Source Description
The source presented here is a 1935 photo essay about
the Hamburg shipping company
Fairplay and its owner, Lucy Borchardt. It
introduces the shipping company's owner as an important member of Hamburg's Jewish community
while emphasizing the fact that the well-reputed company Fairplay was headed
by a woman. The article is taken from the magazine “Aus
alter und neuer Zeit” [“From Times Old and New”], the illustrated
supplement to the Israelitisches Familienblatt
[Israelite Family Paper] newspaper. The photo's creator is named as Birnbach. Austrian Jewish
photographer
Rudolf Birnbach (1906-1961) was head of
the renowned Berlin photo agency “Weltrundschau.” These photos could therefore either have come
from the agency's photo collection or they could have been taken by Birnbach himself. In 1933
Birnbach was forced to sell the agency, and he
emigrated from Germany to the U.S. the same year. Therefore it is likely that the photographs
were not taken in 1935 when the article was published,
but some time before 1933. The photographs illustrating
the work of the shipping
company and Lucy
Borchardt are accompanied by short descriptive texts whose author
is not named, however.
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Recommended Citation
Rudolf Birnbach, “Mother Borchardt” – A Jewish Shipping Company Owner, in: Aus alter und neuer Zeit. Bildbeilage des Israelitischen Familienblattes [From Times Old and New. Illustrated Supplement to the Israelite Family Newspaper] 8 (1935), p. 7 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-166.en.v1> [December 30, 2024].