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Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers

Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0163 | RG Number: RG-10.238

The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, a nineteen-volume set of the Heidelberg Talmud, audio recordings, and a photograph album. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.

Date
inclusive:  1909-1995
Language
German
English
Yiddish
Hebrew
Extent
2 oversize folders
6 boxes
1 oversize box
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Norbert and Irene Weinberg

About This Document

Document Creator
Wilhelm Weinberg
Biography
Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg (1901-1976) was born in Dolina (Galicia, now Ukraine) to Samuel and Binah Weinberg. The family fled to Vienna at the outbreak of World War I. In 1935, Weinberg was ordained as rabbi in Berlin. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 and fled to Austria upon his release. After the Anschluss, he escaped to Czechoslovakia and in 1941 to Frunze (Kirghiz SSR). He returned to Austria in 1947 and organized the Jüdische Volksuniversität for displaced persons near Salzburg. From 1948 to 1951 he served as the Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main and of the State of Hesse in Germany. In 1952, he moved to the United States, and served as a rabbi in New York, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
System of Arrangement
The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers are arranged as seven series: I. Biographical materials, 1941-1985, II. Correspondence, 1941-1986, III. Printed materials, 1909-1995. IV. Records relating to legal cases, 1947-1986, V. Writings, 1928-1990s, VI. Audio material, approximately 1948-1985, VII. Photograph album

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Rabbi Norbert Weinberg and Mrs. Irene Weinberg, Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg’s son and widow, donated the Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1999.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
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The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, a nineteen-volume set of the Heidelberg Talmud, audio recordings, and a photograph album. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.

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