Ismar Elbogen Collection
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of Ismar Elbogen with individuals, including Elias Auerbach, Julius Bab, Leo Baeck, Salo Baron, Markus Brann, Martin Buber, Umberto Cassuto, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Geiger, Robert Raphael Geis, Louis Ginzburg, Ignaz Goldziher, Max Gruenewald, Moritz Güdemann, Julius Guttmann, Bernhard Kahn, Mordechai Kaplan, Adolf Leschnitzer, Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore, Adolph Oko, Paula Ollendorf, Bertha Pappenheim, Felix Perles, Koppel Pinson, Peter Reinhold, Julius Rosenwald, Cecil Roth, Caesar Seligmann, Selma Stern-Taeubler, Henrietta Szold, Hermann Vogelstein, and Stephen Wise.
Personal papers, diary of a trip to the United States in 1922-1923, photos of Elbogen and others, including the staff of the Hochschule, and clippings by and about him.
Lectures, research notes, and manuscripts, largely on Jewish history and liturgy; annotated copy of Elbogen, Der juedische Gottesdienst, for a revised edition.
Papers of Regina Elbogen nee Klemperer, including family papers, vital documents, and reminiscences of her youth; papers of the Elbogen's son, Herman Elbin; and genealogy of the Klemperer family.
Decree by King Friedrich I of Prussia in 1703 censoring a section of the Aleinu prayer.
The following individuals and organizations are mentioned in this collection: Adler, Cyrus ; Auerbach, Elias ; Bab, Julius ; Baeck, Leo ; Baer, Fritz ; Ball-Kaduri, K. J. ; Baron, Joseph ; Baron, Salo ; Baumstark, A ; Bernay, Arnold ; Berolzheimer, Michael ; Bosse, Ehrhard ; Brand, Aron ; Brann, Markus ; Breger, Marcus ; Buber, Martin ; Cahnmann, Werner ; Cassuto, Umberto ; Chajes, A ; Davidson, Israel ; Elbin, Herman ; Epstein, Mortimer ; Fackenheim, Emil ; Feuchtwanger, Ludwig ; Finkelstein, Louis ; Fischel, Heinz ; Freudenthal, Max ; Freund, Ismar ; Gaertner, E. ; Geiger, Ludwig ; Geis, Robert Raphael ; Ginzburg, Louis ; Glasenapp, Helmuth ; Glatzer, Nahum ; Goldziher, Ignaz ; Grayzel, Solomon ; Greenberg, Simon ; Gruenewald, Max ; Guedemann, Moritz ; Guggenheim, Siegfried ; Gunkel, Herman ; Guttmann, Jakob ; Guttmann, Julius ; Heerstatt, Otto ; Herford, Travers ; Herstatt, Otto ; Hirschberg, Alfred ; Israelitische Gartenbauschule, Ahlen ; Jacob, Ernst ; Jacobus, Adolf ; Joel, Karl ; Joseph, Lotte ; Juedische Mittelpartei ; Juedisches Genesungsheim Berlin ; Kahn, Bernhard, 1876-1955 ; Kaplan, Mordechai ; Karger, Alfred ; Kaufmann, David ; Klemperer family ; Klemperer, Otto ; Kohut, George Alexander ; Kraus, Vlastimil ; Landmann, Isaac ; Lauterbach, Jacob ; Lazaron, Morris ; Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums ; Leschnitzer, Adolf ; Levy, Felix ; Levy, Louis ; Lewin, Alex ; Liebeschuetz, Hans ; Loehr, Max ; Loew, Immanuel ; Loewe, Heinrich ; Loewe, Herbert ; Loewenberg, Hans ; Ludwig, Emil ; Mamelsdorf, Edward ; Marx, Alexander ; Montagu, Lily ; Montefiore, Claude ; Moore, George ; Neuman, Alexander ; Neuman, Otto ; Oko, Adolph ; Ollendorf, Paula ; Ormann, Gustav ; Pallenberg, Max ; Pappenheim, Bertha ; Perles, Felix ; Pinson, Koppel ; Poper, Max ; Reinhold, Peter ; Rosenbloom, Charles ; Rosenthal, Erwin ; Rosenwald, Julius ; Roth, Cecil ; Salzberger, Georg ; Scheyer, Ernst ; Seligmann, Caesar ; Shuster, Zacharias ; Simon, Veit ; Spanier, Arthur ; Spitz, Erich ; Sterling, Eleonore ; Stern-Taeubler, Selma ; Szold, Henrietta ; Taeubler, Eugen ; Tedesco, Mario ; Ullendorff, Eduard ; Vogelstein, Hermann ; Vogelstein, Max ; Wassermann, Oscar ; Watters, Gertrude ; Wise, Stephen.
Dates
- 1703, 1809, 1842-1999
Creator
- Elbogen, Ismar, 1874-1943 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, English, Hebrew, Italian, Czech and German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers, except MF 63 is closed at this time.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Collection is microfilmed (MF 515).
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
Born in Schildberg (now Ostrzeszow, Poland) on September 1, 1874, Elbogen studied at the University of Breslau and the Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1898 and rabbinical ordination the following year. He taught at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano, Florence, from 1899 to 1902 and at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin from 1902 to 1938, when he emigrated to the United States. He died in New York City on August 1, 1943.
Extent
5 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 1 oversized box, parts of five microfilm reels)
Abstract
Correspondence of Ismar Elbogen with individuals, including Elias Auerbach, Julius Bab, Leo Baeck, Salo Baron, Markus Brann, Martin Buber, Umberto Cassuto, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Geiger, Robert Raphael Geis, Louis Ginzburg, Ignaz Goldziher, Max Gruenewald, Moritz Güdemann, Julius Guttmann, Bernhard Kahn, Mordechai Kaplan, Adolf Leschnitzer, Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore, Adolph Oko, Paula Ollendorf, Bertha Pappenheim, Felix Perles, Koppel Pinson, Peter Reinhold, Julius Rosenwald, Cecil Roth, Caesar Seligmann, Selma Stern-Taeubler, Henrietta Szold, Hermann Vogelstein, and Stephen Wise.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 15 reels of microfilm (MF 515).
- Reel 1: 1/1-1/21
- Reel 2: 1/22-1/34
- Reel 3: 1/35-2/2
- Reel 4: 2/3-2/20
- Reel 5: 3/1-3/7
- Reel 6: 3/8-3/21
- Reel 7: 3/22-3/39
- Reel 8: 3/40-4/6
- Reel 9: 4/7-4/21
- Reel 10: 4/22-4/27
- Reel 11: 4/28-4/32
- Reel 12: 4/33-5/2
- Reel 13: 5/3-5/8
- Reel 14: 5/9-5/12
- Reel 15: 5/13-OS 60
Existence and Location of Copies
Materials are also available on the following microfilm reels: MF 63, MF 167, MF 172, MF 187, MF 212
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- College teachers
- Collegio rabbinico italiano
- Decrees
- Diaries
- Education, Higher
- Elbogen, Ismar, 1874-1943
- Frederick, King of Prussia, I, 1657-1713
- Friendship
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Historians
- Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin, Germany)
- Italy
- Jewish community centers
- Jews -- Education
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933
- Judaism
- Judaism -- Liturgy
- Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany)
- Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin, Germany)
- Literature
- Marriage
- Nazi Germany -- Jewish communal and cultural life
- Ostrzeszów (Poland)
- Palestine
- Poems
- Prayers
- Rabbis
- Restitution
- Sermons
- Synagogues
- Tangermünde (Germany)
- Theologians
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
- Uniwersytet Wrocławski
- Vital statistics records
- Voyages and travels
- Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement)
- Title
- Guide to the Ismar Elbogen Collection, 1703, 1809, 1842-1999 AR 64 / MF 515
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- December 10, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository