Vom Leben und Streben meines Vaters, Prediger und Kantor Erich Lewin : zuletzt in Herford, Westfalen.

Copies of 32 documents and letter concerning Lewin's activities as cantor, teacher and ritual slaughterer in Bunzlau (Silesia), Koeslin (Pommerania) and Herford (Westphalia). Also included is a short biography of Erich Lewin by his son Henry Gerd Lewin.Erich Lewin was born in Woldenberg (Brandenburg) in 1889. He was a cantor, teacher and ritual slaughterer in several small Jewish communities and secretary of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens in Pommerania. He died in 1945 in the concentration camp of Struthof.Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 236Ritual slaughterSchoenec