In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883 1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi s family with nine children, focusing on the special personality of her mother, Lotte Carlebach, nee Preuss (1900 1942). The book starts with the history of the Preuss family, goes on to describe the marriage of Lotte to Joseph Carlebach, and portrays in detail their dynamic family life until their...