Moshe and Nora Tavor collection
Abstract
The collection contains official documents pertaining to Nora Tavor, née Heller and to her second husband, Moshe Tavor, formerly Fritz Tauber. Also included is some information about Nora Tavor’s first husband, Leo Baum, and about her mother Elsa Hahn.
Dates
- 1922-1986
Creator
- Tavor, Nora, 1906- (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German and Hebrew, with some English and Japanese.
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
Nora Tavor, née Heller, widowed Baum, was born 1906 in Yokohama/Japan, the daughter of her Austrian parents, Victor heller and Else, née Hahn. She moved to Prague in 1910 and emigrated in 1939 to Palestine, where she worked as a journalist and government employee.
Nora Tavor’s mother, the concert singer Elsa Hahn (divorced Heller, divorced Jundt) was born 1880 in Prague. She escaped 1939 to France, but was deported from Lyons to Auschwitz, where she perished.
Nora Tavor’s first husband, Leo Baum, was born 1909 in Prague, where he later worked for Prager Tageblatt. After his emigration to Palestine in 1939 he worked for the British government in Palestine and in Sudan, before he was killed in 1946 in the explosion at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
Nora Tavor’s second husband, Moshe Tavor, formerly Fritz Tauber, was born 1903 in Olmütz (today Olomouc in the Czech Republic). He worked as a journalist in Prague until his emigration to Palestine in 1939, where he worked as a publisher and editor of various newspapers. 1963-1966 he was press and cultural attaché at the Israel Mission in Cologne/West Germany, and then, until his death, as Israel correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Moshe Tavor died 1978 in Jerusalem.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Processing Information
During microfilming and consequent digitization the original order of the collection has been disrupted.
- Archival materials
- Baum, Leo, 1909-1946
- Correspondence
- Czechoslovakia
- Editors
- Hahn, Elsa, 1880-
- Israel--Officials and employees
- Jerusalem
- Journalists
- Odenwaldschule
- Palestine -- Emigration and immigration
- Photographs
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Publishers and publishing
- Tavor, Moshe, 1903-1978
- Yokohama-shi (Japan)
- Title
- Inventory of the Moshe and Nora Tavor collection, 1922-1986 AR 1922-1986
- 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