Prayers for the Feast of Weeks Prayer book, Gebete fur das Wochenfest, owned by Sara Thalheim Rosenthal
Archival History
The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Ronald Glass and Marion Glass Hirschmann, the children of Inge Glass.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Ronald Glass and Marion Hirschmann
Scope and Content
Prayer book, Prayers for the Feast Weeks, owned by Sara Thalheim Rosenthal and brought to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) by her son, Bernhard Rosenthal, when his family immigrated there in the late 1930s. The book was edited by W. Heidenheim, and published by M. Lehrberger in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1891. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents, a cookbook, and Hebrew and German prayer books: a siddur, and three haggadot.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
A German and Hebrew-language prayer book, a new and improved, one volume edition. The original owner's name is handwritten on the inside of the front cover.
front cover, inside, handwritten : Sara Rosenthal, Thalheim
Corporate Bodies
- Wizo
Subjects
- South Africa
- Jewish refugees.
- Zimbabwe
- Emigration and immigration.
- Limburg (Germany : Landkreis)
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials