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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.
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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
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    Dora Gross Moszkowski - Life Story : [1901-1987]. (1987)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Moszkowski, Arthur. ; Knight, Max. ; Smolka, Maria. ; Thon, Osias. ; Wizo. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Hasidism. ; Jews ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Kraków (Poland) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in California in 1987. Description of the Jewish history in Poland in the 18th and 19th century. Childhood recollections in Cracow. Her father was an insurance broker. Her mother came from a famous family of rabbis. Childhood friends and introduction into their Hasidic life style. Wish to continue with high school (Gymnasium) met with difficulties due to the implied tuition fees for girls. Outbreak of World War One and move to Vienna. In 1916 the Russian invasion of Cracow diminished and the family returned to Poland. Her father was called to the military. With her mother's help the family found the means to enroll Dora in the Gymnasium, where she became a full-fledged student. Engaging in the Zionist movement. Speech about the role of Jewish women in society and engaging in campaigns for equal education for girls. Graduation and applying for medical school. Being a girl and Jewish she was not accepted since there was a Jewish quota at university. Death of her mother. Application at medical schools in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1920 Dora moved to Vienna where she lived with a widowed cousin and took care of his children. Difficulties to be accepted at medical school as a foreigner. Taking classes at university as an extern. Position as a Polish language tutor. Business school in order to earn a living. Outings with friends. Cultural activities and the Viennese Burgtheater. Return to Cracow and position in a export business. Acquaintance and courtship with Arthur Moszkowski, an engineer from a well-to-do family. Return to university and studies of German and Polish. Political and Zionist activities in the WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization). Graduation from university in 1925 and work on her Ph.D. with a thesis on Ibsen. Position as a German teacher and initial difficulties with the government due to her being Jewish. In 1928 her Ph.D. was accepted.
    Abstract: Official engagement with Arthur Moszkowski. Trip to the Baltic Sea and wedding in 1929. Honeymoon in Austria. Pregnancy during the time her husband lost his position due to the growing antisemitism in Poland. Birth of their daughter Dunia. Difficulties in married life due to her new duties as a housewife and mother which did not fulfill her. Renewed political engagement. Lectures and speeches. Opening of a Montessori preschool in her apartment. Dora became the chairwoman of WIZO in Katovice. Awareness of political changes due to rising National Socialism in neighboring Germany. Temporary financial difficulties. Birth of their second daughter Zosia in 1937. Influx of German Jewish refugees and relief organizations. Outbreak of World War Two. Capture of Czortkow by the Russian military and life under Russian rule. Deportation to Siberia in 1940, which in the end saved them from being taken to German extermination camps. Labor camp in Sverdlovsk. The family was set free and could travel to Uzbekistan in west central Asia. Her husband, among many Polish refugees, contracted typhus and survived through the help of a befriended physician. He was able to obtain a position in Iran and Africa with the Polish military. Affidavit for the United States from a cousin in California. Arrival in New York in 1950. Move to Berkeley and difficulties in adapting to the culture and start of a new life. Master degree in child development and work with retarded children.
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    A Part of the Honors : Family-historical and auto-biographical vignettes. (1987)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 119 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Ehrenteil, Emanuel. ; Ehrentheil, Moritz. ; Fischer, Josephine. ; Perutz, Ada. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Trieste (Italy) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Otto Ehrenteil, completed in 1987, including genealogical information and family history reaching back to the generation of his grandparents in Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary, description of his childhood in Trieste and Vienna, of his schooling in Vienna, of Jewish life in Vienna before and after 1938, of his marriage to Josephine Fischer, of their family life, of their emigration to the USA via Italy and France and adjustment to life in America, of his efforts to help other Nazi victims, and of his post-War academic career.
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    The old order changeth : Memoirs of persecution and emigration (1987)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 173 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Drews family. ; Ettlinger family. ; Mainzer family. ; Nachmann family. ; Wormser family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Rastatt (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Ettlinger, Mainzer, Wormser, Drews and Nachmann families from Rastatt (Baden) and Frankfurt between 1933 and 1945; emigration to France and illegal crossing of borders to Switzerland; immigration to USA.
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    Interloper. (1987)
    [Garches] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 + 20 + 251 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Biennale di Venezia. ; Art dealers. ; Artists. ; Artists ; Artists ; Art museums. ; Celebrities. ; Music trade. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Desription of his life in Vienna, in the United States and later in Europe as an art dealer and writer of lyrics. Account of his personal philosophy.
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    [Lotte Treves]. (1987)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 114 + 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
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    Keywords: Aliberti, Gianni. ; Berneis, Hans. ; Dann, Gertrud. ; Dann, Lotte. ; Dann, Sophie. ; Schiff, Otto. ; Schönberger, Martin. ; Treves, Paolo. ; Treves, Claudio. ; Treves, Lotte (Dann), ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945 ; Physicians. ; Socialism. ; Translators. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Germany History 20th century. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Italy Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Italy Politics and government. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Lotte Treves including description of her childhood and her schooling in Augsburg; her medical studies; her emigration to England and work in various hospitals; her return to Italy and of her trips to the United States, Israel and Germany; information on Gianni Aliberti's experiences in the concentration camp Mauthausen; Lotte Treves' marriage to Paolo Treves; their children and grand-children; Paolo Treves' career and his political activities as a social democrat; Lotte Treves' work as a translator; her sisters Elisheva, Gertrud and Sophie.
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    Fred (Fritz) Lisberger. (1987)
    Baltimore, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Hamburger, Gretl. ; Spanier, Gretl. ; Wilmersdorfer, Anne. ; Wilmersdorfer, Siegfried. ; Wilmersdorfer family. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Leather industry and trade. ; Textile industry. ; Baltimore (Md.) ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Wallerstein (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Education in Wallerstein, Noerdlingen, and Munich; work in family's textile store in Wallerstein; death of father; move to Munich in 1938; fate of relatives during Holocaust; immigration to US in November 1938; settled in Baltimore, set up business in leather goods.
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    Czellitzer, Arthur, M.D. (1987)
    Salt Lake City :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Former Title: Arthur Czellitzer
    Keywords: Czellitzer, Arthur, ; Czellitzer family. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Entry on Dr. Arthur Czellitzer in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, submitted by Horst A. Reschke.
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    Reminiscences : [1910-1967]. (1987)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Fett, Ben Zion. ; Treuer, Fritz, ; Musicians. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; Women in education. ; Families 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This small booklet contains the transcripts of tape recordings of Mia Treuer's life story. The main speech was given before a Unitarian congregation in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1967.
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    [Jewish genealogical research in Germany]. (1987)
    Salt Lake City :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 24 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Wiener Library. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Entry on Jewish genealogical research in Germany in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, submitted by Horst A. Reschke.
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