us-005578-irn47468-irn7114
has record set type: Item
has or had some members with language: heb
physical characteristics and technical requirements: a. Three rectangular panels of offwhite parchment sewn together to create a scroll with Hebrew calligraphy in black ink. Title: [Megillat Esther] Book of Esther ; Uniform Title: Bible. O.T. Esther. Description: 1 roll ; 8 columns ; 30 cm. b. Brown cylindrical cardboard case with 2 end caps of different sizes. The larger cover is removable and has a round hole in the center with stamped numbers on one side and a penciled inscription around the other. The smaller cover has an embossed circle around the edge with a penciled inscription within. b. lower end, pencil, script : illegible b. lower end, stamped, ink : 318.3
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identifier: irn7114
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-01-01
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-12-31
title: Book
biographical history: Isaac Ossowski was born in 1877 in Lubraniez, near Warsaw, Poland, to an extremely devout family and Hasidim, with a long tradition of religious study and service, as hazan [cantors], shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohels [perform ritual circumcision], and sofers [scribes.] His father, Menahem, was a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888. They had three sons, Joseph, (1915-2011), Leo (b. 4/1/1913), and Sol (1919-2011), and one daughter, Nettie. Rabbi Ossowski became head shochet, overseeing the ritual slaughter of animals in Berlin. He also served as hazan, mohel, and sofer for the Alte Shule [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, the persecution of Jews became official government policy. Rabbi Ossowski and members of his family were interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In 1934, due to the threatening anti-Semitic climate of the Nazi state, he sent his young son, Sol, to Lithuania to study at a yeshiva. In 1938, Rabbi Ossowski, with his wife and daughter, escaped Nazi Germany for the United States. They joined their sons, Joseph and Leo, who had settled in the United States in 1936. Their son, Sol, joined them in the United States in 1939 after completing his rabbinical studies in England. Rabbi Ossowski, 66, died in Ohio in 1943. Sally (Sol) Ossowski was born on January 1, 1919, in Berlin, Germany, to Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888, and Rabbi Issac Ossowski, born in 1877 in Lubraniez, Poland. Sol had two brothers, Leo, born on April 1, 1913, and Joseph, born in 1914, in Pfungstadt, and a sister, Nettie. His father was a prominent and active member of the Jewish community, serving as a shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and cantor. The family at…
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scope and content: Book of Esther scroll or Megillat Esther handwritten by an unknown sofer for Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practioner of ritual circumcision], sofer, and hazan [cantor or musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanctions were enacted against Jews. The Ossowski family was repeatedly questioned by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In 1934, Isaac sent his youngest son, 14 year old Sol, to Lithuania to study at a yeshiva. In 1936, his sons, Joseph and Leo, left for the United States. In 1938, Isaac and his wife, Frida, and their daughter, Nettie, escaped Nazi Germany and joined Joseph in the US. Sol joined them there in 1939.
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1943-12-31
type: RecordSet
is or was included in: us-005578-irn47468
has or had holder: us-005578
record resource extent: a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 58.000 inches (147.32 cm) | Diameter: 2.050 inches (5.207 cm) b: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Diameter: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm)
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1910-01-01