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Leo Baeck memorial lectures, (1958-2015)

Leo Baeck Institute, New York ; Altmann, Alexander, ; Bamberger, Fritz, ; [et al.]

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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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Letters from Peter Bloch to Alfonso Ramirez, (1967-2008)

Bloch, Peter, 1921-

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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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From Vienna to New York : A Memoir. (1994)

Boveland, Brigitta ; Schreyer, Oscar.

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Language: English

Pages: 19 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1994

Keywords: Schreier, Erwin. ; Booksellers and bookselling. ; Industrialists. ; Jewish refugees. ; Journalists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The biography of the author's father, Oscar Schreyer, covering approx. 1905-1993.

Abstract: Father's World War I experience; early schooling; early interest in archeology; trips to Italy, Turkey and Palestine; work as journalist in Vienna; move to Berlin; friendship with Billy Wilder; return to Vienna in 1933; emigration to USA in 1939; unsuccessful business ventures; success with manufacture of decorative animal pins; later interest in book dealing.

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Holocaust survivor's story. (1994)

Meckel, Irma.

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Language: English

Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1994

Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Koblenz (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Interview with Irma Meckel (née Sonnenberg) about her experiences during the Holocaust.

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Descendants of Samuel Lesser Schafer. (1994)

Kornblut, Harold J.

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Language: English

Pages: circa 175 pages : , typescript ; , 1 folder.

Year of publication: 1994

Keywords: Schafer family. ; Iseman family. ; Emanuel family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Obrigheim (Germany) ; Börrstadt‏ (Germany) ; Ramsen (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables

Note: Documents on the history of the Schafer family including genealogical tables, correspondence, vital records, questionnaires.

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[Memoirs], (1990-1993)

Guggenheim, Felicia.

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Language: German

Pages: 12 + 82 + 27 + 23 + 24 + 15 pages : , handwritten manuscript +

Additional Material: correspondence

Year of publication: 1990-1993

Keywords: Vishniac, Roman, ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Recollections from the 1930s in Germany; account of experience of Kristallnacht; childhood memories of Berlin-Luisenstadt; memories of Berlin; engaged in 1922; children sent to England after 1933; emigration to Guatamala via France and England; return to Berlin in 1967; recollections of photographer Roman Wishniak.

Description / Table of Contents: Das Jahr 1934

Description / Table of Contents: Berlin : vorher - während - nachher

Description / Table of Contents: "Gestern kam ein Brief ..."

Description / Table of Contents: Über das Deutschtum

Description / Table of Contents: "In meinem vorigen Bericht ..."

Description / Table of Contents: Roman

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Courage in adversity : The creation of the Reichsvertretung. (1993)

Grubel, Fred 1908-1998.

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Language: English

Pages: 17 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1993

Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Jews Adult education 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational retraining 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational training 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Public welfare 1933-1945. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Hugo Hahn Memorial Lecture by Fred Grubel at Congregation Habonim in New York

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Modernity within tradition : The social history of orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany. (1992)

Breuer, Mordechai, 1918- ; Petuchowski, Elizabeth.

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Language: English

Pages: 490 + 723 pages : , proofs with additional copies of chapters.

Year of publication: 1992

Keywords: Orthodox Judaism. ; Jews Intellectual life 1871-1918. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Proofs of published book which document the influence of Orthodox Jews in German culture and society--art, literature, science, economy--as well as the background of the orthodox lifestyle (i.e. training and culture)

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Germany's Agenda for the 90's. (1991)

Mertes, Michael

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Language: English

Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1991

Keywords: American Jewish Committee. ; Germany International relations. ; Germany (East) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Draft of a speech at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Committee, outlining the moral and material responsibilities of the new, united Germany to play a peaceful role in the world, to preserve and open the archives of the former GDR, and to participate constructively in efforts to reach peace in the Middle East.

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My Memoirs. (1989)

Selver, Irmi.

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Language: English

Pages: 42 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1989

Keywords: Children. ; Jewish family. ; Women authors. ; Chemnitz (Germany) Childhood and youth. ; France. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Saxony (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in Chemnitz; emigration to Holland and USA; post-war life in USA and France; revisiting hometown of Chemnitz.

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When time ran out : Coming of age in the Third Reich. (1988)

Zeller, Frederic, 1924-1994.

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Language: English

Pages: 374 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1988

Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigrationn 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Memoir based on diaries kept by the sculptor Frederic Zeller as a boy; Nazi periods in Berlin; primary and secondary school; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to England via Holland; visit to Berlin in 1982.

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My Family Biography. (1984)

Mechner, Adolph.

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Language: English

Pages: 639 + 121 + 35 , typescript (copy); illustrated.

Year of publication: 1984

Keywords: Mechner family. ; Mechner, Francis. ; Mechner, Hedwig. ; Ziegler family. ; Ziegler, Lisa. ; Majdanek (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Concentration camps. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Cuba. ; Paris (France) ; Romania. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy

Abstract: Memoir in four volumes, richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, correspondence, genealogical tables, and newspaper clippings.

Abstract: Photocopies of family documents and photographs:

Abstract: Detailed biographical account of Dr. Adolph Mechner, born in Czernowitz in 1897. Description of historical events together with immediate and extended family. Adolescent years in Vienna, military service in World War I; medical studies in Vienna; courtship and marriage; family; medical practice in Vienna; emigration to Paris, Cuba and finally to the United States; deportation and extermination of relatives; family life and travels; transcripts of interviews with several members of the family.

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Camp of Gurs - Hiding - Liberation. (1984)

Barosin, Jacob

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Language: English

Pages: 5 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1984

Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Gurs (Concentration camp) In art. ; Artists. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Painters, Jewish. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Gurs (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: An essay by Jacob Barosin about his internment in Camp de Gurs (France) during World War II, written on occasion of an exhibition of his artwork in Kew Gardens, NY, 1984. Also included is a newspaper clipping about the exhibition.

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My four years of horror through the Holocaust. (1983)

Rosenberg, Heinz

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Language: English

Pages: 240 + 8 pages : , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1983

Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Płaszów (Concentration camp) ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Treblinka (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Göttingen (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Nazi seizure of power in Goettingen; move to Hamburg; persecution of Jews in Hamburg; deportation to Minsk; experiences in Minsk ghetto and concentration camps in Treblinka, Plaszow, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen; bomb raids on Bremen; liberation in Bergen- Belsen; transfer to Sweden; contains copies of documents and photographs.

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Haengt alles von der Beleuchtung ab... : (eine erzaehlte wahre Geschichte), (1982)

Roth, Wolfgang

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Language: German

Pages: 153 + 219 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1982

Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt, ; Eisler, Hanns, ; Finck, Werner, ; Mehring, Walter, ; Piscator, Erwin, ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Set designers. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Father's work as a waiter and restaurant owner; refusal to organize Bar-Mitzvah celebration; escape from parents' home at age of 17; attendance of art school and apprenticeship as painter; setting designer at Piscator's theater; work with Bertold Brecht, Walter Mehring, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck; artist milieu in Berlin around 1930; emigration to Austria in 1933 and Switzerland in 1934; work at the Zurich "Schauspielhaus"; has to leave Switzerland and emigrates to USA in 1938; as setting designer in New York show business; visit to Europe in 1949.

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