Fritz Raphael Aronstein Collection

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.