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Family portraits, return visits, places and other documentary photographs.
88 · Late nineteenth century–2025
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Document / objectThe full mount keeps Dolf’s childhood portrait and pencil marks togetherThis photograph shows the complete mounted portrait of young Dolf Reichenbach, including tape, tears and faint writing along the lower edge. The family kept the physical mount, and matching details join it to the separate inscription view. It confirms that the pencil is on the front mount, but the note remains only partly legible.
Document / objectA faint pencil note begins with Dolf’s nameThis close view enlarges the writing beneath young Dolf’s mounted portrait. The family identifies the sitter, while the matching paper, tape and tears prove that this is the front of the same mount. The note appears to begin “Dolf,” but the remaining words cannot be read responsibly.
Document / objectGustav Reichenbach’s gravestone links the Wernigerode branchThis photograph shows the gravestone of Salomon Gustav Reichenbach. Mourners placed the stone for the man whose household and business carried the family into Wernigerode. It secures his burial and identity, but does not tell the full history of the branch.
Document / objectIn the camp officeHope Chernak describes this as one of the photographs she took while working at Kutz Camp in the early 2000s. Two people sit across an office desk. Their identities and the exact date are not supplied.
Document / objectJenny and Philipp Liebenthal sit together for a portraitThis family photograph shows Jenny Liebenthal née Schottländer beside Philipp Liebenthal. Descendants kept the double portrait, and comparison with separate identified images supports both names. The couple is established, but the date, studio and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectJudenstraßeJudenstraße, the center of Jewish settlement in Halberstadt from the Middle Ages. The photograph lets us locate a street at the center of Jewish life in the city. It does not identify a Reichenbach home or shop.
Document / objectLoui Dobin stands beside his friend Paul J.This modern family photograph shows Loui Dobin, longtime director of Greene Family Camp, beside Paul J. Reichenbach. The two men carried a lifelong friendship through Reform Jewish youth work. Their identities are established, but the date, place, occasion and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectLoui Dobin, Paul J. and Jeff Klepper stand togetherThis modern family photograph shows Loui Dobin, Paul J. Reichenbach and Cantor Jeff Klepper from left to right. The three friends shared a long history in Reform Jewish life. Their identities are established, but the date, location, occasion and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectMargarete, Ruth and DolfMargarete Reichenbach with Ruth and Dolf. The family identifies the mother and her two children. The photograph does not carry a secure date or place.
Document / objectMiriam Mathilde’s Hebrew stone names Moshe HaLevi as her husbandThis photograph shows the Hebrew gravestone of Miriam Mathilde Reichenbach née Loewenthal. The inscription names her husband as Moshe HaLevi, whom the cemetery register identifies as Moritz Reichenbach in the adjoining plot. It establishes that household and date, but their relationship to the principal family line remains unresolved.
Document / objectThe German face names Mathilde ReichenbachThis companion photograph shows the German face of Miriam Mathilde Reichenbach’s gravestone. The inscription gives the same Hebrew date as the adjoining face and names her in German. It confirms the two sides belong to one stone, but it does not resolve the household’s wider family connection.
Document / objectOn the waterPaul Reichenbach sits in the stern of a rowboat, still in jacket and tie. No place or date survives with the photograph.
Document / objectOne Baroque wall survives from Halberstadt’s synagogueThis photograph shows the surviving vestibule wall of the synagogue inaugurated in 1712. Visitors now stand beside a fragment left after desecration and demolition. The wall preserves part of the building, but not the sanctuary or the life once held inside it.
Document / objectPaul and DolfPaul and Dolf stand together in this family photograph. No place, date or photographer survives with the print.
Document / objectPaul J. addresses a Reform Jewish gatheringThis family photograph shows Paul J. Reichenbach speaking later in his career. The audience and photographer stood inside the movement work to which he gave decades. The image preserves him at the lectern, but the event, date and photographer are not identified.
Document / objectPaul J. announces a URJ Biennial from the boothThis family photograph shows Paul J. Reichenbach at a URJ Biennial announcer booth while Loui Dobin works the sound. Friends turned Paul’s booming announcements into the nickname “the Voice of God.” The image preserves the role and joke, but the exact Biennial and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectPaul J. leads a youth session in mid-conversationThis family photograph catches Paul J. Reichenbach teaching and taking questions during a youth session. Someone in the room preserved the exchange rather than a formal pose. The image shows his manner at work, but the event, date and photographer are unknown.
Document / objectPaul J. sends teenagers off from JFKThis family photograph shows Paul J. Reichenbach speaking to teenagers before departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport. The young people and adults around him shared a program departure he helped prepare. The scene records the send-off, but the date, program, photographer and other figures are not identified.
Document / objectPaul J. sits for a student portraitThis family-held portrait shows Paul J. Reichenbach before his professional career. He sat for a school or studio photographer, and the family kept the result. The sitter is known, but the school, year and photographer have not been identified.
Document / objectPaul J. speaks beneath the NFTY bannerThis family photograph shows Paul J. Reichenbach at a podium beneath the NFTY banner early in his movement years. The setting places him inside the youth work that shaped his career. It does not identify the event, audience, date or photographer.
Document / objectPaul J. stands with his son DanielThis family photograph brings Paul J. Reichenbach together with his son, Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach. The family kept the image of two generations side by side. It establishes the sitters, but the occasion, date and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectPaul J. works with pen and telephone at his deskThis family photograph catches Paul J. Reichenbach with a pen in one hand and the telephone receiver in the other. Someone close to his early work preserved an unposed office moment. It shows him at work, but the date, place and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectPaul ReichenbachPaul Reichenbach as a younger man. The family identifies Paul. No date, place or photographer survives with the print.
Document / objectPaul Reichenbach in midlife outdoorsPaul Reichenbach in midlife, outdoors. The family identifies Paul. The photograph does not preserve its date, location or photographer.
Document / objectPaul Reichenbach standing by a terracePaul Reichenbach standing by a terrace. The family identifies Paul. The exact date, location and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectPaul holds a cigar at a Halberstadt gatheringThis direct scan shows Paul Reichenbach with a cigar among other people at a gathering in Halberstadt. The family kept the print, and the scanned reverse preserves a later order or finishing note. Paul is identified, but the occasion, date, exact place, photographer and other people remain unknown.
Document / objectThe back of Paul’s cigar photograph begins with SpiegelThis photographed verso preserves a pencil order note beginning “#Spiegel” and including the measurement 7 × 9¼. A photo finisher, framer or later holder wrote the mark on the print. It may point to Ruth Spiegel’s keeping of the photograph, but that custody link is not confirmed.
Document / objectPaul with Al — a photograph from Hope ChernakHope Chernak captions this photograph “Paul with Al, outside the camp offices.” The image shows two people in an interior corridor. Date and photographer unknown; Al’s full name and the camp are not supplied in this caption.
Document / objectHebrew face of Paul Reichenbach’s gravestoneThe complete Hebrew face of Paul Reichenbach’s gravestone in the Jewish cemetery at Halberstadt. The inscription names Paul in Hebrew and gives the date of his death. The photograph’s date and photographer have not been established.
Document / objectPaul’s Hebrew inscription appears after cleaningThis photograph shows the Hebrew face of Paul Reichenbach’s gravestone after it was cleaned. Daniel’s family visit made the letters easier to see without replacing the stone’s weathered surface. The image records the cleaned condition, but not every stage of the inscription’s earlier wear.
Document / objectRuth Helene ReichenbachRuth Helene Reichenbach as a young adult. The date of the portrait has not yet been established.
Document / objectRuth Reichenbach at the beachRuth Helene Reichenbach as a child beside a wicker beach chair. The place is probably Westerland on Sylt; this photograph carries no visible location mark or date.
Document / objectRuth wears her name on her sailor collarThis family photograph shows Ruth Reichenbach as a young girl with a pin spelling her name on her sailor collar. Someone close enough to dress or photograph her preserved a direct link between child and name. The family identifies Ruth, but the exact date, place and photographer are unknown.
Document / objectSubie and Dolf sit together later in lifeThis direct scan shows Susan “Subie” Ulmer Reichenbach and Adolf “Dolf” Reichenbach together. The family kept the print with its color cast and surface marks intact. Their identities are known, but the date, occasion, location and photographer are not.
Document / objectThis ancestor may be Jacob ReichenbachThis family portrait shows an older Reichenbach ancestor whom family memory has associated with Jacob Reichenbach. Someone kept the likeness through later generations. The sitter is not named on the object, so Jacob remains a possibility rather than a confirmed identification.
Document / objectThis portrait shows Adolf Reichenbach, Paul’s fatherThe family identifies the sitter as Adolf Reichenbach. Comparison with the memorial portrait and gravestone photographs supports the name that descendants kept with the image. The likeness is secure enough to publish, but its date, studio and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectThis portrait shows Philipp LiebenthalThe family identifies the sitter as Philipp Liebenthal, Margarete Reichenbach’s father. Comparison with a captioned museum portrait supports that identification. The photograph gives his likeness, but its date, studio and photographer remain unknown.
Document / objectThis weathered gravestone has not yielded its nameThis Hebrew-inscribed stone appears among the family’s cemetery photographs. Someone visiting the Halberstadt cemetery photographed it, but the surviving image does not allow a responsible reading of the name or date. Its presence in the group suggests attention, not a proven Reichenbach identity.
Document / objectTogether at Kutz — a photograph from Hope ChernakTwo people pose outdoors at URJ Kutz Camp, as identified in Hope Chernak’s caption. Shared by Hope Chernak; the people pictured, date and photographer are not identified in the submission.
Document / objectWith Dorothy — a photograph from Hope ChernakHope Chernak identifies the four people in this photograph as Paul, Joui, Hope and Dorothy. Shared by Hope Chernak; date, place and photographer unknown.