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Stuttgart (Germany)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Buttenhausen Jewish community collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2057
Abstract

The bulk of the collection deals with a 1787 letter of protection for 25 Jewish families, allowing them to settle in Buttenhausen. Also included is material, documenting Jewish history in and around Buttenhausen; material, documenting the persecution of Jews, 1933-1945; and clippings about the dedication of various memorials, 1961-2000.

Dates: 1829, 1919-2000

Deborah Hertz research collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5393
Abstract

Various archival materials from archives in Hesse, Nuremberg, Trier, Oldenburg, Regensburg, Maarburg, Mecklenburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Luebeck, pertaining mainly to the history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Germany. The materials were collected by Deborah Hertz for her research on the book “How Jews Became Germans”.

Dates: 1216-1943

Deportations to Riga Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25096
Abstract

This collection comprises deportation lists from several German cities to Riga.

Dates: 1941-1942

Ernst Wertheimer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3356
Abstract

This collection contains vital and personal documents, photographs, clippings, and correspondence pertaining to the Wertheimer and Gutmann families.

Dates: 1857-1937

Gertrude E. Gutman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10078
Abstract

This collection contains family and business papers pertaining to the ancestors of Gertrude Gutman in the Levi, Gutmann, and Adler families of Württemberg, who were involved in the watchmaking and textile trades.

Dates: 1816-1938

Heinrich Sontheim Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 520
Abstract

The Heinrich Sontheim Collection contains mostly correspondence and some personal documents of the tenor Heinrich Sontheim.

Dates: 1840-1965; Majority of material found within 1840-1912

Henry Herzog Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10518 / MF 946
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials pertaining to Ruth and Henry H. Herzog's families

Dates: 1762-1938

Irene Shomberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6256
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of materials documenting Ernst Shomberg's education and career as a physician both in Germany and in New York after emigration. There are a also a few items pertaining to his wife's family and some genealogical materials.

Dates: 1909-1994

Jacob Bernays - Hans Bach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7168 / MF 605
Abstract

Correspondence and other documents collected and written by Hans Bach for the publication of his book about Jacob Bernays and the history of German Jewish intellectual life in the 19th century. Also included are autographs pertaining to Jacob Bernays and materials about his father, Rabbi Chacham Isaac Bernays.

Dates: 1840-1937

Leopold Levi Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7041
Abstract

Leopold Levi was a merchant in Stuttgart. Most of the material in this collection gives information on his activities for Jewish organizations and the Jewish Community in Wuerttemberg. Levi was a member of the Oberrat der Israelitischen Religionsgemeinschaft Wuerttembergs (from 1919 to 1940) and of the Israelitisches Gemeindevorsteheramt. He also was an Oberkirchenvorsteher in the Oberkirchenbehoerde and he was active in the Chewra Kadischa. Furthermore he assisted the Juedische Nothilfe. During the years 1941-1943 he succeeded to immigrate to the United States. He died in 1968 in New York.

Dates: 1833-1986; Majority of material found within 1933-1952

Max Meyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25644
Abstract

The collection comprises documents related to the Meyer family and Jewish life in Württemberg as well as newspaper clippings from the 20th century. Mostly it features materials about Jewish life in Southern Germany from the 18th century to the 19th century. Moreover, personal notes from Max Meyer on religious topics, Festschriften and items related to the Jewish graveyard in Stuttgart-Hoppenlau are part of the collection.

Dates: 1791-1937

Neuburger-Hessberg Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25664
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, official documents and other archival materials pertaining to the extended family of Erwin Neuburger.

Dates: 1879–1981

Otto Hirsch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 234 / MF 640
Abstract

1/4: Copies of protocolls of exams and other documents pertaining to Jewish religious education in Hall (1925-1931), signed among others by Louis and Otto Hirsch.

Dates: 1885-2000

Ring, Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11869
Abstract

This collection contains two journals handwritten by members of the youth group Ring, Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend (BDJJ) between 1934 and 1936. The contents include descriptions of group activities, hikes, trips, singing songs, etc. One of journals was written by girls aged 9 - 12, the Ameisen (ants), and the other one by girls 14 - 16, the Hummeln (bees). Both names were chosen because of the cooperative organizations of these insects.

Dates: 1934-1937

Rudolph Bach Family Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11278
Abstract

This collection contains a comprehensive and very well annoted historical collection of documents of the Bach and Mayer family from Stuttgart and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. Vital documents reflecting the families' professions and essential information such as family trees, birth, marriage, and death certificates, and wills are complemented by photographs, correspondence and memoirs. Most original German documents from the 19th century are translated into English, and some are annotated with complementary information from family memory.

Dates: 1734-2002

Steiner Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25863
Abstract

The Steiner Family Collection tells the story of the physician Hans Steiner (né Levi), his wife Brigitte (née Marquard), their children Nicholas and Ursula, and related family members. Most prominent in this collection are the family members' memoirs. The collection also holds family documents, including educational and official documents, family correspondence, family photographs, and some family trees.

Dates: 1884-2018; Majority of material found within 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1998-2018

Wolf and Landauer Families Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6412
Abstract

This collection contains family trees of Wolf and Landauer families, as well as various address books and customer lists dating to the turn of the twentieth century, pertaining to the textile firm W. Wolf & Söhne, active both in Stuttgart and in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1895-1931