Nahum N. Glatzer Collection
Scope and Content Note
Articles by Nahum N. Glatzer:
“The Frankfort Lehrhaus”, undated typescript, 33 pages. Also printed in ‘Adult Jewish Education’, fall 1958.
Nahum N. Glatzer – Professor of Jewish history and chairman of the department of NEJS, biographical sketch by Brandeis University, undated typescript, 1 page.
“List of publications”, 1960 typescript, 6 pages.
“Brandeis University: Department of Near Eastern and Judaic studies”, curriculum vitae, [1966] mimeograph, 3 pages.
“Baeck - Buber - Rosenzweig : reading the Book of Job”, 1966 typescript with handwritten corrections, 25 pages. The article was published as “Leo Baeck Institute Memorial Lecture 1966”.
“Introduction / Preface”, undated typescript with handwritten corrections, 31+5 pages. Draft for the book `Leopold Zunz: Jew, German, European’.
“Reflections on Buber’s Impact on German Jewry”, 1978 typescript with handwritten corrections, 15 pages. Revised draft of a lecture on Buber’s philosophy.
Dates
- 1958-1990
Creator
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and English.
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
The historian Nahum N(orbert) Glatzer was born 1903 in Lemberg, Galicia (today Lviv, Ukraine). He was Professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University and chairman of its department of Near Eastern and Judaic studies.
Extent
2 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains typescripts of articles by Nahum N. Glatzer, mostly with his handwritten additions. Interspersed are newspaper clippings about Glatzer (including an obituary). Also included are printed and typed pages, listing archival holdings in the Glatzer estate.
Other Finding Aid
Also available is an inventory on German language index cards
Processing Information
During microfilming and consequent digitization the original order of the collection has been disrupted.
- Archival materials
- Brandeis University
- Buber, Martin, 1878-1965
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- College teachers
- Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Glatzer, Nahum N. (Nahum Norbert), 1903-1990
- Hasidism -- History
- Jewish historians
- Judaism
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929
- Zunz, Leopold, 1794-1886
- Title
- Inventory of the Nahum N. Glatzer Collection , 1958-1990 AR 148
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The inventory is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
