Studio portrait of the sister of Max Rieser; Krakow Portraits Women

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Studio portrait of the sister of Max Rieser; Krakow Portraits Women

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Hans Friedrich Kayser Collection 1877-1893

Photocopies of birth certificate (1877) and release from citizenship certificate (1893), Berlin.

Elli Meyer Collection 1934-

Three photos; one letter by Elli Meyer (1934).

Max Jacobsen Collection 1803-1894

Photocopies of documents: on the Schutzjude Moses Jacob during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1813); other documents relating to Jewish life in Hamburg; graduating diploma from "Hoehere Buergerschule" (1866); excerpt from letter of Louis Jacobsen to his son living in Leedsat the occasion of the outbreak of the Prussian French War (1870); letter of G. Roemer to Louis Jacobsen (1866) after he was refused the marriage with Emilie Jacobsen; partial translation of will of Nathan Joseph living in Wittingen (1844); excerpt from letter of Emilie Heine to her son Ludwig who is a first-year medical student in Munich (1894).

heilbrunn, karl; heilbrunn , fritz; cousin max Portraits Family

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goldschmidt, max; goldschmidt lotte; goldschmidt fritz; goldschmidt frieda; heilbrunn lotte; goldscmidt anna; simon moses Portraits Family

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goldschmidt frieda; goldschmidt max karl; goldschmidt lotte; stolzenau Portraits Family

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Portrait of Max Benjamin; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

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Portrait of Max Arndt; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

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Portrait of Max Fonrobert; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"1.6.1897 Max Fonrobert geb. 5.12.1866"

Jacobs family collection 1877-1900

Vital documents of the Jacobs family: marriage certificate (1907); military certificate (1899); birthday poem for Selig Loewenstein (1926); school certificates; birth certificate.

Sitting l-r Rabbi Dudley Weinberg, Leo Baeck, Joseph H. Cohen, Dr. Joshua Liebman; Standing l-r Max Feldberg, Louis Salvage, Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon, Harry Penn, Abraham Schiller; Boston Portraits; Groups; Men

Page 58 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Erinnerungen 1857-1934

Genealogy; childhood in Tuebingen as the youngest of 14 brothers; student life in Tuebingen; professional career; because of his being Jewish no possibility to enter career as public prosecutor; active membership in National Liberal Party and in Free Mason Lodge; World War I; closing of his law office in 1933. Contains transcriptions of numerous congratulations for his golden wedding and his 80th birthday in 1937.

[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.