Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Edition of Luther's version of the Bible, Old and New Testament, two volumes in one, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. It is inscribed with a name and a verse from Isaiah.
- Title
- Die Bibel oder die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments : nach der deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers.
- Alternate Title
- Bible. German. Luther. 1889.
- Date
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publication:
1889
- Geography
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publication:
Berlin (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert and C. Jeanne Rosenwald
- Contributor
-
Author:
Martin Luther
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
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Christianity--Books (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Book ; Old and New Testament, 2 v. in 1 ; 804 p, 264 p., [6] p. : maps (col.) ; 20 cm. [7.750 x 5.000 x 1.750 in.]
front flyleaf, inscribed verse; facing page is title page: Die Bibel / oder die ganze / Heilige Schrift / des / Alten und Neuen Testaments, / nach der deutschen Übersetzung / Dr. Martin Luthers. / Berlin, Frankfurt a. M., Koln a. Rh. / Britische und Auslandische Bibelgesellschaft. / 1889. / Betit 8vo. / Bar.=St. end page 1st section: / 804 ;
Table of contents: Berzeichnitz aller Bücher des Alten und Neuen Testaments. / I. Bücher des Alten Testaments., Die Propheten. / II. Bücher des Neuen Testaments.
2nd title page: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi, nach der Deutschen Uebersekung Dr. Martin Luthers. Berlin, Frankfurt a. M., Koln a Rh. Britische und Auslandische Bibelgesellschaft. 1889.
end, 2nd section Ende des neuen Testaments. / Drud von Trowitzsch und Sohn in Berlin.
Embossed cover with foliage pattern; spine has gilt text, not legible.
Knotted gold ribbon with 3 strands found inside book - Materials
- overall : paper, ink
- Inscription
- front, flyleaf, top page, cursive, black ink : Marie Windstofser. / Fürchte Dich nicht, ich habe / dich erlöset, ich habe Dich / bei Deinem Namen ge= / rufen, Du bist mein. / Tes. 43. I. [Do not fear, for I have redeemed you, and I called by your name, you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1]
back, flyleaf : H Rosenwald Bunde 1867
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Bible. Bible. German--Versions--Luther.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Bible was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Robert and C. Jeanne Rosenwald.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:28
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn13582
Also in Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection
The collection consists of a Bible, with the Old and New Testament in one volume, and four Jewish prayer books relating to the experiences of the Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families in Germany before the Holocaust.
Date: approximately 1944
Book
Object
Edition of Genesis, the First book of Moses, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. The first of five books of Moses with Ashkenazi translation, published in 1852, in London, England, by Johanan Christian Reichardt, a Christian missionary who worked to convert Jews to Christianity. It was signed by Hermann Rosenwald in 1863, and has two pages inscribed with Hebrew text and Yiddish annotations. The inscriptions are a list of each parsha, Bible section, read on the major and minor holidays, as well as fast days. It begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with the instruction that on all holidays, except the High Holidays, the maftir, the last person called to read from the Torah, must read Parashat Pinchas, Numbers 25:10-30:1. Also included is the name Yitzhak son of Baruch. Hermann’s Hebrew name was likely Yitzchak, and his father Benedix’s (1800-1840) Baruch.
Prayer book
Object
Machzor, a Jewish High Holiday prayer book, for the New Year saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States. It was signed by Jeanette David Rosenwald (1836 – 1902) in 1861, the same year she married Hermann Rosenwald (1832-1899) in Bunde, Germany. On the front and back flyleaves, is a handwritten list of Hermann and Jeanette’s 12 children, their Hebrew birthdates, Hebrew names, and death dates for those that did not live to adulthood. Also included are the English calendar dates where they differ from the Hebrew date because the child was born after sunset. Seven children survived childhood and had families of their own: Bendix, Thekla, Ida, Laura, Sophie, Gustav, and Paul. Bendix and Laura died before the Holocaust, but members of their families and those of their 5 living siblings immigrated to the United States as part of the rescue effort of their American Rosenwald relatives. A letter on blue paper, "für Jeanette Rosenwald, 13 Oktober 1872, HR" was found in the book.
Prayer book
Object
Machzor, Jewish High Holiday prayer book, saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States.
Prayer book
Object
Sapha Berurah [plain language] Jewish prayer book saved by the Rosenwald family who fled Nazi Germany for the United States.
