Leopold Krämer Collection
Scope and Content Note
Container list:
This collection contains Leopold Kraemer's certification documents as a teacher and cantor, professional recommendations, and liturgical sheet music.
In the first folder are professional documents, including teacher certification materials from the Jüdische Lehrer-Bildungsanstalt zu Berlin, as well as a number of professional references related to his employment in Chemnitz and La Paz, Bolivia. These latter materials appear to have been amassed when he moved from La Paz to Santiago de Chile. Also in this folder is a military wage book from his service during the first World War. The oversized folder contains printed and handwritten (transcribed) sheet music, primarily works by notable German-Jewish liturgical composers such as Eduard Birnbaum, Emil Dworzan, Ferdinand Hummel, Jacob Meisel, and Emanuel Kirschner.
Dates
- 1907-1959
Creator
- Krämer, Leopold, 1884-1963 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and Hebrew.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Leopold Krämer was born in 1884 in Mönchsroth (Mittelfranken). Before serving in the first World War, he trained as a cantor at the Berliner Rabbinerseminar (Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim be-Berlin), and was employed in various communities including Berlin, Dresden, and Chemnitz, before emigrating to Bolivia in 1939. He continued working as a cantor in La Paz, but spent the final years of his life in Santiago, Chile.
Extent
1 Folders (1 oversized folder)
Abstract
This collection contains Leopold Kraemer's certification documents as a teacher and cantor, professional recommendations, and liturgical sheet music.
Other Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in folder one.
- Title
- Guide to the Leopold Krämer Collection, 1907-1959 AR 2994
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- May 16, 2014 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
