[Jews in Hamburg, Germany]

The file contains press cuttings, correspondence, obituaries for the journalist Paul Nathan and Baron Horace Günzburg and accounts regarding financial problems of the Talmud Tora-Realschule in Hamburg. Furthermore two wax seals can be seen, one from 1846 by chief Rabbi Stern from Hamburg und the other from 1875 by Samuel Warburg and Keren Kayemet. Newspaper cuttings regarding the obituary of Baron Horace von Günzburg is attached. He was a Russian philanthropist, one of the founders of the Society for the Spread of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia, the only society of the kind in Russia, in 1880 he wanted to start an assistance fund which would provide vocational education and training in practical occupations like handicrafts and agriculture for thousands of Russian Jews then living in poverty and in 1880, 1884, and 1888 he received successively the titles of "counsel of commerce," "secretary of state," and "member of the council of commerce of the Treasury Department." For many years he was an alderman of St. Petersburg, but, upon the passage of a statute prohibiting the election of Jewish aldermen, vacated that office. The funeral service for Dr. Paul Nathan took place on April 13, 1927. He was the co-founder and deputy chairman of the Hilsverein der Deutschen Juden in Berlin. Mr. Max Warburg was the chief speaker at the big memorial meeting held this week in Hamburg in honor of the late Dr. Paul Nathan, organized by the Hamburg branch of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden. The Neue Hamburger Zeitung from 1921 published an article against Antisemitism. The association against Antisemitism had called its members to protest against the increasing Antisemitism. Other newspaper cuttings report about the Warburg family. The Warburg family is a prominent German and American banking family of German Jewish and originally Venetian Jewish descent. Aby S. Warburg for example was the chairman of the Talmud Tora school in Hamburg. Letters and publications report about his work as a chairman. Furthermore financial statements of the Talmud Tora Realschule show the school's income and expenditure in detail. The widow of Siegmund Warburg died after longer suffering at the age of 64, in Hamburg M. M. Warburg & Co. was established in 1798 and is among the oldest still existing investment banks in the world, so newspaper reported. Also pictures showing Felix Warburg and his wife protesting on the Madison-Square against England are shown. Letters addressed to members of the Warburg family are attached as well.