Leopold and AdelheidZunz Collection 1815-1959

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Leopold and AdelheidZunz Collection 1815-1959

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Leopold Zunz(1794-1886) was one of the founders of the Wissenschaft des Judentums. The bulk ofthis collection consists of his and his wife Adelheid's correspondence. Alsoincluded is an extensive collection of visiting cards he received as well as a fewimages and articles about him.

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Zunz, Adelheid 1802-1874

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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...

Ehrenberg, Philipp 1811-1882

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Samsonschule, Wolfenbuettel, 1786-1928

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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 " ...