Emigration and immigration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 355 Collections and/or Records:
Adler Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 228
Abstract
The Adler Family Collection contains papers of various members of the Adler family. Most of the collection consists of correspondence, but there are also folders with family papers such as wedding memorabilia, vaccination certificates, visiting cards, telegrams, a notebook, a family tree for one branch of the family and a clipping on Selig Adler.
Dates:
1863-1980; Majority of material found within 1889-1911
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Adler Family Collection
Adler Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25684
Abstract
The Adler Family Collection holds materials regarding the lives of Thekla (née Grünebaum) and Leopold Adler and their children Bennie, Rose, Irma, and Berthold. The papers document their lives in Hintersteinau, Germany, the deaths of Leopold and Irma Adler, and the emigration of the remaining family members to New York. Included in the collection is a large amount of their correspondence, in addition to various family papers, including official documents, school records, immigration documentation, documentation relating to the careers of family members, and genealogical and historical research. The collection also contains family photographs and a photo album.
Dates:
1884-2013; Majority of material found in 1920-1938
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Adler Family Collection
Adolf Leschnitzer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25320 / MF 897
Abstract
The Adolf Leschnitzer Collection documents the life and professional activities of Adolf Leschnitzer, researcher, historian, and teacher. The collection includes brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, financial, vital, and immigration documents, minutes, notes, photographs, printed materials, and writings, by Adolf Leschnitzer as well as other authors. Additionally, there are materials dealing with other members of the Leschnitzer family, namely his wife, Maria Leschnitzer, née Bratz, her mother, Elly Bratz, née Michael, Adolf and Maria Leschnitzers' son, Michael Lesch, also known as Michael Leschnitzer, and Adolf and Albertt Frank.
Dates:
1886-1986; Majority of material found in 1937-1973
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Adolf Leschnitzer Collection
Adolf Schwersenz Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25615
Abstract
This collection includes personal and official documents of the Adolf Schwersenz family, including his professional work as a cantor, mainly during his time in Berlin. It contains sheet music used by Adolf Schwersenz, as well as newspaper clippings and letters.
Dates:
1895-1969; Majority of material found within 1937-1951
Alan L. Cohen Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-973
Abstract
The collection contains photographs and video recordings taken by Kansas City, Missouri rabbi, Alan L. Cohen, during his trips to visit the Jewish Communities in the Former Soviet Union in 1989 and 1993. Included in Rabbi Cohen’s papers are photographs of a protest demonstration organized by Refuseniks in front of the Moscow Kremlin in 1989.
Dates:
1989, 1993
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
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
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Alfred Karger Collection
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
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Alfred Lichtenstein Collection
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
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Alfred Schutz Family Collection
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
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Alfred Werner Collection
Altschuler and Weinberger Families Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25333
Abstract
The Altschuler and Weinberger Families Collection includes materials related to the history of these families prior to World War II as well as materials that shed light on the fate of various members of the Altschuler and Weinberger families during the Holocaust. The collection consists of correspondence, printed materials, documents, photographs, genealogical materials such as charts and family trees, stammbuch (most likely belonging to Helen Altschuler), and a handwritten cookbook.
Dates:
1884-2007
American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files
Collection
Identifier: RG 347.17.10
Abstract
The collection documents American Jewish Committee’s efforts to combat all forms of discrimination against the Jews in the United States. Additionally, there are materials pertaining to AJC’s work regarding other minority groups in the United States. The collection offers researchers a unique chance to see how and what was done prior to the changes in public opinion and civic and legal laws. The American Jewish Committee Records, Subject Files consists of materials created by executive offices, departments, local offices and chapters of the Committee concerning a variety of matters; foremost Jewish civil and religious rights, immigration, and the Holocaust.
Dates:
1930-1973; Majority of material found within 1941-1961
American Soviet Jewry Movement Oral Histories Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-548
Abstract
The collection contains audio and video interviews with activists of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, former Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience.
Dates:
2008-2011, 2013-2014
American Soviet Jewry Movement Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-495
Abstract
This is an artificial collection that contains digitized photographs and slides selected from various collections in the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, and other related collections at the American Jewish Historical Society. The physical part of the collection consists of one manuscript box containing 415 photographs that were separated from their parent collections.
Dates:
undated, 1969-1991
American Soviet Jewry Movement Posters and Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: I-566
Abstract
This is an artificial collection that contains digitized posters and ephemera selected from various collections in the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society.
Dates:
undated, 1970-1991
Anne Fischer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10519
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence and personal papers of Anne Fischer. The bulk of the material consists of nearly five decades of continuous correspondence between Anne Fischer and Hermann Simon. In addition, there is a very small amount of official documents of family members and a few photographs.
Dates:
1884-1982; Majority of material found within 1930-1978
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Anne Fischer Collection
Anneliese Riess Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10019
Abstract
This collection documents the life of Anneliese Riess and her family. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence that reflects the impact of fascism and anti-Semitic policies on her personal life and on her immediate family.
Dates:
1882-2001; Majority of material found in 1933-1948
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Anneliese Riess Collection
Anny Bernstein Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10411
Abstract
The collection holds Anny Bernstein’s correspondence, which she received from her family in Vienna, Austria and other places, while living in New York. Also included is an offprint with an article about Ann’s husband Frank Zwillinger (1909-1989).
Dates:
1916-1996; Majority of material found in 1939-1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Anny Bernstein Collection
Aron Rauner Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25438
Abstract
The Aron Rauner Family Collection documents the life of this businessman and his family, although his story is the most prominent of the collection. The papers include official documents and certificates as well as notes, poems, narratives, correspondence and photographic material.
Dates:
1892-2005; Majority of material found within 1916-1963
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Aron Rauner Family Collection
Arthur A. Goren Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-985
Abstract
This is the collection of Arthur A. Goren, a historian and professor of American Jewish history at the Hebrew University and Columbia University. This collection consists of his research material and professional files from his academic pursuits and career as a professor, primarily at Columbia University. Included in the collection are copies of articles and photocopies of archival material used for research, drafts of speeches and manuscripts, handwritten and typed research notes, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and teaching and course material such as syllabi, readings, notes, and bibliographies.
Dates:
1951-2007; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Arthur and Ottilie Bleier Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25272
Abstract
This collection holds the papers of Arthur and Ottilie (née Schnabl) Bleier. It primarily contains personal documents, such as educational and official papers. Prominent topics are Arthur Bleier's career as a physician and the Bleiers' internment in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. In addition to the textual material, the collection holds some photographic material and some artifacts from the Holocaust, i.e. yellow stars and armbands.
Dates:
1884-1952
Arthur Bernstein Papers
Collection — Consolidated Box P27, Folder: P-925
Identifier: P-925
Abstract
The papers of the Soviet Jewry movement activist Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Dr. Arthur Bernstein contain a copy of his petition on behalf of fellow computer scientist and Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Sharansky signed by over 230 prominent American computer scientists and mailed to the Soviet and American officials and to the United Nations in 1977. The collection also contains an autobiographical note with a brief history of the Sharansky petition.
Dates:
1977, 2011
Arthur Bluhm Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1884 / MF 733
Abstract
This collection is composed of the papers of Arthur Bluhm, chief rabbi of Krefeld, Germany between 1928 and 1938, and rabbi of Temple B'nai Israel in Amarillo, Texas. It documents his professional life and also holds records related to the Krefeld Jewish Community and the Jews in Westphalia. In addition, the collection contains the papers of Abraham Sutro, chief rabbi of Westphalia from 1815-1869.
Dates:
1809-1962
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Arthur Bluhm Collection
Arthur Josefsberg Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: AR 25590
Abstract
The collection includes translated family correspondence to Arthur Josefsberg in the United States from his parents Klara and Berl Josefsberg and his sister Rosie (from Vienna), and his brother Joszi and his wife Valy (from France).
Dates:
1938-1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Arthur Josefsberg Correspondence
Arthur Prinz Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 5103 / MF 681
Abstract
This collection documents the life and work of the economist Arthur Prinz. It is comprised of correspondence, documents, diaries, clippings, research notes, index cards, and books and offprints. Information on various topics, especially immigration and emigration during the 1930s, Jews and the German economy, and Marxist economics will also be found here.
Dates:
1908-1982
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Arthur Prinz Collection
Arthur Wolf Papers
Collection
Identifier: AR 25270 / MF 819
Abstract
Personal and official documents relating to Arthur Wolf; diaries and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1968
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Arthur Wolf Papers
Aschkenazy-Willdorff Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25066
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Aschkenazy Family as well as those of Erich Willdorff, who was married to Elfriede (Effy) Aschkenazy. Prominent topics are emigration and immigration as well as Erich Willdorff's watch and clock shop. The papers in this collection include a few photographs, some correspondence and personal papers. The bulk of the collection comprises official and commercial documents.
Dates:
1895-1959; Majority of material found within 1920s-1950s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Aschkenazy-Willdorff Collection
Auerbach Rivers Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25758
Abstract
This collection contains materials of genealogical research from six different families. They include: genealogical information, photographs, birth, death and naturalization records, family sheets listing basic biographical information as well as census records and passenger manifests.
Dates:
1905-2014
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Auerbach Rivers Family Collection
Babette Wampold Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-912
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Babette Wampold and the Alabama Council to Save Soviet Jews and documents their activities on behalf of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. The collection is comprised of correspondence, case files, clippings, newsletters, photographs, and trip reports.
Dates:
undated, 1969-2003; Majority of material found within 1976-1991
Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25201
Abstract
The Barbara and Peter Rothholz Family Collection contains documents and photographs of the families of Peter Rothholz and his wife, Barbara Peters Rothholz (originally Baerbel Gruenpeter), along with papers of the extended family.
Dates:
1877-1969; Majority of material found within 1916-1937
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