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  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Abschiedsmedaille des Philanthropins, 1804-1979

    • Other Title(s)

  • Farewell medal of the Jewish school Philanthropin

  • Physical Description

    1 medal : bronze ; 3" x 3" , 7.6 x 7.6 cm

  • Date

    1979

  • Summary

    Farewell medal in memory of the school Philanthropin in Frankfurt/M.

    Recto: "Abschiedsmedaille des Philanthropins 1804 1979". Verso: "Am Anfang war die Idee, am Ende das Geld" (In the beginning was the idea, and in the end there was money); the sentence is illustrated by two men throwing a school building into the engine of “public opinion”.

  • Subject

    Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

  • Genre

    Commemorative medals

  • Part Of

    The Sally Bodenheimer Collection, AR 7169

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Biographical/Historical Information

Philanthropin (Greek for "place of humanity") was founded as a Jewish school by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in 1804, but it was also open to non-Jewish pupils. In its heydays during the Weimar Republic, it had around 1,000 pupils; it was closed under the Nazis. In the 1950s, the former school building served as an office for the Jewish community in Frankfurt/M, but it was closed in 1979 and sold to the city to finance a new Jewish community center.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Abschiedsmedaille des Philanthropins, 1804-1979, Leo Baeck Institute, 2006.8.