As early as the end of the 1870s, the rabbi and educator Dr. Adolf Kurrein established the first Jewish school library in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Linz. Since then he…
Three books bearing the stamp of this institution have so far been found in the Heidelberg holdings. We were able to restitute a copy to today’s Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria in…
(1857 Güssing - 1942 Theresienstadt) On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of service, Dr. Ignaz Ziegler, the long-time Rabbi of Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad, published the paper 'Dokumente zur…
(Jaraczewo 1875 - Auschwitz 1943) "Jiskor! Buch der Erinnerung" ["Yizkor! - book of commemoration"] is the title of a slim volume that was forgotten immediately after it was inventoried in our…
(Prague 1872 - Treblinka 1942) "The Jews are much closer to freedom than the German. They are slaves, they will break their chains one day, and then they will be free. The German, however, is…
(Prague 1867 - Theresienstadt 1944) In the last volume of the yearbook Ha-Asif - "The Harvest" in Hebrew, published in Warsaw by Nahum Sokolov - there are several references that allow us to…
(1893 Fischhausen - 1944 Auschwitz) The book estate of Rabbi Emil Davidovič, which is now located in Heidelberg’s HfJS, consists to a large extent of Nazi loot, which had been collected from…
