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• Die Stamm-Numeranten - A 5 -part article on the most affluent Jewish families in Breslau in 1791, which appeared in the Jewish Community's newspaper in 1924 and 1925.  Translated by Irene Newhouse
• Now available as a Jewishgen database:  a marriage register from the years 1789-1818. Transcribed and translated by Irene Newhouse, posted with permission of the Leo Baeck Institute
• A portion of the Edict of 1790.   It hasn't generally been known that the Jews of Breslau were required to assume surnames by this edict, well in advance of the Edict of 1812, which required it for all Jews in Prussia.  Thanks to Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim.
• Famous people with Breslau connections
• Nobelists with Breslau connections
• Marriage announcements from the Sept 1929 Breslauer Gemeindeblatt,  transcribed by Yvonne Adler
• Mystery pictures
• David Lewin's family has this portrait of Malka Henschel.  Does anyone know who she is?

A page with several postcards; note the Synagogue at the lower left.

This site has a huge table of postcards from many localities in Silesia & takes a long time to load.

The restoration of a 16th century tomb of one of the city bigwigs of his day