Metadata: Aron Tänzer archive
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Hohenems
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Hohenems
- Postal address:
- Marktstrasse 1; 6845 Hohenems
- Phone number:
- +43 5576 7101 1631
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@hohenems.at
- Title:
- Aron Tänzer archive
- Title (official language):
- Aron Tänzer Archiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Hohenems; Jewish community of Hohenems
- Date(s):
- 1768/1964
- Language:
- German
- French
- Italian
- Extent:
- 55 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Aron Tänzer Archive which is located in the Stadtarchiv Hohenems (Municipal Archive of Hohenems) holds a great variety of documents concerning the Jewish community of Hohenems. Box 25 Nr. 30, for example, contains a letter written in 1825 in which the town of Hohenems urges the Jewish community to participate in the regulation of the town’s brook. Another letter between the county, the Christian and the Jewish community about a similar discussion can be found in Box 25 Nr. 45. In 1846, the three parties came to an agreement regarding the regulation of the Emsbach brook.
Box 38 Nr. 172 includes a letter concerning the demand of the armed forces of Austria to the Jewish community, in which the army asks the community to pay its share during one of the wars against Napoleonic France. Similar letters are to be found in box Nr. 39.
Boxes 32, 34, 35, 36 and 45 contain mainly documents concerning the Jewish community, including correspondence with various authorities. The content of the correspondence is mainly real estate business: buying and selling, complaints about the buying and selling of others and various applications for building permissions. Another part of this correspondence concerns various “Schutzbriefe” (protection writs), other bans concerning the community and applications for the permission to marry.
The most extensive collection is called „Judengemeinde“ (Jewish community). It comprises boxes 34, 35 and 36 which contain files in alphabetical order. They include: documents concerning marriages (“Eheschließungen”), a call for the equality of Jews and Christians (“Gleichstellung”), a register of Jews of Hohenems (“Familienregister”), celebrations (the rescue of the emperor, the birth of the crown prince; “Feiern”), administrative matters of the Jewish community, the establishment of the Jewish communities in Innsbruck and Meran (all in Box 34, files A-G), military decrees (“Militärverordnungen”), peddling (“Hausierhandel”), several letters concerning the rabbinate, correspondence concerning various administrative matters (all in Box 35, files H-S), family trees (“Stammbäume”), correspondence concerning the Jewish school of Hohenems (including school certificates, vacancies, timetables, documents of the teachers and so on), the Jewish and Christian clubs and associations (“Israelitische bzw. Christliche Vereine") such as the “Sängerverein ‘Frohsinn’” (singing club) founded by members of the Jewish community but soon accessible to Christians as well, voter lists of Jews in the region Tyrol-Vorarlberg for the board of the Jewish community and of the citizens eligible to vote in Hohenems (“Wählerliste”), as well as documents concerning donations to the wounded of the wars in 1859 and 1866 (“Unterstützungsbeiträge für Verwundete”) (all in Box 36, files SCH-Z).
Box 37 is divided into 11 parts, which mainly contain documents concerning the expropriation and restitution of Jewish property and files concerning displaced persons, while Box 45 holds documents concerning the merger of the Jewish and the Christian community, the negotiations that led to this merger and correspondence concerning the Jewish community in general.
Signatures: Boxes 25 (Nr. 30, 45); 28 (Nr. 46); 29 (Nr. 6); 32 (whole box); 34 (whole box); 35 (whole box); 36 (whole box); 37 (whole box); 38 (Nr. 172); 39 (Nr. 1, 4, 5, 9, 16, 20, 44, 119); 45 (whole box)
- Archival history:
- The collection has existed in its current form since 1999.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Stadtarchiv was created to preserve administrative documents produced by the city administration, but it also includes donations of documents, photographs and pictures from private individuals.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bachmann
- Basch
- Bermann
- Bernheimer
- Biedermann
- Bloch
- Brentano
- Brettauer
- Brunner
- Burgauer
- David
- Dreyfuss, Wolf
- Egg
- Eggmann
- Ehrlich
- Elias
- Elkan
- Federmann
- Fehl
- Feldmann
- Franck
- Frankel
- Frey
- Goldenberg
- Goldstein
- Guggenheim
- Guttmann
- Herz
- Herzig
- Hess
- Heymann
- Hirsch
- Hirschfeld
- Hohenemser
- Kahn
- Ketz
- Kitzinger
- Krausz
- Kurländer
- Lämli
- Lämmle
- Landauer
- Levi
- Löwenberg
- Löwengard
- Lowy
- Mayer
- Mendelsohn
- Menz
- Moos
- Nathan
- Neuburger
- Pickart
- Polaczek
- Popper
- Porges
- Rosenberg
- Rosenthal
- Rothschild
- Säger
- Schlesinger
- Schönemann
- Schwarz
- Seligmann
- Steinbach
- Steiner
- Sulzer
- Teitelbaum
- Tesler
- Tokajer
- Ullmann
- Wassermann
- Weil
- Weiler (Wyler)
- Weltsch (Wälsch)
- Wohlgenannt
- Wolf
- Wyler
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- The only way to access the documents in the archive is to contact or visit the Municipal Archive in Hohenems.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
