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  • Alexander, Eleanor,  (6)
  • Braun, Julie (Vogelstein),  (2)
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Remembering the Children of Terezin : 1942-1944. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Hirsch, Robin. ; Hollis, Jim. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Robin Hirsch and his book ‘Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski’. Also included are poetry and images by inmates of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    The world of Franz Kafka. (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kafka, Franz, ; Criticism. ; German literature 20th century. ; Literature. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: English
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Gratiarum Actio : Remembering A Good Life. (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 7 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Mann, Thomas, ; Hobart College. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Historians. ; Women authors. ; Berkeley (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including description of her time in Paris and London, her emigration to the United States, information on her husband Paul and his career as a historian; foreword by Paul Alexander; addendum by their son.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Stories of My Life. (1986)
    Berkeley, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Alexander, Paul. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Washington (D.C.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Eleanor Alexander including description of her childhood, medical school, emigration to Paris, London, Rolandia (Brazil), and Boston, marriage to Paul Alexander, information on their life in Washington DC and Princeton.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Für Marie-Louise, so unbedeutend es auch ist. (1966)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Braun, Heinrich, ; Braun, Julie (Vogelstein), ; Trott zu Solz, Adam von, ; Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Vogelstein, Ludwig, ; Art historians. ; Feminism. ; Journalists. ; Marranos. ; Sephardim. ; Spies. ; Women authors. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Szczecin (Poland) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Julie Braun-Vogelstein including information on her parents, her brother Ludwig Vogelstein, Lily and Heinrich Braun, and the Jewish community of Stettin, recollections of her visit in Budapest, an encounter with a Marrano in Toledo, of feminism in the United States, and of her arrest as an alleged Nazi spy during World War II. The typescript carries a handwritten dedication and the autor's signature.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Dreiklang des Lebens. (1965)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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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
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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