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Alexander Fleischer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3641
Abstract The collection contains documents pertaining to the textile company “A. Fleischer KG” in Reichenbach im Eulengebirge in Silesia (today Dzierżoniów, Poland) and about the Fleischer family.
Dates: 1889-1970
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alexander Hamilton Manuscript Fragment

 Collection — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P2, Folder: P-104
Identifier: P-104
Abstract This collection contains a fragment of a manuscript written by Alexander Hamilton, in which he comments on the history of the Jews.
Dates: undated
Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alexander Harkavy papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-50
Abstract 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 — translation missing: en.enumerations.container_type.container: Consolidated Box P3, Folder: P-117
Identifier: P-117
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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, 1995-1996
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Cohn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4085
Abstract This collection contains legal documents, correspondence, certificates, and photographs of Dr. Alfred Cohn, 1890-1965.
Dates: 1899-1965
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Resolutions upon the declaration of innocence by Capt. Alfred Dreyfus

 Collection
Identifier: P-696
Abstract St. Paul, Minn. Citizens Resolution, 1906.
Dates: 1906
Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Alfred E. Lipsey genealogies

 Collection
Identifier: P-631
Scope and Content Note 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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 1940-1975
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Marcus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 129
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract Photos; personal correspondence.
Dates: circa 1907-1955
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alfred Rieser Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4871
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 4 books of handwritten poems
Dates: 1913-1920
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute

Alice Davis Menken Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-23
Abstract 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
Abstract 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
Abstract 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

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