Jacobi Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains a wide range of personal and family papers of the Jacobi, Kornik, and Mosse families of Posen and Berlin, as well as extensive family trees for the Jacobi and Wolff families.
The first folder contains a variety of papers spanning approximately 100 years concerning various members of the Jacobi family. Included are naturalization papers for Benjamin Kornik (Posen, 1836 and 1839), family and personal papers for individuals in the Jacobi and Mosse families, and a few of Paul Jacobi's papers, including a certificate of military service and a notification of forced retirement (October 1933.)
In the second folder are various family trees authored and compiled by Paul Jacobi in Berlin during the 1930s. The trees are handwritten and focus on the Jacobi, Silberberg, and Wolff families with entries from . By far the largest of the trees is the Wolff family tree, which traces the family line to Gabriel Wolff of Unruhstadt.
Dates
- 1836-circa 1935
Creator
- Jacobi, Paul, 1890- (Person)
- Jacobi family (Family)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
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
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
This collection contains a wide range of personal and family papers of the Jacobi, Kornik, and Mosse families of Posen and Berlin, as well as extensive family trees for the Jacobi and Wolff families.
Other Finding Aid
The original German language inventory is available in folder 1.
Separated Material
Portrait photographs of Marcus Mosse and Ulrike (née Wolff) Mosse have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection. To see photographs click here.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Correspondence
- Genealogical tables
- Jacobi family
- Jacobi, Louis, 1831-
- Jewish lawyers
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Berlin
- Kornik, Benjamin
- Legal documents
- Mosse, Ulrike, 1813-1888
- Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Wolff family
- Wolff, Gabriel
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish
- Title
- Guide to the Jacobi Family Collection, 1836-circa 1935 AR 116
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Julie Dawson
- Date
- © 2012
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- July 05, 2012 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
