Archive · Authors
The complete index of authors in the Phil-Tragen archive — seven figures of German-Jewish thought between 1729 and 1943, each with their own dossier of documents, places and biographical materials.
Haskalah
1729 — 1786
Moses Mendelssohn arrived in Berlin in 1743 from Dessau and remained there until his death. Self-taught in Latin, French and English, he became, alongside Lessing and Nicolai, one of the central voices of the German Aufklärung.
Feminism
1859 — 1936
Pappenheim — long known publicly only as Anna O., Breuer and Freud's patient — built her real life's work between Frankfurt and the women's home she founded at Neu-Isenburg in 1907.
Anarchism
1870 — 1919
Landauer's Aufruf zum Sozialismus (1911) reframes socialism not as state apparatus but as a revival of communal forms — a position deeply marked by Meister Eckhart and the Jewish mystical tradition transmitted through his friendship with Buber.
Women's Movement
1829 — 1902
Jenny Hirsch (1829–1902) was a German writer, translator, journalist and pioneer of the women's movement. A leading member of the Lette-Verein, she advocated for women's education and professional training through her editorial work and numerous publications.
Star of Redemption
1886 — 1929
Rosenzweig founded the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt in 1920. His translation work with Buber, begun in 1925, continued from his sickbed long after ALS had taken his speech: he composed by lifting his eyelids over a chart of letters held by his wife.
Poetry
1894 — 1943
Kolmar lived almost her entire life in the same house in Berlin-Finkenkrug. From 1941 she was conscripted into forced labour in a Berlin factory; her late lyric was composed during those months and circulated through underground copies.
Translation
1892 — 1940
Benjamin's life moves through Berlin, Capri, Moscow, Ibiza and Paris, and ends on the night of 26 September 1940 at the border post of Portbou. The unfinished Arcades Project, the late Theses on the Concept of History, and the fragmentary correspondence with Scholem and Adorno form the spine of his afterlife.
