Language:
German
Pages:
2,173 pages (double space) :
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typescript (carbon copy).
Year of publication:
1935-1956
Keywords:
Mühsam, Erich,
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Mühsam, Hans.
;
Silbergleit, Arthur,
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Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
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Antisemitism.
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Authors.
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Education, Higher.
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Lawyers.
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Jewish families
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Orthodox Judaism.
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Red Cross and Red Crescent.
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Students' societies.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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Brandenburg (Germany)
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Chemnitz (Germany)
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Germany History 1918-1933.
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Görlitz (Görlitz, Germany)
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Israel.
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Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948.
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Zittau (Germany)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Family history: father opened clothing store in Brandenburg; bankruptcy and move to Chemnitz where father opened shoe store; visits to uncle in Luebeck; helps in his father's store; move to Zittau (Saxony); description of small orthodox Jewish community of Zittau; anti-Semitism in school; limits of social integration of Jews; Christmas celebration at home; university studies in Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig; Max Weber among his professors; member of "Sozial-wissensschaftliche Vereinigung" and the primarily Jewish student fraternity "Thuringia"; his cousins, the writer and anarchist Erich Muehsam, and the Zionist Hans Muehsam; apprenticeship as lawyer in Mittenwalde; lawyer in Goerlitz; Jewish community of Goerlitz; moves only in Jewish circles; beginnings of his literary career; with beginning of World War I Muehsam became pacifist; in "Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft" and International Red Cross; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Martin Buber and Stefan Zweig; Revolution of 1918-19 and political events of Weimar Germany; after World War I considered himself primarily a writer; literary circles of Weimar Germany; friendship with the writer Arthur Silbergleit; emigration and life in Palestine; last volume on death of his wife and continuation of literary work in Israel.
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 1: vol. 1 (pp. 1-560)
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 2: vol. 2 (pp. 1-400)
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 3: vol. 2 (pp. 401-811, index)
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 4: vol. 3 (pp. 1-539); vol. 4 (pp. 1-121)
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 5: vol. 5 (pp. 1-130)
Description / Table of Contents:
Folder 6: Digest version in 7 parts (162 pages); bibliography of books by Paul Muehsam
Note:
Available on microfilm
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Vol. 1 on MM 58
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Vol. 2 on MM 55 - MM 56
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Vol. 3 on MM 56
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Vol. 4 on MM 56
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Vol. 5 on MM 58
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Digest on MM 57
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German
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Synopsis in file
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