Store/Shop

In the Frankfurt address book 1925 is the following entries: Edenfeld Mor.S., merchant, Kettenhof - Weg No. 121. (Tel. Taunus 1548)  -  Moritz Edenfeld, Tuch u. Buckskin Großhandlung, Schnurgasse 43, Tel. (Hansa 3081), Inh. Mor.S.Edenfeld und J. Marx (Wiesb.). Proc. Karl Werner.

The roots of the Netheim family go back to 1784 to Ottbergen.There lived the first known ancestor of the family.Gumpert was married and died before his wife.Daughter Gella ( Helene) Gumpert (1777-1812) was married to Seligmann Salomon Eichholz and lived in Willebadessen.Son Feibelmann Gumpert Netheim (1770-1842) married Brendel Frohsinn (1772-1853).The couple had five children.Youngest son Salomon (1812-1900) was married to Henriette (Jettchen) Goldstein (1819-1901).The couple had seven children.

After working at another Jewish bookstore in the neighborhood, Hirsch (Tzvi) Lewin opened his own at Grenadierstra;e 28 in 1930, calling it the "Hebräische Buchhandlung" although it sold a wide variety of Judaica (ritual items) in addition to Jewish books. Rare books were kept in the basement. Another one of the store's sidelines, gramophone records, became its new specialty as Lewin founded the Semer music label in 1932 and began recording Jewish singers, especially cantors and theatrical performers, in a recording studio inside the bookshop.

Leopold Heinrich Hirsch was born on January 15, 1876 in Ulm.His parents were Moritz Hirsch from Wankheim and Anna Angelica Hirsch,née Moos of Buchau.Leopold Heinrich Hirsch married in 1906 Frida Veile Moos,geb. August 27, 1885, daughter of Adolf Moos from Kappel and Friederike Regina Moos,née Einstein of Buchau.Leopold Heinrich Hirsch and Otto Abraham Hirsch ran the haberdashery shop M. & H.