Carola Levy Collection

The Carola Levy Collection holds papers of this individual as well as of her ancestors, the Levy and Feldheim families, and their forebears. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, copies of documents of family members, and a friendship book.

Carola Levy's own papers are located in Series I and include unpublished articles as well as correspondence. Her articles relate to Martin Buber and to the Fuerstlich Leiningensches Archiv in Amorbach, Germany, archive that holds records of Jews of the region. Another work by her will be found in Series II, a recollection of the stories of her grandmother Amanda Levy. Series I also includes some articles written by others including on the history of Jews in Worms as well as on anti-Semitism and the events of the 1930s and 1940s. Her correspondence in the first series includes letters to the Leo Baeck Institute regarding her family and Else Lasker-Schüler in addition to correspondence with others on a range of other subjects.

Series II focuses on the Levy, Feldheim and other related families. Much of this series is composed of photocopied documents of family members, such as official and business documentation, wedding papers, and newspaper clippings that mentioned family members. Notable is the friendship book of an unidentified "Rosa" and a lecture on Friedrich Gernsheim given by Kurt Becker. Included in the series is also a family tree.

The following individuals and families are mentioned in this collection: Feldheim family; Gernsheim, Friedrich; Kaufmann, Ferdinand family; Lasker-Schüler, Else; Levi, Jakob; Levi, Simon; Levy family; Levy, Carola, 1893-1975; Levy, Marcus; Levy, Max; Rosenbaum, Hirsch; Rosenbaum, Philipp; Stein, Nathan; Steinheim, Salomon; Taubes, Zwi; Wisser, Richard.