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From the partners’ collections: Goetz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand Click here to read the entire book. Description: Limited edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Goetz von Berlichingen, illustrated with woodcuts by Bruno Goldschmitt (1881-1925), a German-Jewish artist from Nuremberg.Creator: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832Creator: Goldschmitt, Bruno, 1881-1925Object Origin: Hellerau bei Dresden, 1923Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=797483Repository: Leo Baeck InstituteCall Number: r (f) PT 1952 A1…

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Genealogy in the Archives

by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History ’Excerpt from Genealogy of the Benda family (AR 10226), Leo Baeck Institute Genealogists doing research at the Center for Jewish History can access plenty of resources, from the wealth of information available at the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute to the electronic research guides and the Ask-A-Genealogist chat function.  But one research avenue…

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Out of the Archives: 1913 letterwritten on White Sulphur Springs stationeryby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Before email and before the telephone, people wrote letters.  And, as any archivist will tell you, some people wrote lots and lots of them, as they fulfilled a desire for economical daily communication when apart from friends and loved ones.  Hotels were happy to…

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