Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection

Identifier: irn547026
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn547026

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Robert and C. Jeanne Rosenwald.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Bible, with the Old and New Testament in one volume, and four Jewish prayer books relating to the experiences of the Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families in Germany before the Holocaust.

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Bible. German. Luther. 1889. Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13582
- English
- 1889
- Updated 7 months ago
Edition of Luther's version of the Bible, Old and New Testament, two volumes in one, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. It is inscribed with a name and a verse from Isaiah.
DAS ERSTE BUCH MOSE Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn547027
- English
- 1852
- Updated 7 months ago
Edition of Genesis, the First book of Moses, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. The first of five books of Moses with Ashkenazi translation, published in 1852, in London, England, by Johanan Christian Reichardt, a Christian missionary who worked to convert Jews to Christianity. It was signed by Hermann Rosenwald in 1863, and has two pages inscribed with Hebrew text and Yiddish annotations. The inscriptions are a list of each parsha, Bible section, read on the major and minor holidays, as well as fast days. It begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with th...
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn547028
- English
- 1856
- Updated 7 months ago
Machzor, a Jewish High Holiday prayer book, for the New Year saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. It was signed by Jeanette David Rosenwald (1836 – 1902) in 1861, the same year she married Hermann Rosenwald (1832-1899) in Bunde, Germany. On the front and back flyleaves, is a handwritten list of Hermann and Jeanette’s 12 children, their Hebrew birthdates, Hebrew names, and death dates for those that did not live to adulthood. Also included are the English calendar dates where they differ from the Hebrew date because the child was born after sunset. Seven...
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn547029
- English
- 1864
- Updated 7 months ago
Machzor, Jewish High Holiday prayer book, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn547030
- English
- 1858
- Updated 7 months ago
Sapha Berurah [plain language] Jewish prayer book saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States.

Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection

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Bible. German. Luther. 1889. Book

DAS ERSTE BUCH MOSE Book

Prayer book

Prayer book

Prayer book