In 1906, Edmund Edel (1863–1934), a popular poster artist and caricaturist in Berlin, made his debut as a writer with his satire Berlin W. A Few Chapters from the Surface [Berlin W. Ein Paar Kapitel von der Oberfläche]. The book sheds light on the new affluent social class that settled in the west of ... Show Source >

Got fun nekome (The God of Vengeance; 1907) is a Yiddish language play by Scholem Asch. The action takes place in the present time (1907) in one large town of a Russian province. It can be read as part of a trilogy depicting the “underworld” together with Motke ganef (Motke Thief; 1917), and Der toyter ... Show Source >

The diary of Jewish doctor and educator Siegfried Lehmann is kept in the archives of the children's and youth village Ben Schemen in Israel, which he founded. It is a thread-bound notebook in DIN A5 format with a semi-rigid black cover and blank pages. The first pages of the notebook, which were apparently ... Show Source >

On October 8, 1927, a commentary appeared in the popular Viennese sports magazine Illustriertes Sportblatt that dealt with the sporting developments in Viennese football. The article is exemplary for the construction of a specific cultural topography of the city, which in interwar Vienna was defined ... Show Source >

In 1928, the Vienna publishing house “Arbeit und Wirtschaft” published a social science study on the “living and working conditions of home workers in Vienna” on behalf of the Chamber of Laborers. It was written by the activist, editor, sociologist and social democrat Käthe Leichter (born Käthe Marianne ... Show Source >

On November 20,1930, the 25-year-old Martin Cohen (1905-1962), son of a rabbi from a Sephardic family in Altona, published his “Ramble through the large German congregations of Hamburg [Streifzug durch die deutschen Großgemeinden von Hamburg]”. The article appeared in the Israelitisches Familienblatt ... Show Source >

In his novel “A tog in Regensburg”, first published in 1933 by Malino Verlag in New York, the Yiddish-language writer Joseph Opatoshu describes a wedding between a Jewish woman from Regensburg and a Jewish man from Worms in Regensburg. The story is set in 1519, which in real history is the year of the ... Show Source >

The three excerpts presented here are taken from the first issue of the school newspaper of the Jüdisches Landschulheim Herrlingen  Jewish rural boarding school Herrlingen, Herrlinger Leben: Blätter des jüd. Landschulheims Herrlingen bei Ulm a. D. The Landschulheim had originally been established in ... Show Source >

The author of the text is the architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) from Allenstein, East Prussia. He emigrated from Germany in March 1933. In the same year, he founded new offices in London and in 1935 in Jerusalem, between which he travelled. The short text (18.5 p.) published by Jerusalem Press ... Show Source >

This is an excerpt from the 1961 novel Jeruzalem van het Westen Jerusalem of the West by the Dutch Jewish writer Siegfried Emanuel van Praag (1899–2002). It shows one of the characters, a Jewish ‘Amsterdammer' who had made aliyah long before the Shoah, posthumously addressing the protagonist, Van Praag´s ... Show Source >

“Utopia” is a short story whose author, place and year of publication are unknown. The story was probably first printed in 1925, presumably in German. It was used to promote Siegfried Lehmann´s plan to establish an agricultural youth settlement in Palestine. With its educational description of the upbringing ... Show Source >