Joshua Eli Plaut Family Collection 1930-1999

Abstract

Various materials pertaining mainly to Joshua Plaut’s father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, and to Joshua Plaut’s grandfather, Rabbi Jonas Plaut. In addition there are 11 homemade videos of reunions and celebrations of various members of the Plaut family.Series I contains handwritten and typed notes, manuscripts and sermons of Rabbi Walter Plaut, covering aprox. the years 1950-1965. Topics include Reform Judaism, Jewish and Christian dialogues, and various thoughts and ideas inspired by current events of the time, such as comic books, Sputnik, movies, etc. There are off-prints, clippings, and printed ephemera intermingled with the original notes and manuscripts.Series II pertains to the Auerbach’sche Waisen-Erziehungs-Anstalten fuer Juedische Knaben und Maedchen in Berlin, which was founded in 1833. Jonas Plaut was the director of the Baruch-Auerbachsche orphan asylum in Berlin between 1922 and 1939.Series III pertains to Joshua Eli Plaut’s family.See also the Walter H. Plaut Collection (AR 6995)The Auerbach'sche Waisen-Erziehungs-Anstalten fuer Juedische Knaben und Maedchen in Berlin was founded in 1833.Jonas Plaut (born 1880 in Willingshausen/Hesse, died 1948 in Fargo/USA) was the director of the Baruch-Auerbachsche orphan asylum in Berlin between 1922 and 1939. He emigrated with his wife Selma to England in 1939 and to the USA in 1945. They had two sons: Walter, who became the rabbi of a synagogue in in Long Island, NY, and Guenther, who became a rabbi in Toronto. Joshua E. Plaut is Walter Plaut’s son; in 2002 he was – among other positions - director of the Center for Jewish History.digitize