Gunther Steinberg Collection

The Gunther Steinberg Collection contains Steinberg's research and related documentation. Four folders hold family trees, including one folder of Steinberg family trees. The remainder of the collection consists of photocopies and some translations of memoirs, a mohel book, a diary, and family letters.

Erwin Adler's genealogical work in the first folder includes a lengthy narrative of family members in his direct ancestry, which provides information on family members and also discusses the emancipation and history of Jews in the locations where his family members resided. Genealogical material on the related Hallo and Rubensohn families consists of correspondence and research notes as well as two family trees, one oversized. The final folder of the collection, primarily consists of a lengthy family tree with index, and includes some correspondence in addition to the family tree. This tree was created by Ze'ev (William Samuel) Steinberg. It does not show Gunther Steinberg or his parents.

Much of the collection consists of translations or copies of family members' papers. Laura Falk's memoir, translated by Charles Regan, mentions various family members and branches of the family, among them the Falk family who lived near Hamburg, the Dux family of Hildesheim, the Ellrodt-Meyer family of Altenstein and Brunswick, and Wolf Dux and Henriette Ellrodt, who were the parents of Laura Falk. Henriette Ellrodt's childhood in Altenstein, Bavaria is also mentioned. These memoirs include an appendix with a list of family members, including biographical details of individuals. The translation of the mohel book of Isaak Kaufmann, originally of Blatzheim, Germany, provides biographical data on individuals from Blatzheim and the surrounding area from 1826-1858. The mohel book lists the son's name, father's name, family name, grandfather's name, date, the town, and any notes. The translation of the diary of Resi Regensburger, a cousin of Gunther Steinberg's mother Henriette Kohsen, provides information on her life. It describes her childhood, her schooling and education as a librarian, her work with Jewish organizations, her marriage and children, her immigration, and her later life in London. The photocopied Rowe letters, which are all handwritten, include a transcription of some letters in French.

One folder in the collection contains some material on the Jewish community in Bleicherode, Germany. This includes a booklet, "Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinde von Bleicherode" (Documentation on the History of the Jewish Community of Bleicherode), which contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, official documents, and photographs of Jewish Bleicherode residents. A local newspaper article on the restored Alte Kanzlei building is also included in this folder. Accompanying these papers was a related DVD dated 2007 with a video of individuals visiting Bleicherode and attending a re-dedication of the Alte Kanzlei building in Bleicherode; this DVD has been removed to the LBI Audiovisual Collection. The building was significant to the Jewish history of the town, having been used from 1730-1882 as the town's first synagogue, and in 2007 held an exhibition on the 400 years of Jews in Bleicherode.