Meyer Kayserling Collection 1861-1896

The collection contains 28 handwritten and signed letters from Meyer Kayserling to his future wife Bertha Philippson, who was the daughter of Ludwig Philippson, founder of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. The letters are dated from January 1861 to May 1861, during which time Kayserling was living and teaching in Berlin. The letters contains reports about Kayersling's work and studies, particularly his preparation of a biography of Moses Mendelssohn and his study of Spanish Jews. In addition to discussing his work, many of the letters are also devoted love letters.The collection also contains a handwritten and signed letter and note from Kayserling to Nahum Sokolow regarding the Hebrew translation of Kayserling's book on Christopher Columbus.digitizedMeyer Kayserling (1829-1905) was a German rabbi and historian.The original German-language inventory is available in the folde