Louise Herschman Mannheimer

Louise Herschman Mannheimer (3 September 1845 - 1920) was a Czech-American writer, poet, school founder, and inventor.

Life

Herschman was born at Prague in 1845. In 1866, she went with her parents to New York City, where she married Sigmund Mannheimer. She wrote German and English poems, and articles and reviews for German and English periodicals. Zimmermann's "Deutscli in Amerika" (Chicago, 1894) contains some of her poems and a short biographical notice. Among her productions in English are "The Storm," a translation of one of Judah Halevi's poems, and "The Harvest," a prize poem (printed in "The American Jews' Annual," Cincinnati, 1897). In 1895, she published under the title of "The Jewish Woman" a translation of Nahida Remy's "Das Ji'idische Weib" (2d ed. 1897). She was the author of "The Maiden's Song",^[1] and a featured speaker at the Jewish Women’s Congress (1893) on the topic of "Jewish Women of Biblical and Mediaeval Times".^[2]

"Pureairin" Patent Ventilator

Mannheimer was the founder of the Cincinnati Jewish Industrial School for Boys and held patents for several devices.^[3] She was the inventor of the "Pureairin" Patent Ventilator.^[1] Mannheimer and her husband lived in Baltimore, New York City, St. Louis, and Rochester before settling in Cincinnati where he taught at the Hebrew Union College.^[4] They had two sons, and a daughter, the dramatist, Jennie Mannheimer Manner. She died in 1920.^[5]

References

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: K. Singer's & C. Adler's The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1912)

1. Singer & Adler 1912, p. 296.
2. Jewish Publication Society of America 1894, p. 6.
3. American Hebrew Publishing Company 1921, p. 525.
4. Litoff 1994, p. 185.
5. Litoff 1994, p. 186.

Bibliography

• American Hebrew Publishing Company (1921). The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (Public domain ed.). American Hebrew Publishing Company.
• Jewish Publication Society of America (1894). Papers of the Jewish Women's Congress: Held at Chicago, September 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1893 (Public domain ed.). Jewish Publication Society of America.
• Litoff, Judy Barrett (1994). European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8240-5306-2.
• Singer, Isidore; Adler, Cyrus (1912). The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Public domain ed.). Funk and Wagnalls.