Moritz Werner Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains manuscripts and clippings of writings by Werner, correspondence, programs of the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus and various other materials.
The writings primarily cover topics such as Jewish history, especially of the Rothschild family, and pedagogical and theological issues relating to the place of Judaism in modernity and in German culture. Much of the correspondence is professional in nature, and includes letters from various periodicals and publishing houses; correspondence with one publisher, the Orell Füssli Verlag, even includes a contract. In fact, a considerable portion of the correspondence relates to a project for Füssli to translate Bevan's work Legacy of Israel . Some personal letters and postcards, among them a postcard from Bertha Rothschild, are also present in the correspondence. A subgroup of letters to Berthold and Siegfried Tendlau concerns their father, the noted folkorist and scholar Abraham Tendlau. A selection of course catalogs (1934-1936) from the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt am Main lists some of the course Werner taught. Finally, there are some cards and photos of locations in Spain and Italy, as well as some photo-reproductions of pages from Hebrew manuscripts and various incunabula.
Dates
- 1896-1939
- Majority of material found within 1928-1936
Creator
- Werner, Moritz, 1873-1939 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, Hebrew, and English.
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
Werner was born in 1873 and died in 1939. He wrote for various German-language periodicals and taught courses on literature and other topics at the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt am Main.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (6 folders.)
Abstract
This collection contains manuscripts and clippings of writings by Werner, correspondence, programs of the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus and various other materials.
Other Finding Aid
An original inventory is available in folder 1
Separated Material
Some photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- Artistisches Institut Orell Füssli
- Bevan, Edwyn Robert, 1870-1943
- Bibliographies
- Black-and-white photographs
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Gebrüder Paetel Verlag
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Photographic postcards
- Rothschild family
- Teachers
- Tendlau, Berthold
- Tendlau, Siegfried
- Werner, Moritz, 1873-1939
- Title
- Guide to the Moritz Werner Collection, 1896-1939 AR 304
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 04, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository