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Object 3. A wedding ode printed on silk

Paris, 13 March 1844

Description:

Louis Loewe married Emma Silberstein on the 13 of March 1844, in Paris. Emma, born 7 December 1822 in Breslau, the daughter of Salomon Silberstein and Amalie Kempner, bore Louis four daughters and five sons, one of whom was James Loewe (1851), Raphael Loewe's grandfather.

The Silberstein family was from the town of Brieg (Brzeg) in Silesia. Salomon Silberstein's grandfather, Philipp Hillel Silberstein (born 1759) moved to Breslau where either he or his son, and Salomon's father, Jakob Philipp Silberstein, financed the construction of the first community synagogue, as appears from S. Falk's correspondence with other Loewe/Silberstein descendants in England and the States (in Raphael Loewe Archives).

The exhibited object briefly introduces the bride and the groom, and concludes with a German poem to the melody of Leb Wohl O Vaterland. Beneath, photographs of two paintings of Emma's parents around the time of the nuptials, courtesy of Penelope Feinstein.

Credits: Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Raphael Loewe Archive, shelfmark: Alouis 2,14