Aron Freimann (5 August 1871 at Filehne, Posen – 6 June 1948 at

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) was a German librarian and historian. He was the son of Israel Meïr Freimann, and grandson, on his mother's side, of the chief rabbi of Altona,

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. He attended the Royal Gymnasium of Ostrowo (his father was the town's Jewish congregation rabbi) and in 1893 entered the

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(Ph. D., 1896), where he studied history and Oriental languages, devoting himself at the same time to the study of archival and library systems. Parallelly he took courses at the Rabbinical Seminary at Berlin. From 1897 he was chief of the Hebrew department at the Stadtbibliotek Frankfurt, and under his direction the library in

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upon Main assembled one of the richest collections of Judaica and Hebraica in the world. He was forced to retire in 1933 when the Nazis came to power and immigrated to the United States in 1938. Between 1939 and 1945 he served as consultant in bibliography to the

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. Since 1900 he was one of the editors of ''Zeitschrift für hebräische Bibliographie.'' He was the author of ''Die Isagoge des Porphyrius in den Syrischen Uebersetzungen'' (1896), and ''Geschichte der Israelitischen Gemeinde Ostrowo'' (1896). To the "Ḳobeẓ al-Yad," a collective work published by the ''Mekize Nirdamim'' Society, he contributed articles on the history of the Jews in Prague.

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Literature by and about Aron Freimann in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica

Digitized books from Aron Friemann’s Wissenschaft des Judentums bibliography
from the collections of the Leo Baeck Institute, American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, NY, and other international collections.
Works by and about Aron Freimann in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
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''Zeitschrift für hebraeische Bibliographie''
is a digitized periodical at the

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All digitized works by Aron Freimann
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Freimann, Aron 1871 births 1948 deaths People from Wieleń People from the Province of Posen 20th-century German historians Jewish historians Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Bibliographers of Hebrew literature Humboldt University of Berlin alumni German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German historians