Lasker Family Collection 1848-1981

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Lasker Family Collection 1848-1981

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This collection documents Helmuth Lasker's genealogical research project on the origins of his family. In addition to drafts of Lasker's genealogicalmanuscript, there is extensive correspondence, as well as some family, personal, and vital papers.

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Gesamtarchiv der Deutschen Juden.

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Lasker, Helmuth

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The Lasker family was prominent in the German-Jewish community in Posen during the nineteenth century and includes Eduard Lasker, revolutionary of 1848, leader of the Liberal Party, and associate of Bismarck. From the guide to the Lasker Family Collection, 1848-1981, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) ...

Kalischer family

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Lasker, Eduard, 1829-1884

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In 1829, Eduard Lasker was born into an orthodox Jewish merchant family in Jarotschin, a village in Posen (today Jarocin in Poland). He attended secondary school and subsequently University in Breslau where he studied mathematics and law. In 1848, he took an active part in the ongoing revolutions in Vienna, like many students of his time, who were discontented with the ruling system and asked for a more democratic order and social justice. Afterwards he went to Berlin, w...