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Personal data Elsie Rosenbaum 

• She was born on April 18, 1871 in Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland.
• She died in the year 1922, she was 50 years old.
• A child of Moses Ephraim Rosenbaum and Pauline Honigmann

Household of Elsie Rosenbaum

She is married to Albert Moritz.

They got married December 1891 at Jamaica Plain, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, she was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Mercedes Irene Moritz  1895-1977 
2. Arthur Mars Moritz  1897-1991
3. Sydney Moritz  1897-1993
4. Ralph Moritz  1897-± 1898

Notes about Elsie Rosenbaum

He went into dry-goods businesses with relatives who were already inAmerica, in New York, in San Francisco for a stint, I believe, and in Boston, and did modestly well. In Boston, I believe, he met Elsie Rosenbaum, another Jewish immigrant from Germany, his future wife. She had been born in Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland, the svelte capital of Prussian Silesia, Poland (now Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland in Poland) in the later 1860s, I believe. Her family was apparently a cut above the Moritzes, economically and socially. Their connections in a related family named Honigmann were already lawyers, civil servants and academics. One rose to be director of the Berlin, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany Zoo, until Hitler. Elsie had spent a year in Vienna, in something like a finishing school for Jewish girls. She absorbed an abiding love of literature, as Albert Moritz had not, German above all, but also Classical and English, which she passed on to her future daughter, my mother. Why she emigrated to America in the later 1880s has never been detailed to me. It couldnt have been to escape poverty or the army. At any rate, the couple met, Albert courted, and they were married in Jamaica Plain, MA, I believe in 1891. Neither were believing or observant Jews by then. Albert was an unobsessed, Marxist socialist, businessman. Elsie was a slightly regretful non-observer, with slight connections to Reformed synagogues in America, but with a strong conviction that the essence of Judaism was the Tablets of the Law, not belief or observance but moral uprightness which she also passed on to her future daughter.

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Timeline Elsie Rosenbaum

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