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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (29)
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    Leo Baeck memorial lectures, (1958-2015)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 57 , publications.
    Year of publication: 1958-2015
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jews, German Lectures and lecturing. ; Lectures and lecturing. ; Manuscripts. ; Publications.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck Institute was founded by representative organizations of Jews from Germany for the purpose of collecting material on and sponsoring research into the history of the Jewish community in Germany and in other German-speaking countries from the Emancipation to its dispersion. The Institute is named in honor of the man who was the last representative figure of German Jewry in Germany during the Nazi period. The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is an annual event at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, when esteemed academics and scholars talk about various aspects of the German-Jewish experience and history, as well as to other, related topics.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck memorial lectures
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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser : : 1913-1987 (1987-2013)
    Sherman Oaks and Santa Monica, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 79 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Guttentag family. ; Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Lesser, Max. ; Lesser, Siegfried. ; Lesser, Valerie (née Honig) ; Architects. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The original account covers Lesser’s life from his birth in 1913 to 1921, when the Lesser family moved from Posen (today Poznan) to Brandenburg a/d Havel. Margaret L. Bach, Reinhard Lesser’s daughter, continuous her father’s story to the end of his life in 1987.
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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: genealogical tables
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Architects Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first 50 pages encompass Lesser’s memoirs from his birth to ca. 1920; his further life is then described by his daughter, Margaret Lesser Bach.
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    Letters from Peter Bloch to Alfonso Ramirez, (1967-2008)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 , 90+107+50+39 pages.
    Year of publication: 1967-2008
    Keywords: Fourth International. ; Socialist Workers Party. ; World politics. ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence ; Correspondence ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Collection of 151 letters written by Peter Bloch in New York to his colleague and friend Alfonso Ramirez in Venezuela. The letters, written in English, touch primarily on socialist ideological interpretations of world events, triggering commentaries about politics in North America, Europe (Germany) and Asia (mostly China). Also discussed are various aspects of the Caribbean islands and Latin America. Alfonso Ramirez’ replies in Spanish are not included.
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    Memories from our childhood, (1984-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984-1992
    Keywords: Klauber family. ; Industrialists. ; Cigarette industry. ; Country life. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Lace and lace making. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of lace-making industry (Kloeppel industry) in Schwanenbrueckl, Bohemia; mushroom picking in Schwanenbrueckl; description of local fire brigade, general store; description of farm and farm life; medical treatments in the village; description of local school; religious instruction; description of house garden; description of food and diet; wedding at synagogue in Pilsen; honeymoon trip in Prague, Vienna, Poertschach; settled in Munich; birth of daughter; move to Czechoslovakia in 1937; flight to Prague in 1938; emigration to USA in 1939.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Memoirs of Henry Salfeld], (1978-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 42 + 104 + 13 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and letters.
    Year of publication: 1978-1992
    Keywords: Adler, Fritz. ; Heimerdinger family. ; Heimerdinger, Leo. ; Heiming, Henry. ; Marxsohn, Richard. ; Neukirch, Carl. ; Salfeld family. ; Salfeld, Albert. ; Salfeld, Alice. ; Salfeld, Berthold. ; Salfeld, Erich. ; Salfeld, Henry. ; Salfeld, Ludwig. ; Salfeld, Siegmund. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Universities and colleges ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotes concerning experienced anti-Semitism at universities; outbreak of World War I; death of father; memories of student days at University of Munich; French occupation of Wiesbaden; account of Nazi boycott of April 1, 1933 in Wiesbaden.
    Abstract: Account of arrival in USA in 1933; relationships with African-Americans; life in New York; attempts to find employment; death of family members in Holocaust; emigration of mother to USA; reflections on Jewish religion and Jewish identity; membership in various Jewish organizations.
    Abstract: Geneology of Salfeld family; rabbinical career of Siegmund Salfeld; childhood memories growing up in Wiesdbaden; lives of father and mother; father's medical practice in Wiesbaden; death of father; siblings; death of sister and her family in Holocaust; geneology of Heimerdinger family; Gymnasium; social activities as teenager in Wiesbaden; Jewish life in Wiesbaden and anti-Semitism; university study of law at Munich; life in Munich; study at Leipzig; study at Frankfurt; experience of inflation of 1923 and French occupation; work as lawyer in Frankfurt; relationionships with women; engagement and marriage to wife; loss of job following Nazi seizure of power; emigration to USA in 1933.
    Description / Table of Contents: Little stories from the past
    Description / Table of Contents: In U.S.A.
    Description / Table of Contents: The past
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Who are we and why we are here. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Mayer, Leopold. ; Mayer, Amalie. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Tachov (Czech Republic : Okres) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs written in the USA in 1989-1990.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copy on MF 503 , English , Synopsis in file
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    Sokolosky : A story of a family (1990)
    Pascagoula, Mississippi :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 90 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: index
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Sokolosky family. ; Families Genealogy. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews, German ; Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vicksburg (Miss.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Genealogy of Sokolosky family reaching back to their Posen origins; emigration to New Orleans, Mississippi and Texas in the 1860s; further family history in USA until 1990.
    Abstract: Also included are family documents and photographs of Sokolosky family members and their gravestones.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    My life - a series of notes and observations on a sequence of improbabilities. (1990)
    Winnetka, IL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 32 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Fraenkel, Max (Sali), ; Fraenkel family. ; International Student Service. ; Bankers. ; Citizenship ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Engineers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author describes his family history from the late 19th century; his father (Sali) Max Fraenkel was born as the youngest of four children in 1878 in Zuelz, Silesia; 1906 he moved to Berlin and became a manager in one of Berlin's larger banks (Diskonto Gesellschaft); due to the prejudiced environment Max Fraenkel could only get to a certain rank as a Jewish employee; 1916 marriage of the parents in Breslau; Stephen Fraenkel's mother was born 1888 in Kattowitz, Silesia; she was a piano teacher and very musical; the family lived in Berlin, Charlottenburg in a solid bourgeois neighborhood; summer vacation with family in Breslau and at the Baltic Sea Coast; recollections of the German inflation in the early 20s; trips to the outskirts of Berlin; liberal environment; elitist high school education (gymnasium); cultural life; depression years and unemployment; 1932 his mother died of cancer; political instability; Nazism gaining more political ground; school exchange trip to France; 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor; beginning of persecutions; 1935 his father lost his job at the bank; "Nuremberg Laws" and loss of civic rights; student exchange trip to London in 1935; Olympic games in Berlin in 1936; graduation from gymnasium; limited work or education possibilities; endangered life due to frequent personal assaults; engineering school in Hannover; in 1937 he got approved for a scholarship through the "International Student Service" which ultimately saved his life; preparations and departure; arrival in New York and Lincoln, Nebraska in January 1938.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Searching for the almost forgotten : the Straus family before America. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25+17 , bound manuscripts (photocopies); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Straus family. ; Straus, Lazarus, ; Macy's (Department store) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Otterberg (Germany) ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Thomas Randolph Selden travelled to the Palatinate in Germany in search of his roots.
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    Childhood Memoirs of World War II. (1990)
    Lawrence, Ks :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: iv + 29 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Longeray, Claudius, ; Catholic Church. ; Children. ; Jewish refugees ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; Annecy (France) ; Calvisson (France) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Paris (France) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Antisemitism, Antifeudalism and the Village Community in Seventeenth Century Central Germany : The Case of Merzhausen, Hesse, 1646-1672. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 24 pages.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Germany History. ; Hesse. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memoirs 1911-1940 / (1990)
    San Francisco, Calif. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 97 , 97 pages : , typescript. , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: Susi Lewinsky Collection
    Keywords: Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; History ; Jewish teachers History 1933-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; History ; El Salvador Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; History ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; History ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs.
    Abstract: The memoir covers Lewinsky's childhood, social world, and education from primary through university studies in Hamburg. The manuscript also offers extensive details about her work as an elementary school teacher in a school run by the Jewish community of Hamburg during the 1930s, and about her decision to emigrate in 1938-1939 to England for a nurse's training program. She notably decided not to join her family in the mid-1930s when they emigrated to Palestine. Accompanying the manuscript is Lewinsky's curriculum vitae.
    Note: A handwritten synopsis of memoir in available in the folder.
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    Autobiography of Elisheva Stern nee Dann / (1990)
    Maoz Haim :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Dann, Albert. ; Dann family. ; Dann, Fanny. ; Stern, Ephraim. ; Bookbinders. ; Jewish families ; Jews Social life and customs 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women Education. ; Woman authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Elisheva Stern including genealogical information: Description of her childhood and youth in Augsburg; of her schooling and university education in Hebrew and philosophy in Munich and Berlin; of her studies for a Teachers Certificate in London and Oxford; of her emigration to England, Sweden and Palestine; of her parents' experiences in Nazi Germany and their emigration to Israel in 1939; of life in Palestine and Israel; of trips to Germany after the war; and information on her children.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Chance or destiny? (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Neu, Rosa. ; Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) ; Art Study and teaching. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Occupational therapy. ; Textile designers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belfast (Northern Ireland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manchester (England) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trude Neu Lindsey recalls her life in Nazi Germany. Trude Neu had been accepted at the Nuremberg Art Academy in 1930. Her training was interrupted and she was expelled from the school due to the Nazi takeover. Her father lost his factory and soon after contracted diabetes. He died in 1936. In 1938 the family was forced to leave their appartment in Petzoldstrasse in Nuremberg. Recollection of the street terror in the November pogrom in 1938. The family made arrangement to leave the country. Trude was accepted at the German-Jewish refugee commitee in Northern Ireland, where she found a position in a houshold. She left Germany in June 1939. The committee was administered by the Quakers, who organized meetings for the refugees. Trude tried fervently to get papers for her mother and grandmother to leave Germany. Only her mother's papers worked out. Rosa Neu was on the last train leaving Germany in September 1939. They lived at a tight budget but were happy to be reunited. They worked together as a cook and chambermaid in two households. In her sparetime Trude worked on several sketches of the beautiful landscape. Trude and her mother Rosa moved to Belfast and lived in a small apartment. Trude started producing her own collection of painted dolls in different costumes, which she sewed herself (Trude Neu Toy). The Womens' Institute showed interest in her work, and Trude was invited to give speaches. Trude took classes at the Belfast Art Academy in textile design and printing. Her mother worked as a dressmaker and made the acquaintance of the wife of the parliamentary secretary, Sir Harry Mulholland. Trude was offered a job as a textile designer at the York Street Flax Spinning Mills.
    Abstract: She designed also furniture and worked on her sketches. After the war she was transfered to the branch in Manchester. In 1946 Trude had her first exhibition at a gallery in Manchester. Her textile designs were exhibited as well. In 1948 Trude started her training as an occupational therapist and taught art to older pupils. She was sent to Germany under the auspices of the International Refugee Organization as a therapist. She worked in a sanatorium in Heilborn for three months. Trude Neu continued her work as a qualified occupational therapist back in England until her retirement in 1973.
    Note: Translated by David Green from the book "Flucht, Vertreibung, Exil, Asyl, Nuernberg, 1990." , English , Synopsis in file
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    Steps of stone. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 168 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Jewish refugees Fiction. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A fictionalized autobiography.
    Note: English
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    The Koenigswarter family mostly in America : A new version of the Stammbaum der Familie Königswarter. (1990)
    Washington, DC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Koenigswarter family. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: This is a greatly enlarged edition of Stammbaum der Familie Koenigswarter, published in German in Hannover in 1894. It focuses on the descendants of Fanny Koenigswarter Adler. Also included are ancestors of Jeanette Oppenheim Koenigswarter; narrative context and anecdotal material plus bibliography; recent genealogical data and addresses to the extent known; and largely reconstructed sources.
    Note: Manuscript is microfilmed on MSF 63.
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    About my life. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 93 + 20 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two memoirs].
    Keywords: Dosenheimer family. ; Schwerin, Kurt, ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Librarians. ; Marriage. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; Frankenthal (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany) ; Pleasantville (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of aunt; childhood memories; description of various family members; move to Frankenthal; childhood friendships; primary school in Frankenthal; Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen; description of teachers; study at University of Freiburg; experiences and friends at Freiburg; study at University of Cologne; family moves to Landau; study at University of Munich; study at Grenoble; family moves to Heidelberg; death of father; emigration of brother to Palestine; experiences after 1933; immigration to USA; arrival in USA in 1937; life and work at children's home in Pleasantville, New York; courtship and marriage; work as librarian; social life and friends in USA; participation with husband in discussion group around Siegfrid Marck in Chicago; reflections on relationship to contemporary Germany; travels to Germany and Israel.
    Abstract: Also included is an essay about Schwerin's first years in the United States, "A chapter out of my life: The Pleasantville years".
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Altenberg, Peter; Dosenheimer, Elise; Dosenheimer, Ernst Karl; Dosenheimer, Paula; Laux, Ilse; Levi, Paula; Lindberg, Paula; Lowenthal, Ernst Gottfried; Marck, Siegfried; Rosenberg, Anna; Sachs, Erich; Schmidt, Heinrich; Schottland, Trude; Weber-Sachs, Hanna.
    Note: Available on microfilm , some German poetry , English
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    The autobiography of a Jewish refugee. (1990)
    Kent,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 169 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Hirschfeld family. ; Jacoby family. ; Liebenau family. ; Simke family. ; Moses family. ; Great Britain. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Family tree
    Description / Table of Contents: Autobiography
    Description / Table of Contents: Updated family tree
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    Abstracts from the 17th Amherst Colloquium on German Literature. (1990)
    Amherst, Mass. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Roth, Joseph, ; Seghers, Anna, ; Vansittart, Robert Gilbert Vansittart, ; Zweig, Arnold, ; Authors, Exiled. ; German literature. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Papers presented at the 17th Amherst colloquium on German literature, April 26-28, 1990.
    Description / Table of Contents: Konrad Feilchenfeldt: "Lord Vansittart and the German Emigration in England", 2 pages;
    Description / Table of Contents: Margarita Pazi: "Joseph Roth, 1894-1939", 4 pages;
    Description / Table of Contents: Guy Stern: "The children’s books of the exiles as a political statement”, 3 pages;
    Description / Table of Contents: Alexander Stephan: "History from below. Daily fascism and resistance in Anna Seghers' novel The Seventh Cross”, 1 page;
    Description / Table of Contents: Robert Cohen: "Arnold Zweig and the Arab Question: On the change in his thinking through his work on the novel De Vriendt Comes Home", 1 page.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Alexander Stephan’s announcement for a new book series for ‘exile studies’ to be published by Peter Lang (Bern) in 1990.
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    My Journey to America. (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 + 3 pages : , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Gottlieb family. ; Gottlieb, Julius, ; Seeligmann, Sigmund, ; Customs inspection. ; Emigration and immigration 1880s. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Buffalo (N.Y.) ; Chicago (Il.) ; Detroit (Mich.) ; Hoboken (N.J.) ; Kansas. ; Pleasanton (Kan.) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Julius Gottlieb were written in 1885. They were translated by Selma Gottlieb Kallis. Description of Julius Gottlieb's departure for his journey to America in 1884 through several German cities. Difficulties to find a synagogue on Sabbath. Departure from Bremen with the ship "Danube". Description of seasickness and other experiences during the trip. Arrival at the port of Hoboken, New Jersey. Recollection of the extensive investigations at the customs office. The passengers were taken to Castle Garden to continue further emigration procedures. Julius Gottlieb was welcomed by his cousin Rosalie, where he stayed the first days. Continuation of his trip to Kansas via Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit. Arrival in Pleasanton, Kansas, where he met his relatives.
    Abstract: Addendum: "Julius Gottlieb biography" by Regina Gottlieb.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    A family history : for my children and grandchildren (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 325 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Kohn family. ; Krafft family. ; Zwiedinek family. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are divided into five parts. Part 1: The Kohns/ Kraffts deals with her parents and their siblings. In Part 2: The Zwiedineks, she talks about other branches of the family, mainly her ancestors from the 17th century. Part 3: The Bambergers is another husband's family and deals with her own story from her marriage until the immigration with her husband and their two children. Part 4 begins with the description of their immigration via England to Los Angeles, the family's life in the States and the fate of relatives and friends. The last part is about her family, travels with and later without her husband, and a family reunion in Quisisana in 1986.
    Note: English
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    Abbreviated memoirs. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Antisemitism ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short and quite compact memoir, written probably in the 1990s. Hedy Krasnobrod briefly describes her social and family background, political events in Austria in 1934, later the Anschluss, and her family's efforts to get out of Austria. They went to Belgium which turned into a hostile city after the German invasion. Hedy Krasnobrod was sick and needed an appendectomy. She received false papers by the Belgian underground movement, and worked as a nurse. She experienced the liberation of Brussels on September 4, 1944, and stayed there until 1953 when they moved to Denver, CO.
    Note: English
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    A Berlin Childhood ca. 1900. (1990)
    Yellow Springs, Ohio :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 + 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Benjamin, Walter, ; Benjamin, Walter, Childhood and youth. ; Authors, German Biography 20th century ; 20th century. ; Children. ; Authors, German Biography. 20th century ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: English translation of "Berliner Kindheit um 1900" by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, following Benjamin's final version from 1938, published in Bibliothek Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in File.
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    Timetable to nowhere : The story of the Sosua Settlement (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 + 47 + 3
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Agricultural colonies. ; Jewish refugees. ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) History 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about the history of the Sosua Settlement since 1940.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The prophets, revelation and peoplehood in the thought of Max Wiener. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: x + 278 pages : , original typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Dissertation note: Graduate School Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1990
    Keywords: Wiener, Max, ; Judaism. ; Theologians. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Thesis on theologian Max Wiener, Jewish theology, and German Judaism.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Viennese Reconstruction after World War II. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two Manuscripts].
    Keywords: Housing. ; Postwar reconstruction. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Allied occupation, 1945-1955. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) Economic conditions. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay outlining the physical reconstruction of Vienna after 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Austrian Anti-Semitism : One Woman's Experience. (1990)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two Manuscripts].
    Keywords: Garelick, Marta. ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jews Persecutions ; Women lawyers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay, based largely on an interview, recounting the experiences of the Jewish woman Marta Garelick in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Garelick was the first female lawyer in Vienna, and emigrated to Ireland shortly after the Anschluss.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Jewish soldiers in Austro-Hungarian Society. (1990)
    [New York] :Leo Baeck Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two lectures on Jews in Austria].
    Keywords: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. ; Jewish soldiers. ; Jews 19th century. ; Habsburg Monarchy. ; Austria Ethnic relations. ; Hungary Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Lecture discussing the role of Jewish soldiers and officers in the Austro-Hungarian military in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    The Book of Genesis : An Introduction to the Biblical World (1990)
    [Jerusalem] : Magnes Press
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    ISBN: 9789654939225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 1990
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Bible Studies
    Abstract: This book tries to present the aim, spirit and content of the Book of Genesis. Most literature on the Book of Genesis consists of either a detailed commentary on the Book or a study of its different sources and components. This work intends, instead, to elucidate the main ideas implicit in the narrative and to describe the salient features of its chief personalities
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