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Auctions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Guides to other archives

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25054
Abstract

Guides to archives and special collections in the USA, Europe and Israel that were sent to and/or collected by LBI archivists over the years.

Dates: 1932-1998

Guttmann / Sotheby's Case Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6570
Abstract

This collection contains the materials of attorney Ernst C. Stiefel relating to the Alexander Guttmann/Sotheby's case. The case revolved around a 1984 Sotheby's auction of Hebraica from the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin that had been brought from Germany to the United States by Guttmann in 1938. The materials include pleadings, clippings, and Stiefel's files.

Dates: 1907-1984; Majority of material found within 1984