Breslau (Wroclaw)
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Die Stamm-Numeranten - A 5 -part
article on the most affluent Jewish families in Breslau in 1791, which
appeared in the Jewish Community's newspaper in 1924 and 1925. Translated
by Irene Newhouse
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Now available as a Jewishgen database: a marriage
register from the years 1789-1818. Transcribed and
translated by Irene Newhouse, posted with permission of the Leo Baeck Institute
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A portion of the Edict of 1790.
It hasn't generally been known that the Jews of Breslau were required to
assume surnames by this edict, well in advance of the Edict of 1812, which
required it for all Jews in Prussia. Thanks to Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim.
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Famous people with Breslau connections
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Nobelists with Breslau connections
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Mystery pictures
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David Lewin's family has this portrait of Malka Henschel.
Does anyone know who she is?
Links to pictures of Breslau:
A page with several postcards; note the
Synagogue at the lower left.
This site has a huge table of postcards
from many localities in Silesia & takes a long time to load.
Other interesting links with Breslau connections:
The restoration
of a 16th century tomb of one of the city bigwigs of his day
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