Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection 1772-1930

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Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection 1772-1930

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The collection contains correspondence among members of the Ehrenberg andRosenzweig families, including let-ters from Franz Rosenzweig, Adam Rosenzweig, Philipp and Richard Ehrenberg, as well as with other parties,including Rudolph von Jhering, Betty Mauthner, Claire von Gluemer, Jacob Freudenthal and, in copies only, Leopold and Adelheid Zunz and HeinrichHeine. Also included are engagement contracts, marriage banns, school curricula and certificates, character refer-ences, eulogies, familyhistories, and other documents concerning family members. This material also reflects much of the history of the Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel ofwhich members of the Ehrenberg family were principals.

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Ehrenberg, Julie Fischel

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Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

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Ehrenberg, Philipp

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Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany)

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Rosenzweig, Adele

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Juedische Schule, Kassel

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Rosenzweig Family

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Ehrenberg, S. M.

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Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg is the son of Hale Meyer, née Landau and Levi Meyer. In 1808 he became the "Inspector" of the Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel. He reformed this school according to the model of the Jacobsohnschule in Seesen/Harz (Germany) with a mixture of religious and secular education, guided by the spirit of enlightenment and Reform Judaism. He was married to Henriette (Jette) Maas (1781-1845). His most renowned pupils were perhaps Leopold Zunz and Isaak Marcus Jost. (See al...

Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929

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Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber collaborated on several projects, the most important of which was a translation of the Hebrew Bible. From the guide to the Franz Rosenzweig - Martin Buber notebooks, 1925-1929, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel on December 25, 1886 to Georg and Adele Rosenzweig. His father was a relatively successful local businessmen who was publicly active. He was a member of the Municipal Council in Kassel, sa...

Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886

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Born in Detmold on August 10, 1794, Leopold Zunz was educated at the Samson'sche Freischule in Wolfenbüttel, and the universities of Berlin and Halle. In 1819, he was a founding member of the Verein fuer Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in Berlin, in which prominent intellectual figures like Eduard Gans, Heinrich Heine, M. I. Jost and Immanuel Wohlwill gathered. From this club, the so-called Wissenschaft des Judentums emerged, mainly based on two early works of Zunz, the programmatic article " ...

Rosenzweig, Adam

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Ehrenberg, Richard, 1857-1921

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Ehrenberg Family

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