Stefan Weis: „Entirely Unbeknown to His Homeland“
The Burgauers. History and Migrations of a Jewish Family from the mid-18th until the mid-20th Century
Written in 2013 this diploma thesis for the Innsbruck university introduces us to the history of a Hohenems family that over generations informed the development of Swiss Jewish communities, their origins and migrations. With a generous grant from the American Friends of the Jewish Museum Hohenems, made possible by the Leland Foundation (acqueline Burgauer-Leland and Marc Leland), we were able to publish this edited English translation of Stefan Weis’ book and to offer it as a download. English translation by Lilian Dombrowski.
Supported by the Leland Foundation, Jacqueline Burgauer-Leland and Marc Leland, London and the American Friends of the Jewish Museum Hohenems.
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Eva Grabherr: “Letters to Hohenems“
A Microhistorical Study of Jewish Acculturation
in the Early Decades of Emancipation, 2001
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Beit haChaim – Haus des Lebens
Der jüdische Friedhof in Hohenems
Ed. Eva Grabherr, Arno Gisinger
Hämmerle Druck, Hohenems 1992, 64 pages, with numerous b/w photographs by Arno Gisinger,  ISBN 3-901168-02-8. The book is out of print.
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