Documents in the LBI Archives: A selection of rare and unique items from the LBI Archives.

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer broadside — A haughtily dreaming and luckily elevated Jew ended through self-inflicted misfortune on iron gallows: Joseph Süss Oppenheimer was justly hung on February 4th, 1738 outside of Stuttgart and enclosed into a very solid, six and a half feet high cage. Original broadside, describing the conviction and hanging of the Court Jew Joseph Suess Oppenheimer in the Duchy of Württemberg. Leo Baeck Institute Archives. AR 25273 006.

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*The circumcision ledger (Mohel Bichl) of Jos. Mühlberg*
42 pages recording 862 circumcisions in Hungary and Slovakia, including in Pest (Budapest) and in Pressburg (Bratislava), from 1792 to 1834. (Leo Baeck Institute Archives, AR 25273 008, front cover)

*Two eulogies by Rabbi Israel ben Gedaliah Lipschutz*
Rabbi Lipschutz recorded his remembrances of two colleagues onto ten Hebrew and Judeo-German manuscript pages and bound them into a book in 1846 in his hometown of Danzig (today Gdańsk in Poland). (Leo Baeck Institute Archives, AR 25273 027, page 1)

*“Almighty Master of the Universe!” : Prayer for the success of the Emperor Frances Joseph I.*
The text of this prayer in High-German was printed in Hebrew block letters in Vienna, Austria, in circa 1875. (Leo Baeck Institute Archives, AR 25273 004)

*Jewish group excursion to Palestine, 1906*
A brochure, published by the Zionist Central Committee in Austria-Hungary, advertised a trip by boat and rail from Vienna and Budapest to Palestine and back, going via Constantinople to Jaffa and visiting Jerusalem, Jericho, Rishon Le-Zion, Ramleh and Beirut. (Leo Baeck Institute Archives, AR 25273 039, page 1)

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Gäste-Buch vom Hause Einstein – Guestbook at House Einstein

Albert Einstein’s Guestbook

Decrees Collection

Lazarus Morgenthau’s son, Heinrich (Henry Sr.). By Harris & Ewing; Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-93469.

Lebensgeschichte (The Story of My Life) by Lazarus Morgenthau

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