Series III: Audiovisual Materials

The Herbert Strauss Addenda contains subject files and writings from Strauss’ position as the executive director of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe. These include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, newsletters and pamphlets, and writings, including manuscripts and dissertations in the field of German-Jewish history and related topics.

Materials pertaining to the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe include correspondence, proposals, and notes for a history of the Federation, as well as the Federation’s newsletters. Herbert Strauss was also the founding director of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration. The subject files include contracts, correspondence, resources, and notes for two of the Foundation’s publications, Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi period in the USA and the International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigres, 1933-1945.