Sigmund Feist Collection 1847-1945

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Sigmund Feist Collection 1847-1945

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This collection contains personal papers and correspondence which document the personal and professional lives of Sigmund and Toni Feist from the 1880sthrough their emigration to Denmark in 1939.

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Leo Baeck Institute Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346512

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Reichenheimsches Waisenhaus, Berlin

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Feist (Family)

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Feist, Toni (née Rawicz), 1880-

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Feist, Sigmund, 1865-1943

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Sigmund Feist, born in Mainz in 1865, received his doctorate and teaching certificate from the University of Strasbourg in 1890, which entitled him to teach German, French and English within the German school system. He first taught languages at a school in Bingen am Rhein in the early 1890s, and went on to head his own private school in Mainz in 1904. Feist later moved to Berlin, where he became director of the Reichenheim Orphanage(Reichenheimsches Waisenhaus), until his retirement in 1935. He...

Hirsch, Elisabeth Feist

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Elisabeth F. Hirsch, Professor of Philosophy, was born in Germany and taught at Trenton State College from 1956 to 1972. From the description of Oral history interview with Elisabeth F. Hirsch, 1984. (Trenton Free Public Library). WorldCat record id: 664373229 ...