Fred Oppenheimer Collection 1799-1896

Military, family and business documents: accounting of the Jewish community in Gemmingen (1799/1800); public school certificate (1884); appointment as instructor of the Volkswehr (1849); note to the mayor of Gemmingen; power of attorney in German, Philadelphia (1896).

Schneeberger-Saenger Collection 1837-1845

Business ledger in Yiddish (1837-1845)

Reproduction of painted portrait by Eduard Magnus of Mrs. Karl Steffeck Portraits Women

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Erinnerungen an Breslau, undated

The photograph album is part of the Hirschberg-Goldman Family Collection and contains captions written in German about various locations in Breslau, Germany, now Wrocław, Poland.

Genealogy of Rabbi Eleasar Loew known as Schemen Rokeach

Photocopy of family tree.

goldschmidt fanni Cemeteries; Tombs

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Seixas family papers, undated, 1746-1911, 1926, 1939.

The collection contains items relating to individual members of the family as well as the Seixas family in general. Included are papers of the following persons: Isaac Mendes Seixas (1708/9-1780/1), a copy of A voyage to Hudson's--Bay, by Henry Ellis, inscribed with his name on the title page, along with additional inscriptions on the end papers (1748); and a daily prayer book printed in Amsterdam (title page missing), with an inscription on the first page indicating that the book was owned by Seixas in 1758/9, and subsequently by his grandson, Theodore J. Seixas, in 1816/17.

Dedication of new synagogue in Surinam (Dutch)

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Recommendation of Jacques Judah Lyons from Surinam

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Letter of K.K. Beth Elohim Charleston, regarding address to George Washington

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Letter from Manuel Josephson to K.K.S.I. regarding joint letter to George Washington

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Draft of letter from Moses Seixas, Newport to K. K. S. I. regarding letter to President Washington

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Letter of trustees of K. K. S. I. to Newport congregation regarding joint letter to President Washington

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Letter from Moses Seixas, Newport, regarding joint letter to President Washington

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Early bills of K. K. S. I.

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