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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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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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Tacheles Reden : oder Entstehung eines Theaterstueckes aus dem heutigen juedischen Berlin. (1987)

Lowien, Merve ; Neiman, Susan.

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Language: German

Pages: 57 , bound typescript (photocopies).

Year of publication: 1987

Keywords: Jews Drama. ; Nineteen eighties. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Script of theater play, first performed on Nov. 6, 1987 at Literaturhaus Berlin.

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Die Rolle der juedischen Verleger in der Literatur Deutschlands. (1969)

Stadelmayer, Peter

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Language: German

Pages: 15 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1969

Keywords: Publishers and publishing. ; Jewish publishers. ; Jewish press. ; German literature. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Speech on the role of Jewish publishers; includes biographical information on several publishers.

Abstract: The following publishers and publishing houses are mentioned:

Abstract: Cassirer, Paul; Fischer, Samuel; Gustav Fischer Verlag; Harald Fischer Verlag; Hegner, Jakob; Heimann, Hugo; Heimann, Moritz; Herzfeld, Hellmuth; Malik-Verlag; Mosse Publishing House; R.G. Fischer Verlag; Schocken Verlag; Schocken, Salomon; Ullstein Publishing House; Wolff, Kurt.

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Die Aktualität Walt Whitmans : (Anlässlich seines 150. Geburtstags am 31. Mai 1969) (1969)

Urzidil, Johannes, 1896-1970.

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Language: German

Pages: 9 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1969

Keywords: Whitman, Walt, ; Authors, American. ; Poets, American. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Appreciation of the American poet Whalt Whitman and his work on occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth.

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Transozeanische Spiegelungen : (Natur und Freiheit bei Stifter und Thoreau) (1969)

Urzidil, Johannes, 1896-1970.

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Language: German

Pages: 1 + 6 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1969

Keywords: Stifter, Adalbert, ; Thoreau, Henry David, ; Authors. ; Nature in literature. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Equation of the American writer Henry David Thoreau, particularly in his book “Walden” with the German writer Adalbert Stifter, particularly in his story “Hochwald”.

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Der Aussenseiter. (1969)

Gersten, Walter.

[Berlin] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 30 pages (single space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1969

Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Bank employees. ; Concentration camps. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Dismissal as a bank employee; denial of visa and emigration; main part covers war time in Belgium; return to Germany after World War II.

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Biography [of Jacob Schechter], (1967)

Schechter, Meta Johanna. ; Schechter, Jacob.

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Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1967

Keywords: Women authors. ; Voyages and travels. ; Lawyers. ; Jews, East European. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Biographical sketch of American-Jewish lawyer born in Galicia; studies at New York University; travels to Europe; family life.

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War Criminals in Austria : A review of some recent cases (1966)

Beigel, Greta.

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Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Jews ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; War crimes World War, 1939-1945. ; Manuscripts.

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[Jüdische Gemeinde Wertheim]. (1966)

Bruchheimer, Ludwig. ; Cahn, Joseph.

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Language: German

Pages: 2 + 2 pages : , manuscript.

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Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Wertheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Two lists of former Jewish inhabitants in Wertheim, Germany: L. Bruchheim lists refugees in the US, and J. Cahn lists 34 men who lived in Wertheim in 1914, most of them were fighting in the war.

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Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte : lecture ueber Persoenlichkeiten des Berliner Theaterlebens und ihre NS-Vergangenheit (1966)

Wicclair, Walter

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Language: German

Pages: 34 , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Frenzel, Herbert A. ; Goetz, Wolfgang, ; Knudsen, Hans, ; Freie Universität Berlin. ; Actors. ; Theaters ; Theatrical producers and directors. ; National socialism. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Manuscript: "Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte". Speech exploring the burdens placed on scholarship and the students of the Theatrical Institute of the Free University of Berlin by the presence of professors who were compromised by their activities during the Nazi era.

Abstract: Manuscript of a speech, exploring the burdens placed on scholarship and the students of the Theatrical Institute of the Free University of Berlin by the presence of professors who were compromised by their activities during the Nazi era.

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Erinnerungen an die Zeit des nationalsozialstischen Terrors. (1966)

Misch, Ludwig, 1887-1967.

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Language: German

Pages: 14 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. ; Forced labor. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Musicians ; Journalists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Jewish life in Berlin after 1933 and activities of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" and the "Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland"; selections among Jewish community employees; bomb raids during World War II.

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"Erst ein Deutscher und dann ein Jude?" : Leben und Werk eines vergessenen Dichters. (1965)

Stern, Fred B, 1895-1983.

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Language: German

Pages: 207 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Jacobowski, Ludwig, ; Poets, German. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Jewish poetry. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Life and work of a Jewish writer in Berlin, 1868-1900.

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The story of my life's joys and sorrows : 1831-1910 Austria (1965)

Schmelkes, Phoebus.

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Pages: 9 + 2 + 5 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Literature. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere in Galicia; description of Jewish holidays; education in traditional Jewish "heder"; higher Jewish education in Kulikow (Galicia); encounter with German literature; break with orthodoxy; revolution of 1848-1849; early marriage; work at the stock exchange in Vienna.

Description / Table of Contents: Also included are "A few meditations to be heeded by my children and grandchildren" in German and in English.

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[Erinnerungen]. (1965)

Wertheimer, William, 1897-1980.

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Language: German

Pages: 125 pages (double space) : , typescript +

Additional Material: addenda

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Study and teaching. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Baden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Chapters of William Wertheimer's book "Zwischen zwei Welten; der Foerster von Brooklyn. Lebenserinnerungen des ehemaligen juedischen Lehrers in Eubigheim und Buchen in Baden, 1966:

Abstract: Rural Jewish life in small Baden community of Hardheim at the turn of the century; preservance of Jewish rituals and customs; father was Jewish teacher and worked for insurance company; Bar Mitzvah in 1910; experiences as soldier in World War I; observance of dietary laws in German army; encounter with East European Jews; life as teacher in small Jewish schools in Eubigheim and Buchen (Baden); persecution of Jews after 1933; immigration to USA.

Abstract: Also included are letters by Konrad Adenauer (grandson of Chancellor), Bruno Stern, Fritz Feuchtmeyer and others, and the photocopy of "Bescheinigung" of "Kriegslazarett".

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Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)

Winter, Mine.

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Language: German

Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +

Additional Material: handwritten manuscript

Year of publication: 1956-1965

Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965

Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956

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Die Erlebnisse der Juden in Shanghai unter der japanischen Besetzung im 2.Weltkrieg, (1963)

Kauffmann, Fritz, b., 1904.

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Pages: 10 pages + 3 pages. (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Jewish way of life. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kauffmann, Fritz. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants

Abstract: Jewish life in Shanghai under Japanese occupation in World War II; description of the various groups of Jews in Shanghai; also contains newspaper clippings (translation of English lecture given in the Shanghai Tiffin Club in New York, 1963)

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No title. (1963)

Wolff, Charles.

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Language: German

Pages: 6 pages (double space) : , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Haus Berta. ; Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten. ; Jews 1933-1945. ; Jewish way of life. ; Youth movements. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Description of Jewish life in youth colony "Haus Berta" in 1935.

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Erinnerungen. (1963)

Mosse, Martha.

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Language: German

Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy) +

Additional Material: accompanying documents (photocopies), mainly 1946-1948.

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Mosse, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Civil service. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Berlin Jewish family; recollections of father Albert Mosse; career in welfare office; imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp; contains report on deportations of Jews from Berlin during World War II; contains also copy of document concerning Albert Mosse's mission in Japan.

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Im Schatten einer endlosen grossen Zeit : Erinnerungen aus einem langen Leben fuer meine Kinder, jungen Freunde und Studenten. (1962)

Salomon, Albert, 1891-1966.

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Language: German

Pages: 13 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1962

Keywords: College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Editors. ; Jewish sociologists. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Draft, covering circa 1891-1935.

Abstract: University studies in Berlin and Heidelberg; among Salomon's teachers were Adolf von Harnack, Georg Simmel, Karl Jaspers and Max Weber; activities in Social Democratic Party; relationship with finance minister Rudolf Hilferding and with Theodor Heuss.

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Lebenserinnerungen von Ottilie Schoenewald : Fuer das Leo Baeck Institut, New York. (1961)

Schoenewald, Ottilie.

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Language: German

Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1961

Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.

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The tragedy of German-Jewish liberalism : The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 4 (1960)

Morgenthau, Hans J 1904-1980.

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Language: English

Pages: 16 + 15 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1960

Keywords: Leo Baeck memorial lecture. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews, German Liberalism. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: 2 drafts of the 4th annual LBI Memorial Lecture, given November 16, 1960.

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A life in focal points of our time : Vienna – Berlin – New York, Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. (1960)

Stolper, Toni ; Stolper, Max A.

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Language: English

Pages: 260 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1960

Keywords: Stolper, Gustav, ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: The book by Toni Stolper about her husband Gustav Stolper, first published in 1960, has been translated from the German original with annotations, by Max A. Stolper.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Austria-Hungary

Description / Table of Contents: Part II: German Austria

Description / Table of Contents: Part III: In the Weimar Republic

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