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  • Media Combination  (7)
  • [New York] :[publisher not identified],  (4)
  • Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],  (3)
  • Jewish families.  (7)
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  • 1
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    Who are we and why we are here. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Mayer, Leopold. ; Mayer, Amalie. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Tachov (Czech Republic : Okres) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs written in the USA in 1989-1990.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copy on MF 503 , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
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    Düsseldorf revisited / (1984)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 134 + 35 + 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Gumpert, Bertha (Tannenbaum) ; Gumpert, Sally. ; Preuss, Erich, ; Sass, Jacob, ; Sass, Rosa (Gumpert), ; Sass family. ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Geneva (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Netherlands. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Ruth Glaser's childhood in a well-to-do Düsseldorf family. Her maternal grandfather was the founder of the family realty business S. Gumpert, where her father was the co-owner. Recollections of the family's extensive household. Family vacations in the mountains. Musical activities within the family. Visits to the synagogue together with her maternal grandmother Bertha, a pious woman who kept a kosher home. Celebration of Jewish holidays. In 1930 Ruth was enrolled in the Auguste-Victoria girl's school. Rise of Nazism. Awareness of growing danger. Ruth experienced alienation from classmates, who joined the Hitler youth and ceased socializing with her. Nuremberg laws and their impact on the life of the family. Celebration of Ruth's bat mitzvah at the Düsseldorf temple. Social life focusing on the Cafe Marcus. Confrontation with the Nazi ideology in history and biology lessons at school. Ruth's growing desire to leave the country. Graduation from Auguste-Victoria school in 1936 and training as a baby nurse in Geneva. Reluctance of her parents to leave Germany. Acquaintance of her future-husband Erich Preuss. Engagement and plans to leave for Palestine. Ruth worked in Geneva and worried about her parents in Nazi Germany. Emigration to Palestine. Improvised wedding with friends. Early life in Palestine and struggles to make a living. Solidarity and friendship with fellow German emigres in Tel Aviv. Cultural activities. News about her parent's refuge in Holland. Difficulties between the Jewish and Arab population. Outbreak of the war. Air raids in Tel Aviv and worries about Ruth's parents in Holland. Restrictive immigration policy under the British mandate. Ruth found a position as a baby nurse in a befriended family. News about Ruth's parents, who were taken to Westerbork. Fervent attempts to arrange them certificates for Palestine. End of the war and tragic news of her parents fate.
    Abstract: Emigration to the United States in 1947, where Ruth and Erich started a business in interior decorating. Death of her husband Erich in 1969. Frequent visits to Germany between 1958-1988.
    Abstract: Addenda: Reflections on the past during Ruth Glasers visits in Germany in 1988 and 1989. Xerox copies of the "Juedische Gemeindeblatt" in 1938 and various documents.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 3
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    Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.
    Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 21 and MM 96 , German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 4
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    Aus meinen Erinnerungen. (1965)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages : , clippings.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Arlosoroff, Chaim, ; Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Levy, Trude. ; Pinsker, Leon, ; Thomaschewsky, Hanna (née Biram) ; Thon, Hanna Helena, ; Hotelkeepers. ; Jewish families. ; Musicians. ; Sports. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Clippings ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Newspaper clippings published in Mitteilungsblatt (MB) 23-24, June 1965.
    Abstract: Childhood and family life in Germany. She was a student at the Sophien-Lyzeum (Girl's School) in Berlin and developed an early interest in sports. Kaethe Dan-Rosen was among the founding members of the Jewish women's sports association (Ifftus). Training as a gymnastic and sports teacher. Description of the Zionist sport movement in pre World War I Germany. Emigration to Palestine in 1922. Recollections of the life in Palestine in the 1920s. First hotel projects in Safed and Tel-Aviv. Influx of German Jews in the 1930s. Memories of prominent artists and musicians who stayed as guests in her hotel.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 5
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    Mein Leben. (1944)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 102 pages : , handwritten manuscript; bound notebook.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Bodenheimer, Edgar, ; Bodenheimer family. ; Goldschmidt, Jakob, ; Darmstädter und Nationalbank‏. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Banks and banking. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the political and economical conditions in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 6
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    Familienerinnerungen. (1943)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 + 2 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Dünkelsbühler family. ; Kitzinger family. ; Kitzinger, Samuel. ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families. ; Lawyers. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Kitzinger family in Ansbach, Munich and Fuerth and their bank business reaching back to the early 19th century.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
    URL: Digital form:
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  • 7
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    Das Calauer Judenhaus : Geschichte eines Familienhauses. (1942)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 + 36 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Merchants ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Calau (Germany : Landkreis) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the grandfather, who acquired the family house located in the vicinity of Berlin which served as a meeting point for the Ball family for four generations. The larger part of the manuscript deals with the period between 1933 and 1938.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lecture at the genealogical society in Tel Aviv, March 16, 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Reminiscences (Erinnerungen): extended version of folder 1
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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