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    Artist

  • Schöner, Georg Friedrich Adolph, 1774-1841

    • Title

  • Israel Jacobson / by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner, 1838

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    undated

  • Summary

    Photograph of a lithographed portrait of the banker, merchant, and educator Israel Jacobson by the portrait artist Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner, etched by Kästner.

  • Depicted

    Jacobson, Israel, 1768-1828

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis; Bankers

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Lithographs

  • Part Of

    [Papers of the Jacobson-Schule in Seesen], AR 3502

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Biographical/Historical Information

The rabbi, banker, and merchant Israel Jacobson was born in Halberstadt in 1768. He used his wealth and his relations with protected Jews in German lands for the benefit of Jewish communities, and he became known as a founder of Reform Judaism in Germany. A very important contribution Jacobson’s was his establishment of the reform school Jacobsonschule in Seesen. Israel Jacobson died in Berlin in 1928.

The portrait painter Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner (1774-1841) worked in Berlin, Frankfurt, and other places, before settling in Bremen.

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Israel Jacobson / by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner, 1838, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1941.