Dienemann's dissertation, articles and manuscripts by him on theology and Jewish history, and lecture notes for his Jewish history course during the 1930s at the Freies Juedisches Lehrhaus, Frankfurt; sermons by Dienemann, and records kept by him of rabbinical duties performed in Offenbach

Correspondence with individuals, including Chaim Bloch, Martin Buber, Ismar Elbogen, Siegfried Guggenheim, Richard Koch, Else Lasker-Schueler, Claude Montefiore, Franz Rosenzweig, and Eduard Strauss; letters written to Dienemann by inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp

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Born in Krotoschin (now Krotoszyn, Poland) on September 30, 1875, Dienemann studied at the University of Breslau and the Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Breslau, receiving his doctorate and rabbinical ordination in 1898. He served as rabbi in Ratibor and Offenbach until his emigration to Palestine in 1938. He died in Tel Aviv on April 10, 1939

Finding aid available online

16-page paper inventory

See also letters in Leo Baeck Collection, Letters Box 1-3

See also Max Dienemann's and his wife's memoirs ME 759 and ME 112

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Bloch, Chaim ; Buber, Martin ; Elbogen, Ismar ; Lasker-Schueler, Else ; Guggenheim, Siegfried ; Rosenzweig, Franz ; Strauss, Eduard ; Dienemann, Mally ; Klausner, Joseph ; Koch, Richard ; Montefiore, Claude

Offenbach ; Ratibor

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