Meier Spanier Collection
Scope and Content Note
Original manuscripts, off-prints, and clippings with articles by or about Meier Spanier. Also included are a bibliography as well as biographical and genealogical texts.
Dates
- Creation: undated, 1885-1938
Creator
- Loewenberg, Ernst (Person)
- Grumach, Renate (Person)
- Spanier, Meier, 1864-1942 (Person)
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Collection is microfilmed, use MF 560
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Collection is microfilmed, please use MF 827.
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
The Jewish educator and writer Meier Spanier was born in Wunstorf, Lower Saxony in 1864. 1900-1911 he was headmaster of the Jewish teachers seminary in Muenster, before moving to Berlin, where he was the director of a Jewish girls’ school. In 1942 he committed suicide to escape deportation. Meier Spanier had one son, the dentist Hans Lothar Spanier.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
German
Abstract
Original manuscripts, off-prints, and clippings with articles by or about Meier Spanier. Also included are a bibliography as well as biographical and genealogical texts.
Microfilm
Available on microfilm
Subject
- Spanier, Meier, 1864-1942 (Person)
- Spanier family (Family)
- Grumach, Ernst (Person)
- Grumach, Renate (Person)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Meier Spanier Collection AR 3566 / MF 560
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
