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 32, No. 47 as a report in a series published on the various large congregations in Germany in 1930 and 1931  (cf. Studemund-Halévy/Menny 2013, p. 28). The report, printed in three columns and filling just under a page, describes important Jewish buildings and places in the Hanseatic city such as synagogues, prayer rooms, schools, residential homes and lodges in Hamburg's Neustadt district, St. Pauli, the harbor area and the Grindel neighborhood, and discusses their historical and contemporary features. The districts of Altona, Wandsbek and Harburg, which were added under the National Socialists' Greater Hamburg Act of 1937, are not mentioned. The Israelitische Familienblatt was aimed at a Jewish readership, to whom Cohen wanted to convey aspects of Hamburg's Jewish city history with his article.