Max Kurrein Family Collection

This collection holds papers of Max Kurrein and his family members, with a focus on his career. Included are official and professional documents and certificates, correspondence, essays and a photo album for his significant birthdays, examples of his writing and that of other family members, photographs, family trees and some material on Israel.

Documentation on Max Kurrein's life will be found in several folders of the collection. The folder of his educational papers include school certificates for his education and internships, while the folder of his professional correspondence includes letters regarding his position at the Technion in Haifa, including a copy of a letter by Chaim Weizmann on the matter. In the following folder of professional papers are letters concerning his dismissal from the Technische Hochschule Berlin in 1933, contracts with publishers for his books, a 1957 photograph of him and a restitution application. Two folders relate to his seventieth and seventy-fifth birthdays. The first includes tributes written about him, with mention of the highlights of his life; the second consists of a photo album made for him that shows various European cities, Haifa, the Technion and a few photos of Max Kurrein himself. The folder of photocopied articles by and about him include a few short biographies. Among his photocopied papers and correspondence are two letters to the director of the Institute regarding a 1950 trip with students in Europe, but also copies of professional papers and various official papers such as his birth and naturalization certificates. The folder of photographs includes of several of Max Kurrein himself and with colleagues, as well as his grave, the Technion building in 1934 and his former apartment in Berlin.

Several folders relate to the Kurrein family. Notable is the first folder of the collection, which contains family trees and some correspondence about genealogy. Listed are members of the Kurrein and related families, including the Loewe, Blau and Friedländer families. The second folder includes an article on Rabbi Adolf Kurrein by his son Viktor Kurrein, rabbi in Karlsruhe, and some letters to family members, among them copies of brief letters by Theodor Herzl. In the folder of photocopied family documents are letters and notes relating to the its genealogy.

The final three folders of the series hold some published material. One holds examples of family members' writing, including an article on measuring techniques by Max Kurrein. Another contains information on two locations in Israel, the Ayalon Institute in Rehovot and the Mishkenot Sha'anim in Jerusalem; the latter has a display on members of the Kurrein family and the folder holds a photo and description of this memorial.