Das Erbe der Mendelssohns

From the distinguished Jewish philosopher of the Enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn to the great composers Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from Dorothea Schlegel, née Mendelssohn, to the business magnate Franz von Mendelssohn and the important banker and collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Julius H. Schoeps has written a biography of this family and their fate, as colourful as it is vital.
For the first time, Schoeps provides a systematic presentation of the Mendelssohn family relations, detailing their history as bankers and entrepreneurs with international operations all the way to Russia and Estonia. He investigates their unique role as collectors and patrons of the arts and describes the family’s enforced decline under the Nazis in unprecedented detail. Thanks to access to numerous unpublished documents and materials from private collections and archives, the author sets straight previously contentious points. This standard work also features a timeline and a family tree.