Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.