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Archival materials

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 470 Collections and/or Records:

Eva Lesser Stricks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10582 / MF 1043
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1939-1997

Ex Libris Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25017
Abstract

Scores of bookplates.

Dates: [unknown]

Experiences in the life of Martin Reich.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25271 / MF 1017
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1916-1946

Falk Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 863
Abstract

This collection contains materials pertaining to anniversaries of the Falk family.

Dates: undated, 1885-1938

[Familien- und Geschaeftserinnerungen]

 Collection
Identifier: ME 554 / MM 65
Abstract

Two edited typescripts by Dr. Emil Sander tell about his family and particularly about his parents, Uri and Helene.

Dates: 1931.

Fega Frisch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2555
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1897-1959

Felix Auerbach collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3958
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1849-1926, 1994-1998, diaries: 1876-1891

Felix Hollaender Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2648
Abstract

Letters to Felix Hollaender regarding his manuscripts from Berliner Tageblatt and Ullstein & Co. Letter to Ms. Meyer from Erich Reiss Verlag.

Dates: 1913-1921

Felsenstein Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6900 / MF 828
Abstract

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)

Dates: 1854-

Firma F.V. (Falk Valentin) Gruenfeld Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2259 / MF 566
Abstract

Various published and archival materials pertaining to the textile company F.V. (Frank Valentin) Gruenfeld.

Dates: 1854-1979

Fischl Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25061 / MF 909
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1869-2001

Four printed documents imposing restrictions on Jewish social and economic life

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25245 012
Abstract

Four printed documents imposing restrictions on Jewish social and economic life in Brunswick and in Austria.

Dates: 1711- 1759

Fraenkel – Neugarten Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 189
Abstract

The collection contains materials pertaining to Fraenkel – Neugarten Family.

Dates: 1877-1983

France (concentration camp) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3987 / MF 836
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1938-1998

Franco - Josefsthal Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5427
Abstract

Various archival materials relating to two members of the Franco family and to Adolf Abraham Josefsthal.

Dates: 1894-1926

Franz Rosenzweig - Martin Buber notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4219 / MF 877
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1925-1929, 1954

Fred Conn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11036
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1915-1999

Fred W. Lessing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2235 / MF 483
Abstract

Family documents, correspondence, genealogical tables, memoirs, photographs

Dates: 1800-1963

Frida Ilmer Grosser Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10562 / MF 954
Abstract

Personal papers and writings of Frida Ilmer Grosser, documenting her career as a scholar of German literature.

Dates: 1901-1992

Frieda Friedlander collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4994
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1890-1981

Frieda Hirsch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 30
Scope and Contents

"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.

Dates: 1965

Frieda Wunderlich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3230 / MF 480
Abstract

Correspondence, including letters from Alvin Johnson and Thomas Mann.

Dates: 1919-1969

Friederike Reisz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11039
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913-1999

Friedmann and Rosenthal Families

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6200 / MF 769
Abstract

Family documents, genealogical tables, wedding announcements and wedding journal, map of Westprussia

Dates: [unknown]

Fritz Frank Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 896
Abstract

The collection contains various documents pertaining to Fritz Frank, most of them manuscripts written by him, and comprises 16 folders.

Dates: undated, 1923-1977

Fritz Friedlaender Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7201 / MF 621
Abstract

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.

Dates: undated, 1924-1980

Fritz Meir Fraenkel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 97
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937-1970

Fuchsstadt; Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10995 / MF 829
Abstract

Miscellaneous materials pertaining to the history of the Jewish community of Fuchsstadt (near Reichenberg)

Dates: 1811-1945

Fuerth Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 994
Abstract

Various materials related to the Jewish community of Fuerth.

Dates: 1705-1974

Fürth-Katzenstein Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 812
Abstract

The collection contains various materials pertaining to the Fürth-Katzenstein family.

Dates: 1908-1937, 1993-2011