Archival materials
Found in 470 Collections and/or Records:
Eva Lesser Stricks Collection
The collection consists of official papers, documenting the life of Eva Lesser Stricks, of her parents and her husband from Berlin via Shanghai to Cincinnati.
Ex Libris Collection
Scores of bookplates.
Experiences in the life of Martin Reich.
Personal documents of Martin Reich and his mother, Emma, describing their lives in Mannheim, Germany and Strasbourg, France prior to their immigration to the United States.
Falk Family Collection
This collection contains materials pertaining to anniversaries of the Falk family.
[Familien- und Geschaeftserinnerungen]
Two edited typescripts by Dr. Emil Sander tell about his family and particularly about his parents, Uri and Helene.
Fega Frisch Collection
The collection holds original translations and clippings of Russian and Yiddish literature into German by Fega Frisch. Also included are some personal documents, such as education records and ID papers.
Felix Auerbach collection
Writings, correspondence, family documents and ephemera pertaining to Felix Auerbach. Felix Auerbach’s diaries, poetry and notes are written in Gabelsberger shorthand. Also included is information about Felix and Anna Auerbach.
Felix Hollaender Collection
Letters to Felix Hollaender regarding his manuscripts from Berliner Tageblatt and Ullstein & Co. Letter to Ms. Meyer from Erich Reiss Verlag.
Felsenstein Family Collection
Xerox of family tree; Manuscript by Ernest S. Felsenstein "Introduction to the history of the descendants of Abraham Felsenstein 1813-1885" (1973, 70 typed pages, English)
Firma F.V. (Falk Valentin) Gruenfeld Collection
Various published and archival materials pertaining to the textile company F.V. (Frank Valentin) Gruenfeld.
Fischl Family Collection
Personal documents of various family members of the Fischl family,: certificates, emigration papers, photos; correspondence between Anna Fischl and her daughter Nelly Wilder (1930s); collection of maps from World War I; 4 poetry books; 1 cookbook; 1 prayer book.
Four printed documents imposing restrictions on Jewish social and economic life
Four printed documents imposing restrictions on Jewish social and economic life in Brunswick and in Austria.
Fraenkel – Neugarten Family Collection
The collection contains materials pertaining to Fraenkel – Neugarten Family.
France (concentration camp) Collection
The bulk of the collection is an assembly of various reports, amounting to a document of 907 pages in ten sections: the reports originate mainly from the "Comité de Coordination pour l'Assistance dans les Camps" (CCAC; also known as "Comité de Nîmes") and other organizations, such as the “American Friends Service Committee” (AFSC) and YMCA pertaining to foreign – particularly Jewish – refugees in unoccupied France during WW II.
Franco - Josefsthal Collection.
Various archival materials relating to two members of the Franco family and to Adolf Abraham Josefsthal.
Franz Rosenzweig - Martin Buber notebooks
22 notebooks (carbon copies), comprising 1,998 pages, dictated by Franz Rosenzweig and addressed to Martin Buber, pertaining to the Rosenzweig-Buber translation of the bible.
Fred Conn Collection
The collection contains AHC questionnaires I and II. Also included are photocopies of archival materials pertaining to Fritz Kohn, Ludwig [?] Kohn and Lilly Weiss, such as education and military certificates.
Fred W. Lessing Collection
Family documents, correspondence, genealogical tables, memoirs, photographs
Frida Ilmer Grosser Collection
Personal papers and writings of Frida Ilmer Grosser, documenting her career as a scholar of German literature.
Frieda Friedlander collection
The bulk of the collection consists of materials pertaining to the Friedlander/Friedlaender families, descendents of the prominent banker and member of the Prussian House of Lords, Dagobert Friedlaender (1826-1904) from Kolmar, Posen (Chodzież, Poland). Also included are correspondence and other materials, documenting the efforts of Frieda Friedlander to assist the work of OSE in France and in the United States after World War II.
Frieda Hirsch Collection
"Mein Weg von Karlsruhe ueber Heidelberg nach Haifa" is the memoir of Frieda Hirsch (née Goldberg) (1890- ). She describes the history of her parents, her upbringing in Karlsruhe as daughter of a well-to-do Jewish-orthodox family, her education at a humanistic high school (Gymnasium), her university studies (medicine) in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Breslau (1908-1913), and life during World War I in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. She married Albert Hirsch (1887-1954) in 1915, a medical student and member of the Zionist student organization "Verein Juedischer Studenten" and settled in Heidelberg, where Albert worked as a pediatrician. Frieda Hirsch tells about life in Heidelberg, the births and upbringing of her children, various friendships (among others with Georg Hermann, Frieda Reichmann, Erich Fromm, and Eugen Taeubler), Zionist activities of her husband, and first anti-Semitic persecutions in Heidelberg in 1933. She gives detailed testimony of her emigration from Heidelberg via Salzburg and Triest to Haifa, where the family settled, of the difficult first years in Palestine with her husband opening a new medical office, and describes her experiences during World War II in Haifa, the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and moving to Kiryat Ono after her husband's death in 1954.
The second text, an attachment of Hirsch's memoir, contains a genealogical table and a detailed history of Frieda Hirsch's (née Goldberg) and Albert Hirsch's families.
Frieda Wunderlich Collection
Correspondence, including letters from Alvin Johnson and Thomas Mann.
Friederike Reisz Collection
Questionnaire I + II of the Austrian Heritage Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute; photocopies of various materials, such as emigration papers, photographs and others pertaining to Friedericke Reisz and her husband, Ladislaus Reisz.
Friedmann and Rosenthal Families
Family documents, genealogical tables, wedding announcements and wedding journal, map of Westprussia
Fritz Frank Collection
The collection contains various documents pertaining to Fritz Frank, most of them manuscripts written by him, and comprises 16 folders.
Fritz Friedlaender Collection
The collection mainly contains articles, notes, manuscripts and other writings by Fritz Friedlaender on various topics as well as articles from other authors on related topics. There are articles on Gabriel Riesser, Friedrich Meinecke, Moritz Heimann, Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Ulrich Sanders and others. The collection also contains letters to Friedlaender from Leo Baeck, Ismar Elbogen, and Max Wiener (1935-1972), and misc. personal documents.
Fritz Meir Fraenkel Collection
The collection contains a manuscript by Fritz Meir Fraenkel titled "Deutsche Juden im alten Jischuw" (typescript, 16 pp.) about German-Jewish emigration to Palestine before the founding of the Zionist movement, focusing on "Kolel Hod", an organizational and financial institution and a "Landsmannschaft" founded by immigrants of German and Dutch origin in Palestine in 1837.
The collection, furthermore, includes offprints and clippings of articles by Fraenkel (such as "Zur Folklore der Berliner Juden from" (1957), "Zur Deutung einiger Kontraktionen im Hebraeischen" (1958), "Abraham und Aron – zwei Beitraege zur biblischen Namensforschung" (1962), "Drei verkannte Fluessigkeitsbenennungen im Hebraeischen" (1967), "Deutsch und Hebraeisch miteinander verwandt?" (1969)), book reviews by Fraenkel, and ten editions of the periodical "Sprachwart. Monatsblaetter fuer Sprache und Rechtschreibung" (1962-1969) as well as three editions of the journal "Archiv fuer das Studium der neueren Sprachen" (1961-1965) mostly containing articles by Fraenkel on linguistic matters (German and Hebrew language).
The linguist Fritz Meir Fraenkel was born in Berlin in 1906. He was a member of the Zionist youth movement "Blau-Weiss" and other Zionist organizations and wrote for the weekly "Juedische Rundschau" until 1938.
He immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and settled in Jerusalem. He worked for "Keren Hayesod" and other institutions and continued writing articles for various Hebrew journals and newspapers.
Fraenkel died in Israel in 1976.
Fuchsstadt; Jewish Community Collection
Miscellaneous materials pertaining to the history of the Jewish community of Fuchsstadt (near Reichenberg)
Fuerth Jewish Community Collection
Various materials related to the Jewish community of Fuerth.
Fürth-Katzenstein Family Collection
The collection contains various materials pertaining to the Fürth-Katzenstein family.