Metadata: Jacob Ettlinger: Personal folders 1931-1952
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Marieberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Marieberg
- 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/720483/3
- Title:
- Jacob Ettlinger: Personal folders 1931-1952
- Title (official language):
- Jacob Ettlingers "privata" pärmar 1931-1952
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ettlinger, Jacob
- Date(s):
- 1931/1952
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- English
- French
- Danish
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 27 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is part of the personal archive of the Jewish, German-born businessman and chairman of the orthodox community Adat Jisrael, Jacob Ettlinger. It comprises 27 volumes. Each of the volumes holds a year’s worth of correspondence and documents, collected and saved by Jacob Ettlinger in his so-called “private folders”. Almost all of the volumes are organised in alphabetical order. The correspondence is organised alphabetically according to the surname, institution name or company name of the sender, or the receiver of Jacob Ettlinger’s letters. The documents are written in different languages, the most frequent ones being German, English, French, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew and Yiddish. Apart from private correspondence with acquaintances, friends and family, the documents also concern Jewish matters, family matters and company matters, particularly related to AB Metall & Bergsprodukter, the company created by Jacob Ettlinger in 1917.
Jewish matters relate to local Jewish institutions in Stockholm, such as the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael, the religious afternoon school, the poor relief organisation and the official Jewish Community of Stockholm (Mosaiska församlingen i Stockholm), as well as the kosher diet, especially regarding shechita, which was legally forbidden in Sweden in 1937. Correspondence with rabbis and Jewish community leaders from abroad are not uncommon in the collection.
The volumes in the collection cover the following date: volume one – 1932 and 1933; volume two – 1933 (most of the letters are written in German); volume three – 1934 to 1936; volume four – 1937; volume five – 1938; volume six – 1938 and 1939; volume seven – 1939; volume eight – 1939; volume nine – 1939 and 1940; volume 10 – 1940; volume 11 – 1940 and 1941; volume 12 – 1941 and 1942; volume 13 – 1942 and 1943; volumes 14 and 15 – 1943, and volume 16 – 1943 and 1944; volume 17 – 1944 and 1945; volumes 18, 19 and 20 – 1945 and 1946 (mostly concerned with Holocaust survivors); volume 21 – 1946; volume 22 – 1947; volume 23 – 1947 and 1948; volume 24 – 1948; volume 25 – 1949 (it includes Second World War matters); volume 26 – 1949 and 1951 (includes letters from Joseph Ettlinger, Jacob Ettlinger’s son). The last volume covers 1949 and 1952 and concerns Jacob Ettlinger’s sickness and death.
- Archival history:
- The archive was originally part of the Hollander Companies archive (SE/RA/740105) but was split from the rest, donated to the National Archives, and made accessible to the public in 2012.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jacob Ettlinger was born in Mannheim in Germany in 1880 to the merchant Mayer Ettlinger and his wife Mathilde (née Michael). The family moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1888 and at 14, Jacob Ettlinger began his mercantile training in the family business. In 1899, he was employed by the gravel and metal company Beer, Sondheim & Co and worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy. Due to the First World War, Jacob Ettlinger was stuck in Sweden during a business trip in 1915. He established the company AB Metall & Bergsprodukter in 1917 and established a life in Stockholm. He became the chairman of the Orthodox community Adat Jisrael and was also involved in matters of the Jewish afternoon school and the poor relief in the Jewish community of Stockholm.
- Access points: locations:
- Sweden
- Finding aids:
- The index can be found in a folder in the archive and in the archive’s online database, NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman
