the Gunzburg Family Archive
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Over several centuries the Gunzburg family has left its mark on the history of Europe in numerous spheres. As renowned religious and intellectual figures and entrepreneurs, as patrons and philanthropists, Gunzburgs have played a prominent role down the generations. The first known bearer of the Gunzburg name, Rabbi Simon Gunzburg (1506–1585), came from Swabia in south-western Germany, a well-off merchant who was elected as the Jewish community’s representative to the Bavarian authorities.
About Us
The Gunzburg Family Archive is a collection of resources devoted to the history of the Gunzburg family. History, memory, and the transmission of available knowledge lie at the heart of the Gunzburg Family Archive project. The archives are primary sources for an extensive range of subjects: Judaism and Jewish life, economic and social history, tsarist Russia, French socio-political history, the history of art and art collections, philanthropy, the Russian revolution, the struggle against totalitarianism, the First and Second World Wars, the looting of art and property.
Photograph albums
We are fortunate to be able to enter the’ world through many hundreds of images that have survived the vagaries of history.
Archives
The Archive offers open access to users via a choice of resources, including : selected documents, a family chronology, individual biographies, and photographic albums. The Gunzburg Family Archive project is an initiative born from the desire of members of the Gunzburg family to share their legacy
Genealogy
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Chronology
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Individual biographies tell the varied life stories of Gunzburg family members. Over the centuries Gunzburgs have engaged in a wide spectrum of activities such as rabbis, merchants, bankers, painters, actors, oriental scholars, partisans, adventurers, goldminers and monks, among others. Women have taken a front seat, each generation making notable contributions to the family’s story through their roles in passing on their maternal, cultural and philanthropic example…
Archive of the day
Ury de Gunzburg and four of his daughters. From left to right Thérèse, Mathilde, Olga and Hélène. Paris circa 1883