Gerson Stern Collection.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the collection consists of typescript drafts, some with handwritten corrections, and private press versions of Gerson Stern's fictional and poetical writings.
In particular, a 254 page manuscript of Die Waage der Welt , a seemingly complete manuscript of the play Das Ich im Lehnstuhl , and drafts of several smaller groups of poems are present. Rounding out the collection are two articles on Stern and in his life in the German towns of Holzminden and Kiedrich, and a version of Die Waage der Welt published in a now defunct Brazilian paper Crônica Israelita .
Dates
- circa 1930-2008
Creator
- Stern, Gerson, 1874-1956 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
The two offprints in folder five may not be copied, reproduced, or used in publication without permission of the copyright holders.
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
Stern was born in Holzminden in 1874 to a family of textile merchants. He grew up in Elberfeld and worked as a salesman in the family business. In 1917 he married Erna Schwarz and settled with her in Kiedrich in 1920, where they lived until emigrating to Jerusalem in 1939. After health complications in 1931 forced Stern to abandon his career as a salesman, he began to pursue his lifelong passion of writing as a career. His first books appeared in Germany during the mid 1930s, and further publications appeared during the 1940s and 1950s after emigration to Jerusalem. Stern died in 1956 in Jerusalem.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
The bulk of the collection consists of typescript drafts, some with handwritten corrections, and private press versions of Gerson Stern's fictional and poetical writings.
Other Finding Aid
A partial inventory is available in the first folder.
Separated Material
A signed copy of Stille Wege with a dedication, number 42 of a limited printing of 50, has been removed to the LBI Library Collection. A photocopy of the dedication is available in the Gerson Stern Collection, folder 4.
- Title
- Guide to the Gerson Stern Collection, circa 1930-2008 AR 172
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff and Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 03, 2011 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
