Berlin (Germany)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 336 Collections and/or Records:
Ida and Nathan Hess Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25426
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to Hildegard Hess and to the Hess family. Included is correspondence between Hildegard, Arnulf, and Louis Hess and their parents, Ida and Nathan Hess, during the early years of World War Two. Other materials include a four-part epistolary narrative of the 1940 journey of Arnulf Hess and his family to Bolivia, via Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Costa Rica. The collection also contains additional correspondence, official documents, genealogical tables, and photographs. Much of the German material has English translations.
Dates:
1860s-1999; Majority of material found within 1920s-1949
Ida Loewenson Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11990
Abstract
Various writings - poetry, short stories, essays, etc. - of Ida Loewenson, who used the penname Ida Loefen. Also included are Loewinson family trees.
Dates:
1901-1969
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ida Loewenson Collection
Ilse Eden Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25399
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence and various documents pertaining to Ilse M. Eden, her mother Edith Salomon née Muellerheim, and Ilse's great-aunt Alice Salomon.
Dates:
1939-1992
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ilse Eden Family Collection
Irene Renate Frankenstein Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11665
Abstract
This collection primarily contains vital records pertaining to the nursing career and emigration of Irene Frankenstein (later Rena Renee Frank) from Berlin to London and then the United States. These papers are accompanied by a photograph album, circa 1932-1951, with pictures of friends, co-workers, and buildings (including Jüdische Krankenhaus, Berlin).
Dates:
1915-1958
Irma Klausner-Cronheim Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 751
Abstract
The collection contains notes about and eulogy for Dr. Irma Klausner-Cronheim, her remembrances of her life and work, donation receipts, doctoral dissertation, and diplomas.
Dates:
1901-1959
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Irma Klausner-Cronheim Collection
Isaak Bergmann Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6459
Abstract
This collection contains various materials, mostly photocopies, assembled by Jean Korn on the history of the extended family of Isaak Bergmann. The collection notably includes several original documents and photographs of the Bergmann family extending from the 19th into the late 20th century, as well as materials on the related Kristeller, Imbach, Herzmann, Badt, and Leisten families.
Dates:
1834-2002
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Isaak Bergmann Family Collection
Isaak Marcus Jost Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 4294
Abstract
This collection comprises a huge amount of letters that the German-Jewish historian Isaak Markus Jost sent to his former teacher and good friend Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg and his son Philipp Ehrenberg. Prominent issues are education, politics and intellectual life in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
Dates:
1815-1860
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Isaak Marcus Jost Collection
Isidor Choyke Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1341
Abstract
The collection contains items pertaining to the life and work of lawyer Isidor Choyke, particularly items documenting his legal career. The collecion also contains some family documents, including birth, vaccination, and school certificates.
Dates:
1869-1920
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Isidor Choyke Collection
Israel Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25140
Abstract
This collection describes the history of the Israel Family of Berlin as well as their firm, the Kaufhaus N. Israel. Material on the N. Israel store includes publications, clippings, photographs, and correspondence concerning restitution for its loss. In addition, this collection also holds family papers, documents pertaining to family history, and family trees.
Dates:
1814-1996; Majority of material found within 1938-1991
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Israel Family Collection
Itzig Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 4191 MF 1234
Abstract
The Itzig Family Collection contains papers documenting the history and genealogy of the Itzig and related families. Particularly prominent are the careers and significant achievements of Daniel Itzig (1722-1799) and his son Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750-1806). The collection includes family trees, many photocopies of official certificates and letters, an unpublished typescript for a book on Isaac Daniel Itzig and a few copies of photographs of family members.
Dates:
1760-1983; Majority of material found within 1780-1900
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Itzig Family Collection
Jacob Abraham and Abraham Abramson Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11970
Abstract
The collection contains the 1753 contract for royal medalist Jacob Abraham for work at the royal mint in Stettin. The contract includes a clause guaranteeing Abraham the protection of Frederick II, King of Prussia.
Dates:
1753-circa 2001
Jacob Jacobson Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7002 / MF 447 / MF 134
Abstract
Records of several Jewish communities assembled by Jacob Jacobson.
Dates:
1660-1958
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Jacob Jacobson Collection
Jacobi Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 116
Abstract
This collection contains a wide range of personal and family papers of the Jacobi, Kornik, and Mosse families of Posen and Berlin, as well as extensive family trees for the Jacobi and Wolff families.
Dates:
1836-circa 1935
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Jacobi Family Collection
Jakob Schönberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3390
Abstract
Typescripts and correspondence by Schönberg; 2 scrapbooks, one containing concert programs and reviews of Schönberg's works (1921-1948), the other containing articles by Schönberg, mostly on music and culture (1920-1938).
Dates:
1920-1948
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Jakob Schönberg Collection
Jenny Pelz Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6568
Abstract
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence sent from Jenny Pelz in Berlin to her children and grandchildren in the United States during the second World War.
Dates:
1908-1966
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Jenny Pelz Collection
Jewish Counter Culture Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-504
Abstract
This collection includes materials documenting the activities and publications of independent and activist American Jewish organizations. Sample news publications from a variety of independent presses are included, as are a variety of home-published newsletters and flyers. The collection addresses anti-war protests and U.S. draft avoidance; American Jewish activism on Israel; feminist involvement in Judaism; socialism and radicalism; and international affairs. Materials include newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, news clippings, articles, limited correspondence, speech notes, reports, and flyers.
Dates:
1954-2010
Jewish Press Agencies Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 5316
Abstract
The Jewish Press Agencies Collection consists of press reports that document the events of 1933-1935 in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the persecution of German Jews. The bulk of the material derives from reports of the Jewish Central Information Office, although Inpress and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency are also represented. Almost the entirety of the collection consists of reports, but there are also photocopies of various documents, timelines and a few publications.
Dates:
1933-1935
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Jewish Press Agencies Collection
Jews in Germany after 1945 collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 4197
Abstract
The collection consists of clippings from West-German, Swiss, and US newspapers, as well as some correspondence, published materials and ephemera, describing various aspects of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust.
Dates:
1951-1995
Johanna Meyer-Lövinson Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 299
Abstract
This collection documents the life and professional interests of Johanna Meyer-Lövinson. She was most well-known for her work as a reciting artist (Rezitatorin) and radio speaker in 1920s and early 1930s Berlin. In addition to her artistic activities, she was also involved in teaching. Her collection is composed of papers concerning her personal life such as memoirs, momentos, and a diary as well as her own writings and numerous notes. In addition, it holds correspondence and reference files on authors whose writings she featured in her own work. The collection also contains papers of her family, a few photos, and a film reel.
Dates:
1868-1989; bulk 1896-1949
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Johanna Meyer-Lövinson Collection
John H. Richter Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1683 / MF 534
Abstract
This collection contains genealogical files from John Henry Richter's estate, including various family histories and genealogies.
Dates:
1904-1994
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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John H. Richter Collection
Josef Klausner Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6402
Abstract
The collection consists of photocopies of letters (typed and handwritten) from Josef Klausner, in Berlin, to his son Julius, in the United States.
Dates:
1936-1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Josef Klausner Collection
Joseph Fraenkel Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3097 / MF 775
Abstract
Wedding songs and other celebratory writings as well as school and business materials pertaining to the extended family of Joseph Fraenkel, Berlin
Dates:
1811-1903
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Joseph Fraenkel Family Collection
Joseph Joachim Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 2089
Abstract
This collection contains about 80 programs for Joseph Joachim's concerts, as well as a handful of his letters, an autograph album kept by his student Martha Drews, and a couple of photographs of Joachim.
Dates:
1870-1907
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Joseph Joachim Collection
Joseph Lehmann Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1596
Abstract
The collection consists of published sermons and speeches by Joseph Lehmann in folder 2, as well as obituaries for him by the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin in folder 1.
Dates:
1912-1933
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Joseph Lehmann Collection
Joseph Rothschild Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6497
Abstract
The collection contains an assortment of documents related to the extended family of Joseph Rothschild of Weiterode (now incorporated into Bebra, Germany), especially to the family of his descendent Meinhold Rothschild.
Dates:
1851-1980
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Joseph Rothschild Collection
Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin
Collection
Identifier: AR 10980
Abstract
Photocopies on acid-free paper of the Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin, Ausgabe 1929-1930 (Jewish Address Directory for Greater Berlin)
Dates:
1930-1931
Judith Sander collection
Collection
Identifier: DM 309
Abstract
Materials by and about the opera soprano Judith Sander, including original documents, clippings, photographs and sound recordings.
Dates:
1904-1940s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Judith Sander collection
Julius Bab Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 196 / MF 475
Abstract
This collection contains a large volume of correspondence, as well as manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks, and clippings all documenting the cultural production of the theater critic and dramatist Julius Bab. The correspondence notably contains large amounts of original letters from Gustav Landauer, Gerhart Hauptmann, Richard Dehmel, and Fritz Mauthner, and several other leading cultural and political figures from the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
1895-1977; Majority of material found within 1895-1955
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Julius Bab Collection
Julius Galliner Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3070
Abstract
This collection holds the papers of the Berlin rabbi Julius Galliner. Many of the papers center on the activities of the Berlin Jewish Community and its members. The largest area of the collection is comprised of Julius Galliner's writings, including many of his sermons, but there is also a small amount of correspondence, educational and identification documents, and professional papers.
Dates:
1852-1963; Majority of material found within 1917-1946
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Julius Galliner Collection
Julius Glass Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10178
Abstract
The collection contains photocopies of various documents relating to numerous members of the Glass family and their activities during the early 20th century. There are also several family trees.
Dates:
1907-1999
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Julius Glass Collection
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