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Discourses, argumentative and devotional, on the subject of the Jewish religion : delivered at the synagogue Mikveh Israel.
No full textWith: The claims of the Jews to an equality of rights ... / by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia : Printed by C. Sherman & Co., 5601 [1841].Digital imageDescription based on print version record
Isaac and Isabella: The Schweitzer-Guggenheimer family story : From Germany to America and back again.
No full textThe Schweitzer-Guggenheimer family story is based on a letter collection of approximately 125 letters, written from 1859 to 1898. The letters contain messages between Isaac Schweitzer and his family in Germany, especially with his parents Hirsch Schweitzer (1820-1892) and Marie (Bernheim) Schweitzer (1811-1876) after he had moved to the United States in 1866; between Isaac and Isabella Guggenheimer, pre- and post-marriage, in America and Germany; as well as between Isaac and other relatives in America. Their descendant Peter H. Schweitzer tells the family story in this manuscript which consists of 2 parts: 1 ) Historical background (including family photos) and 2) Letters (original transliterated texts with English translations).The original letters which were written in old German script, English, and Judeo-German are available as the "Schweitzer - Guggenheimer letter collection" (DM 323)Isaac Schweitzer (November 5, 1845, Mühringen, Germany — January 17, 1901, Frankenthal, Germany) departed LeHavre, France on July 9, 1866 on the ship the Allemania. He followed uncles who had emigrated before him. Isaac arrived in New York on July 21, 1866. By the following year he was in Fincastle, Virginia where he developed a dry goods business.Isabella Guggenheimer (July 27, 1856, Fincastle, Virginia — April 5, 1911, Mannheim, Germany) was the daughter of Isaac Guggenheimer (1816-1885) and Henrietta (Wertinger) Guggenheimer (1833-1876). Isaac Guggenheimer, with his brother, Henry, had come to America from Altenstadt, Germany, sometime before 1850, when they are listed in the Fincastle census for that year.When Isaac Schweitzer first met Isabella, he was twenty-two and she was eleven years old. Several years later her father relocated the family to Philadelphia.In June 1875 Isaac Schweitzer made plans to open up a new business in Baltimore. Isaac and Isabella were married in Philadelphia, September 16, 1875. They moved to Baltimore but Isabella returned to Philadelphia the following spring when she was pregnant, but this baby only lived a few months and died in September 1876. Isaac was away at the time of the infant’s death because in August 1876 he had left for Germany and went specifically to Frankenthal where he took steps to acquire a business. Soon after, Isabella joined him. The business — Schweitzer & Wertheimer — prospered, and so did the family, eventually consisting of ten children
AHC interview with Harvey Strum.
No full textJanuary 15, 2020.Heinz (later Harvey Allan) Strum was born on March 14, 1929 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Salomon Strum and Eleanor Strum née Messitte. His father was a co-owner of the movie theater “Kreuz-Kino” at Wollzeile 17 in Vienna; later, in Palestine and in the US he worked as an electrical engineer and tool designer. The family lived in an apartment at Lichtenstein-Strasse 52 in Vienna’s 9th district (Alsergund), a mixed and only partially Jewish neighborhood. The family did not keep kosher and was not religious at all. They left Austria in the year of the “Anschluss”, on December 28, 1938. They were very lucky, since his father had applied for a US-visa already in the 1920s. From Vienna they went to Amsterdam and waited there for a week for the ship "The Veendam". The family finally arrived in USA on January 27, 1939. Harvey went to high school and college in the US and finished his education in 1960. He also served with Special Services in the US Army in Germany from February 26, 1951 until February 12, 1953. After his discharge, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music and became a music educator, guitar teacher and band member in New York. Harvey changed his name from Heinz to Harvey Allan when he got the US citizenship after five years in the United States. He visited Austria approximately three times. He and his now deceased wife Mimi had three children: Amy, Daniel and Sam Strum. He lived in Demarest, New Jersey since the 1960s.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Sigmund Freud's mother and 'Charmatz'.
No full textSigmund Freud’s mother Amalia Nathansohn Freud was born in Brody, Galicia and grew up in Odessa. She was married to Jacob Freud and died in Vienna, Austria from tuberculosis at the age of 95. Many authors who wrote about Sigmund Freud somehow agreed that his mother was the descendant of a “famous Talmudic scholar”, Samuel Charmatz ben Nathan or Nathan Halevy Charmatz of Brody, but there is no evidence of any Talmudic scholarly work by these individuals
[Otto Kuehnel].
No full textThe story of Otto Heinz Kühnel, born in Vienna in 1912, told by his brother, Max Knight, quoting liberally from Otto's eye-witness accounts in his correspondence. Also included in the text are explanatory remarks by Max Knight’s son, Anthony.Otto Kühnel was born 1912 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Bernhard Kühnel (Kohn) and Margarethe, née Hoffer. In the late 1930s he joined a training camp of the Zionist Halutz Movement in the Netherlands before returning to Vienna. He fled Austria following the Anschluss and embarked upon a long journey to Melbourne via Prague, Paris, Algiers, the French Caribbean, Panama, Fiji, Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Sydney. Otto Kühnel died of pneumonia in Melbourne, Australia in 1943.digitize
AHC Interview with Grete Stern.
No full textAn interview about her life in Austria before and after World War II and her experiences during the Holocaust.See also personal questionnaires on LBIJER 999.Grete Stern was born in 1920 in Mistelbach and grew up in a small Jewish community of some 30 families. She moved to Vienna at the age of 14 to attend high school, and her parents followed in 1937. Her father died of a heart infection in 1940, and in 1941 she and her mother were deported to Lodz, where her mother died in 1942. A grandmother was left behind in a retirement home and was eventually deported to Theresienstadt, where she perished in 1943. In 1944, Grete was transferred to Auschwitz for some weeks, and from there was sent to a labor camp adjacent to a factory in Berlin. She and a group of female prisoners were marched northward in April 1945, as the Russians entered Berlin, and were abandoned at a village when the Russians caught up with them. Grete returned to Vienna via Berlin and Prague, where she met her husband, who had been sent to Britain as part of the Kindertransport and had now returned to Vienna as a British soldier. In 1970, she immigrated to Israel with her husband and daughter (a son stayed behind)
AHC interview with Lotte Bailyn.
No full textJanuary 16, 20180:00:16-0:11:33 Biographical overview0:11:35-0:15:54 Paternal grandparents; grandmother Sofie Lazarsfeld0:15:56-0:18:40 Maternal family0:18:41-0:19:42 Role of music in the family; Hitler at a family member’s chamber music event0:20:13-0:22:59 Parental home0:23:03-0:23:58 Popularity of parents0:23:58-0:25:47, 1:07:51-1:08:54, 1:10:58-1:14:41 Connection to and thoughts on Austria0:26:22-0:27:58 Childhood / memories of political events0:29:55-0:34:01, 1:06:48-1:07:50 Role of religion and experiences of anti-Semitism0:34:01-0:36:12 Other family members’ emigration0:37:51-0:42:35 Emigration and arriving in the United States0:42:36-0:44:18 New York0:44:19-0:48:49 Relationship with father and step-mother0:50:57-0:52:34 Awareness of war-events0:52:46-0:59:07 Contact with family members0:59:07-1:01:09 Organizing the funeral of Marie Deutsch-Kramer, née Herzmansky in Vienna1:01:38-1:04:40 McCarthy era1:04:55-1:06:42 Attitude towards Zionism1:08:59-1:10:58 Restitution1:14:43-1:18:00 Thoughts on current political situation / refugee crisis1:18:07-1:21:18 Children’s and grandchildren’s interest in Austrian backgroundLotte Bailyn, née Lazarsfeld was born on July 17, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Marie Jahoda and Paul F. Lazarsfeld, who were well-known social scientists and social democrats; the couple divorced in 1934. Lotte Bailyn mainly grew up with her mother and maternal grandmother Betty Jahoda, née Probst; her father lived in the United States since 1933. Lotte went to the first grade of Montessori school in Vienna. When her mother was arrested in 1936 due to her socialist activities, Lotte was taken care of by her grandmother. When her mother was released from prison, they had to emigrate. While Marie Jahoda went to England, Lotte was picked up by her father and went with him to New York via Calais, to live there with him and her stepmother, Herta Herzog. Lotte went to school in New York until she went to Swarthmore College where she majored in mathematics. Then she studied social sciences at Harvard graduate school and earned her PhD in 1956. After working on a project at Sloan school of management at MIT, she taught management there since 1971, moving ahead as an associate professor without tenure, a full professor and finally Professor Emerita. - She married the historian Bernard Bailyn and the couple had two children.Austrian Heritage Collectio