Stern Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains documentation of the Stern family, including a passport for Abram Süskind Stern; letters for the appointment of mathematician Moritz Abraham Stern as associate professor and professor at the University of Göttingen; brief obituary for historian Alfred Stern; and notes on the life of Süsskind Stern. Of particular interest is a mohel book from the ancestors of Moritz Abraham Stern in Frankfurt am Main with 55 pages of handwritten entries dating from 1698 to 1826.
Dates
- 1698-1936
Creator
- Stern family (Family)
Language of Materials
This collection is in Hebrew, German 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
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains documentation of the Stern family, including a passport for Abram Süskind Stern; letters for the appointment of mathematician Moritz Abraham Stern as associate professor and professor at the University of Göttingen; brief obituary for historian Alfred Stern; and notes on the life of Süsskind Stern. Of particular interest is a mohel book from the ancestors of Moritz Abraham Stern in Frankfurt am Main with 55 pages of handwritten entries dating from 1698 to 1826.
Other Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in the folder
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
- Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Göttingen (Germany)
- Jewish college teachers
- Jewish historians
- Jewish mathematicians
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-1800
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933
- Jews, German
- Photographs
- Stern family
- Stern, Abram Süskind, 1764–1838
- Stern, M. A. (Moriz Abraham), 1807-1894
- Stern, Süsskind, 1610-1687
- Universität Göttingen
- Zürich (Switzerland)
- Title
- Guide to the Stern Family Collection, 1698-1936 AR 752
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Sarah Glover
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- June 25, 2014 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
