Metadata: Jewish Matters
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Lingen Town Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Lingen
- Postal address:
- Baccumer Straße 22, 49808 Lingen
- Phone number:
- +49 591 91671 10
- Title:
- Jewish Matters
- Title (official language):
- Judensachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lingen Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1868/1939
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- Approx. 0.4 linear metres (9 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The “Jewish Matters" section is a sub-collection within the “Old Archive 2“ continuing the older “Jewish Matters" section with material from the mid-19th to mid-20th century. The section contains nine files, as follows:
No. 5817 comprises general decrees by the Aurich-Ostnabrück district rabbinate (1871/1919). This includes material about the financial situation and the organisation of congregations in the rabbinate's district.
No. 5818 comprises general documents of the Lingen Jewish congregation, starting with the congregation's establishment in 1868 and ending with its liquidation under national socialist rule in 1939. This includes minutes of board meetings and correspondence about the congregation's organisation.
No. 5819 comprises material from the Lingen synagogue school (1887/1938), e.g. requests for financial support issued by the congregation board to the town's magistrate.
No. 5820 contains material about the teachers employed in the synagogue school (1910/1922), for example about their payment and personal files.
No. 5821 contains various versions of the congregation constitution and the school regulations (1912/1921).
No. 5822 contains another set of general documents of the Lingen synagogue congregation (1917/1937). This also includes minutes and correspondence about the congregation administration. There is an interesting set of documents from the time of National Socialist rule.
No. 5823 comprises documents about the elections for the congregation principal and treasurer. It includes the election minutes from 1918 on as well as congregation board minutes in general. The file also holds correspondence about the elections, such as the writings of approval by local state authorities, and requests for financial support from the congregation to the town magistrate. The file contains some documents from the 1930s, such as a note about the sale of congregation estates in 1939.
No. 5824 contains the synagogue congregation's budget plans for the years between 1921 and 1932.
No. 5825 documents the introduction and establishment of the 1939 law concerning the tenancy to Jews (“Gesetz über die Mietverhältnisse mit Juden“). The law was introduced to drive Jews out of tenancy relations with non-Jewish citizens and concentrate Jewish housing in special facilities. The file only contains a small set of documents concerning local Jews Okonsky and Hanauer, who are the only remaining Jews living in houses of non-Jewish landlords (1939). They are forced to move in with Jewish landlord Hertz, whose non-Jewish tenant moves into Okonsky's former flat. The measures were taken to drive the Jewish citizens out of the city centres and concentrate them in specific parts of town.
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each file is arranged chronologically, with each file comprising material about a certain aspect of the local Jewish community.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available in the archive; a digital finding aid also exists.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen