Louise Herschman Mannheimer

American poet

Sigmund Mannheimer

(m. 1869)

Louise Herschman Mannheimer (3 September 1845 – December 17, 1920) was a Czech-American Jewish author, poet, school founder, and inventor. 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.^[2]

Biography

Louise Herschman was born at Prague, Bohemia, 3 September 1845.^[3]^[a] Her parents were Joseph Herschman and Katherine Urbach.

Herschman Mannheimer was educated at St. Teine School, privately, and at Normal School, Prague, and University of Cincinnati.^[3]

In 1866, she went with her parents to New York City, and three years later, married Sigmund Mannheimer (1835-1909). As the wife of Professor Mannheimer, she strongly seconded his teaching and communal work, both in Rochester, New York and in Cincinnati, Ohio, but made time for literary labors.^[1]

She wrote poems, articles, and reviews for German and English periodicals. She was the author of, How Joe Learned to Darn Stockings, and other juvenile stories. 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" ("The Jewish Woman") (second edition, 1897). She was the author of "The Maiden's Song".^[2]^[3]

Herschman 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 the inventor of the Pureairin Patent Ventilator; and founder and president, Boys' Industrial School, Cincinnati. She served as president of the German Women's Club, Rochester; was a contralto at the Temple Ahawath Chesed, New York; and Sabbath School teacher, at Temple Shaare Emeth, St. Louis, Missouri.^[2]

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.^[3] She a featured speaker at the Jewish Women’s Congress (1893) on the topic of "Jewish Women of Biblical and Mediaeval Times".^[5]

Herschman 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]^[4]

Notes

^ Coyle gives date of birth as September 3, 1844.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b American Hebrew Publishing Company 1921, p. 525.
^ ^a ^b ^c Singer & Adler 1912, p. 296.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Adler & Szold 1904, p. 149-50.
^ ^a ^b Coyle 1962, p. 425.
^ Jewish Publication Society of America 1894, p. 6.
^ Litoff 1994, p. 185.
^ Litoff 1994, p. 186.
^ Landman 1942, p. 333.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1904). American Jewish Year Book. Vol. 6 (Public domain ed.). American Jewish Committee.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: American Hebrew Publishing Company (1921). The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (Public domain ed.). American Hebrew Publishing Company.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is 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.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is 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.

Bibliography

Coyle, William (1962). Ohio Authors and Their Books: Biographical Data and Selective Bibliographies for Ohio Authors, Native and Resident, 1796-1950. World Publishing Company.
Landman, Isaac (1942). The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Incorporated.
Litoff, Judy Barrett (1994). European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8240-5306-2.