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WWI Correspondence—Karl Henschel, a Volunteer from Berlin
Karl Henschel Collection, AR 6433 During the first year of the war, German soldiers sent six million letters every day, and received another 8.5 million. Soldiers’ letters were almost immediately...
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WWI Memoirs—Helmut Freund, a physician from Berlin
A page from Helmut Freund’s Memoir About 300 memoirs in LBI collections describe the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, from ordinary infantrymen to celebrated...
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WWI Photographs—Bernhard Bardach, an Austrian military surgeon
Bernhard Bardach was a 48-year-old career medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army when war broke out. He served on the Eastern and Western fronts, but he was able to spend much of his time during...
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WWI Art—Hermann Struck’s portraits of Muslim POWs
Raupratta Chan, Punjabi, 1916, Etching by Hermann Struck. As empires clung to their supremacy and nationalist movements advanced an opposing vision of the link between ethnicity and state, troop...
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Leopold Zunz (1794 – 1886)
Leopold Zunz (1794-1886), engraving by C. Fisher. Inscribed across bottom: the print is dedicated to Zunz on his 70th birthday. It is also signed by Zunz, lower right, with an inscription. In December...
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Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874)
Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874) One of the leading figures of the Reform Judaism movement, Abraham Geiger believed that Judaism was not a given quantity or a national law but a process still in flux;...
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Zacharias Frankel (1801 – 1875)
Zacharias Frankel (1801 – 1875) Zacharias Frankel was one of the leading advocates for Conservative Judaism in Germany. Born and trained in Prague, he was the first rabbi in Central Europe with a...
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Esriel Hildesheimer (1820 – 1899)
Esriel Hildesheimer (1820 – 1899) Around 1870, the Orthodox minority in Berlin, distressed at the turn toward liberalization represented by changes such as the installation of an organ in the Synagogue...
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Moritz Steinschneider (1816 – 1907)
Moritz Steinschneider (1816 – 1907) In 1848, a Moravia-born Talmudist named Moritz Steinschneider was charged with the preparation of the catalogue of the Hebrew books in the Bodleian Library at...
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German-Speaking Jews and Zionism: 1862-1941
This fall, LBI will present an exhibition entitled German-Speaking Jews and Zionism, 1862 – 1941 at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, a historic reform congregation in the nation’s capital. This...
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Meine Liebe Käthe—A trove of century-old letters adds fuel to WWI debate
Letters from Kurt Riezler to Käthe Liebermann written in the early months of WWI. AR 25484 When Günther Roth found himself sifting through the contents of a Baltimore attic in 2009, he did not expect...
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Final Sale in Berlin—Database of Jewish-Owned Businesses in Berlin Now Part...
An entry in the database for the wholesale egg business owned by Jakob Intrator, whose granddaughter Joanne joined Kreutzmüller at LBI on September 30, 2015. Christoph Kreutzmüller On September 30,...
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Tarnschriften: Camouflaged Publications in Resistance Against the Nazis
The titles seem designed to elicit a yawn: a treatise on the latest traffic regulations for cyclists, a guide on how to shield potatoes from frost. That was no different in the Germany of the late...
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The Roedelheim Mahzor Collection: Change and Continuity
The Jewish holidays provide structure and meaning to the more quotidian rhythms of life, and the mahzor, the Jewish festival prayer book, has been integral to the ways that generations of Jews have...
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