Dukes-Schlesinger Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
Personal documents such as death, birth, marriage, and school certificates, wedding album of Elsa and Alfred Dukes, etc.
Dates
- Creation: 1869 - 1948
Creator
- Dukes family (Family)
- Schlesinger family (Family)
Language of Materials
This collection is in English, German, and Hungarian.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the finding aid to access the digitized material.
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
Jakob Schlesinger was born Apr. 18, 1869 in Also Sutvez (Prievidza) and died July 24, 1937 at age 68. He was an engraver. His parents were Salomon and Hany Schlesinger.
Jakob Schlesinger and his wife Sidonie (Szidonia) (née Bienenstock, born Dec. 4, 1877, in Budapest) had four children: Else born Nov. 28, 1898; Alfred born Oct. 3, 1900; Auguste (f) born Aug. 12, 1902; Victor born March 12, 1904. Sidonie Loeffelmann's parents were Leopold Bienenstock and Deborah Kieselstein.
After Jakob Schlesinger's death Sidonie married Eugen Loeffelmann. She was repatriated from Hungary to Sweden in 1944 and immigrated to the USA in 1946.
1948 Sidonie's children lived in the following places: Else in Hartford, Conn.; Alfred in Sydney, Australia; Auguste in Boston, Mass.; Victor in New York, NY.
Moritz Dukes was born July 5, 1865 and died Feb. 18, 1921. His wife Julie Dukes (née Hersch) was born Dec. 9, 1868 in Ernsdorf and died Jan. 26, 1922. They had a son called Alfred.
Elsa Schlesinger (born Nov. 28, 1898 in Vienna; died April 10, 1966 in Riverside, NY) married Alfred Dukes (born Sep. 23, 1893 in Vienna) on July 5, 1925.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
Personal documents such as death, birth, marriage, and school certificates, wedding album of Elsa and Alfred Dukes, etc.
Other Finding Aid
See inventory list.
Subject
- Dukes, Alfred, 1893- (Person)
- Dukes, Elsa, 1898-1966 (Person)
- Schlesinger, Jacob, 1869-1937 (Person)
- Schlesinger, Sidonie, 1877- (Person)
- Dukes family (Family)
- Bienenstock family (Family)
- Löffelmann family (Family)
- Schlesinger family (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Ernsdorf
- Prievidza (Slovakia)
- Sweden
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Vienna (Austria)
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Dukes-Schlesinger Family Collection, 1869 - 1948 AR 5452 / MF 842
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2014
- 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
