Genealogie der Familie Eberstadt aus Worms 1654-

Three volumes of genealogy and family trees of the Eberstadt family.

Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinde Papenburg (Aschendorff) und ihrer Familien : Ein Gedenkbuch.

List of names, members of the Jewish community Papenburg (Aschendorf) from the earliest time to 1942; manuscript: "Geschichte der Juedischen Gemeinde Papenburg und Ihrer Familien".

Flugblätter der Weissen Rose.

Five leaflets (copies) of the German resistance movement "Weisse Rose"; 1942. The originals are held at Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin.

Bürger und Einwohner der Stadt Simmern /

List (photocopy) of sixty Schutzjuden, ca. 1672-1798, which forms part of Zwiebelberg's "Buerger und Einwohner der Stadt Simmern."

Der Prediger vom weißen Berg : Zur Rezeption der besseren Gerechtigkeit aus Mt 5 in Martin Luthers Predigtüberlieferung 1522 1546.

The purpose of this study is to examine the reception of Matthew 5 in Martin Luther s sermons; in other words to investigate how Luther interprets and applies Jesus teaching of the better righteousness and the law in Mt 5. The study applies the reception-historical approach and contributes to the history of effects and the history of interpretation in New Testament exegesis. The study shows that Luther understands the better righteousness of Mt 5 as good works and fulfillment of the law. Luther s interpretation coheres with the intention of the Evangelist, even if Luther s overall concept of righteousness is foreign to Matthew. In Luther s view righteousness is twofold: The greater righteousness of Mt 5 is the second and the actual righteousness (iustitia activa), which follows the first and the foreign righteousness (iustitia passiva). The first righteousness (faith) is for Luther the work of God, while the second righteousness (good works) is co-operation between a Christian and God. In this co-operation the law, as it is taught by Jesus, is not the opposite of the gospel, but the gospel itself in the sense of Christ as an example . The task of the law is to show the dependence of a Christian on God and to help one to love and to serve one s neighbour (brothers as well as enemies) properly. The study underlines a feature in Luther s thinking that has received little attention in Lutheran theology: Luther insists on preaching the law to Christians. In his view Mt 5 is directed to all Christians and particularly to pastors, for whom Jesus here gives an example of how to preach the law. Luther believes similarly to Matthew that Jesus reveals the real meaning of Mosaic Law and confirms its validity for Christians in Mt 5. Like Matthew, Luther insists on the practicability of the commandments of Mt 5 in his view Christians fulfil the law also with joy yet his interpretation of Mt 5 attenuates the radical nature of its commandments. Luther s reception of the individual pericopes of Mt 5 is considerably generative and occasionally contradictory, which is explained by the following factors, among others: Luther receives many ideas from tradition and reads them and his own theological concepts into Matthew s Gospel. He interprets Mt 5 through his understanding of some Old Testament passages as well as Paul. Most of all, Luther s reception of Mt 5 is shaped by his own experience as a preacher, by his relation to his religious enemies, rulers and to the congregation of Wittenberg. Here Luther shares with Matthew the experience of being opposed and concern about the upright living of the believers, which in both cases also explains the polemical tone of the paraenesis.

Chronik der Familie Seelig 1676-

Genealogy of the Seelig family, originally from Hanau, since ca. 1680

Die Ahnentafel der Klara Saar : Ein Versuch zur jüdischen Genealogie /

The family tree of Klara Saar: An essay about Jewish genealogy by Dr. Peter Trawnicek

Stammbaum der Familie Epstein-Baer-Heilbrunn.

Family tree since 1627

[Comités zur Förderung der Enzyklopädie des Judentums] Deutsches Landes-Comité

Circular, naming the committee members for the promotion of the Jewish Encyclopedia; undated (ca. 1928)

Der Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste von 1842 bis 1983.

A brochure, listing all members of the order, 1842-1983. A typescript adds members until 1985 and lists Jewish members, 1842-1981.

Lied der juedischen Jugend.

The ‘Song of Jewish Youth’ was composed for the festival of Jewish schools in Berlin on Sep. 12, 1938

Der Friedensnobelpreistraeger Carl von Ossietzky.

Seminar paper about the journalist and Nobel Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky (b. 1889 in Hamburg)

Der Weg in den Holocaust : Mit Bildern aus dem Leben der juedischen Gemeinde in Schmallenberg.

Photocopies of a catalogue for an exhibition in Schmallenberg on occasion of the town’s 750th anniversary in November 1994.