Jewish war veterans entering synagogue for service to honor the war dead; Munich Jewish Life

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Group portrait, welcome home dinner for ex-service personnel; Newark Beth Israel Hospital; Hotel Essex House, Newark, New Jersey Portraits Groups

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[Memoiren] : [1887-1933].

Childhood and education in Munich; assimilated bourgeois Jewish family; father was a lawyer and titular professor; writer Ludwig Thoma assistant of his father; vacations in Marienbad; military service; university studies in Munich with Lujo Brentano; apprenticeship as lawyer; political interest and joining of SPD; contacts with later Bavarian president Kurt Eisner; as soldier in World War I; diplomatic mission in Tirol during last days of World War I; refused to take part in Bavarian revolution of November 1918, but close contacts with Eisner government; exact account of two Bavarian soviet republics in 1919 and their protagonists (Gustav Landauer, Erich Muehsam, Eugen Levine); Bavarian politics and justice 1919-1933; description of Paul Nikolaus Cossmann and his reactionary journal "Sueddeutsche Monatshefte"; advocate of Eisner's secretary Felix Fechenbach in political trial against accusations by Cossmann; expulsion of East European Jews by Bavarian government 1923; Hitler coup attempt 1923; election campaign March 1933; Nazi takeover of power in Bavaria; dismissal as lawyer; decision to emigrate.

1838-1839 documents relating to Jacques Judah Lyons and his service to K.K. Beth Shalome, Richmond, Virginia

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Orders of service

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Orders of service for special occasions

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Photocopies of previous file of orders of service

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Program of special service on the emancipation of the slaves in Surinam

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Orders of service arranged after the revolution

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Part of order of service and Hebrew prayer, recommended during the revolution

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Service for the dedication of the new synagogue on 19th Street

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Service for Thanksgiving Day

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Service on the occasion of the visit of Abraham Defehr of Surinam to the synagogue

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