Language:
German
Pages:
62
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1905
Keywords:
Silbergleit family.
;
Christian converts from Judaism.
;
Orthodox Judaism.
;
College teachers.
;
Families 19th century.
;
Universities and colleges.
;
Voyages and travels.
;
Women authors.
;
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Personal narratives.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written 1905. Recollections of the author's childhood in Breslau. Memories of her orthodox grandmother Lina Nothmann, who kept a strictly kosher household. Description of the different world of her parents' families in Gleiwitz. Her father came from a poor religious family, her mother was of more affluent heritage. Her parents were engaged in 1853 and got married in 1854. Anna was the fourth of five daughters. Her father was in the iron business and had connections in Poland and Vienna. Cultural life and literature. Recollections of author's uncle, the writer Ludwig Georg Silbergleit. Anna had private lessons in French and English. Recollections of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Trips to Switzerland and Italy. Descriptions of her family and her parents' circle of friends. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of the engagement of her older sisters Else with Willhelm Kauffmann. Marriage of her sister Marie with Richard Eppenstein. Engagement of her sister Grete with Adolf Friedenthal. Engagement of Anna Silbergleit with the physicist Felix Auerbach in 1883. They married the same year. Felix Auerbach was obliged to convert in order to be able to make career on university. In 1889 he was offered a position as professor in Jena.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1289069&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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