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    Title

  • Memorial plaque for Rabbi Alexander Stein

  • Physical Description

    1 plaque : metal alloy ; 4" x 7.9" , 10.1 x 20.1 cm

  • Date

    circa 1910

  • Summary

    Gold-colored plaque with simple border and textured background. The plaque reads, "In memory of my father, Dr. Alexander Stein, rabbi of the Jewish Community Worms, Germany, from 1867 to 1910. Nathan Stein." Stored with original screws.

  • Subject

    Rabbis, Germany, Worms

  • Genre

    Plaques (flat objects)

  • Part Of

    Nathan Stein Collection, AR 1209

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Born in Worms in 1881, Nathan Stein was a lawyer and co-owner of the Strauss banking house in Karlsruhe. Between 1923 and 1933, he was a professor of economics at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. He presided over the Oberrat der Israeliten Badens from 1922 until 1936, and was a member of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland between 1933 and 1937. He emigrated from Germany to Switzerland in 1937 and to the United States in 1939. He was the president of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe from 1946 to 1952. Stein died in New York in 1966.

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Citation

Memorial plaque for Rabbi Alexander Stein, Leo Baeck Institute, 2013.011.