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Leopold Rosenak Collection 1917-1980
No full textThis collection primarily contains newspaper extracts and circulars from WWI and the early 1920s, regarding Rabbi Leopold Rosenak's struggle againstantisemitism in Germany during this period. Several of the articles regard Jews in the German army during WWI. Includes a 1921 letter to Rabbi Leopold Rosenak signed by Hindenburg,which Ignatz Rosenak, writing in a 1944 memoir also included in this collection, describes as reflecting "a state of mind so biased, so devoid of decency and even thesemblance of a desire for impartiality..". Also includes photograph of Leopold Rosenak.Rabbi,1869-1923. In World War I he served as a field rabbi of the German Army in Lithuania, received the Iron Cross, and the Hanseatic Cross.Photographs removed to Photograph CollectionProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
