Michael Family Collection

This collection consists of various materials pertaining to the Michael family in particular to Jacob Joseph Michael's (1882- ) efforts to write a family history covering the years 1600 to 1951.

Series I contains the correspondence of Jacob Joseph Michael with members of various branches of the Michael family collecting information for his family research (folder 1 and 2), private family correspondence (partly with photographs from Palestine during the 1950s) and manuscripts (including songs and poems partly with children's drawings) (folder 3), a family history including a long autobiographical section by Moshe Yosef Mikha'el (1887- ) (bound typescript, 23 pages, Hebrew) (folder 4), various photographs of gravestones, and clippings mostly about members of the Michael and Mainz family, in particular about the painter Max Michael (1823-1891) (folders 5 and 6).

Series II contains various drafts and notes by Jacob Joseph Michael in preparation for his family history based on a text by Rabbi Eduard Duckesz (1868-1944) from Hamburg-Altona ("Geschichte der Familie Michael", 1920). It mostly consists of short biographies of single members of the Michael family. A special focus lies on the family branches Hess (originally from Luebeck) and Mainz (originally from Frankfurt a. M.).