Arthur and Vally Feigl Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents Arthur and Vally Feigl of Vienna, Prague, and New York, and their family.
Documents concerning Arthur Feigl include references, residence permits for Vienna and Prague, and immigration, marriage, and divorce papers. Vally Feigl materials include marriage and divorce documents, a Czech passport, references, and educational documents. The collection also includes a United States passport and a naturalization document for Arthur Mannheimer, and a Viennese residence permit for Olga Mannheimer. The two photographs in this collection are studio portraits of Nomi Feigl in Tel Aviv, together with her future husband, and of Vally Feigl, shortly after immigrating to the United States.
Dates
- 1921-1955
Creator
- Feigl, Valerie, 1911-1999 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is mostly in German, with some Czech and English.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Biographical Note
Arthur Feigl (1899-1993) was born in Vienna, Austria. He had a daughter, Nomi, with his first wife Greta née Tauber. Greta and Nomi Feigl moved to Tel Aviv around 1935. Arthur Feigl left Vienna for Karlsbad and then Prague in the mid 1930s, and later fled to the United States via England. In 1939, he married Valerie (Vally) Pick née Mannheimer (1911-1999), former wife of Fritz Pick and daughter of Arthur Mannheimer (born 1880) and Olga Mannheimer.
Extent
6 Folders
Abstract
This collection documents Arthur and Vally Feigl of Vienna, Prague, and New York, and their family.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by family member.
- Title
- Guide to the Arthur and Vally Feigl Collection 1921-1955 AR 11966
- Author
- Processed by Kevin Schlottmann
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- Made possible by the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support "Illuminating Hidden Collections at the Center for Jewish History."
Revision Statements
- December 1, 2017 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
