Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933.

Childhood in Kiel and Bremen; father's work as teacher and cantor; Jewish preparatory school in Burgpreppach (Bavaria) and teachers' seminary in Hanover; antisemitism in Wilhelminian era; German patriotism of author; cantor in orthodox Boerneplatz synagogue in Frankfurt am Main; 1921-1938 teacher at the Philantropin; Revolution of 1918-1919 and time of inflation; Nazi takeover and boycott of 1st April 1933; prohibition of ritual slaughter; Jewish communal life after 1933; confrontation with Nazi arraignment court; B'nai B'rith Lodge after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Frankfurt; preparations for emigration.Joseph B. Levy (Kiel 1870 - New York 1950) was the cantor of the orthodox synagogue in Frankfurt am Main and a teacher at the Philanthropin school. He was the president of the German Jewish cantors' and teachers' associations as well as of the Frankfurt section of the B'nai B'rith Lodge. He emigrated to the USA in 1939. Joseph B.Levy was the author of the prayer book "Shaarei Tefillah", of several school books and the editor of a collection of Gabriel Riesser's writings.Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 235Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": p.228Contribution to Harvard History Prize Competition 1940Revolution; 1918-1919LodgesPrayersHanove