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David Baumgardt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 797 / MF 553

Scope and Contents

The collection contains extensive correspondence of Baumgardt including letters from the front to his family during World War I, and correspondence with Conrad Aiken, Hannah Arendt, Julius Bab, Bertha Badt-Strauss, Leo Baeck, Isaiah Berlin, Walter Benjamin, Hugo Bergmann, Kurt Blumenfeld, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Martin Buber, John Dewey, Dora Edinger, Albert Einstein, Ismar Elbogen, Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, Felix Frankfurter, Sigmund Freud, Georg Heym, Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona), Max Gruenewald, Hermann Hesse (including photos, watercolors, autographed poems), Sidney Hook, Rudolf Kayser, Wolfgang Koehler, Hans Kohn, Georg Landauer, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hans Margolius, Reinhold Niebuhr, Erwin Panofsky, Jacob Picard, Kurt Pinthus, Joachim Prinz, Hyman Rickover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger, Hans Joachim Schoeps, Gershom Scholem, Toni Sender, Ernst Simon, Chaim Weizmann, Beatrice Webb, Robert Weltsch, and Arnold Zweig.

Also included are manuscripts, articles, lectures, and offprints by and about Baumgardt on philosophy, ethics, religion, literature, politics, and other subjects; transcripts of conversations with Einstein and Freud.

Correspondence and reviews about publication of Horizons of a Philosopher (the Festschrift for David Baumgardt).

Letters, notes, and manuscripts by Dorothy Canfield Fischer.

Photos of Baumgardt's family and friends.

Organizational records of the Zionist youth group Ha-Poel Ha-Zair, including minutes of the central council of the organization in Berlin and letters from Georg Landauer, Eugen Taeubler and Robert Weltsch, 1919-1921.

[AV collection (records)] Interview with Voice of America, February 23, 1955 ( 1 record)

[OS 80] Article "Erwachen der Romantik" (1930) (copy in Box 16, Folder 16); page from the Juedische Rundschau with notes by Baumgardt (copy in Box 18, Folder 19); speech "Jeremy Bentham, an Englishman, to the Citizens of the Several American United States, London 1817" (copy in Box 24, Folder 2)

[R 12] Sigmund Freud Autographs (copies in file).

Dates

  • 1800-1983

Creator

Language of Materials

The collection is in German, English, French, and Spanish.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Collection (except for box 28) is available on 69 reels of microfilm (MF 553).

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Born in Erfurt on April 20, 1890, David Baumgardt studied philosophy at various universities, and was a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Berlin, 1924-1935. He emigrated to Great Britain in 1935 and to the United States in 1939, where he taught at various colleges and was consultant in philosophy to the Library of Congress. He died in New York City on July 21, 1963.

Extent

26.5 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection contains extensive correspondence of Baumgardt including letters from the front to his family during World War I, and correspondence with Conrad Aiken, Hannah Arendt, Julius Bab, Bertha Badt-Strauss, Leo Baeck, Isaiah Berlin, Walter Benjamin, Hugo Bergmann, Kurt Blumenfeld, Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss, Martin Buber, John Dewey, Dora Edinger, Albert Einstein, Ismar Elbogen, Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, Felix Frankfurter, Sigmund Freud, Georg Heym, Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona), Max Gruenewald, Hermann Hesse (including photos, watercolors, autographed poems), Sidney Hook, Rudolf Kayser, Wolfgang Koehler, Hans Kohn, Georg Landauer, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hans Margolius, Reinhold Niebuhr, Erwin Panofsky, Jacob Picard, Kurt Pinthus, Joachim Prinz, Hyman Rickover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger, Hans Joachim Schoeps, Gershom Scholem, Toni Sender, Ernst Simon, Chaim Weizmann, Beatrice Webb, Robert Weltsch, and Arnold Zweig.

Also included are manuscripts, articles, lectures, and offprints by and about Baumgardt on philosophy, ethics, religion, literature, politics, and other subjects; transcripts of conversations with Einstein and Freud.

Correspondence and reviews about publication of Horizons of a Philosopher (the Festschrift for David Baumgardt).

Letters, notes, and manuscripts by Dorothy Canfield Fischer.

Photos of Baumgardt's family and friends.

Organizational records of the Zionist youth group Ha-Poel Ha-Zair, including minutes of the central council of the organization in Berlin and letters from Georg Landauer, Eugen Taeubler and Robert Weltsch, 1919-1921.

[AV collection (records)] Interview with Voice of America, February 23, 1955 ( 1 record)

[OS 80] Article "Erwachen der Romantik" (1930) (copy in Box 16, Folder 16); page from the Juedische Rundschau with notes by Baumgardt (copy in Box 18, Folder 19); speech "Jeremy Bentham, an Englishman, to the Citizens of the Several American United States, London 1817" (copy in Box 24, Folder 2)

[R 12] Sigmund Freud Autographs (copies in file).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in 11 series.
  1. Series I: Original Collection, undated, 1914-1963
  2. Series II: Correspondence, undated, 1800-1977
  3. Subseries 1: English, undated, 1914-1977
  4. Subseries 2: German, undated, 1800-1976
  5. Subseries 3: Miscellaneous, undated, 1915-1963
  6. Subseries 4: Family, undated, 1908-1964
  7. Series III: Writings, undated, 1817-1977
  8. Subseries 1: Conference Papers, undated, 1945-1967
  9. Subseries 2: Notebooks, undated, 1900-1965
  10. Subseries 3: History of Modern Ethics, undated, 1926-1976
  11. Subseries 4: Theorie des Lebenssinns, undated, 1960-1967
  12. Subseries 5: Jewish Topics, undated, 1913-1977
  13. Subseries 6: Other Writings, undated, 1817-1971
  14. Subseries 7: Lectures, undated, 1920-1964
  15. Series IV: Various, undated, 1920-1971
  16. Series V: Writings by Others, undated, 1883-1966
  17. Series VI: Dorothy Canfield Fisher, undated, 1911-1972
  18. Series VII: Publications, undated, 1914-1965
  19. Series VIII: Photostats, undated, 1920-1962
  20. Series IX: Miscellaneous, undated, 1817-1978
  21. Series X: Rose Baumgardt, undated, 1861-1983
  22. Series XI: Addenda, undated, 1909-1950s

Microfilm

Collection (except for box 28) is available on 69 reels of microfilm (MF 553).
  1. Reel 1: 1/1 - 1/8
  2. Reel 2: 1/9 - 1/17
  3. Reel 3: 1/18 - 1/23
  4. Reel 4: 2/1 - 2/14
  5. Reel 5: 2/15 - 2/24
  6. Reel 6: 2/25 - 3/1
  7. Reel 7: 3/2 - 3/13
  8. Reel 8: 3/14 - 3/28
  9. Reel 9: 3/29 - 4/2
  10. Reel 10: 4/3 - 4/12
  11. Reel 11: 4/13 - 4/25
  12. Reel 12: 4/26 - 5/1
  13. Reel 13: 5/2 - 5/7
  14. Reel 14: 5/8 - 5/18
  15. Reel 15: 5/19 - 6/3
  16. Reel 16: 6/4 - 6/22
  17. Reel 17: 6/23 - 6/30
  18. Reel 18: 6/31 - 6/37
  19. Reel 19: 7/1 - 7/11
  20. Reel 20: 7/12 - 7/17
  21. Reel 21: 7/18 - 7a/1
  22. Reel 22: 7a/2 – 8/6
  23. Reel 23: 8/7 - 8/11
  24. Reel 24: 8/12 - 8/23
  25. Reel 25: 9/1 - 9/5
  26. Reel 26: 9/6 - 9/16
  27. Reel 27: 10/1 - 10/3
  28. Reel 28: 10/4 - 10/14
  29. Reel 29: 10/15 - 10/21
  30. Reel 30: 11/1 - 11/5
  31. Reel 31: 11/6 - 11/13
  32. Reel 32: 11/14 - 11/19
  33. Reel 33: 11/20 - 12/7
  34. Reel 34: 12/8 - 12/13
  35. Reel 35: 12/14 - 12/18
  36. Reel 36: 13/1 - 13/6
  37. Reel 37: 13/7 - 13/12
  38. Reel 38: 13/13 - 14/2
  39. Reel 39: 14/3 - 14/6
  40. Reel 40: 14/7 - 14/23
  41. Reel 41: 14/24 - 15/8
  42. Reel 42: 15/9 - 15/15
  43. Reel 43: 15/16 - 15/20
  44. Reel 44: 16/1 - 16/13
  45. Reel 45: 16/14 - 16/22
  46. Reel 46: 17/1 - 17/11
  47. Reel 47: 17/12 - 17/25
  48. Reel 48: 17/26 - 18/3
  49. Reel 49: 18/4 - 18/16
  50. Reel 50: 18/17 - 18/24
  51. Reel 51: 18/25 - 18/26
  52. Reel 52: 18/27 - 19/1
  53. Reel 53: 19/2 - 19/4
  54. Reel 54: 19/5 - 19/15
  55. Reel 55: 19/16 - 19/31
  56. Reel 56: 19/32 - 20/6
  57. Reel 57: 20/7 - 20/18
  58. Reel 58: 20/19 - 20/25
  59. Reel 59: 20/26 - 21/5
  60. Reel 60: 21/6 - 21/23
  61. Reel 61: 22/1 - 23/23
  62. Reel 62: 23/24 - 23/27
  63. Reel 63: 23/28 - 24/13
  64. Reel 64: 24/14 - 24/27
  65. Reel 65: 24/28 - 24/34
  66. Reel 66: 25/1 - 25/16
  67. Reel 67: 25/17 - 25/27
  68. Reel 68: 25/28 - 26/7
  69. Reel 69: 26/8 - 27/5

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
David Baumgardt Collection, 1800-1983   AR 797 / MF 553
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • March 2011: Links to digital objects added in Container List.
  • January 2013: Made corrections to Boxes 14 and 15 in Container List.

Repository Details

Repository Details

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