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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
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    Es war einmal. (1995)
    Guatemala :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 65 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Divorce. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Growing up in Berlin; attended Jewish language and art schools; emigration to Guatemala; life in Guatemala; immigration to USA in 1946; marriage in 1947; life and work in New York; birth of sons; return to Guatemala in 1949; travels; children and friends; divorce.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Berndt, Richard; Berndt, Ruth Rose; Berndt, Siegismund; Bernhardt, Carlos; Bernhardt, Inge; Dreyfuss, Ilse; Fischer, Siegfried; Gort, Erich; Hochfelder, Irene; Landsberger, Elfie; Landsberger, Mutz; Levy, Claude; Levy, Michael; Levy, Ruth; Levy, Wolfgang; Meyer, Anneliese; Rathenau, Josfine; Reider, Ana-Luise; Reider, Rudi; Sachs, Inge; Sello, Erich; Sello, Lise.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Zuhause bei Kallmanns : Eine Schoeneberger Familie in den Dreissiger Jahren. (1993)
    Ottawa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Kallmann, Arthur. ; Kallmann, Eva. ; Kallmann, Fanny. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jewish families. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Schöneberg (Berlin, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Childhood memories growing up in Berlin-Schoeneberg; recollections of family members, friends and household help; account of emigration; excerpts from diaries; fate of family members in the Holocaust; survivors' accounts of parents' and sister's last days in Berlin and Theresienstadt.
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    [Memoirs] : [1909-1998]. (1991)
    Ramat Chen,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 145 , annotated typescript; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Altmann, Elsie ; Altmann family ; Friedjung, Joseph, ; Loos, Adolf, ; Marcus family ; Neumann, Paula ; Robert, Hans ; Thomsen, Carl ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Christmas. ; Manners and customs. ; Music. ; Musicians. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; Tailors. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1933-1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are composed of various autobiographical tales, poems and photos. Anny Roberts grew up in an assimilated Jewish family. Her mother came from Olmoucz and her father from Vienna. Childhood recollections. Stories about her extended family. Recollections of the famous pediatrician Joseph Friedjung, who was a friend of the family. Experiences of antisemitism. Recollections of the depriviations during World War One and the depression in the aftermath. Anny was sent to Denmark with a special children's recreation program for malnourished Viennese children. She stayed with the widower Carl Thomsen in Aarhus, where she was well taken care of. Influence of Adolf Loos, who married her cousin Elsie Altmann and became a dear friend of the family. Friendship with Paula Neumann and her cousin Hilde. Importance of music and opera in her family. Piano lessons. Description of family characters. Interest in Socialism. Awareness of the rising nationalist movements in Austria and Germany. Anny attended a school to become a tailor and started her own "Salon" (business). Relationship with the musician Robert Chajet, who changed his name to Hans Robert. Civil marriage and move to Palestine in 1934. Initial difficulties and cultural differences. Life of emigrants in Palestine. Anny started to work in her profession and established a small business. Marriage difficulties. Journeys to Jerusalem and Haifa.
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    Heimatlos : Abschlussarbeit des Projekts Zweites Waisenhaus der Juedischen Gemeinde in Pankow. (1991)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Makower family. ; Garbaty-Rosenthal family. ; Gruenwald family. ; Mosse, Albert, ; Mecklenburg, Ludwig. ; Hirschfeld, David. ; Grundwald, Isidor. ; Jüdisches Waisenhaus (Pankow, Berlin, Germany)‏. ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Children. ; Children Institutional care. ; Jewish orphanages. ; Orphanages. ; Pankow (Berlin, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Students' class project about the history of the second orphanage of the Jewish Community in Berlin-Pankow.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Mein Name ist Claire Bacharach Dratch, (1989)
    [Seligenstadt] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1989
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Seligenstadt (Hesse, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood in small Hessian town of Seligenstadt; changes after Nazi takeover, presented to a school in Seligenstadt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben / (1983)
    Bochum :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 52 + 6 pages : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: 3 handwritten pages (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Hauser, Ludwig, ; Hauser, Rosalie, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; College teachers ; Country life. ; Folklore. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Household employees 19th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Rust (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of two handwritten notebooks, originally written in Strassburg 1910 and Freiburg 1922 respectively.
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Rust (Baden); revolution of 1848-1849; Franco-Prussian War; relations between Jews and Christians.
    Abstract: Also included is a short account of the life of Ludwig Hauser (1882-1951), professor at the "Staatstechnikum" in Karlsruhe, mainly on his time in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, 1944-1945 (poem on Theresienstadt).
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    Ein Aufsatz ueber die Vorkommnisse meines Lebens. (1981)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 84 + (72 + 9) pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: typed transcript
    Year of publication: 1981
    Keywords: Baths Therapeutic use. ; Children. ; Diseases. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Merchants. ; Stepparents. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Essen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Essen; apprenticeship as merchant; family life; autodidactic studies.
    Abstract: Also included is a typed transcript by Ray Wolff; 1981.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Handwritten manuscript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typed transcript
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Erinnerungen von Valerie und Andrea Wolffenstein]. (1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 200 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Wolffenstein, Valerie, ; Children. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in fin-de-siecle Berlin; visits at mother's family in Vienna; main part on persecution under Nazi rule and assistance by non-Jewish friends.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Valerie bis 1945
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Andrea 1938-1945
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ferne Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend und Alter. (1975)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 + 205 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Amann, Dora (née Israel), ; Amann, Paul, ; Israel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Music. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Dora Amann including family history reaching back to her grandparents, recollection of her childhood in Vienna, and information on her own and her brother's schooling, on changing family customs, on her musical education, on World War I, on antisemitism and political life in Europe before and during Nazi rule, on the fate of the different family members, on her emigration to France and to the United States via Lisbon, and on her life in America.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
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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
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    Der Stahlpalast. (1968)
    [1968] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript +
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    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Genovese, Kitty, ; Children. ; Murder. ; New Jersey. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The murder of Eddy, the son of Veronica and Emilio Castaldo in New Jersey, is investigated by the journalist Joe Coppersmith.
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    Jugenderinnerungen an Bruno Schlesinger - Walter. (1967)
    Muralto/Locarno :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Walter, Bruno, ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memoirs of Bruno Walter in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Bildnis eines Knaben. (1965)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Former Title: Gestalten.
    Keywords: Art appreciation. ; Children. ; Death. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Story about the painter Martin Drost and the painting of his son, Lolo.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Die verlorene Heimat. (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
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    Das war in Worms im Monat Mai... : [1886-1900]. (1962)
    Nahariya, Israel :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Jewish way of life. ; Children. ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Worms and description of Worms Jewish community in late 19th century; contains 2 ink line drawings of Worms cathedral and of Jerusalem (removed to art collection)
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    Die Geschichte meiner Kindheit und Jugend : 1882-1903. (1962)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Hammerschlag, Moritz, ; B'nai B'rith. ; Christmas. ; Education, Primary 19th century. ; Education, Secondary 19th century. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Jewish way of life. ; Austria. ; Prague. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1962 in Chicago. Childhood in well-to-do Jewish family. Description of turn-of-the-century Prague and its culture. Living circumstances in a bourgeois household with maids and nannies at the end of the 19th century. Lilli Hammerschlag was enrolled in a German girl's school (Maedchenlyceum), which was mainly attended by Jewish children. Excellent education. First influential friendships with schoolmates. Strict societal rules of contacts between the sexes. Cultural activities and evenings at the German theater of Prague. Summer vacations with hiking tours in the Austrian alps. Religious life limited to the high Jewish holidays, despite the fact that her father was in the executive board of the temple. Recollections of her pious maternal grandmother. Memories of Christmas celebrations with her nanny. Description of historical events such as the tragic death of crown prince Rudolph in 1889. Engagement of her sister Gertrud and romance with the brother of the groom, who became her husband in 1903.
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
    New York :Leo Baeck Institut,
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    Language: German
    Pages: circa 2,000 pages : , heavily annotated typescript
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Tietz, Edith. ; Tietz, Hermann, ; Tietz, Oskar, ; Hermann Tietz (Firma, Berlin) ; Hertie Warenhaus und Kaufhaus. ; Department stores. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Five drafts (each approximately 267 pages) for a book by Georg Tietz, published by the Leo Baeck Institute in 1965.
    Abstract: The book tells the story of the department store "Hermann Tietz", known later as "Hertie", which was the largest company of its kind in Europe. It is also the story of the company’s two founders, Hermann and Oscar Tietz, the great uncle and father of Georg Tietz.
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    Aus der Jugendzeit. (1959)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Stern, Isidor, ; Freisinnige Vereinigung. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish families Intellectual life. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotal account of youth in assimilated Berlin Jewish family; description of her father Isidor Stern, an industrialist and leading member of the liberal Freisinnige Vereinigung; cultural life in pre-World War I Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Herkunft und Erziehung. (1956)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 , typescript (carbon copy + photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Joseph, Marianne (née Klemperer), ; Klemperer family. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Zionism. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Religious background in parents' home; father went to orthodox synagogue, mother and children to Reform temple; early attachment to Zionism.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ein Facit meiner 61 Jahre. (1955)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 152 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Children. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood and school years in Posen; university studies in Munich and Berlin; as physician in World War I; account of his work as physician during Weimar years in Halle and Munich; emigration and life in Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen eigenen Lebens. (1955)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Authors. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Wangen im Allgäu (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Wangen (Baden); rural Jewish life; orthodox Jewry; Jewish festivals.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Anfang - Mitte - Ende : Versuch der Kulturgeschichte eines gewoehnlichen Lebens (1954)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 72 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1954
    Keywords: Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Children. ; Draft ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Lawyers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere; description of general and Jewish life in Frankfurt am Main; family life; education in the Jewish school "Philantropin"; university education in Heidelberg, Leipzig, Munich, Berlin and Marburg; military service prior to World War I.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen an meine Jugend : [1884-1931]. (1953)
    Ramat Gan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 85 + 14 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1953
    Keywords: Hildesheimer, Hirsch, ; Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Hildesheimer family. ; Hirsch family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; College teachers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1953 in Ramat Gan, Israel. Part One describes an orthodox Jewish childhood in the late 19th century in Berlin, including recollections of her grandfather Esriel Hildesheimer, description of the extensive household with various relatives and maids. The author's father, Hirsch Hildesheimer, was member of associations such as the "Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden", "Ezra" and a literary society ("Juedische Geschichte und Literatur"). The family was known for their charity and was involved in relief programs for Russian pogrom refugees. Hirsch Hildesheimer was also active in the fight against antisemitism. Also contains detailed descriptions of the celebration of Shabbat and Jewish holidays in the Hildesheimer family.
    Abstract: Part Two was written after the death of Henriette Hirsch's husband in Israel. Description of Henriette's childhood in the large Hildesheimer houshold, which housed the rabbinic seminary and a synagogue established by her grandfather. Esriel Hildesheimer was the founder of the seperate congregation "Adass Jisroel". Her father Hirsch Hildesheimer was a professor of Jewish History in the rabbinic seminary and founder of the newspaper "Die Juedische Presse". He was a student of Theodor Mommsen at the University of Berlin. Description of the author's wealthy maternal family with her ancestors Salomon and Fanny Hirsch. Recollections of various maids, nannies, wetnurses and seamstresses in the Hildesheimer houshold. Reverence for the royal family in Imperial Germany. Theater visits and cultural life. Numerous guests and visitors of her father in the Hildesheimer household. Henriette's mother Therese Hildesheimer was a member of the "Hausfrauen Verein". Weekend outings and summer vacations in the seaside resort Heringsdorf. Summer holidays at the maternal Hirsch family near Eberswalde. After a few years at a private institute for girls Henriette was enrolled in a public school ("Hoehere Toechterschule"), where she experienced the feeling of being different due to her orthodox upbringing for the first time. Limited education options for girls at that time. Private piano lessons and attending "Religionsschule". Henriette persued her wish to become a teacher at the "Lehrerinnen Seminar", where she was the only Jewish student. Due to state regulations she was only allowed to teach private lessons. In 1907 she married her long-time fiance Remy Hirsch.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 42 , German , Synopsis in file
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    Es war einmal. (1950)
    Rosarion, Argentinien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 81 pages (single space) : , typescript (low quality photocopy) +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Children. ; Dermatologists. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Marriage. ; Poetry. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin; cultural life in fin-de-siècle Berlin; voyages and travels; marriage with physician Ernst Gustav Levin.
    Abstract: Included are 7 poems on family and life experience by Dora Levin's husband, the dermatologist Ernst Gustav Levin (Berlin 1866-Buenos Aires 1943).
    Abstract: Also available is correspondence pertaining to Dora Levin’s mother Hermine Lesser née Philipp (born circa 1853 in Berlin, died 1943 in Theresienstadt), who was highly active in public welfare in Berlin (Berliner Wohlfahrtspflege).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Versuch einer Sammlung von Memoiren aus einem jüdischen Elternheim. (1948)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Former Title: Meine Kindheit
    Keywords: Jüdisches Elternheim Haifa. ; Children. ; Jews, German. ; Jews, East European. ; Public welfare. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish way of life. ; Międzyrzecz (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories in pre-World War II Germany by seven old age home residents in Haifa, Israel. The authors are Adolf Peritz, Koenigsberg i. Pr.; Rosa David, Breslau; Frau Joseph Bachrack, née Nathan, Berlin; anonymous; Hedwig Wolfenstein (Muehsam); Frau Hirschkowitz, Klausenburg.
    Abstract: The main account by Adolf Peritz tells of his childhood in Meseritz (Posen). There are also accounts of East European Jews who returned from visits to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 61; copy on MF 59 , German
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    Teilmemoiren. (1947)
    Kfar Bialik :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript (bad photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1947
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Poverty. ; Bielefeld (Germany) ; Lage (Lippe, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural orthodox atmosphere in Lage (Lippe); twofold humiliations as Jew and as being poor; move to Bielefeld; living in a workhouse.
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    Jugenderinnerungen : 1876-1904. (1947)
    Glasgow :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 139 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1947
    Keywords: Heine, Wolfgang. ; Rehfues family. ; Rosenberg, Neumann. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews, East European ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Socialism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; traditional Jewish life in mother's family of East European background in Leipzig; primary and secondary education; law studies in Berlin and Freiburg; apprenticeship with Social Democratic lawyer Wolfgang Heine; sympathy for Social Democracy and labor unions.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of family trees, family coats of arms; and "Buergerbrief".
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    [Theresienstadt, Böhmen]. (1945)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 45 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1945
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Diary of an 11 year old German Jewish boy who was deported to Theresienstadt from Wiesbaden on Feb. 14, 1945. While his gentile mother, Margot, stayed in Wiesbaden, his Jewish father was imprisoned in Auschwitz, from where he returned to Wiesbaden in 1947.
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    Bilder aus meiner Vergangenheit. (1944)
    Jönköping :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mostly family history and childhood memories; father's family in Upper Silesia; marriage customs; domestic life (19th century); Franco-Prussian War 1870; primary and secondary education in Breslau; father and brothers were merchants.
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    Der erste Akt meines Lebens / (1943)
    Cambridge :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 319 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish religious education. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Dresden (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of childhood in well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Dresden; primary and secondary education; short account of Jewish religious education; trips to Bohemian spas and to Italy.
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    Lebenserinnerungen : Kindheit und Jugend bis zu ihrem Eheschluss (1943)
    Philadelphia :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 394 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1943
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Meyer, Johanna, ; Grünfeld, Ludwig. ; Israel family (Berlin) ; Lövinson, Ermanno. ; Lövinson, Martin. ; Miether, Helene. ; Children. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin Jewish family; among brothers were Centralverein co-founder Martin Loevinson (ME 401) and historian Ermanno Loevinson; observance of Jewish holidays and traditions; Israel and Gruenfeld textile stores; domestic life; newspaper clipping on Ermanno Loevinson; correspondence with Christian friend Helene Miether.
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    [Meinen Kindern!]. (1942)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 48 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Former Title: Memoiren
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families ; Jewish merchants. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood and school years in Fuerth; upper middle class Jewish family life; business history; officer in World War I.
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 225 , Available on microfilm , Introduction in English
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    Kindheitserinnerungen / (1942)
    Haifa,
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    Language: German
    Pages: typewritten manuscript (bound).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1942 in Haifa, Palestine. Recollection of Toni Ehrlich (née Goldschmidt)'s childhood in Breslau at the end of the 19th century (1880-1895) in an assimilated upper-class Jewish family. Her father, Siegfried Goldschmidt, was the representative of Hoechst IG Farben, the chemical industry company in eastern Europe and founded the largest soap factory in eastern Germany. In 1872 he married Flora Rother. Both her parents were fond of traveling. Her older sister Grete, born 1873, was an excellent student and very close to her. Toni Ehrlich attended the Froebel Kindergarten from age 4 to 6. Recollections of summer vacations in the countryside. Memories of Christmas celebrations and fasting on Yom Kippur. Cultural life and family meetings. Her mother encouraged toughening (Abhaertung) through physical exercises and swimming lessons for her daughters at an early age. Recollections of her elementary school and her early awareness of being different as the only Jewish student among her class amtes. Memories of Imperial Germany and patriotic celebrations of the emperor's birthday at school. Piano and dance lessons. Dream of becoming a dancer, which was impossible in her social setting. In 1891 Toni Goldschmidt was enrolled in the Augusta girl's school in Breslau, where she received Jewish religious education for the first time. Summer vacations in Tyrol and Italy. Recollections of the invention of electric light and memories of the first telephone. Private French lessons. Engagement of her sister to the lawyer Felix Abramczyk. Death of her father in 1894.
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    [Erinnerungen aus meiner Jugend] / (1939)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 39 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Household employees. ; Elbląg (Poland) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Elbing; domestic and family life; move to Danzig; primary and secondary education; social and cultural life in Danzig at the end of the 19th century.
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    Tagebuch Frank Meyer Loewenberg, (1925-1938)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 , handwritten; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1925-1938
    Keywords: Loewenberg, Ernst. ; Loewenberg, Margarete (née Oettlinger) ; Children. ; Jewish families 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diaries that document birth and early years of Frank Meyer Loewenberg, son of Ernst and Margarete Loewenberg. Also included are inserted notes, postcards, drawings, and ephemera.
    Description / Table of Contents: I. Teil [1925-1927]
    Description / Table of Contents: II. Teil [1927-1930]
    Description / Table of Contents: III. Teil [1930-1934]
    Description / Table of Contents: IV. Teil [1934-1938]
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    [Erinnerungen] : 1858 bis 1936 (1936)
    Charlottenburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 435 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1936
    Keywords: Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish lawyers. ; Lawyers. ; Peace movements. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Germany Politics and government 1871-1918. ; Government ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family background and childhood in Breslau; university studies in Breslau, Leipzig and Berlin; activities as a lawyer and president of Silesian lawyers association; political activities; engagement in peace movement.
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    Aufzeichnungen aus der Jugendzeit / (1931)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 + 24 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1931
    Keywords: Zadek, Doris (née Kronthal) ; Bernstein, Doris. ; Tennstedt family. ; Children. ; Education, Higher Medicine 1871-1918. ; Physicians. ; Socialism. ; Socialists. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Physicians
    Abstract: Childhood in Posen; sister Julia studied medicine in Zurich and was member of Socialist circle; sister Regina married socialist Eduard Bernstein; study of medicine and work as ship's physician; contains family tree compiled by Prof. Florian Tennstedt.
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    Die musikalische Aufnahmefaehigkeit des Kindes. : Ein Versuch mit Hilfe der Schallplatte. (1931)
    Hamburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 152 , bound typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1931
    Dissertation note: Pruefungsarbeit zur Erlangung der Befaehigung fuer eine feste Anstellung an oeffentlichen Volksschulen.
    Keywords: Children. ; Music Instruction and study. ; Teachers Training of music. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: This paper was part of an exam to become a teacher in a public elementary school.
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    Die Geschichte meiner Familie. (1929)
    Breslau :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , bound typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1929
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish way of life ; Merchants. ; Metal trade. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish upbringing in small Silesian community; school years in Halberstadt; activities in Jewish and non-Jewish associations; brother's metal business in Breslau.
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    [Tagebuecher und Manuskripte], (1881-1929)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1881-1929
    Keywords: Loewenberg, Jakob, ; Authors. ; Children. ; Voyages and travels. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diaries and manuscripts, also available in the Jakob Loewenberg Collection, AR 1200.
    Abstract: Diaries 1881 - 1929; a 90 page manuscript 'Unser Kind'; a notebook from a vacation in Hoernum (Nordfriesland), Germany in summer of 1922
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Tagebuecher, 1881-1883
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Tagebuecher, 1883-1885
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Tagebuecher, 1892-1912
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Tagebuecher, 1925-1929
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 5: Unser Kind, 1896-1906
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 6: Hoernum, 1922
    Note: German
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    [Mein liebes Kind!], (1914-1926)
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    Language: German
    Pages: circa 173 pages : , handwritten notebook (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1914-1926
    Former Title: Diary
    Keywords: Rheinstrom, Lola. ; Children. ; Lawyers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Diaries ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Handwritten notebook by Heinrich Rheinstrom for his daughter Lola, containing thoughts, reflections and descriptions of daily events, beginning with her birth on February 26, 1914 until December 29, 1926.
    Abstract: During the war, Rheinstrom served as an officer and worked for the Secretary of Foreign Affairs; also described are revolutionary events in Munich, 1918/1919.
    Abstract: Also included are accompanying correspondence and Rheinstrom’s biographical abstract.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Die Geschichte meines Lebens : Erstes Buch. Die goldene Jugendzeit. (1924)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 128 pages (1 1/2 space) : , 15 pages : , typescript (photocopy) + , typescript.
    Additional Material: extract
    Year of publication: 1924
    Keywords: Lövinson, Siegfried‏, ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish leadership. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Lawyers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Synagogues. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of youth circa 1859-1875 in an orthodox family in Berlin-Charlottenburg; house synagogue and Jewish festivals; primary and secondary education; welcoming of the creation of the German Reich in 1870 and the emancipation of the Jews.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 50; copy on MF 42 , German
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    Familienchronik. (1922)
    Charlottenburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 125 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: transcript
    Year of publication: 1922
    Keywords: Kahn, Juliane (née Hirsch) ; Kahn, Nathan. ; Hirsch family. ; Kahn family. ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Rites and ceremonies. ; Soap trade. ; Bingen (Germany) ; Fulda (Germany) ; Philippsburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After an introduction centering on Jewish history during the middle ages and lives in the Ghetto, the author – born on Sep. 7, 1850 as son of Nathan Kahn and his wife Juliane née Hirsch - recounts his youth in Fulda, explaining the families’ history. The Kahn family came from Udenheim and the Hirsch family came from Bingen.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Photocopy of handwritten manuscript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typewritten transcript
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Erinnerungen an die Kindheit Franz Rosenzweigs]. (1922)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 15 pages : , bound handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: 4 pages typed transcript
    Year of publication: 1922
    Keywords: Rosenzweig, Franz, ; Children. ; Toys. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Adele Rosenzweig's recollections of her son's Franz childhood.
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    Mein Sohn Ludwig, (1915-1918)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 28 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1915-1918
    Keywords: Davidsohn, Ludwig. ; Virchow, Rudolf, ; Children. ; Draft. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Students' societies. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood of Ludwig, his Zionism; soldier in World War I.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of clippings; photographs; correspondence.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen. (1916)
    Munich :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 152 + 9 + 100 pages : , 173 pages + , typed transcript + , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: 620 + 32 pages :
    Additional Material: various letters
    Year of publication: 1916
    Keywords: Feust family. ; Silbermann family. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Education 19th century. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Lawyers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Public prosecutors. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Oberfranken (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish house in Bischheim (Upper Franconia); rural Jewish life; Jewish rituals and festivals; move to Bamberg in 1861; father's clothing store; primary and secondary education; university studies; as public prosecutor in Regensburg, Augsburg and Munich.
    Abstract: Also included are a photograph of Eduard Silbermann with his wife and son in 1900, and a family tree of the descendents of Rabbi Uri Feust.
    Description / Table of Contents: Original handwritten manuscript in folders 2 and 3; 1916
    Description / Table of Contents: Transcribed typescript in folders 1 and 4; circa 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Various original and transcribed letters in folder 5 are not microfilmed nor online.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tagebücher, (1906-1914)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 folders.
    Year of publication: 1906-1914
    Keywords: Braun, Heinrich, ; Braun, Lily (von Kretschman) von Gizycki, ; Children. ; Jews 1870-1918. ; Manners and customs. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Description / Table of Contents: MM 91
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Tagebuch, 1904-1907
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Tagebuch, 1908
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Tagebuch, 1908-1909
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Tagebuch, 1909
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. Tagebuch, 1909
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. Tagebuch, 1910
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Tagebuch, 1910
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Tagebuch, 1910
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Tagebuch, 1910
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Tagebuch, 1910-1911
    Description / Table of Contents: 11. Tagebuch, 1911
    Description / Table of Contents: MM 102
    Description / Table of Contents: 12. Tagebuch, 1911
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Tagebuch, 1911
    Description / Table of Contents: Anhang I, II, Sept. 1911 ff.
    Description / Table of Contents: 14. Tagebuch, 1911-1912
    Description / Table of Contents: 15. Tagebuch, 1912
    Description / Table of Contents: 16. Tagebuch, 1912-1913
    Description / Table of Contents: 17. Tagebuch, 1913
    Description / Table of Contents: 18. Tagebuch, 1913-1914
    Description / Table of Contents: 19. Tagebuch, 1914
    Note: German
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    Tagebuch der alten Doris Zadek, geb. Kronthal in Berlin. (1911)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 51 + 26 , handwritten notebook; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1911
    Former Title: Tagebuch
    Keywords: Bernstein, Eduard, ; Graetz, Heinrich, ; Zadek, Doris (née Kronthal) ; Bookstores. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Jewish historians. ; Socialism. ; Socialists. ; Women authors. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mainly childhood memories in small Posen towns of Bojanowo and Wollstein; friendship with historian Heinrich Graetz; diary of years 1906-1911.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typed transcript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Handwritten notebook
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder2: Typed transcript
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen von Felix Makower an seinen Vater Hermann Makower. (1908)
    Calau :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1908
    Keywords: Makower, Hermann, ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Friendship. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Tutors and tutoring. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of Hermann Makower's school years, his military service, university studies, marriage to daughter of the banker Alwin Ball of Calau, career as lawyer, friendship with liberal politician Eduard Lasker.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Jugenderinnerungen des Justizrats Hermann Makower. (1908)
    Calau :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 + 7 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1908
    Keywords: Ball, Alwin. ; Lasker, Eduard, ; Children. ; Country life ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish way of life. ; Lawyers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Calau (Germany : Landkreis) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of childhood in Santomysl (Posen); his father came from orthodox family, but was liberal-minded; although family is not wealthy, Hermann Makower was sent to the French Gymnasium in Berlin to guarantee a good education; he was an excellent student and became friendly with the son of the head of the Berlin Jewish community and richest Jew of Berlin, Meyer.
    Abstract: Also included are excerpts from 'Kleinstadt-Leben in Calau, Cottbuserstr. 16 ; Betr. Justizrat Hakower (Eigentum von Ernst Ball).'
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Jugenderinnerungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Kleinstadt-Leben in Calau
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy of "Jugenderinnerungen" on MF 87 , German
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    Meine Lebensgeschichte / (1906)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 75 + 166 pages : , typed transcript (carbon copy) + handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1906
    Former Title: Familiengeschichte
    Keywords: Herzfeld, Ernst, ; Children. ; Household employees. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in the province of Posen; arranged marriage to her cousin Abraham Herzfeld who became a member of the Graetz (Posen) magistrate and the chairman of the local Jewish community; chronological account of her family until 1906.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Typed transcript
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Manuscript
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Fuenfzig Sterne am Himmel meiner Kindheits-Jahre : 44 Briefe und 6 Gedenkblaetter. (1906)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 129 + 10 pages : , private printing (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1906
    Keywords: Ehrenberg, Samuel Meyer, ; Lövinson, Henriette (née Meyer), ; Lövinson, Joseph Elias, ; Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish families Correspondence. ; Jewish religious education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Printed transcripts of letters written to Siegfried Loevinson between 1838 and 1843, primarily from his parents Joseph and Henriette Loevinson and from his siblings, Moritz, Louis, Emma (Ellenburg), and Rosa (Hersch).
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 50; abbridged copy on MF 87 , German
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    Memoirs : [1819-1904]. (1904)
    Eidlitz :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 188 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1904
    Keywords: Children. ; Jews Education. ; Teachers. ; Rabbis. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Dobrutschka (Bohemia); traditional Jewish education; studies in Prague Yeshiva; teacher and rabbi in Eidlitz (Bohemia).
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 41 , German
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    Lebenslauf und Tagebuch / (1879)
    [Arnstadt] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 18 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1879
    Keywords: Cantors. ; Children. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish teachers. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Meiningen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an autobiographical essay, circa 1820-1879. The original handwritten manuscript, circa 50 pages, was probably written in Arnstadt in 1879.
    Abstract: Describes his childhood in little town in Meiningen, teachers' seminary at Hildburghausen, account of his activities as teacher and cantor.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    fuer meine Kinder. (1874)
    Ulm :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 10 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1874
    Former Title: Erinnerungen fuer meine Kinder
    Keywords: Öttinger, Siegmund Seligmann. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Orphans. ; Printers ; Publishers and publishing Biography. ; Buttenwiesen (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Ulm (Germany) ; Württemberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Buttenhausen (Wuerttemberg); rural Jewish life; orphany in Stuttgart; apprenticeship as printer; anti-Semitism; move to Ulm.
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    Tagebuch, (1865-1867)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 64 + 90 , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1865-1867
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Family-owned business enterprises. ; Jewish religious education 19th century. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Philosophers. ; Hamburg-Altona (Hamburg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary concerning mostly Jewish and general education; entering family business; reference to his younger brother Leopold (Constantin Brunner).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenslauf des Daniel Fraenkel : 1822-1851. (1851)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 7 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1851
    Keywords: Children. ; Rabbis. ; Bytom (Poland) ; Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic) ; Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of childhood and youth in Beuthen (Upper Silesia) and move to Frankfurt an der Oder.
    Note: German
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    Kindheitserinnerungen [Fragment] : Memoiren [1809-1816]. (1846)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 97 , typescript (bound carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1846
    Keywords: Arnstein family. ; Children. ; Women authors. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Genealogy. ; Business. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; divorce of parents; education by grandmother; father began military career after losses in business.
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    Kinder-Erinnerungen.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Sulzburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of childhood in orthodox rural Jewish milieu in Sulzburg (Baden) as a child of a cattle- and wine-dealer; circa 1870-1900.
    Abstract: German transcript (9 pages) and English summary (5 pages) in file (not microfilmed)
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    Aus meinem Leben : [1855-1880].
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 65 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Berend family. ; Lehmann, Behrend, ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Children. ; Court Jews. ; Jewish families. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Breslau; domestic life; primary and secondary education; account of the Berend Lehmann family in Hannover, court Jews and bankers; Jewish rituals and festivals.
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    [Memoirs of Simon Gruenewald].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 folders : , 5 manuscripts.
    Keywords: Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von, ; Gruenewald family. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Teachers. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Four manuscripts of Simon Gruenewald’s memoirs.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is an excerpt of a published edition of Anette von Droste-Huelshoff’s poem „Die Judenbuche“ by the publisher Julius Schwering, 8 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Erinnerungen, typescript 18 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Jugenderinnerungen, handwritten manuscript, 80 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Tante Emma : Lebensbild einer Dorfjüdin, handwritten manuscript, 47 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: [Onkel Simon], handwritten manuscript, 3 pages.
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    Meine Kinderjahre.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 88 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Children. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Czech Republic Emigration and immigration. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Moravia; marriage and move to Prague; 1860-1880.
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    "Denn das Sterben des Menschen hört nie auf..." : Das Leben des Aron Benario von Obernbreit
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    Language: German
    Pages: 33 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Benario, Aron, ; Benario, Lina. ; Kronacher, Regine. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education. ; Iron industry and trade ; Marriage. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Aron Benario, edited by Michael Schneeberger, including description of Benario's childhood, information on his mother who led the family business after his father's death in 1830, on the schooling, commercial and agricultural occupations of himself and his brothers particularily his ironmonger business, information on his engagements, marriages and the lives of his children, and description of social unrest in 1848.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Lebenserinnerungen.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 53 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Hellmann-Kirchberger family. ; Freisinnige Volkspartei. ; Children. ; Draft 1871-1918. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish families. ; Sales personnel. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Dresden (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Lahnstein (Germany) ; Weilburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood games in Niederlahnstein; lives of grandparents; life in Lahnstein; schooling in Lahnstein; detailed account of secondary schooling at Institut Hofmann in St. Goershausen; discussion of reading material as a child; apprenticeship in Weilburg with uncle; apprenticeship in Cologne; business trips throughout the Rhineland and Ruhr; work in Elberfeld; military service in Dresden; impressions of Dresden in 1872; impressions of Berlin and Bohemia; death of father; political activity, working with Freisinnige Volkspartei in Weilburg; political life in Weilburg; elected to magistrate of chamber of commerce in Weilburg; gradual loss of hearing; experience of World War I, revolution and inflation.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Arnhold, Max; Kirchberger, Franz; Kirchberger, Hedwig; Kirchberger, Jacob; Kirchberger, Joseph; Kirchberger, Josua; Kirchberger, Max; Kirchberger, Paul; Kirchberger, Sophie; Kirchberger, Theodor.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen deutscher Juden].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: List of published autobiographies of German Jews from the early 19th century to the Nazi period, including short biographical sketches of each individual.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file.
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    Lebenserinnerungen eines Juden /
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    Language: German
    Pages: 25 , typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Kahn, Arthur David. ; Children. ; Families 19th century. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in a small German town in orthodox Jewish atmosphere; description of domestic life and Jewish festivals.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Die Geschichte meines Grossonkels und meines Grossvaters.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 85 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: Yiddish clipping : 21 pages (photocopy)
    Keywords: Frank, Jacob, ; Children. ; Frankists. ; Jewish religious education before 1871. ; Voyages and travels. ; Offenbach am Main (Germany) ; Prague. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: German translation by Gabriele Jordan, née Porges v. Portheim, of the original Yiddish memoirs:
    Abstract: Childhood and education in Prague; introduction into Frankist circle through author's father; journey to Offenbach; detailed description of Jakob Frank's "court" in Offenbach.
    Abstract: Also included is a printed version of the original Yiddish text with an introduction, 'The memoirs of Moses Porges' by the historian Nathan Michael Gelber, published in "Schriften des Jiddisch Wissenschaftlichen Instituts" Wilna, vol. 1.
    Note: German
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    Erinnerungen einer Altonaerin : Vier Haeuser in der kleinen Muehlenstr.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 pages (single space) : , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Markus, Alexander. ; Munks, Elia. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Women authors. ; Children. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Hamburg-Altona (Hamburg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish milieu in Hamburg-Altona; descriptions of Rabbis Elia Munks and Esriel Hildesheimer.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Schoene Aussicht [No.] 16 : Familie Wertheimer
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    Language: German
    Pages: 10 , typewritten manuscript.
    Keywords: Wertheimer, Zacharias, ; Children. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: From 1856 to circa 1865, Lucia Franz grew up in the building at ‘Schöne Aussicht No. 16’ in Frankfurt/Main, which was owned by the Wertheimer family: a 92 year old mother, her two sons, Zacharias and Leopold, and her married daughter, Baroness Hirsch.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Jugenderinnerungen : Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 , typescript +
    Additional Material: photocopy of original typescript, 33 pages.
    Keywords: Bondi, Esther (née Hirsch), ; Calvary family. ; Hirsch, Gustav, ; Rosenblueth family. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin in orthodox Jewish house; description of Calvary and Rosenblueth families.
    Note: Available on microfilm , copy on MF 264(5) , German
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    Die Chronik der Familie Silbergleit /
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    Language: German
    Pages: 77 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.
    Keywords: Auerbach, Felix, ; Silbergleit family. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Children. ; College teachers. ; Families. ; Merchants. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history circa 1823-1905; childhood in well-to-do Breslau Jewish family; father's iron business; attitude toward Judaism; assimilation.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mutters Kindertagebuecher.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 244 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Wieruszowski, Alfred. ; Wieruszowski, Clara. ; Wieruszowski, Marie. ; Wieruszowski, Ruth. ; Wieruszowski family. ; Children. ; Christmas. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Social life and customs. ; Lawyers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of a diary by Jenny Wieruszowski, written 1894-1918, dealing with the childhood and youth of her daughters Marie, Helene, Clara, Lilli, and Ruth, and her son, who died 3 months after his birth in 1892: it includes many details on the domestic life of the family, information on the development of the children and their schooling, descriptions of birthday and Christmas celebrations, of outings and vacations. Also included are the children's reactions to World War I, and family poetry.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Aus meinen Jugendjahren /
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: circa 25 handwritten note cards
    Former Title: [Fritz Fiedlaender's memoirs]
    Keywords: Assimilation Jews. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Fritz Friedlaender was the descendant of a prominent Berlin Jewish family that included the psychologist Moritz Lazarus; the writers Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona), Ludwig Lewisohn and Arthur Eloesser; and the Social Democratic leader Hugo Haase. He describes a bourgeois home and the assimilation of the author's parents. Also included are notes with various quotations of books and speeches.
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