Hirschbruch Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection is primarily the result of an intensive family research of Josef Hadar (né Hirschbruch), the son of Ludwig and Elsa Hirschbruch, about the Hirschbruch family. It contains several letters between him and a professional genealogist and between him and friends and family members helping him to extend the family tree. He also collected different articles related to his family. Besides microfilm records, which were used for the genealogy, it also includes family trees of, for example, the Hirschbruch family and the Pulvermacher family.
The second part of this collection deals with the parents of Josef Hirschbruch: Elsa Graetz and Ludwig Hirschbruch. It consists of diaries, notebooks, a family register, and poetry books.
Dates
- 1862-1996
Creator
- Hadar, Josef (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German, English, and French.
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
Biographical Note
Ludwig Hirschbruch was born in 1891 in Potsdam, Germany. Elsa Graetz was also born in 1891 in Berlin, Germany and was the daughter of Jenny Pulvermacher and Isaac Graetz. Elsa and Ludwig Hirschbruch married in Potsdam in 1918 and had three children: Hermann, born in 1918; Eva Johanna, born in 1920; and Josef, born in 1923. Hermann died one year after his birth. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1933 (?).
Lesser Hirschbruch, the father of Ludwig Hirschbruch, was born in 1859 in Czersk (then part of Prussia, today in Poland) and married to Rosa Grant, who was born in Bischofsburg, East Prussia. Lesser Hirschbruch had a brother Moritz Hirschbruch. Their parents were Falk Hirschbruch and Pauline Margoninska, both from Czersk.
Extent
0.75 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection mainly consists of documents pertaining to the genealogy research of Josef Hadar, as well as personal documents of his parents Elsa Graetz and Ludwig Hirschbruch.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series:
Processing Information
This collection was reorganized and new series and folders were created.
- Alba amicorum
- Berlin (Germany)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Courtship
- Czersk (Poland)
- Diaries
- Economics
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Hadar, Josef
- Haifa (Israel)
- Hirschbruch family
- Hirschbruch, Elsa, 1891-
- Hirschbruch, Eva Johanna, 1920-
- Hirschbruch, Ludwig, 1891-
- Jewish families
- Love poetry
- Munich (Germany)
- Notebooks
- Notes (documents)
- Official documents
- Photographs
- Poems
- Poetry
- Potsdam (Germany)
- Pulvermacher family
- Verein Jüdischer Studenten (Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Guide to the Papers of the Hirschbruch Family 1862-1996 AR 25720
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Maria Jäger
- Date
- © 2017
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Edition statement
- This version was derived from Hirschbruch_Family.xml
Revision Statements
- April 10, 2018 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
