Metadata: Archive of Rabbi Ludwig Lewysohn 1873-1877
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Täby
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Täby
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/730128/07/06/1/6
- Title:
- Archive of Rabbi Ludwig Lewysohn 1873-1877
- Title (official language):
- Rabbin Ludwig Lewysohns arkiv 1873-1877
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lewysohn, Ludwig Louis
- Date(s):
- 1873/1877
- Language:
- Swedish
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection consists of manuscripts of speeches or sermons given by chief rabbi Ludwig Louis Lewysohn between 1868 and 1873. This specific collection comprises one notebook, which is written by hand in Swedish, in ink, but it also includes phrases or titles in Hebrew. The sermons or speeches are introduced on new pages with an underlined title announcing the date and event. The notebook includes sermons or speeches by chief rabbi Lewysohn on, for example, the confirmation of children on 22 May 1874, the funeral of Ludvig Samson on 1 December 1875, the funeral of Mrs. Josephson on 27 October 1875, the funeral of F Davidsson on 3 November 1875, the death of Queen Josephine on 10 June 1876, the funeral of Mathilda Hirsch on 6 December 1876, the funeral of Miss Jacobsson on 25 March 1877, the confirmation of children on 18 May 1877, the funeral of Fanny Rubenson on 26 July 1877, and the funeral of Henriette Hirsch on 2 October 1877. Some of the speeches or sermons are several pages long, while others only cover a page. The longer sermons are often divided into numerical sub-sections. Chief rabbi Lewysohn frequently underlined important sentences and sections in the speeches or sermons. He also sometimes crossed out or changed words, but the text is generally clean without many changes and easy to read.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred by the Jewish community of Stockholm to the Swedish National Archives in 1979.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ludwig Louis Lewysohn was born in Schwerzend in Prussia in 1819 and died in Stockholm in 1901. He was the son of a rabbi and was educated at secular schools, first at the Realgymnasium and then at the University of Halle, where he received his PhD in 1847. He worked as a preacher and rabbi in the Jewish communities in Frankfurt an der Oder and Worms before being offered the position as rabbi in Stockholm. He arrived in Stockholm in August 1858, began preaching in Swedish two years later, and retired in 1883. He published extensively during his lifetime on issues such as the relationship between Talmud and animal life, and epitaphs on medieval cemeteries, and had articles published in Hebrew periodicals such as Gan Prahim, Kadimah, Ozar Hakhokhma Ve Hamada and Kohut. Ludwig Louis Lewysohn was married to Rosalia Zendig and Phillipine Baer, and had seven children.
- Access points: locations:
- Stockholm
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Rabbis
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to researchers. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance. Applications are made to the Swedish National Archives, which reviews them on behalf of the Jewish community of Stockholm, which makes the decision. The form and instructions can be accessed on the homepage of the Jewish Community of Stockholm: https://jfst.se/fler-tjaenster/oevriga-tjaenster/slaekt-och-personforskning/
- Finding aids:
- The archive that this collection is a part of has been indexed by the archivists Lars Hallberg and Mikaela Nybohm of the Swedish National Archives. The index can be found in a folder at the archive and in the archive’s database NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman; Jewish Museum of Stockholm; June 2020
