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[Pirmasens in der Pfalz ist meine Geburts- und Heimatstadt]. (1998)

Wolff, Charles.

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Language: German

Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1998

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Keywords: Simon, Fred. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Pirmasens (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Political background to rise of Nazis in Pirmasens; account of Kristallnacht in Pirmasens; expulsion of Jewish men from Pirmasens to France; forced return to Germany; march from the town of Schweix to Pirmasens; deportation to Dachau via Ludwigshafen; arrival in Dachau; life in the camp; death of father at Dachau; release from Dachau with brother.

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Trudi Jeremias; New York : [1925-1998]. (1998)

Jeremias, Trudy (née Epstein), 1925-

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Language: German

Pages: 3 + 6 , synopsis; typescript.

Year of publication: 1998

Keywords: Stammtisch (New York, NY) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Airlines Employees. ; Jewelry Design. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Born in 1925, family immigrated to USA from Vienna in 1939; family settled in New York; life in New York; education in high school and college at Alfred University in New York state; work for Sabena airlines; engagement to Swiss man; lived in Vienna for three years, work in record shop in Vienna; life in New York; reflections on identity as Austrian/Jew/American.

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Juedische Wirtschaftsgeschichte : Inhaltsverzeichnis, Bibliographie. (1991)

Richarz, Monika

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Language: German

Pages: circa 800 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1991

Former Title: Inhaltsverzeichnis Bibliographie Juedische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Keywords: Economic history. ; Economics Bibliography. ; Economics History. ; Jews, German Economics. ; Germany Economics. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Table of contents for a for a work on Jewish economic history in Germany, 1671-1941, divided into five chapters, followed by an extensive bibliography, listing 7496 entries.

Description / Table of Contents: Pre-industrial era, 1671-1834

Description / Table of Contents: Early industrial era, 1834-1873

Description / Table of Contents: High industrial era, 1873-1914

Description / Table of Contents: War economy and inflation, 1914-1932

Description / Table of Contents: Nazi economics, 1933-1941

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Juden im Oeffentlichen Leben Deutschlands : Revolution und Weimarer Republik : Waehler und Regierungsmitglieder 1918-1933 (1980)

Hamburger, Ernest, 1890-1980.

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Language: German

Pages: 631 pages : , typescript; handwritten annotations.

Year of publication: 1980

Keywords: Jews in public life ; Public officers. ; Voting ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Draft for a book about Jews in public life in Germany between 1918 and 1933, concentrating on Jewish voters and members of the government.

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Reichstagsbrandt. (1980)

Nathorff, Hertha.

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Language: German

Pages: 58 + 2 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1980

Former Title: Memoiren (Diary)

Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Short introduction containing childhood in Laupheim (Wuerttemberg), university studies in Heidelberg and Munich, move to Berlin, and life as a physician in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The main part in form of a diary from the burning of the German parliament in 1933 to 1939 describes persecutions after 1933; life as a Jewish physician in Nazi Germany; the November pogrom of 1938; imprisonment of Erich Nathorff in concentration camp; immigration to USA. An epilogue describes new beginnings in USA after the emigration.

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Ada, Karl und Ellen : Eine Auschwitz Tragoedie (1979)

Salfeld, Henry.

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Language: German

Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1979

Keywords: Marxsohn, Ada. ; Marxsohn, Ellen. ; Marxsohn, Karl. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Deportation. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; France. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Short account of last years of author's sister's family before their deportation from Mainz to the internment camp of Drancy (France) and their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz.

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Memoiren des Ken C. Baumann : (frueher Kurt Baumann). (1977)

Baumann, Ken 1907-

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Language: German

Pages: 126 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.

Year of publication: 1977

Former Title: Memoiren

Keywords: Baumann, Ken (Kurt) ; Cornell University. ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews History 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jewish arts History 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Ithaca (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: This memoir was written by Ken Baumann in 1977 for the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. He describes his youth, education, and his work at the opera in Berlin. The bulk of the manuscript deals with the history of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. He immigrated to the United States in 1939.

Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Bab, Julius; Baeck, Leo; Dressel, Erwin; Ebert, Carl; Frommelt, Erwin; Gluck, Alma; Gregory, Ferdinand; Hauptmann, Gerhart; Herrmann, Max; Hinkel, Hans; Hoerth, Franz Ludwig; Jedzeg, Klaus; Jehuda ben Halevy; Levie, Werner; Loeb, Sylvia; Loewenstein, Susanne; Paechter, Heinz; Pachter, Henry M.; Piscator, Erwin; Rosenstock, Joseph; Stein, Susanne; Sten-Taubmann, Suzanne; Singer, Kurt; Tauber, Richard; Warburg, Irene; Zorn, Peter.

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Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)

Edinger, Dora, 1890-1977.

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Language: German

Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1970

Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources

Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.

Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).

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Dreiklang des Lebens. (1965)

Braun, Julie (Vogelstein), 1883-1971.

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Language: German

Pages: 594 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Vogelstein family. ; Vogelstein, Ludwig, ; Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Autobiography and family history: In the first part, Braun-Vogelstein tells the story of her parents, the orientalist and Rabbi Heinemann Vogelstein and his wife Rosa. The second part is devoted to their son Ludwig Vogelstein, who was involved in the copper industry. In the third part, Julie Braun-Vogelstein tells her own story, including her immigration to the United States in 1935.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Grundton, Mein Elternhaus

Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Terz, Mein Bruder Ludwig

Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: Quinte, Mein Lebensweg

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Memoiren von Karl Gerstenberg. (1965)

Gerstenberg, Karl.

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Language: German

Pages: 468 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: AEG-Telefunken. ; Gruschwitz Textilwerke Aktiengesellschaft, Neusalz (Oder)‏. ; Directors of corporations. ; Jewish families ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Nowa Sól (Poland) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs mend the author’s personal history – his upbringing and professional development – with the historic events from 1908 to 1936.

Abstract: Mentioned are Chancellor von Bülow; the German revolution 1918-1919; Kapp Putsch; the Barmat Scandal in 1924; Chancellor Gustav Stresemann; inflation; President Paul von Hindenburg; the Great Depression; Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; and the Nuremberg Race Laws.

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Meine Erlebnisse waehrend der nationalsozialistischen Zeit. (1965)

Abraham, Ruth

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Language: German

Pages: 17 pages : , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Describes mainly her experiences between 1933 and 1945. Ruth Abraham succeeded in getting her uncle out of prison and her father-in-law out of the Dachau concentration camp. After the start of the deportations in Berlin she went into hiding. A German woman provided her with identity papers. Ruth, her husband and her daughter - born in 1943 - survived the war and were liberated by the Russians. After the liberation the Russians compelled Ruth's husband to forced labor.

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Moses Hess : Vorkaempfer des Sozialismus und Zionismus (1962)

Heiman, Hanns, 1879-

Quito (Ecuador) :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 21 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1962

Keywords: Hess, Moses, ; Judaism. ; Socialism. ; Zionism. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Lecture at the Bene Berith Lodge in Quito, focusing on Hess' strong feelings for the fate of the oppressed proletariate and his growing Jewish consciousness, as well as his evolution from radical politics to scholarly study and finally to Jewish nationalism.

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Gedichte eines Emigranten. (1957)

Heiman, Hanns, 1879-

Quito (Ecuador) :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 61 , bound typescript.

Year of publication: 1957

Keywords: Authors, Exiled. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Refugees. ; Ecuador Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Poems on the destiny of a German-Jewish emigrant.

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Der ewige Jude : In Sage, Dichtung und Leben. (1949)

Heiman, Hanns, 1879-

Quito (Ecuador) :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 41 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1949

Keywords: German literature. ; Literature. ; Jewish refugees. ; Wandering Jew. ; Ecuador. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Lecture at „Asociacion de beneficencia israelita“ and other places in Quito (Ecuador), on the essence and development of the figure of the 'wandering Jew' in literature, from the Middle Ages to modern times.

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Heinrich Heine und die socialistisch-kommunistischen Ideen, Bewegungen und Vorkaempfer in Paris 1831-1856. (1948)

Heiman, Hanns, 1879-

Quito (Ecuador) :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 119 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1948

Keywords: Heine, Heinrich, ; Communism. ; Saint-Simonianism. ; Socialism. ; Socialists, German. ; Paris (France) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Essay on Heine and French utopian socialists, portraying Heine as a critical observer of early socialism, and describing his ties to German socialists in Paris.

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Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben : [1866-1941]. (1945)

Mayer, Bernhard

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Language: German

Pages: 238 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1945

Keywords: Kastein, Josef, ; Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, ; Landauer, Gustav, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sternheim, Carl, ; Eranos Foundation. ; Anarchism. ; Authors Meetings. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Intellectual life. ; Merchants. ; Socialism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ascona (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Hunsrück (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish milieu; apprenticeship as merchant at age of 14 in Simmern; description of daily life in Hunsrueck village of Laufensweiler, in Simmern and Saargemuend; move to Aachen; military service; employee for a large fur business in Brussel; friendship with anarchist Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer; in circles of Russian anarchists and revolutionaries; visits to Russia and Palestine; description of visits to USA, Egypt, Spain and Switzerland; literary circle in Ascona; "Eranos" - conferences in Ascona; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Carl Sternheim and Josef Kastein; emigration to USA; literary emigre circle in New York.

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Mein Leben. (1944)

Bodenheimer, Siegmund, 1874-1966.

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Language: German

Pages: 102 pages : , handwritten manuscript; bound notebook.

Year of publication: 1944

Keywords: Bodenheimer, Edgar, ; Bodenheimer family. ; Goldschmidt, Jakob, ; Darmstädter und Nationalbank‏. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Banks and banking. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Description of the political and economical conditions in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s.

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Einwanderer in Ecuador : Eine geschichtliche Betrachtung (1942)

Heiman, Hanns, 1879-

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Language: German

Pages: 28 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1942

Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Refugees. ; Ecuador. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Lecture at „Asociacion de beneficencia israelita“, Quito (Ecuador), discussing immigrants to Ecuador from ancient (Incas) to early modern (Spanish) to contemporary (Jewish) waves.

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Die Entwicklung des deutschen Judentums in Amerika.

Glanz, Rudolf

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Language: German

Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.

Keywords: Jews, German History. ; Jews, German Intellectual life. ; Jews, German Social life and customs. ; United States. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Undated manuscript: History and development of German Jewry in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes population; economic, professional and organizational life; as well as cultural, intellectual, and political involvement.

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