The Jewish Book Association was officially founded in February 1934. Its directors included the publisher Erich Lichtenstein (1888-1967) and Erwin Löwe (1895-1974). Only one year later, the Jewish Book Association already had 9,000 members. By the time of its forced dissolution in August 1938, it had published 19 works, including a German translation of the Torah and a history of the Jews in Germany.

Themed house of the publisher Erich Lichtenstein

Private apartment of the publisher Erich Lichtenstein in Jena 1920/21.

The shoe store of the Goldmann brothers could be found at the address Marktstraße 5 since 1921 at the latest. The owners Wilhelm and Hermann Goldmann themselves lived in Gera. In 1934 the company had disappeared from the address book.

Hermann Goldmann was deported to Buchenwald in November 1938 and from Berlin to the Riga ghetto in January 1942. There he perished.

„Naumann's house, behind the Seethore, a stone very graceful building, built in 1750 in the Italian taste, decorated with good sculpture. [It has an excellent garden, which its present owner Jude Eibeschütz has embellished in a splendid way and decorated with statues, grottoes, fountains, a pond and summer palace. [It is eleven windows long, but five of them extend forward as a double projection. The middle protrusion has three windows, where in the height of the belt ridge a beautiful free exit resting on consoles, protrudes, under which the doorway enters.

In some of the houses in the marketplace, Jewish businessmen sold the most diverse goods until 1938.

Last sold Adolf Meyer (No. 8) shoes as well as leather goods and the department store Josef Bodenheimer (No. 1 u. 3 / corner Rosenstraße) textiles. Siegmund Schaumburger (No. 7 / corner Werkes) offered men's clothing too.

Joseph Kaskele, the son of Jacob Kaskele and brother of Michael Kaskel, ran a bill of exchange business with his father-in-law Philipp Aaron at the Hotel de Pologne.