Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg collection

Overview

Collection Summary

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.

Provenance

Rabbi Norbert Weinberg and Mrs. Irene Weinberg, Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg’s son and widow, donated the Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1999.