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript.

Year of publication: 1930-1934

Keywords: Loewenberg, Jakob, ; Antisemitism. ; Authors. ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Education. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Teachers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Münster in Westfalen (Germany) ; Lower Saxony (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was written in the 1930s in Germany. Early childhood memories as the youngest child of five. Meier Spanier's father was plumber, who struggled to provide his family with the necessary. Description of the rural life in the Lower Saxonian Jewish community. Celebration of Jewish traditions and holidays. Relationship between Jews and Christians. Recollections of his early school years and his outstanding teacher Jonas Goldschmidt. Meier Spanier attended the Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover. Studies of German and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. Among his professors were the famous philosopher Kuno Fischer (1824-1907) and the linguist Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926). Friendship with the brothers Salomon and Leon Goldschmidt and Hans Ferdinand Gerhard. Encounter with various writers in the Muenster literary society, among them were Gustav Falke (1853-1916), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) and Rudolf Herzog as well as the art historian Alfred Lichtwark (1852-1914). Friendship with the writer Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909). Memories of the writer Otto Ernst (1862-1926), whose work deteriorated with "Hermannsland" into antisemitic ideology. Friendship with Jakob Loewenberg, who was Meier Spanier's mentor through the years of his university studies. In 1900 Meier Spanier became in charge of the teachers seminary in Muenster. In 1911 he was offered a position as director of a Jewish girl's school in Berlin, where he moved with his family.

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[Oma Louise Simions Erinnerungen]. (1933)

Simion, Louise (née Roehmann), 1859-1934.

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Language: German

Pages: 17 + 3 pages : , typescript (photocopies).

Year of publication: 1933

Keywords: Lewin, Rachel. ; Roehmann family. ; Roehmann, Louis, ; Roehmann, Ida (née Stern) ; Simion family. ; Simion, Leonhard, ; Stern, Joseph. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families. ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Widows. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Transcript of Louise Simion's memoirs, recalling the lives of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. She also briefly covers the French German War in 1871.

Abstract: Also included is a Simion family tree.

Note: German , Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)

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Chronik der Familie Stern aus Holzminden. (1933)

Stern, Gerson, 1874-1956.

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Language: German

Pages: 39 + 7 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.

Year of publication: 1933

Keywords: Stern, Joel, ; Stern, Gerson, ; Stern, Hirsch, ; Heimann family. ; Marcus family. ; Stern family. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Butchers. ; Holzminden (Germany : Landkreis) ; Wuppertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: History of the Stern family: Itzig and Abraham were the first to get the permission to settle in Holzminden in Lower Saxony in 1722. Anti-Jewish laws and taxes. Descendants of the family were forced to change their professions from merchants to butchers and back due to certain regulations in a hostile environment. The author’s family are descendents of Hirsch Stern; his son Gerson, born 1758, was a cloth merchant. He married Mathilde Wollberg of Einbeck and the couple had 15 children. His son Hirsch Stern was an educated man who respected the tradition of his fathers and valued enlightenment. He married Bella Boas from Luebbecke and they had 11 children. His son Joel Stern, the author's father, was born 1834. He married Johanna Klestadt in 1872. Joel Stern moved to Elberfeld in 1884, where he was a merchant and a respected member of the Jewish community. Description of Sabbath celebrations in the family and in the synagogue. Family history of Joel Stern's siblings and their descendants.

Abstract: Also included are copies of photographs and of a letter by Gerson Stern to his son on occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1933.

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Die Familie Kohn aus Wassertruedingen : Zusammengestellt von Hans Kohn. (1932)

Kohn, Hans

Dresden,

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Language: German

Pages: 41 pages : , typescript (photographs copy).

Year of publication: 1932

Keywords: Cohen family. ; Kohn, Hänlein Samuel. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History To 1500. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews History To 1500. ; Wassertrüdingen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs

Abstract: A detailed family history of the Kohns starting with the year 1343, including an analysis about the history of the family name Cohen (Kohn). The research uses various kinds of materials--genealogical and historical books, newspapers, magazines, offical files.

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Fortsetzung : [Die Geschichte der Familie Kuhn]. (1932)

Metzger, Hermance, 1864-1945.

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Language: German

Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1932

Keywords: Bethe, Hans A. ; Kuhn family. ; Metzger, Hermance, ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Women authors. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs

Abstract: Continuation of an unknown larger work about the history of the Kuhn family from Bissersheim/Palatinate and Worms, reaching back to late 18th century.

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Geschichte der Juden in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. (1931)

Kottek, Salomon. ; Kottek, H.

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Language: German

Pages: 24 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1931

Keywords: Jews History. ; Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Manuscript of a speech first delivered by Rabbi Heiman Kottek in 1893 and revised by his son, the physician Salomon Kottek in 1931, describing the Jewish community of the town from the 16th century to the 1930s.

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Erinnerungen aus meiner fruehesten Jugend bis ins Alter hinein. (1931)

Berg, Natalie, 1857-1939.

Breslau :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: circa 190 + 5 pages : , handwritten notebooks (almost illegible photocopy).

Year of publication: 1931

Keywords: Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Women authors. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Account of family history.

Note: Available on microfilm , German , There is an English language synopsis at the end of the manuscript.

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Mein Leben : Selbstbiographie von Rudolph Conitzer. (1930)

Conitzer, Rudolph, 1851-1932.

1930 :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 43 pages (single space) : , bound typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1930

Keywords: Jewish families 19th century. ; Marriage. ; Textile industry. ; Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants

Abstract: Description of family background in East Prussia, early experience of work in his father's store, founding of his own textile store, looking for a bride and marriage, history of his father's textile stores (includes letters, newspaper reports).

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Erinnerungen an meinen unvergesslichen Vater : fuer meine Enkel und Enkelinnen. (1924)

Elsas, Lina. ; Elsas, Gerald W.

Stuttgart :[publisher not identified],

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Pages: 14 + 11 + 5 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1924

Keywords: Elsas, Moses Löw, ; Elsas family. ; Textile industry. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Ludwigsburg (Germany : Landkreis) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Description of the life of Moses Elsas (1814-1877), brother of Benedikt Elsas (ME 122). He was one of the founders of the weaving mill Elsas & Co. in Ludwigsburg.

Abstract: Also included is an English translation by Gerald W. Elsas

Note: Available on microfilm , German and English

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Aus alten Tagebuechern und Erinnerungen der Familien Hirsch, Strupp, Eisenberg / (1924)

Schunk, Betty.

Meiningen :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 24 pages : , private printing (photocopy); illustrated.

Year of publication: 1924

Keywords: Hirsch family. ; Hirsch, Bernard Wolfgang. ; Hirsch, Bernhard. ; Hirsch, Caroline (née Worms) ; Strupp, Bernhard. ; Strupp, Philippine (née Frank) ; Worms, Brunette (née Model) ; Worms family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Meiningen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs

Abstract: Anecdotal account of the Hirsch and Worms families. Hyam Worms of Karlsruhe, great-grandfather of the author, was the first Jew to obtain civil rights in Paris in 1794; his son Alphonse was tax comptroller of Paris under Louis XVI, but had to leave Paris during the Napoleonic Wars. Alphonse then founded an export/import business in Karlsruhe. The grandmother of Betty Schunk was a witness in the trial of the outlaw Schinderhannes (1783-1803.)

Note: Available on microfilm MM 35, copy on MF 42(9) , German

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