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Economic history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Alsace and Lorraine; Jewish Communities Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2863 / MF 509 / MF 438 / MF 220 / MF 356
Abstract

Records of the Consistoire Central des Israélites de France, as well as of the local consistories for the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin (Alsace) and Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lorraine), in Strasbourg, Colmar, Metz and Nancy, including minutes, tax-lists, lists of rabbis, cantors, and notables, censuses of Jewish communities, and correspondence.

Dates: 1809-2000

Baron de Hirsch Foundation Microforms

 Collection
Identifier: MF 73 / MF 122
Abstract

Microfilms with copies from the Hirsch Collection at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Dates: 1855-1901

Decrees Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 379
Abstract

Various decrees issued by rulers before emancipation to the Jewish communities of the towns and provinces of Alsace, Augsburg, Austria, Baden, Bamberg, Berlin, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Braunschweig, Breslau, Cassel, Cologne, Dresden, Eisenach, Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Hanover, Helmstaedt, Hessen, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Nassau, Nuremberg, Palatinate, Potsdam, Prussia, Rawicz, Rheinfels, Saxony, Schleswig, Schwerin, Vienna, Weinheim, Wolfenbuettel, and Wuerzburg. The decrees concern many aspects of life, including economic activity and taxation, settlement rights, and the regulation of the internal life of the Jewish communities.

Dates: 1614-1846

Ernst Wolf Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1113
Abstract

This collection consists of a variety of documents, including family correspondence and the papers of the Wolf family, letters of protection, patents, vital documents, school certificates, and business records, some of which originate from the Saxon court in Dresden in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dates: 1724-1960

Esriel Hildesheimer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2373 / MF 726 / MF 248
Abstract

The bulk of the collection consists of letters to Esriel Hildesheimer\ and others from various individuals, mostly rabbis in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Palestine, Eastern Europe, and the United States, and institutions, including Akiba Lehren, David Neimann, Simcha Bunem Sofer, Yeshiva Etz-Hayyim, Adolf Jellinek, and the Oesterreichisch- Ungarisch- Israelitische Gemeinde, Jerusalem. Approximately one-half of the correspondence is transcribed.

Dates: 1821-1920

Frederick Brunner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4237
Abstract

The Frederick Brunner Collection incorporates the research of the banker and LBI board chairman Frederick Brunner. Prominent subjects encompassed in this research include the Rothschild family and the history of Jews in Landau in der Pfalz. Some research on banking history and Jews as bankers may also be found here. The collection contains extensive newspaper clippings, articles, correspondence, notes, genealogical tables and family trees, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1711-1972; Majority of material found within 1930-1970

Frieda Wunderlich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3230 / MF 480
Abstract

Correspondence, including letters from Alvin Johnson and Thomas Mann.

Dates: 1919-1969

Friedmann and Rosenthal Families

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6200 / MF 769
Abstract

Family documents, genealogical tables, wedding announcements and wedding journal, map of Westprussia

Dates: [unknown]

Hans Eltzbacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3623 / MF 649
Abstract

Financial, business, and personal papers of the Eltzbacher family and related families, including correspondence, architectural plans, financial ledgers, wills and testaments, clippings, and eulogies; of particular interest is the business correspondence of Count Aloys zu Kaunitz-Rietberg with the banker Jacob Loeb Eltzbacher (1758-1825), who was based in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, along with supporting documents and records; material on the career of the lawyer Carl Eltzbacher (1854-1936), including clippings on his candidacy to the Cologne city council in 1903 and correspondence, including a letter from Konrad Adenauer.

Dates: 1781-1971

Hans Schaeffer-Eckhard Wandel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7023 / MF 511
Abstract

Material collected by Wandel for his biography of Hans Schaeffer, including recollections of Schaeffer by contemporaries and associates; clippings, reviews concerning Schaeffer and his work; photocopies of excerpts from Schaeffer's diaries and of reports and memoranda he wrote.

Dates: 1925-1967

Jacob Bernheim Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6208 / MF 462
Abstract

The Jacob Bernheim Collection contains vital records and business documents pertaining to the Jewish community in Buchau in general and specifically to the Bernheim-Dreyfuss-Maendle families, including contracts, receipts, certificates, and balance sheets. Of special interest is a bound, handwritten manuscript of the Buchau Jewish community’s family register. Also included are a genealogical table of the Bernheim-Dreyfuss-Maendle families, a signed letter from Albert Einstein, newspaper clippings and a photograph.

Dates: 1820-1981

Julie Braun-Vogelstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25034 / MF 473
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to the Braun-Vogelstein family.

Dates: 1743-1971

Landauer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 207
Abstract

This collection contains several business papers of the cotton mill M. S. Landauer in Hürben, Baden-Württemberg, and Augsburg, Bavaria, as well as several Landauer family documents and some correspondence. A large second series consists of extensive Landauer family trees.

Dates: 1819-1979

Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6001 / MF 562
Abstract

Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Dates: 1908-1973

Mannaberg-Meitner Family Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5062
Abstract

The Mannaberg-Meitner Family collection documents the nineteenth century history of the Mannaberg and Meitner families through papers, records, and annotated prayer books.

Dates: 1828-1917

Margot Gerson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6146
Abstract

This collection includes theater programs, clippings, a company history, and a few personal documents and papers pertaining to the maternal relatives of Margot Gerson née Horwitz, including the Stern family (especially the opera singer Frieda Ernesti (Lachmann-Stern), the Hess/Hessdörffer families, and the Schiff family.

Dates: 1890-2003

Materials pertaining to social, political and economic history

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3519
Abstract

This collection contains mostly printed documents pertaining to the social, political and economic history in Danzig, Bavaria, Alsace and Westphalia.

Dates: 1696-1858

Miriam Beer Hofmann Lens Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7258 / MF 492
Abstract

Originals and transcriptions of correspondence between Richard and Paula Beer-Hofmann, 1896-1935, on a variety of topics, including family matters, current events, and Richard's professional activities as playwright and theatrical producer; correspondence of other members of the Beer-Hofmann family with each other and other individuals, including Kurt Blumenfeld, Walter Grossman, Antoinette von Kahler, and Olga Schnitzler; correspondence of members of the Beer and Hofmann families in the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1818-1985

Moritz von Cohn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1120 / AR 1120 / MF 527 / MF 172
Abstract

Financial and personal correspondence of Cohn, along with supporting documents, including letters from German nobles and court officials.

Dates: 1810-1902

Toni and Gustav Stolper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7212 / MF 481
Abstract

The Toni Stolper and Gustav Stolper Collection attests to the Stolpers' rich political and intellectual work in Germany and the United States. The materials provide an intimate account of Toni Stolper's life and career. In many respects, they complement the papers of her husband Gustav Stolper, which are located at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, Germany.

Dates: 1866-1990

Toni Oelsner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3970
Abstract

The bulk of this collection consists of typescripts, research articles and notes as well as newspaper articles which the researcher and historian Toni Oelsner wrote on the subject of Jews in medieval Germany. Her research deals with anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic stereotypes, as they appeared in the Christian culture of southern Germany. In particular Oelsner analyzed economic processes and their impact on and creating of anti-Semitic harassment and persecution against Jewish communities in southern Germany. Research works that drew public attention relate to anti-Judaic violent persecutions in Endingen in the 1460s.

Dates: 1911-1979; Majority of material found within 1960-1979

Valentin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3818 / MF 570
Abstract

Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.

Dates: 1677-2002

Veit-Simon Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4015
Abstract

This collection contains papers of several generations of the Veit and Simon families, including passports, letters of protection, contracts, wills, official and financial documents, and a few photographs. Some of the prominent individuals featured in this collection include Moses Mendelssohn, Dorothea Schlegel, and Meyer Amschel Rothschild.

Dates: 1763-1965

Wertheimer Family, Munich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5585 / MF 934
Abstract

Original documents for family members, including passports, birth, death, marriage certificates and school reports, visas, and testaments (1856-1939). Business papers for the firm Holl & Co., Munich (Metallen und Bergwerksproduktion, 1931), as well as notarized documents referring to real estate (Grundbuch, 1917-1935).

Dates: 1856-1935