Language:
German
Pages:
161 pages (single space) :
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typescript.
Year of publication:
1941
Keywords:
Baeck, Leo,
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Cohen, Hermann,
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Graetz, Heinrich,
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Hildesheimer, Ezriel,
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Katzenellenbogen family.
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Montefiore, Claude G.,
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Pappenheim, Bertha,
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Wahl, Saul ben Judah,
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Zunz, Leopold,
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Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany)
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Vereinigung für das liberale Judentum.
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B'nai B'rith
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Jüdischer Frauenbund.
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B'nai B'rith
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Antisemitism.
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Cholera
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Education before 1871.
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Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.
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Jews, German Genealogy.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Kristallnacht, 1938.
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Rabbis.
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Reform Judaism.
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Soldiers.
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Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
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Kaiserslautern (Germany)
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Landau in der Pfalz (Germany)
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Wrocław (Poland)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Caesar Seligmann, written between 1934-1941 in Frankfurt and London; description of Jewish life in Landau in the 19th century; early memories of his Jewish childhood and family life; recount of the Landau rabbinate elections in 1836 and the defeat of Seligmann's father, who later on became an instructor at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Kaiserslautern; genealogical account reaching back to Katzenellenbogen family and Saul Wahl, the "Jewish king of Poland"; childhood and school in Landau; memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871); university studies in Munich and Breslau; anti-Semitic movement of Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) and the Rohling affair in Austria; Juedisch-theologisches Seminar in Breslau; student associations (Liwiath Chen, Amicitia); descriptions of Heinrich Graetz, Leopold Zunz and Esriel Hildesheimer; assembly of German rabbis in Breslau in 1887; military service in 1887/88; graduating at the theological seminary in 1888; rabbi in Hamburg; lectures and research about the history of Judaism; religious education for the youth; marriage in 1892; cholera epidemic in Hamburg; rabbinic position in Frankfurt am Main in 1902; acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim and encouraging the activities of Jewish women's organizations; Jewish dominated free masons' lodge (Bne Briss); crisis of liberal Judaism; internal conflicts between orthodox and liberal Judaism; reform of synagogue service and prayer book; new curriculum for Jewish schools; organization "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum"; recollections of World War I; persecution of Jews in Frankfurt after 1933; November pogrom of 1938.
Abstract:
Also included are an incomplete list of Seligmann's publications and a German translation of the last will of his great grandfather's father-in-law, rabbi Seligmann Puettlingen (-1767).
Note:
Available on microfilms MM 70 and MF 93
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German
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Synopsis in file
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