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Die Rosenthals : der Aufstieg einer jüdischen Antiquarsfamilie zu Weltruhm

Title: Die Rosenthals : der Aufstieg einer jüdischen Antiquarsfamilie zu Weltruhm / mit Beiträgen von Elisabeth Angermair [and others].
Publication: Wien : Böhlau, ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Angermair, Elisabeth.

Description

262 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Collection of essays focusing on the history of the world-famous German Jewish Rosenthal family and their role in the book trade and antiquary in München between 1867-1945. Pp. 179-201, by Elisabeth Angelmair, discuss the Nazi period. Discrimination and the persecution of Jews gradually led to the liquidation of the Rosenthal enterprise. In August 1935 the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste in Berlin banned the Rosenthals from the profession, calling for closure within four weeks. Erwin Rosenthal appealed for a delay in order to prevent an immediate price decline for the existing stock of ca. 500,000 volumes and the dismissal of six employees. At the same time he began to prepare for the sale which was concluded on 28 December 1935, saving at least a part of the capital. He immigrated to Italy, then to Switzerland, and in 1941 to the USA. A branch run by Ludwig Rosenthal was Aryanized; two sons and a daughter immigrated in 1937 to the Netherlands and opened a book trade there. The sons went into hiding in 1940. Fritz Rosenthal, his wife, and her mother survived; Paul Rosenthal and his fiancee were betrayed and deported to Auschwitz. In Germany, during the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, Norbert and Ernst Rosenthal were sent briefly to Dachau; Ernst and his wife immigrated to England in May 1939, while Norbert and his family had to move to a Jewish encampment in 1942 and in July were deported to Theresienstadt.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and indexes.

Contents

Grußwort / Bernard Rosenthal -- Vorwort / Richard Bauer -- Der Münchner Antiquariatsbuchhandel in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts -- Die Wurzeln der Rosenthals : Fellheim in Bayerisch-Schwaben -- Ludwig Rosenthal als "Wegbereiter" (1840-1928) -- Das Antiquariat Jacques Rosenthal -- Der Kosmos der Rosenthals : Bücherkenner, Künstler und Wissenschaftler -- Generationenwechsel in den Antiquariatshäusern Rosenthal -- Vertreibung -- Emigration -- Deportation : das Schicksal der Familienzweige und ihrer Firmen während der NS-Zeit -- Exkurse -- Die Antiquariatshäuser Rosenthal nach 1945 -- ein Ausblick -- Anhang.

ISBN

320577020X
9783205770206

LCCN

2002543197
9783205770206

OCLC

ocm54951700
54951700
SCSB-1310843

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library