Language:
English
Pages:
16 + 2 pages :
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1994
Keywords:
Herzberger, Emanuel,
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Herzberger family.
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Herzberger, Jacob,
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Rosenthal family.
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Rosenstraus, Paula.
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Speyer, Ester.
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Speyer, Jeannette,
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Germany.
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Education before 1870.
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Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.
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Jewish families 19th century.
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Jews, German Genealogy.
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Marriage.
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Merchants.
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Wool industry.
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Berlin (Germany)
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Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life.
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Düsseldorf (Germany)
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Forst (Brandenburg, Germany)
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Germany History 1870-1918.
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Haltern in Westfalen (Germany)
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Krefeld (Germany)
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Reims (France)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The original diary was written between 1925 and 1931. It was translated by his grandson Ernest L. Rosenthal and contains also a family tree of the Herzberger's and Rosenthal's.
Abstract:
Recollections of Emanuel Herzbergers family in the early 19th century. His grandmother Ester Speyer was a devout woman, who lost her husband at an early age. Her daughter Jeanette Speyer married Jacob Herzberger in 1855. Emanuel was their first-born son. Recollections of Emanuel's childhood in Haltern and Crefeld, where his father started a raw product and dry good business, which later on developed into a wool firm. Life in Imperial Germany and description of his father's patriotism. Liberal Judaism. Emanuel attented the Gymnasium (high school). Trips to relatives in Amsterdam. Recollections of the Franco/Prussian war. Military service and apprenticeship at a wool firm in Duesseldorf. Opening of a branch of his father's company in Berlin. Cultural life in the cafes and theaters of Berlin. Business trips with his father to to the wool auctions in London. Apprenticeship in Reims, France. In 1886 marriage with Paula Rosenstraus, who was an aspiring singer. She had come with her family from Russia to Germany. Life in Forst (Lausitz). Financial difficulties due to his brother's speculations. Birth of Emanuel and Paula's daughter Nenny in 1894. Reflections on the technical and historical changes he witnessed within less than a century.
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