Silvia Tennenbaum papers

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Silvia Tennenbaum papers

1936-2013

https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/959

Author. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, her family fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and eventually emigrated to America. She married Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum in 1951 (divorced 1986). Her first novel Rachel the Rabbi's Wife (1978) portrays her own life experiences. She also the author of the novel Yesterday's Streets (1981), about life amongst upper-middle class Jews in Frankfurt, Germany in the early twentieth century. Her papers include almost seventy years of personal journals beginning in 1944 with descriptions of her travels in Europe, Israel, Germany, Russia, and the U.S. There are also notes for her novels. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]

7 boxes; (7 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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Tennenbaum, Silvia

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Silvia Pfeiffer Tennenbaum was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the daughter of Lotti Clara Stern and Erich Pfeiffer-Belli. Her parents divorced in 1930 and in 1934, her mother married William Steinberg, a conductor who would lead several symphonies, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1952-1976). The Steinberg family fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and young Silvia spent the next two years living in Basel, Switzerland with her Aunt, Getrude Ritz-Stern. In 1938, reunited with her mother, stepfathe...