Louise Herschman Mannheimer

Louise Herschman Mannheimer (3 September 1845 - December 17, 1920) was a Czech-American Jewish author, poet, school founder, and inventor. Born in Prague, Bohemia, childhood memories and home influence combined to arouse and maintain in her feelings of deep attachment to her people. As the wife of Professor Sigmund Mannheimer, she strongly seconded his teaching and communal work, both in Rochester, New York and in Cincinnati, Ohio. During a busy lifetime in which home life was never secondary, she found time for literary labors.[1] She wrote poems for German and English periodicals, including the prize poem, The Harvest. She was the author of, How Joe Learned to Darn Stockings, and other juvenile stories. She translated Nahida Remy's The Jewish Woman, and was the composer of The Maiden's Song.[2]

Louise Herschman Mannheimer
BornLouise Herschman
3 September 1845
Prague, Bohemia
DiedDecember 17, 1920(1920-12-17) (aged 75)
New York City, U.S.
Occupationauthor, school founder, inventor
Alma materSt. Teine School; Normal School, Prague; University of Cincinnati
Genrepoetry, juvenile literature
Spouse
Sigmund Mannheimer (m. 1869)

Mannheimer worked as a director of a private school, in Prague; teacher of a Sabbath School, Congregation Berith Kodesh, in Rochester; and teacher, Mrs. Leopold Weil's School, New York City. She was a contralto at the Temple Ahawath Chesed, New York; Sabbath School teacher, Temple Shaare Emeth, St. Louis, Missouri; president German Women's Club, Rochester; founder and president, Boys' Industrial School, Cincinnati. Mannheimer invented the Pureairin Patent Ventilator. She was a speaker at 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Congress of History and Congress of Religions, in Chicago; and for Mothers' Meetings, in Cincinnati.[2]

Early life and education

Herschman was born at Prague, 3 September 1845.[2][lower-alpha 1] She was the daughter of Joseph Herschman and Katherine Urbach. She was educated at St. Teine School, privately, and at Normal School, Prague, and University of Cincinnati.[2]

Career

In 1866, she went with her parents to New York City, and three years later, married Sigmund Mannheimer. She wrote German and English poems, as well as articles and reviews for German and English periodicals. Zimmermann's Deutscli in Amerika (Chicago, 1894) contains some of her poems and a short biographical notice. Among her productions in English are "The Storm," a translation of one of Judah Halevi's poems, and "The Harvest," a prize poem (printed in The American Jews' Annual, Cincinnati, 1897). In 1895, she published under the title of "The Jewish Woman" a translation of Nahida Remy's "Das Ji'idische Weib" (second edition, 1897). She was the author of "The Maiden's Song",[4] and a featured speaker at the Jewish Women’s Congress (1893) on the topic of "Jewish Women of Biblical and Mediaeval Times".[5]

"Pureairin" Patent Ventilator

Mannheimer was the founder of the Cincinnati Jewish Industrial School for Boys. She held patents for several devices.[1] She was the inventor of the "Pureairin" Patent Ventilator.[4]

Mannheimer and her husband lived in Baltimore, New York City, St. Louis, and Rochester before settling in Cincinnati where he taught at the Hebrew Union College.[6] They had two sons, Eugene and Leo, who both became rabbis, and two daughters, the dramatist and elocutionist Jennie Mannheimer (Jane Manner), and the elocutionist Edna B. Mannheimer (Edna B. Manner). Mannheimer died in New York, December 17, 1920.[7][8][3]

Notes
  1. Coyle gives date of birth as September 3, 1844.[3]

References
  1. American Hebrew Publishing Company 1921, p. 525.
  2. Adler & Szold 1904, p. 149-50.
  3. Coyle 1962, p. 425.
  4. Singer & Adler 1912, p. 296.
  5. Jewish Publication Society of America 1894, p. 6.
  6. Litoff 1994, p. 185.
  7. Litoff 1994, p. 186.
  8. Landman 1942, p. 333.

Attribution
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1904). American Jewish Year Book. 6 (Public domain ed.). American Jewish Committee.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: American Hebrew Publishing Company (1921). The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (Public domain ed.). American Hebrew Publishing Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jewish Publication Society of America (1894). Papers of the Jewish Women's Congress: Held at Chicago, September 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1893 (Public domain ed.). Jewish Publication Society of America.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Adler, Cyrus (1912). The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Public domain ed.). Funk and Wagnalls.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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