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A volume containing biographies of Jewish women, including Gluckel of Hameln; Gudula Rotschild (mother of the 5 Rothschild sons) ; Frumet Mendelssohn (wife of Moses Mendelssohn and mother of six children); Betty Heiner, the mother of Heinrich Heine; Amalie Wolf Beer, German philanthropist and communal worker and the mother of the poet Michael Beer, of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, and of two other sons, Heinrich and Wilhelm; Jeanette Herzl, Theodore Herzl's mother; Mathilde Rathenau, the mother of Walther Rathenau; and the final chapter is called the mother of twelve thousand.
The authors were Egon Jacobsohn (1895-1969), who was son of a cigar dealer and an actress (and nephew to the famous Berlin comedian duo Anton and Donat Herrnfeld). He wrote his first irreverent articles about films and film people for the slightly disreputable "Kleiner Journal" and the "Lichtbild-Bühne" while still at school. In about 1916 he made the grade as editor-in-chief (!) of the "Erste Internationale Filmzeitung" and, subsequently, of the "Illustrierte Filmwoche". Between 1920 and 1923 he was already master of his own film magazine, the "Filmhölle". His co-author of this work was Leo Hirsch (b. 1903). |
