| Handwritten letter by R. Dr. Moses Hoffmann written on July 12, 1911 in Randegg to an unspecified addressee to whom he reports about a meeting with a Mr. Moor in Luzern about kosher restaurants in Interlaken.
The letter indirectly touches upon a controversy between two competing kosher restaurants in Interlaken: Levi and Ginsburger, especially with regard to the question which restaurant gets (officially) recommended for travellers. Mr. Moor was approached by a Mr. Steinmann, who was trying to find customers for restaurant furniture.
Moses Hoffmann (1873-1958) was the son of David Hoffmann (1843-1921), who was the head of the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin.
Moses Hoffmann was Rabbi in Randegg (Baden) between 1903 to 1912, in Emden between 1912 and 1921, and from 1921 to 1938 in Breslau. In 1938 he was interned in Buchenwald. He emigrated to Palestine in 1939. He died in Israel in 1958. Moses Hoffmann published various economicial studies such as "Der Geldhandel der deutschen Juden waehrend des Mittelalters" (1910) and "Judentum und Kapitalismus" (1912). |
