Fritz Raphael Aronstein Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of materials pertaining to Fritz Rafael Aronstein.
The first folder contains manuscripts by F. R. Aronstein on Jewish history and historians, German-Jewish authors and other topics. Among the texts are "Rankes Bemerkungen zur Judenfrage" (typescript, 3 pp.; circa 1925), "Oncken: Die Wandlung des Geschichtsbildes der revolutionaeren Epochen" (manuscript, 3 pp.; circa 1935, with attached newspaper article by H. Oncken from 1934), a typescript on German-Jewish authors including a list of authors and short biographies (typescript, 11 pp.; after 1933), "Bemerkungen zur Haltung des geistigen Deutschland in den Jahren der Nazi-Herrschaft. Nach den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen von Ambassador Dodd" (typescript, 28 pp.; after 1942, with attached handwritten excerpts from E. Dodd's diary), a translation of G. E. Lessing's "Die Juden" into Hebrew (handwritten, 44 pp.; undated), "Eine Novelle von Grimmelshausen" (typescript, 10 pp.; undated), and a small Judeo-German dictionary titled "Judendeutsch (Viehaendlersprache)" (handwritten, 33 pp.; 1946).
The second folder contains materials pertaining to F. R. Aronstein's parents. A biography of his father Philipp Aronstein (1862-1942) (bound typescript 179+6 pp.; 1944, with photographs and attached family tree), and a genealogical table of his mother's, Luise Aronstein née Scholtz, family.
The third folder contains transcripts by unidentified persons including six medieval German poems and a text from 1510 pertaining to the Jews of Braunschweig. Some of the transcripts contain handwritten notes by F. R. Aronstein.
The forth folder contains various offprints by F. R. Aronstein (Hebrew) mostly on medieval historical topics, clippings, flyers on the political situation in Palestine (circa 1946-1948) with markings by Aronstein, a brochure of the "Ahdut" school (Kiryat Motskin) containing an obituary on F. R. Aronstein (Hebrew) (1952), and materials pertaining to his inheritance.
Dates
- undated, 1925-1998
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, Hebrew, English.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
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
Fritz Rafael Aronstein was born in Berlin in 1912 as son of Philipp and Luise Aronstein (who both were murdered in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt). He studied in Germany and belonged to a Zionist youth movement. He emigrated from Germany to Palestine – as it seems – only after 1938 and worked as a teacher (for some time at the middle school "Ahdut" in Kiryat Motskin). He died in 1952.
Extent
4 Folders
Abstract
This collection consists of materials pertaining to Fritz Rafael Aronstein.
Note
This collection is located at LBI Jerusalem. For information on accessing the collection please visit their website: http://www.leobaeck.org/
- Aronstein, Philipp, 1862-1942
- Authors, German
- Braunschweig (Germany)
- Christian converts from Judaism
- Courts and courtiers
- Dodd, William E. (William Edward), 1869-1940
- Genealogical tables
- German language
- German literature
- German literature -- Translations into Hebrew
- Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoph von, 1625-1676
- Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-1800
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Oncken, Hermann, 1869-1945
- Palestine
- Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886
- Title
- Guide to the Fritz Raphael Aronstein Collection, undated, 1925-1998 LBIJER 46
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2019
- 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