James Bennett Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of documents acquired and generated in research on Jewish families and communities throughout Europe, Israel, and the United States, such as family trees, lists of single Jewish communities and families in Europe, manuscripts, official documents, registers, census records, community records, and cemetery registers.
The following family names are mentioned in this collection:
Abas; Alkan; Allen; Ansell; Ashkenazi; Bass; Bauer; Bennett; Bernheim; Bissinger; Bissinger; Blaschke; Bluhm; Boas; Bodenheimer; Bonn; Brand; Brann; Brown; Camphoff; Cathcart; Chadwick; Charmak; Cohen; Cohn; Colton; de Beer; de Groot; de Jonge; de la Prade; De Meere; Dick; Dickhoff; Dieling; Donaldson; Ecker; Einstein; Feldman; Fichtenberg; Frank; Friedberg; Gerstle; Getz; Giard; Goldman; Goldschmidt-Levy; Goldschmidt-Oldenburg; Goldschmidt-Stadthagen; Goldsmit; Gompertz; Gosschalk; Gossels; Greenebaum; Guggenheimer; Gundelfinger; Guttman; Harnart; Hastings; Hausner; Heilbronner; Heilbrunner; Heiligers; Heller; Henle; Herberger; Hilb; Hirsch; Huberman; Hulshoff; Ichenhausen; Israelsky; Israelsky; Jacobson; Joseph; Juda; Judels; Kastmann; Kirschner; Kitay; Kleinordlinger; Klerekoper; Kohn; Koopmans; Laemmle; Laigle; Lammfrom; Lauchheimer; Leek; Lefko; Lehman; Levie; Levy-Kramer-Stadthagen; Libman; Lichtenstadt; Liskoff; Low; Mann; Marx; Mayer; McSwain; Meinstein; Mellrich; Metz; Meyer; Meyersohn; Mogendorff; Mondt; Mouwes; Musser; Nathan; Neuhaus; Neumann; Nolthius; Norden; Nort; Oettinger; Oppenheimer; Pagel; Pinkerle; Ree; Riebe; Ries; Rijteling; Ronkel van; Rosenberg; Rosenfeld; Rothschild; Rothstein; Rozendaal; Salomonsohn; Salomonson; Salomonson; Schaffer; Schimmel; Schoenwalder; Schwab; Schwartz; Seligmann; Selinger; Shellow; Simon; Skinner; Sklar; Smit; Solomonson; Stade; Stadthagen-Levy; Steinheimer; Steppacher; Straus; Struck; Stuckert; Teulingkx; Tews; Thannhauser; Traub; Ullmann; van Raalte; Van Ronkel; van Zuidam; Weglein; Weill; Willemse; Williamson; Windsbacher; Zacharonsky; Zimet
Dates
- Creation: 1711 - 1997
Creator
- Bennett, James (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
The collection's donor requests full acknowledgment in any re-publication.
Because many of the materials, particularly in Series II, are photocopies of items located in other repositories, permission is required to reproduce any of this collection, or to use or cite any of this collection in publication.
For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
James Bennett was a genealogist.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of documents acquired and generated in research on Jewish families and communities throughout Europe, Israel, and the United States, such as family trees, lists of single Jewish communities and families in Europe, manuscripts, official documents, registers, census records, community records, and cemetery registers.
Arrangement
- Series I: Families 1869-1997
- Series II: Communities 1711-1938
Other Finding Aid
An earlier inventory is available in folder 1.
Subject
- Bennett, James (Person)
- Halevy, Uri (Person)
- Rothstein, Loebel (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Title
- Guide to the James Bennett Collection, 1711 - 1997 AR 5518
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 05, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository