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Archival materials

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 470 Collections and/or Records:

Michael Berolzheimer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4136 / MF 550
Abstract

This collection contains documents on the history of the Berolzheimer family, as well as family trees of the Berolzheimers and related families.

Dates: 1325-1942

Michael Ehrmann family collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12129
Abstract

Four typescripts

Dates: undated, 1953

Michael W. Rich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25246
Abstract

The collection consists of 18 family trees compiled by Michael W. Rich, mentioning the names of well over 10,000 individuals. Also included is an article about Henry Mack.

Dates: 2001-2008

Michelsohn Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10392
Abstract

The collection holds various documents pertaining to the Michelsohn family, originally from the town of Hausberge (Minden, Westphalia). These include vital records, a genealogical table, as well as clippings and publications.

Dates: 1919-1991

Mimi Grossberg collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3815
Abstract

The collection contains manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence pertaining to the poet Mimi Grossberg. Also included are various materials that have been collected by Mimi Grossberg, pertaining to her husband, Norbert Grossberg; her brother, Julius Buchwald; as well as to the writers Ernest Herzog, Erich Juhn and Robert Enoch.

Dates: 1939-1997

Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5321 / MF 883
Abstract

Diaries 1903-1971

Dates: undated, 1903-1971

Moritz and Emma Czarnikow Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25123 / MF 891
Abstract

The material in this collection was compiled by the descendants of the seven children of Moritz and Emma Czarnikow.

Dates: 1705-2003

Moritz Guedemann Sermons

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7067 / MF 470
Abstract

Sermons (over six hundred), 1860-1918, organized chronologically and given by Guedemann on Sabbaths, holidays, and other occasions, including confirmations, weddings, funerals, and the Kaiser's birthday

Dates: 1859-1918

Moritz Lazarus collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2051
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence (original autographs and photocopies), clippings and other materials pertaining to the philosopher Moritz Lazarus.

Dates: 1854-1971; Majority of material found within 1854-1902

Moritz Sobernheim Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 668
Abstract

The collection contains copies of various materials accumulated in the course of Moritz Sobernheim's work at the German Foreign Office.

Dates: 1918-1932

Moritz von Cohn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1120 / AR 1120 / MF 527 / MF 172
Abstract

Financial and personal correspondence of Cohn, along with supporting documents, including letters from German nobles and court officials.

Dates: 1810-1902

[Mortgage indenture of the Jew Löw and his wife Haya of Markelsheim]

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5101
Abstract

Handwritten mortgage indenture of the Jew Loew (Levi) and his wife Haya of Marckelsheim (today Markelsheim in Bad Mergentheim), Franconia, in favor of Johann Theobald Falkner, November 11, 1659. Also included are an appraisal and a typed translation of the document.

Dates: 1659, 1982

Moshe and Nora Tavor collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6148 MF 838
Abstract

The collection contains official documents pertaining to Nora Tavor, née Heller and to her second husband, Moshe Tavor, formerly Fritz Tauber. Also included is some information about Nora Tavor’s first husband, Leo Baum, and about her mother Elsa Hahn.

Dates: 1922-1986

Murray Bittman collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12062
Dates: 1931-2007

Nahum N. Glatzer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 148
Abstract

The collection contains typescripts of articles by Nahum N. Glatzer, mostly with his handwritten additions. Interspersed are newspaper clippings about Glatzer (including an obituary). Also included are printed and typed pages, listing archival holdings in the Glatzer estate.

Dates: 1958-1990

Nathan Eidinger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7033
Abstract

The bulk of the collection holds manuscripts, correspondence and clippings pertaining to the work of the industrialist Nathan Eidinger in achieving emancipation for Romanian Jews after World War One. Also included are documents related to his and his family’s plight in Switzerland and France during World War Two.

Dates: 1918-1976

National Council of Jewish Women Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6301 / MF 778
Abstract

Case files (containing correspondence, handwritten notes, application forms, documents, and affidavits) in addition to general correspondence, speeches, brochures, and newspaper clippings from the Immigration and Naturalization Office of the National Council of Jewish Women, Worcester Section, regarding assistance provided to Jewish immigrants and permanent residents seeking citizenship from the 1930s to the 1970s. Case files include office correspondence with individuals, Jewish social service agencies, lawyers in the United States and Germany, and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Some case files also contain correspondence and personal statements in support of reparations claims filed with the West German government.

Dates: 1936-1982

Neisser Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 826
Abstract

Genealogical tables and accompanying materials pertaining to the Neisser family from Upper Silesia, Germany.

Dates: 1978-1980

Nones family of Philadelphia papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-5
Abstract

Contains materials from David B. Nones (1783-1837), Benjamin Nones (1757-1826), and Joseph B. Nones (1797-1887). Materials of David Nones are three letters, dated 1810, to his parents, in which David asks for approval of his marriage to a non-Jew, promises her conversion, and describes his cargo's seizure in Cophenhagen; one letter, dated 1825, to David's son, Joseph, offering fatherly advice, two letters, dated 1824, from David's sister Esther and Solomon Jacobs of Richmond, Va., recommending the health spa at Whiter Sulphur Springs; two letters in Spanish, dated 1824 and 1829, from David's brother-in-law, Felix C. Rossi of Cadiz, and a nephew, Chinaud, in Cuba discussing the heavy emigration from Europe to America and their own projected trips to Cuba and the U.S.; and three letters, dated 1829, describing David's settlement of claims against the French from Napoloenic times and U.S. legislation. Materials of Benjamin Nones are three legal documents signed by Nones as a notary public in Philadelphia, and photocopies of letters from Nones to his son, Joseph, and from Joseph to his mother regarding his marriage to Eveline DeLeon. Legal documents are dated 1803-1823; letters are dated 1822-1823. Materials of Joseph Nones include a manuscript biography of experiences in the U.S. Navy during which time Nones served as private secretary to Henry Clay at the negotiations of the Treaty of Ghent. Also includes biographies of Albert Gallatin, Jonathan Russell, and John Lawrence.

Dates: 1803-1829

Norbert Troller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7268 / MF 500
Abstract

Extensive autobiographical manuscript by Troller, with illustrations and other supporting material, discussing his family and community, his early life, and his experiences during and after the Holocaust.

Dates: 1724; 1900-1998

Oskar Adler collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12026
Abstract

The Oskar Adler collection holds university registries and other education records; vital records; correspondence; and photographs pertaining to Rabbi Oskar Adler and his wife Ilse née Cohn.

Dates: 1934-1939

Ottilie Schoenewald Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3896 / MF 622
Abstract

Correspondence of Schoenewald with institutions and individuals, including Leo Baeck, Klara Caro, Dora Edinger, Alfred Hirschberg, Selma Jolowicz, Hannah Karminski, Ernst Lowenthal, and Lilli Marx; Manuscripts, clippings, and offprints of articles, lectures, and speeches, by Schoenewald and others, on feminism, social work, the Juedischer Frauenbund, post-World War II Germany, U.S. immigration laws, and denazification; Material on Bertha Pappenheim; Records of the Juedischer Frauenbund; Records of the International Council of Jewish Women; Clippings.

Dates: 1905-1983

Otto Ernst Riegner Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25415
Abstract

The bulk of the correspondence is from Hugo Riegner in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Germany) to his son, Otto-Ernst Riegner in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1937-1942

Otto Fantl Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2209
Abstract

The three scrapbooks (“Stammbücher”) by Otto Fantl were his guest books in his house in Prague. Visitors – individuals working in politics, art, literature, and science – signed the pages, often adding comments, mostly in Czech, but also in German, French, English, and Russian. There is a total of 272 entries, accompanied by obituaries and other clippings, as well as handwritten notes and photographs, providing further information about the various individuals.

Dates: 1922-1938

Otto Meyerhof Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1449
Abstract

The Otto Meyerhof Collection contains some of his writings – letters, poems and articles – either in form of transcripts or in various publications; there is one single, undated letter in the original. The collection also contains biographical writings about Otto Meyerhof.

Dates: 1904-1963

Papers of Gustave Eisner

 Collection
Identifier: RG 316
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of:



1. Materials relating to the PPS (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Polish Socialist Party), including trial records and proclamations, 1905-1912



2. Proclamations by the Socialist-Zionist Party (SS) and the Bund, 1905 and 1934



3. Correspondence: family (1912-1938) and general (1911-1938, including a number of letters from Yiddish writers)



4. Records pertaining to the activities of various Łódź landsmanshaftn in the U.S.



5. Manuscripts, notes, printed articles, and personal documents of Gustav Eisner



6. Photographs taken in Poland, some during World War I



7. Records of the Gustave Eisner Travel Bureau, 1930s

Dates: 1905 - 1938

Papers of the Jacobson-Schule in Seesen

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3502
Abstract

The collection combines various documents pertaining to the school’s actuality and the diversity of its students from its earliest days in the early 19th century to its 175th anniversary in 1976.

Dates: undated, 1829-1976

Paul Aron Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10304 / MF 495
Abstract

Papers, photos, scores

Dates: [unknown]

Paul Eppstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 804
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings in remembrance (and mostly praise) of Paul Eppstein. Also included are photocopies of official documents pertaining to Eppstein’s academic career.

Dates: 1928-1967; Majority of material found in 1929, 1959

Paul J. Jacobi Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10339
Abstract

The Paul J. Jacobi Collection consists of two heavily annotated typescripts, exploring aspects of German-Jewish genealogy and accompanying materials.

Dates: 1994