Louis lamb

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Louis Lamm at the age of 70 (from: Het joodsche Weekblad , December 5, 1941, p. 7)

Louis Lamm (born December 12, 1871 in Wittelshofen ; † November 19, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German bookseller, antiquarian and publisher of the Jewish faith.

Life

Louis Lamm grew up in a poor Jewish Orthodox family. His father Max (1842–1917) was a plumber, but also made artistic Judaica as a tinsmith. He also published Lamm's Jewish and German weekly calendars . He was married to Hanna, née Altmayer (1836–1906). Louis grew up with six siblings. In 1874 the family moved to Buttenwiesen .

At the age of 13, Louis Lamm came to a foster family in Frankfurt am Main . He completed his apprenticeship at A. Hoffmann's antiquarian bookshop . In 1903, together with Bernhard Nathansen, he opened the Nathansen & Lamm bookstore , assortment and antiquarian bookstore at Neue Friedrichstrasse 61–63 in Berlin . From 1905 Lamm continued to run the Judaica-specialized business on his own. He published over 30 second-hand bookshop catalogs, which opened up markets for him throughout Europe and the United States.

Signature of Louis Lamm

As an antiquarian, Lamm also sold valuable private libraries of various scholars, such as the library of Franz Delitzsch . In 1924 he was a co-founder of the Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book .

Advertisement for the special bookstore Louis Lamm

In his publishing house, Lamm mainly published works on Jewish history, many of which he had written himself. His most successful book series were Lamm's Bibliotheca Judaica and - during the First World War - Lamm's Jewish field library , which made him a patriotic German. During the First World War he also published a number of postcards - Lamm's Jewish war postcards - and in 1916 a directory of Jewish war writings. Lamm's business was a meeting place for Jewish and non-Jewish scholars.

Jewish war card No. 26 from Louis Lamm's publishing house

At the beginning of December 1933, Lamm emigrated to the Netherlands, his wife and daughter followed on January 2, 1934. Louis Lamm continued his antiquarian bookshop in Amsterdam in the Amstel 3 building from spring 1934 . The Dutch photographer Cas Oorthuys also lived in the building . Lamm worked in the Netherlands with Abraham Horodisch , an antiquarian who had also fled from Berlin to Amsterdam. 16 Rhine barges full of Judaica had lamb transported from Germany to the Netherlands. Lamm brought out his first antiquarian catalog in the Netherlands in 1935 under the title “Bibliotheca Judaica Iberica”. In addition to books, Lamm also traded in Jewish religious objects and supplied, for example, the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam , which was founded in 1930 . Lamm had good connections in Amsterdam before and was a well-known personality. On his 70th birthday on December 12, 1941, an article about him appeared in Het Joodsche Weekblatt .

After the occupation by the Germans, Lamm was held captive in the Westerbork transit camp . In November 1943 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he and his daughter Ruth Fanny were murdered on November 19, 1943.

The supply of books from Lamm's shop was subsequently looted. Lydia Oorthuys, who lived in the same house with her husband Cas, reported in a letter about the robbery of the apartment. Part of his property was auctioned at Burgersdijk & Niermans in Leiden in 1950. Many of his books were bought by Salomon Samson Meijer (1910–1986), who had studied with Louis Lamm, from the antiquarian bookshop “De Pampiere Wereld”

Lamm's nephew Hans Lamm (1913–1985) founded the Ner-Tamid-Verlag in Munich in 1957 after returning from exile in the USA, also in order to “maintain the tradition of the house of Lamm”.

family

Louis Lamm married Julia Pinczaver (1880–1940) from Breslau in 1905. The couple had three children: Hannah (* 1907) and Heinrich Ismar (* 1935), both of whom were able to emigrate to Palestine, and Ruth Fanny (1911–1943). The family belonged to the Adass Jisroel Orthodox Jewish community , which inaugurated a plaque in honor of Louis Lamm next to the synagogue in 2009.

Private documents

Bookplate by Louis Lamm

Documents from Louis Lamm's private archive are now stored in The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP) .

A book owned by Louis Lamm was discovered while searching for Nazi-looted property in the holdings of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart . The book comes with Louis Lamm's bookplate.

Fonts

  • A strange exhibition; Contribution to the history of Jakob Frank and his followers . In: The Israelite. Central-Organ für das Orthodoxe Judenthum , Vol. 40, 1899, No. 47, June 15, 1899, Belletristische Beilage No. 8, pp. 917–921.
  • The Memorbuch in Buttenwiesen . In: Monthly for History and Science of Judaism , vol. 45, 1901, issue 5, pp. 540–549
  • Nehemias Jehuda Leib, a martyr for the Jewish body customs , Berlin: Lamm 1910
  • On the history of the Jews in Bavarian Swabia
    • Vol. 1: The Jewish cemeteries in Kriegshaber, Buttenwiesen and Binswangen , Berlin: Lamm 1912
    • Vol. 1: On the history of the Jews in Lauingen and in other Palatinate-Neuburgian places, 2nd edition, Berlin: Lamm 1915.
  • Family tree of the Levitten family Lamm from Wittelshofen in Bavaria: Through three centuries , Berlin: Lamm 1914
  • Makkabäa: Jewish literary collection selected for our warriors , Berlin: Lamm 1915
  • Isak Bernhard Lamm: the first Jewish elementary school teacher in Bavaria , Berlin: Lamm 1915
  • Directory of Jewish war writings , 2 volumes, Berlin: Lamm 1916
  • A short chapter on Berlin baptismal Jews , Berlin: Lamm 1918
  • My publisher . In: Neue Jüdische Monatshefte , Vol. 4, Issue 2/4, October 25 / November 25, 1919, pp. 78–79.
  • My bookstore . In: Neue Jüdische Monatshefte , Vol. 4, Issue 2/4, October 25 / November 25, 1919, pp. 80–81.
  • Travel impressions in North Africa , Berlin: Lamm 1929
  • The Memorbuch von Oettingen , Berlin: Lamm 1932

literature

  • Peter M. Manasse: Louis Lamm (1871–1943): antiquarian and publisher in Berlin and Amsterdam , Amsterdam 2011.
  • Lamb, Louis . In: Ernst Fischer: Publishers, booksellers & antiquarians from Germany and Austria in emigration after 1933. A biographical handbook . Association of German Antiquarians, Elbingen 2011.
  • Gad Freudenthal: Louis Lamm (1871-1943): A Short Biography of a Dedicated Judaica Publisher and Bookseller. In: Zutot , Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 125–132 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sjev van Duin: Cas Oorthuys, a European photographer . In: Rahel E. Feilchenfeldt, Jutta Weber (eds.): Bruno Cassirer Publishers Ltd. Oxford 1940-1990. An Annotated Bibliography with Essays . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0543-5 , p. 444–453, here: p. 448 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Sinn: "And I am living again on the Isar": Exile and return of the Munich Jew Hans Lamm . Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58395-3 , p. 121 .
  3. ↑ Adass Jisroel - News November 3rd, 2009 Memorial plaque in honor of Louis Jehuda Arieh Lamm (1870 - 1943), s. A., inaugurated. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP) הארכיון המרכזי לתולדות העם היהודי ירושלים חל"צ (אמת"י) - Lamb Louis. Accessed September 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Raubgutforschung Wurttemberg State Library .
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittelshofen
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: November 19, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp