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Alexander Harkavy papers

Collection

Identifier: P-50

Overview Contains a diary (68 pages) kept by Harkavy of his trip to Europe and Canada in the interests of Jewish emigration, 1906-1907, three printed lectures of a course in English given by Harkavy for the Jewish Home University (1926), the manuscript of a Hebrew-English-Yiddish dictionary begun by Harkavy but not completed (1934, 53 p.) and correspondence, including letters to him from Aaron S. Bettelheim (Baltimore, 1889), the Isaac bar Levison Hebrew Literary Society of Baltimore expressing their gratitude for his aid (1889), and Joseph Jacobs concerning an article for the Jewish encyclopedia (1901). Also contains material relating to his wife Bella and her family.

Dates: undated, 1868-1937

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

The Alexander Isaacs Papers

Collection

Identifier: P-418

Abstract This collection contains a bond, issued by the Savannah and Charleston Rail Road Co., signed by Alexander Isaacs, president.

Dates: 1869

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alexander Mayer letters

Collection — Container: Consolidated Box P3, Folder: P-117

Identifier: P-117

Overview Contains 27 letters, of which 16 are in German, written by Alexander Mayer from Panama, San Francisco, Sonora, Mexico, and Columbia, to his uncle Lazarus Mayer, and Edwin Bomeisler (1850-52). The collection deals largely with Mayer's efforts to establish a small clothing business in San Francisco. The letters were edited by Albert M. Friedenberg and printed in the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 31, pp. 135-71.

Dates: 1850-1852

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alexander Turney Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25475

Overview This collection documents the personal experience of Alexander Turney with a particular emphasis on his childhood in Berlin, his emigration to the United States, and his activities as a tango dancer later in life. Materials include photographs, correspondence, clippings, programs, limited materials on family history, and an oral history interview transcript.

Dates: 1920-2011

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred and Elisabeth Mayer Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25527

Overview The Alfred and Elisabeth Mayer Family largely centers on the emigration from Germany of the extended members of this family as well as documentation of Alfred and Elisabeth Mayer and information on the family's genealogy and individual experiences. The collection includes a large quantity of family correspondence; family trees; articles; official, military, and educational documents; some financial and legal documentation and correspondence; and photographs.

Dates: 1896-2012; Majority of material found within 1937-1946

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Büchler Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 4817

Overview This collection contains a number of Alfred Büchler's school papers from educational institutions in Vienna and Shanghai, as well as his German passport and a travel calendar from his emigration out of Austria.

Dates: 1934-1947, 1985

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Cohn Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 4085

Overview This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, certificates, and photographs of Dr. Alfred Cohn, 1890-1965.

Dates: 1899-1965

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred E. Lipsey genealogies

Collection

Identifier: P-631

Overview The Davidson/Borison family connection, a genealogy saga. Part I -- Davidson -- Borison (Datz-Kowsky Borishnikov; v. I -- Mauerberger/Mayerberg; v. II -- Mauerberger/Mayerberg Komisarsky family; v. III part A--Nathan family v. III part B--Nathan family v. III part B--Nathan family. v. IV Wistenetzky family; v. V--Miller family. v. VI--Capin family. v. VII--Lipshitz/Konheym family. v. VIII--Aron Wistenetzky family.

Dates: 1990-1992

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alfred Grünspecht Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 11016 / MF 962

Overview The Alfred Grünspecht Family Collection illustrates Alfred Grünspecht’s interest in documenting the horrors of World War II by way of translating the works of other authors as well as his interest in the genealogy of his own family. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, vital documents, and printed materials.

Dates: 1748-2003

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Jacobsberg Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 6462

Overview The Alfred Jacobsberg collection consists of correspondence between Alfred Jacobsberg and various members of the Jacobsberg family during Alfred Jacobsberg's military service in the German army in World War I. Additionally, there is a small amount of business correspondence and documents dealing with Alfred Jacobsberg’s import business, and some World War I clippings.

Dates: 1908-1935

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Karger Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25330

Overview This collection holds materials relating to the life and work of Alfred Karger, a German lawyer who immigrated to Ecuador in 1941. In addition to biographical materials this collection also contains some of Alfred Karger's writings, mainly published articles, and correspondence with different individuals and organizations, related to various topics between 1945 and 1968.

Dates: 1932-2003; Majority of material found within 1932-1968

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Lichtenstein Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25284

Overview This collection documents the life and work of the flute player Alfred Lichtenstein. Contained in this collection are papers relating to his professional life, including recordings, programs, photographs, flyers, and clippings concerning his public performances, and also an extensive amount of music scores used by him. His personal life is reflected in personal correspondence, including letters exchanged with other family members and photographs as well as identification and immigration papers. Some papers of his family members, including his wives, daughter, and father, will also be found here as well as restitution correspondence.

Dates: 1874-2004; Majority of material found within 1901-1986

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Marcus Collection

Collection

Identifier: LBIJER 129

Overview The file contains various documents pertaining to research conducted by Alfred Marcus.

Dates: 1922; 1960 - 1971

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Neumann Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 4983

Overview This collection contains several of Alfred Neumann's short prose manuscripts and over 100 poems, as well a considerable amount of correspondence.

Dates: 1927-1976; Majority of material found within 1927-1962

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Neumeyer Collection

Collection

Identifier: LBIJER 41

Scope and Contents The first folder contains photocopies of letters written to Alfred Neumeyer regarding his paper "Bemerkungen zu einer Abaenderung des Edikts vom 10. Juni 1813, die Verhaeltnisse der juedischen Glaubensgenossen im Koenigreiche Bayern betreffend" (Regierungsblatt 1813, Stueck 39, Seite 921). Referat erstattet im Auftrag der größeren und mittleren Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden Bayerns," Augsburg 1914. 33 pp.) (Cf. http://opac.cjh.org:8991/F?func=direct-doc-set&doc_number=000195490 &format=999)

Attached is the carbon copy of a letter from the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (Max Nathan) to Alfred Neumeyer's son, Alexander Neumeyer from Shavei Zion (1966), who gave copies to the institute, but kept the originalThe second folder contains Alfred Neumeyer's memoirs titled "Erinnerungen". They were written in the Jewish agricultural settlement Avigdor (Argentina) between 1941 and 1944 (typescript, 268+2 pp.) after his emigration from Germany and cover the years 1867 to 1944.

Alfred Neumeyer describes: his childhood in Munich; primary and secondary education; military service; university studies in Berlin and Munich; marriage and domestic life; work as a judge in Munich; Jewish communal activities; establishment of "Verband Bayerischer Israelitischer Gemeinden"; fight against prohibition of ritual slaughter in Bavaria; activities for "Centralverein" and "Reichsvertretung"; forced retirement as judge in 1933; changes in Jewish communal work after 1933; emigration and life in Argentina. (Cf. http://opac.cjh.org:8991/F?func=direct-doc-set&doc_number=000200946 &format=999)

Dates: 1914; 1944; 1966; 1944; 1966

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Philipp Collection

Collection

Identifier: LBIJER 290

Overview Various documents pertaining to Alfred Philipp’s work as a community rabbi and a scholar, primarily his doctoral thesis about Werner Sombart’s work ´Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben´ (“Jews and the economy”).

Dates: 1924-1942

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Philippson Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3245 / MF 461

Overview The collection contains numerous personal papers, manuscripts and correspondence with explorers and geographers. The personal papers follow Philippson’s career as professor in Bonn and in Halle.

Dates: 1872-1953

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Polgar Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 2738

Overview Photos; personal correspondence.

Dates: circa 1907-1955

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Rieser Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 4871

Overview The collection holds Alfred Rieser’s family tree and his correspondence, documenting his genealogical research. Also included are photocopies of older official documents, illustrating the family tree.

Dates: 1979-1981

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Schirokauer Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 7107 / MF 810

Overview The bulk of the collection consists of Alfred Schirokauer writings in form of manuscripts novels and shorter works, and newspaper serializations. There is also a small amount of correspondence with publishers, as well as a few personal items.

Dates: 1889-1932

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Schutz Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25500

Overview This collection comprises the family papers of the social scientist Alfred Schutz and his family members, including his wife, parents and daughter. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, especially concerning family members' immigration. Aside from correspondence, the collection holds official, travel and identification papers and vital records, the creative writing of Alfred Schutz and other family members, and a small amount of material on restitution and genealogy.

Dates: 1868-2005; Majority of material found within 1935-1959

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Werner Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 7158

Overview This collection documents the professional life of Austro-American art historian and journalist Alfred Werner (1911-1979). After being released from Dachau in 1939, Werner fled to New York. From 1940 to 1979, he wrote thousands of stories, reviews, and columns, and was an editor of or contributor to dozens of art magazines and Jewish periodicals. His primary interests were European, Jewish, and Zionist political affairs, and 19th and 20th-century European and American art, with an emphasis on Jewish and Israeli artists. The bulk of the collection consists of his published output. The collection also contains some additional professional material, such as manuscripts, research materials, and reference photographs, as well as a few personal documents.

Dates: 1914-1979; Majority of material found within 1940-1979

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alice and Julius Rosenberg Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3546

Overview Flyers, pamphlets, and other ephemera from Jewish child welfare organizations in Diez and der Lahn and Bad Ems, and certificates from Julius Rosenberg's involvement in gymnastics competitions.

Dates: 1887-1929

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alice Beck Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 6464

Overview 4 books of handwritten poems

Dates: 1913-1920

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alice Davis Menken Papers

Collection

Identifier: P-23

Overview An important figure in the social welfare movement, Menken devoted much of her life to working with women in the penal system. The collection contains publications regarding her social reform work; scrapbooks and travel notebooks; journals; diaries; correspondence and reports relating to her activities with the Society of New York State Women, Jewish Welfare Board, Jewish Protectory and Aid Society (later called Jewish Board of Guardians), New York City Woman's Night Court, Hudson State Training School, New York State Reformatory for Women, Society for Political Study, Daughters of American Revolution, Progressive Party, Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense, New York, Congregation Shearith Israel, Florence Crittendon League, Committee of Fourteen and the Inwood House.

Dates: undated, 1882-1936

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alice Frohlich Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 5403

Overview Correspondence by Alice Frohlich regarding the denaturalization and extradition proceedings against the former concentration camp guard Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan. Some of the more notable correspondents include Simon Wiesenthal, Kurt Grossmann, Gideon Hausner, Jacob Javits, Seymour Halpern, and Robert F. Kennedy.

Dates: 1964-1973

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

[Alice Muehsam files at AAUW]

Collection

Identifier: DM 245

Overview The collection holds primarily e-copies of Alice Muehsam’s correspondence with AAUW, 1941-1943. Also included are her CV and a description of her research, together with German letters of recommendation in reference to her dissertation, 1937-1938 (folders 1 and 2); as well as American letters of recommendation (folder 3).

Dates: 1937-1943

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alice Salomon Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3875 / MF 1044

Overview Professional and vital certificates, diplomas, honors, awards, and essays on feminism and social work.

Dates: 1877-1961

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alicia Latzer Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 25471

Overview This collection contains correspondence, vital records, and other materials pertaining to restitution claims against Austria by Alicia Latzer on behalf of herself, her sister, Renata Latzer de Davids, aka Renée Latzer, and their parents Aladár and Elsa Latzer. Also included are Hungarian land ownership records and Spanish translations of various vital documents. It also contains a small amount of personal material, and genealogical materials about the descendents of Moses Latzer (1810-1905) and Albert Löwy (1836-1902).

Dates: 1868-2008

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Allan T. Hirsh, Jr. Family Trees Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 5284

Overview The Allan T. Hirsh, Jr. Family Trees Collection holds the family trees of the Hirsch and related families, compiled by Allan Hirsch.

Dates: 1985-2001

Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

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Alexander Harkavy papers

The Alexander Isaacs Papers

Alexander Mayer letters

Alexander Turney Collection

Alfred and Elisabeth Mayer Family Collection

Alfred Büchler Collection

Alfred Cohn Collection

Alfred E. Lipsey genealogies

Alfred Grünspecht Family Collection

Alfred Jacobsberg Collection

Alfred Karger Collection

Alfred Lichtenstein Collection

Alfred Marcus Collection

Alfred Neumann Collection

Alfred Neumeyer Collection

Alfred Philipp Collection

Alfred Philippson Collection

Alfred Polgar Collection

Alfred Rieser Family Collection

Alfred Schirokauer Collection

Alfred Schutz Family Collection

Alfred Werner Collection

Alice and Julius Rosenberg Collection

Alice Beck Collection

Alice Davis Menken Papers

Alice Frohlich Collection

[Alice Muehsam files at AAUW]

Alice Salomon Collection

Alicia Latzer Family Collection

Allan T. Hirsh, Jr. Family Trees Collection

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