Lewin collection, [ca. 1200]-1942, [ca. 1700]-1942 (bulk).

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Lewin collection, [ca. 1200]-1942, [ca. 1700]-1942 (bulk).

Contains variety of records of Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe especially in Posen, Silesia and other German-speaking areas, including pinkasim (record books) of communities and societies, memorial books with lists of deaths, records of births and circumcisions, account books, legal documents, tax lists, property records, minutes, records of rabbinical courts, cemetery registers, society statutes, synagogue seat records, and other documents of communities at Kempen (Kepno, Poland), 1771-1902; Strassnitz (Straznice, Czechoslovakia ?), 1855-1879; Krotoschin (Krotoszyn, Poland), ca. 1832-ca. 1913; Labischin (Labiszyn, Poland); Militsch (Milicz, Poland), ca. 1830-ca. 1900; Fraustadt (Wschowa, Poland), 1835-1887; Rawitsch (Rawicz, Poland), ca. 1838-ca. 1861; Nikolai (Mikolow, Poland), ca. 1849-1898; Myslowitz (Myslowice, Poland), 1810-1852; Schwerin, 1819-1869; Posen (Poznan, Poland), 1535-1538 (copies), 18th century, n.d.; Mecklenburg province, 1760-ca. 1850; Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), 1808-1844; and elsewhere.

ca. 22.5 linear ft.

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Keppner, Aron.

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Hildesheimer, Ezriel, 1820-1899

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Brody, Heinrich, b. 1868.

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Frankel, David, 1946-....

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Ṭiḳṭin, Avraham, 1764-1820

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Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956

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Ringelblum, Emanuel, 1900-1944

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Malter, Henry, 1864-1925

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Deutsch, David, 1810-1873

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Lewin, Louis, 1868-1941

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Ettlinger, Jacob, 1798-1871

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Berliner, Abraham, 1833-1915

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Lewin, Isaac,

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Frankel, Daniel Carl, 1966-

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Trieber, Conrad

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Rosenstein, Abraham Baruch

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Abraham Rosenstein, son of Elhanan Rosenstein, rabbi of Berlin, "graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Halle, Germany. He apparently left Germany after the failure of the revolution in 1848 and became rabbi at Czakaturn, Hungary"--D. Lewin, A Jewish geneology (sic), p. 58-59. From the description of Papers, 1848-1856. 1848-1856. (Yeshiva University). WorldCat record id: 122641833 Abraham Rosenstein "graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Halle, Germany. He app...

Seeligman, Sigmund, 1873-1940.

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Oyerbakh, Ḥayim, 1755-1840.

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Kisch, Guido, 1889-1985

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Born Prague, the son of Alexander Kisch, the Chief Rabbi of that city; Author; humanist scholar; Professor of law, Jewish history and bibliography, and Jewry law at the University of Leipzig, the University of Halle, and the Jewish Institute of Religion (New York), later Hebrew-Union College; also Honorary Professor at the University of Basel; founder and editor of Historia Judaica. From the description of Guido Kisch papers, [ca. 1934-1972]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat re...

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