Veit-Simon Family Collection 1763-1965

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Veit-Simon Family Collection 1763-1965

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This collection contains papers of several generations of the Veit and Simon families, including passports, letters of protection, contracts, wills, official and financial documents, and a few photographs. Some of the prominent individuals featured in this collection include Moses Mendelssohn, Dorothea Schlegel, and Meyer Amschel Rothschild.

0.25 linear feet.

Leo Baeck Institute Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346611

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Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Moses Mendelssohn was an internationally renowned philosopher of the Enlightenment while remaining an observant Jew who defended Judaism and advocated for Jewish civil rights. Moses Mendelssohn was born in 1729 in Dessau, the son of a Torah scribe, and received a traditional Talmudic education. His mother Bela Rachel Sara was descended from an illustrious line of rabbis. At age 14, Moses Mendelssohn followed his rabbi to Berlin; in Berlin, Mendelssohn encountered a group of early enlightened ...

Rothschild, Meyer Amschel, 1773-1855

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Financier. From the description of Letter of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, 1836. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015457 ...

Veit-Simon family

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The Veits and the Simons were families of prominent Jewish businessmen and booksellers in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Berlin. The banker Simon Veit was married to the prominent salonniere Dorothea Schlegel née Brendel Mendelssohn, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn; their son Philipp Veit became a prominent painter. This Philipp Veit is not to be confused with two other family members named Philip Veit, one of whom was Simon's brother, and another of whom was Simon's ...

Meyer, Arnold Otto, 1825-1913

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Savigny, Karl Friedrich ˜vonœ 1814-1875

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Schlegel, Dorothea von, 1764-1839

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Dorothea Mendelssohn Schlegel, the eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, born Brendel, was an author and editor whose work received little recognition during her lifetime. While married to Simon Veit, she became active in Berlin’s dynamic salon subculture. In 1799 she fell in love with the controversial writer Friedrich Schlegel and divorced Veit that same year. Her relationship with Friedrich alienated Dorothea from her family; the couple settled in Vienna, where they married and converted to C...