Auerbach; Jewish Community 1933-1985

Nespaper clippings and other materials on the Jewish persecution under Nazi period in Auerbach and Bensheim.

Moenchengladbach; Jewish Community Collection 1933-1937

Report on the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1933-1937); letter to Walter Froehlich confirming his election to chair the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1936); membership card for the "Juedische Kulturbund, Moenchengladbach).

Mediaş Jewish Community Photograph Collection 1900-1930s bulk: undated

The collection contains more than 60 black and white photographs from the first decades of the 20th century found in the synagogue of Mediaş (Mediasch, Medgyes), Romania. The photographs were found in the process of an on-going clean-up and restoration project and for the most part are unidentified. The photographs are of community members and their relatives and friends; they consist of group family portraits, individual portraits, babies, and children. Some of the photographs originate from Mediaş and other nearby Transylvanian towns, while others were printed by foreign printing shops and were presumably sent to relatives living in Mediaş.

Lipperode; Jewish Community Collection 1830-1939

Community record book 1846-1939; documents; business contracts; papers of individuals.

Negative photo map of Jewish settlements in the Krivoy Rog district

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Leiwen; Jewish community 1800-1945

Manuscripts: "Schicksal der Leiwener Juden von der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bis heute;" Geschichte der ehemaligen Judengemeinde in Leiwen." Contains references to the history of different Jewish families from Leiwen.

Paul Seligman Collection

Offprint from "The Jewish Quarterly Review" on Leo Baeck's "The People Israel." Newspaper clippings referring to his appointment as professor emeritus. Manuscript on Leo Baeck. Article on the German artist Friedrich Adler.

Beatific Enjoyment in Scholastic Philosophy and Theology: 1240-1335

This dissertation examines the concept of beatific enjoyment (fruitio beatifica) in scholastic theology and philosophy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The aim of the study is to explain what is enjoyment and to show why scholastic thinkers were interested in discussing it. The dissertation consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with Aurelius Augustine's distinction between enjoyment and use and the place of enjoyment in the framework of Augustine's view of the passions and the human will. The first chapter also focuses upon the importance of Peter Lombard's Sentences for the transmission of Augustine's treatment of enjoyment in scholastic thought as well as upon Lombard's understanding of enjoyment. The second chapter treats thirteenth-century conceptions of the object and psychology of enjoyment. Material for this chapter is provided by the writings - mostly Sentences commentaries - of Alexander of Hales, Albert the Great, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Peter of Tarentaise, Robert Kilwardby, William de la Mare, Giles of Rome, and Richard of Middleton. The third chapter inspects early fourteenth-century views of the object and psychology of enjoyment. The fourth chapter focuses upon discussions of the enjoyment of the Holy Trinity. The fifth chapter discusses the contingency of beatific enjoyment. The main writers studied in the third, fourth and fifth chapters are John Duns Scotus, Peter Aureoli, Durandus of Saint Pourçain, William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, Robert Holcot, and Adam Wodeham. Historians of medieval intellectual history have emphasized the significance of the concept of beatific enjoyment for understanding the character and aims of scholastic theology and philosophy. The concept of beatific enjoyment was developed by Augustine on the basis of the insight that only God can satisfy our heart's desire. The possibility of satisfying this desire requires a right ordering of the human mind and a detachment of the will from the relative goals of earthly existence. Augustine placed this insight at the very foundation of the notion of Christian learning and education in his treatise On Christian Doctrine. Following Augustine, the twelfth-century scholastic theologian Peter Lombard made the concept of enjoyment the first topic in his plan of systematic theology. The official inclusion of Lombard's Sentences in the curriculum of theological studies in the early universities stimulated vigorous discussions of enjoyment. Enjoyment was understood as a volition and was analyzed in relation to cognition and other psychic features such as rest and pleasure. This study shows that early fourteenth-century authors deepened the analysis of enjoyment by concentrating upon the relationship between enjoyment and mental pleasure, the relationship between cognition and volition, and the relationship between the will and the beatific object (i.e., the Holy Trinity). The study also demonstrates the way in which the idea of enjoyment was affected by changes in the method of theological analysis - the application of Aristotelian logic in a Trinitarian context and the shift from virtue ethics to normative ethics.

Witten; Jewish Community Collection 1885-1988

Photocopy of handwritten "Urkunde ueber die Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde zu Witten und den Bau ihres neuen Tempels" (1885) + typed manuscript of same. Photo of interior of Witten synagogue (1935). Press clippings and other documentations on Jewish life in Witten collected by Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (1988).

[Destroyed synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Czechoslovakia].

List of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Czechoslovakia that have been destroyed by the Nazis, 1939-1945, accompanied by some photographs (photocopies).

Ruelfenrod; Jewish Community Collection 1836

Photocopies of documents by Baruch Bilstein and Wolf Levi of Ruelfenrod regarding the Jewish cemetery of Ruelfenrod

Schwalenberg (Lippe); Jewish Community Collection 1700-1859

Bernhard Lowe, September 1999 (no ackn.)

Breidenbach; Jewish Community Collection

Lists of Jews in the "Breidenbach Land" from the 18th to the 20th century..

Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ukrainian Jewish community, Kharkiv

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