Franz Rosenzweig Collection 1832-1999

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), philosopher and theologian, was an important personality in post-World War I German-Jewish intellectual life. He established the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus where he taught Jewish tradition and culture as part of real life experience, in order to bring it closer to assimilated German Jewry. He wrote several philosophical works and translated the Hebrew Bible with Martin Buber. The Franz Rosenzweig collection contains manuscripts of many of Rosenzweig’s smaller works, some of his personal items, and correspondence with his parents and with more than fifty of his friends and colleagues. The collection also contains other correspondence, and a great number of newspaper clippings, photographs, and some objects.The following names are mentioned in this collection:Agnon, Shmuel; Albrecht, M.O; Badt, Hermann; Badt-Strauss, Bertha; Baeck, Leo; Baumgartner, Walter; Binding, Rudolf; Blau, Julius; Breuer, Isaac; Buber, Martin; Carlebach, Joseph; Cohen, Hermann; Cohn, Jonas; Darmstädter, Karl D; Dienemann, Max; Ehrenberg, Amalie; Ehrenberg, Hans; Ehrenberg, Richard; Ehrenberg, Victor; Freund, Rachel; Fritzsche, Robert Arnold; Fröhlich, Karl; Glatzer, Nahum; Goitein, Fritz (later Shlomo Dov); Goldner, Martin; Goldstein, Margarete; Guttmann, Julius; Hahn, Edith; Hallo, Rudolf; Hess, Hans; Horovitz, Jacob; Huch, Ricarda; Jacob, Benno; Jacob, Ernst; Jonas, Ludwig; Kähler, Siegfried; Koch, Richard; Lörke, Oscar; Löwenthal, Ernst; Maas, Schemaja; Markowicz, Ernst; Maybaum, Ignaz; Mayer, Eugen; Meinecke, Friedrich; Mombert, Alfred; Oncken, Hermann; Paquet, Alfons; Philips, Carlo; Pinkas, Salomon; Prager, Joseph; Rinold, Joseph; Rivlin, Joseph; Rosenheim, Jacob; Rosenstock-Hüssy, Eugen; Rosenzweig, Adele; Rosenzweig, Georg; Schäffer, Albrecht; Schafft, Hermann; Schalit, Heinrich; Scheinmann, Edith (Rosenzweig), 1895—1979; Scholem, Gershom; Schwarzschild, Fritz; Seligmann, Cäsar; Seligsohn, Ernst Heinrich; Simon, Ernst; Stahl, Rudolf; Strauss, Bruno; Strauss, Eduard; Strauss, Ludwig; Susman, Margarete; Tag, Bernhard; Tramer, Hans; Trüb, H; Tuteur, Richard; Weimantel, Leo; Weizsäcker, Viktor; Wessel, David; Wittig, Joseph; Wolfskehl, Karl; Zweig, Arnold.The bulk of this collection is created from two independent donations that were mutually supplementary, and for researcher’s convenience it was only sensible to consolidate these two important collections into one. The donation of Nahum Glatzer, a professor at Vanderbilt University, contained many of the manuscripts of Franz Rosenzweig, some of the family materials, the book reviews of Franz Rosenzweig’s books, and Franz Rosenzweig’s personal items. The other gift was donated by the son of Franz Rosenzweig, and Edith Rosenzweig-Scheinmann Raphael Rosenzweig. It contained correspondence with various friends and colleagues of Franz Rosenzweig, including the correspondence with his wife as well as the originals of congratulations to Franz Rosenzweig on his 40th birthday in 1926. Both collections had files with necrologies, obituaries and commemorative articles. There are a considerable amount of materials and documents scattered throughout the holdings of the LBI Library and Archives that relate to Franz Rosenzweig, some of them as independent collections, and some as specialized collections, i.e. Art Collection and Photo Collection.Published version of birthday album in LBI Library under the title: "Franz Rosenzweig: zum 25. Dez. 1926; Glueckwuensche zum 40. Geburtstag; Congratulations to Franz Rosenzweig on his 40. birthday, 25 Dec."1926 [BM 42 R675]Franz Rosenzweig-Martin Buber Collection at LBI (AR 4219)Rosenzweig Family Collection at LBI (AR 410)Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection at LBI (AR 4584)Copy of Adele Rosenzweig: "Erinnerungen an die Kindheit Franz Rosenzweigs" also in Memoir Collection (ME 1402)The Glatzer Archives of Divinity Libary of the Vanderbilt University also holds considerable ammount of materials related to Franz Rosenzweig. http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/glatzer/default.htmThe Martin Buber Archives at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem also hold material that can be of interest to researchers.Photographs removed to Photograph Collectiondigitize