Table of contents

Foreword by Rabbi Morton H. Narrowe
A Brand Plucked From the Fire		 ix
Introduction xi
I Nation Without a Country
1 The First Crusade 3
2 The Dark Ages 17
3 Marriage: love, money and survival 21
II Bohemia
4 Early Jewish existential conditions in Bohemia 31
5 The emancipation of Jews under French dominion 39
6 Jewish customs in Bohemia 45
7 The Jewish community of Humpolec 55
III Hamburg
8 The Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck Jewish communities 67
9 A view of Hamburg’s first Jews 69
10 Living conditions of the Jews of Hamburg 79
11 The ‘Lower East Side’ of Hamburg 84
IV Family Roots
12 Unproven connections: Rabbis, Court Jews and others 91
13 Oppenheim name and migrations 102
14 Family facts, fragments and legends 105
15 Lineal who is who 199
V World War II
16 Kristallnacht in Innsbruck 213
17 As they remembered it 219
18 Shoa 332
19 In Memoriam 339
Bibliography 349
Index of names 352