David Kaufmann Collection 1875-1989

The collection contains articles written by David Kaufmann on the rabbi and author Zacharias Frankel and Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam); correspondence regarding the David Kaufmann collection in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and Kaufmann family tree, from 1819 to the late 20th century, including birth and death dates and locations.Kalman Schlesinger (p)Gertrud BuchlerDavid Kaufmann was a prominent representative of ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’ and principal of the Budapest Jewish Theological Seminary. His collection of well over 500 precious manuscripts was moved after his death to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Rabbi Kaufmann was born 1852 in Kojetin (Moravia) and died 1899 in Karlsbad.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize