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Adult education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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

Dana family memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: P-397
Abstract

The collection consists of a printed life insurance policy of the late 19th century, in German and in Hebrew, signed by William and Mosses Danishevsky in Boston and a certificate from the Boston Evening High School presented to Moses Lane Dana, dated 1902.

Dates: undated

Eduard Strauss Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7192
Abstract

This collection contains the writings and correspondence of Eduard Strauss. Strauss was a chemist and philosopher who taught at the Freies Juedisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt am Main and later immigrated to New York, where he helped establish a new Lehrhaus.

Dates: 1854-1988; Majority of material found within 1891-1952

Franz Rosenzweig Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3001
Abstract

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), philosopher and theologian, belonged to the important personalities of the German Jewish intellectual life after the First World War. Franz Rosenzweig started the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus, where he tried to teach Jewish tradition and culture as part of real life experience and in this way bring it closer to assimilated German Jewry. He wrote several philosophical works and translated the Hebrew Bible with Martin Buber. The Franz Rosenzweig collection contains manuscripts of many of Franz Rosenzweig’s smaller works, some of his personal items, and correspondence with his parents and with more than fifty of his friends and colleagues. The collection contains other correspondence, and a great number of newspaper clippings, photographs, and some objects.

Dates: 1832-1999

Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6001 / MF 562
Abstract

Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Dates: 1908-1973

Martin Buber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 105
Abstract

The collection holds materials by and about Martin Buber.

Dates: 1921-2003

Max Dienemann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 60 / MF 614 / MF 96(2)
Abstract

Dienemann's dissertation, articles and manuscripts by him on theology and Jewish history, and lecture notes for his Jewish history course during the 1930s at the Freies Juedisches Lehrhaus, Frankfurt; sermons by Dienemann, and records kept by him of rabbinical duties performed in Offenbach.

Dates: 1898-1948