Key Documents of German-Jewish History
A Digital Source Edition

Hamburg State Archive [Staatsarchiv Hamburg]

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The Complaint of the Hamburg Parliament concerning Portuguese Jews of December 9, 1603, in: Acta Conventuum Senatus et Civium from Dezember 8/9, 1603 [S. 21-22]
New Decree for the Jewish Population of Hamburg/ Both the Portuguese and the High German Nation, from the Date 7 September in the Year 1710. Hamburg (the so-called Judenreglement) [Excerpt]
Johann Gottfried Gurlitt, Observations Concerning Preparatory Instruction for the University, especially in Hebrew, Hamburg, 1810 in: Notice of Lectures in the Academic High School of Hamburgakademisches Gymnasium, held from Easter 1809 until Easter 1810, as well as Announcement of Lectures from Easter 1810 until Easter 1811, Hamburg 1810, pp. 3-16, here pp. 9-10.
Provisional Decree for the Purpose of Introducing Article 16 of the Basic Rights of the German People with Regard to the Israelites. Passed by a Resolution of the Council and the City Assembly on February 21, 1849. Published on the Order of E. H. eines Hochedlen [a Highly Noble] Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg 1849
Julius Stettenheim, The Jew-Eater. Hope You Like It!, Hamburg 1862
The Committee for the Poor of the German Israelite Congregation: “To the honorable Supervisory Committee of the German Israelite Congregation” (15.4.1863), Hamburg, pp. 1-11
First Senate Ruling of February 10, 1892 Approving the Petitioner’s “Application to Change His Name”
The Police Authority. Department II (Political and Criminal Investigation Unit), Report by Constable Erxleben. Re: Observations Carried out in the Streets and Public Houses, Hamburg, October 1st, 1898
Speech by Gustav Tuch, President of the Henry Jones Lodge, in: The Meeting Hall in Hamburg. Publication Commemorating Its Inauguration. Sunday, August 28, 1904, pp. 25-30 [Excerpt]
Call for the Founding of a Jewish Library and Reading Room, Hamburg, October 1905
Agreement between the German-Israelite Congregation and the City Treasury, Hamburg, January 10, 1914
Agathe Lasch’s Curriculum Vitae, 1921
German-Jewish War Veterans’ Association [Vaterländischer Bund jüdischer Frontsoldaten]. From the Advertising Committee: Call for a Jewish Memorial Cemetery, Hamburg 1921
Moses Hoffmann: Rabbinical Opinion on the Eligibility of Women for Office in the Community, Wrocław, May 24, 1923 [copy]
Model design for the extension of the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg by Hermann Distel and August Grubitz, 1928
Obituary for Aby Warburg in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt, October 28, 1929
Letter from the Deputation of Commerce, Shipping, and Trade to the Administration of Abattoirs and Livestock Markets, Hamburg, February 4, 1930
Letter from the Office of the Chief Rabbito the Administration of Abattoirs and Livestock Markets, Hamburg, April 2, 1930
Letter from the Office of the Chief Rabbi to the Administration of Abattoirs and Livestock Markets, Hamburg, October 9, 1930
Letter from the Office of the Chief Rabbi to the Administration of Abattoirs and Livestock Markets, Hamburg, October 17, 1930
Letter from the Deputation for Commerce, Shipping, and Trade to the Administration of Abattoirs and Livestock Markets, Hamburg, October 22, 1930
Appeal by the Provisional Board of the Sports Club “Schild” Organized by the German-Jewish War Veterans’ Association’s Hamburg Chapter, June 1933
List of Jewish Physicians in the Arztregisterbezirk Hamburg
Renaming of Hallerstraße in Ostmarkstraße, Hamburg, November 1st, 1938
Memorandum by the Superior School Authority – School Administration, November 24, 1938
Register of Moving Goods of Betty Levy, Hamburg, 13.11.1939
Letter by Hedwig Klein to Dr. Brinkmann of November 2, 1941
Martha Glass: Theresienstadt Diaries 1943-1945
Statistics on Hamburg’s Jewish Population, compiled for the Gestapo by the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany [Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland] Liaison Officer on April 30, 1945
Minutes of a Meeting to Reconstitute the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg, July 1945
Henry Cohen to the Hamburg Jewish Congregation, Tientsin, December 29, 1946
Reply letter from the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg to Henry Cohen, February 10, 1947
Letter by Fritz Klesper to the President of Hamburg’s Finance Office (May 2, 1947)
Letter to the President of the Hamburg Jewish Congregation, Dated August 27, 1948
Letter from Siegfried Landshut to Heinrich Landahl, August 29, 1948
Letter by the Hamburg Jewish Congregation in Reply to Heinrich Alexander, September 13, 1948
Occupational Questions of the Returnees from Shanghai
Personnel sheet of Siegfried Landshut, School Authority, Higher Education Department, Hanseatic City of Hamburg, February 21, 1951
Questonnaire on memberships in NS National Socialist organizations, completed by Siegfried Landshut on February 21, 1951
Statistics of Returnees from the Year 1945 - April 1952
Report on the Status of the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg, November 17, 1952
Letter from Senior Government Councilor Dr. Baring to the Office for Restitution, Social Welfare Authorit Hamburg, February 24, 1954
Hermann Zvi Guttmann, Drawing for Design of the Synagogue at Hohe Weide, 1956
Friedrich Nieland, How Many World (Money) Wars Must the Peoples of the World Lose? Open Letter to all Government Ministers and Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic, pp. 3–4, Hamburg 1957

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