Genealogical Tables of Jewish Families 14th‐20th Centuries: 2nd revised and enlarged edition: Forgotten Fragments of the History of the Fraenkel Family

No doubt filial piety and family duty provided the principal impetus for the publication of these two volumes, originally as Forgotten Fragments of the History of an Old Jewish Family (Forlaget Henry Fraenkel, Copenhagen, 1975). In memory of the centenary of the birth of Dr Louis Fraenkel (1868‐1935) his son, Henry, embarked on the formidable task of assembling and collating the huge mass of papers his father had left covering the various branches of the family before they were given permission to settle in Denmark. This material included a genealogical table of Louis Fraenkel’s forebears and prompted Henry Fraenkel not...