Milch Family, Breslau Collection
Scope and Content Note
The Milch Family, Breslau Collection consists of documents pertaining to the Milch, Kauffmann and Silbergleit families, related by marriage. Included are official documents, such as marriage and birth certificates, wills and membership cards; family trees; and correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of documents pertaining to literary historian Werner Milch, including unpublished manuscripts, articles, notes, correspondence and newspaper clippings on various literary topics. The correspondence of Wilhelm Silbergleit includes about thirty letters signed W.A. Meisel from 1839-1841. This is apparently Wolf Alois Meisel, who later became a famous rabbi in Stettin (today Szczecin, Poland) and Budapest and who was the author of several books. Also included is the old item-level inventory by Ilse Turnheim.
Dates
- 1813-1993
- Majority of material found within 1813-1939
Language of Materials
The collection is in German with some Hebrew.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Part of the 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
The Milch family was based largely in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland) during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Prominent members of the family were Ludwig Milch (1867-1928), a professor of mineralogy and geology at Greifswald and Breslau, and his son Werner Milch (1903-1950), a literary historian and professor at Breslau. He fled to Switzerland with his wife in June 1939 and then to England. He worked at various universities in London before returning to Germany as a professor of literature at the University of Marburg in 1949. The Kauffmann and Silbergleit families are relatives of the Milch family by marriage. Wilhelm Silbergleit became a successful merchant in Myslowitz (today Mysłowice, Poland).
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
The Milch Family, Breslau Collection consists of documents pertaining to the Milch, Kauffmann and Silbergleit families, including official documents, family trees, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and newspaper clippings. The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of the literary historian Werner Milch.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series:
Other Finding Aid
An item-level inventory listing a significant part of the collection is available and has been retained in series I, folder one. Items in this inventory include numbers that refer to individual items of the collection.
Separated Material
During processing the following periodicals were removed to the LBI Library: Die neue Bücherschau (Jan. 1929), Monatsblätter der städtischen Volksbüchereien (Oct. 1930); and Rhythmus der Frauen (1923). Photocopies of the title pages are included in the collection. Chronik unserer Familie (ME 707) and Die Chronik der Familie Silbergleit (ME 600) by Anna Auerbach were removed to the LBI Memoir Collection. Photographs were removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Processing Information
This collection’s arrangement is partially based on the collection’s former item-level inventory written by Ilse Turnheim in 1962; the ordering of contents in individual folders follows, when possible, the original ordering of Turnheim. The former series I, II, VI and VII are now series I. The former series III is now series II. The former series IV and V are now series III. Parts of the current series I without individual numbering were not processed by Turnheim.
- Articles
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Freund, Clara
- Genealogical tables
- Germany -- History -- 1789-1900
- Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946
- Israelitische Kranken-Verpflegungsanstalt und Beerdigungs-Gesellschaft (Breslau, Germany)
- Kauffmann family
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Marriage -- Germany
- Meisel, Wolf Alois, 1815-1867
- Milch family
- Milch, Ludwig, 1867-1928
- Milch, Werner, 1903-1950
- Mysłowice (Poland)
- Official documents
- Photographs
- Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau
- Scrapbooks
- Silbergleit family
- Silbergleit, Wilhelm
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Title
- Guide to the Papers of the Milch Family, Breslau 1813-1993 AR 2281
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Matthew Johnson and Ilse Turnheim
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Edition statement
- This version was derived from MilchFamilyBreslau.xml
Revision Statements
- May 2016:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
- August 2016:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
