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  • Alexander, Eleanor,  (8)
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  • 1
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    Remembering Leo Baeck / (2002)
    Peterborough, NH :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jewish religious education. ; Teachers. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Leo Baeck as a teacher in religious education in Duesseldorf high school 1906-1912
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 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
  • 3
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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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  • 4
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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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  • 5
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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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    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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    Lessing, Voltaire and the Jews. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, ; Voltaire, ; Enlightenment ; Jewish question. ; Judaism. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Lessing and his relationship to the Jewish question and Voltaire.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    How funny was Schickelgruber? : A collection of jokes, anecdotes and reflections about the era of the Third Reich. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 50 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Hitler, Adolf, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Wit and humor. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about humor during the Third Reich.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 9
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    A Tribute to my Mother Hedwig Eyck (1888-1971). (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages (doublespace) : , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Eyck, Erich, ; Eyck, Hedwig. ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Woman authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Lawyers
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander, née Eyck, born in Berlin in 1913, on her mother Hedwig Eyck including information on her involvement in the Democratic Party and her philanthropic and cultural activities, description of life in Nazi Germany, of her emigration to England, and of her experiences there.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 10
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    Comparing notes. (1992)
    [Evanston, Illinois] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 15 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Döblin, Alfred, ; Döblin, Alfred, ; Minder, Robert. ; Jewish refugees ; Refugees. ; Cahors (France) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the author's meeting with Alfred Doeblin in the freight car of a military transport, leaving occuppied Paris in 1940 for Cahors: information on Ferrand's family which Ferrand believes is portrayed in Doeblin's "Schicksalsreise," critical comments on Doeblin's work and character, and information on Ferrand's father's work as advisor on German Affairs for the French government and on the family's emigration to the United States.
    Abstract: Also included is a newspaper clipping from 1991 with Ferrand's letter to the editor on Frederick the Great.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Unbidden Guest : [A memoir of an Odyssey to Ellis Island]. (1988)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 503 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Friedland, Bertha. ; Friedland, Hermann. ; Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann. ; Fry, Varian, ; Kaplun, Sol. ; Ullmann family. ; Warburg, Max. ; Warburg, Paul. ; Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees ; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III). , 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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