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Subject Guide: Education

Realschule mit Lyzeum IRG : School in Frankfurt am Main, undated (LBI, F 2980)

Exterior of school in Germany

Archival Highlights

Albert F. Hirsch collection (AR 1187) [Digitized]

This collection contains documents related to Albert Friedrich Hirsch, his family and the Philanthropin School in Frankfurt am Main, at which Hirsch was headmaster. Prominent topics are emigration and the school's fate under the Nazi regime as well as the attempts of its former pupils and faculty to stay in touch after 1945. The papers in this collection include some original material from the late 19th century through World War I and the "Third Reich" as well as several typescripts from the 1950s and 1960s that are related to a memorial book, which was eventually published in 1964.

Educational Institutions Collection (AR 224) [Digitized]

The collection consists of copied materials pertaining to institutes of higher Jewish learning.

Hans Epstein collection (AR 6362) [Digitized]

Papers of Hans Epstein (1905-1960), educator and historian. The collection consists of documents relating to Epstein's teaching activities during Nazi rule in Germany, and in New York during and after the Second World War; correspondence from before the emigration with individuals and organizations (including with Martin Buber, and Adolf Leschnitzer of the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden); personal and business correspondence relating to immigration in 1938 and Epstein's work in New York; posters and postcards.

Jewish Institutions of Adult Education in Berlin - Collection of Lectures (LBIJER 492) [Digitized]

The collection holds mostly manuscripts of lectures given primarily at institutions of Jewish adult education. They were given by various scholars, lecturing on Judaism; Jewish history; Jewish philosophy; and other topics pertaining to Jewish culture.

Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar Breslau (AR 2044) [Digitized]

Various materials from and about the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, including manuscripts, publications and photographs.

Landschulheim Herrlingen collection (LBIJER 13) [Digitized]

This collection contains various materials pertaining to the Jewish boarding school ("Landschulheim Herrlingen").

Marks-Haindorfsche Stiftung (AR 3848) [Digitized]

The Marks-Haindorfsche Stiftung was founded in order to advance the education of Jewish elementary school teachers, as well as for the advancement of trades and arts among Jews. This collection contains annual reports from Marks-Haindorfsche Stiftung.

Library Highlights

Education in the Third Reich; a study of race and history in Nazi textbooks / by Gilmer W. Blackburn. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Education towards spiritual resistance: the Jewish Landschulheim Herrlingen, 1933 to 1939 / by Lucie Schachne and translated from German by Martin M. Goldenberg. of Examples of Educational Methods: History of Individual Institutions, v. 3. Frankfurt am Main: dipa Verlag, 1988.

Jewish education and society in the High Middle Ages / by Ephraim Kanarfogel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.

Jewish vocational education; history and appraisal of training in Europe. of Jewish Social Research Series / by Bernard D. Weinryb. New York: J. T. S. P. Univ. Press, 1948.

On Judaism and humanism in education / by Uriel Tal. Jerusalem, 1979.

Religious education as expressed in the Hasidic stories of Martin Buber. of In Religious Education, v. 72, Jan.-Feb. 1977 / by Hayim Gordon. New Haven: Religious Education Association, 1977.

The education of the Jewish child in Nazi Germany; the law and its execution / by Joseph Walk. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1975.