Archival materials
Found in 468 Collections and/or Records:
Jewish Institutions of Adult Education in Berlin – Collection of Lectures
The collection holds mostly manuscripts of lectures given primarily at institutions of Jewish adult education. They were given by various scholars, lecturing on Judaism; Jewish history; Jewish philosophy; and other topics pertaining to Jewish culture.
Jews in France collection
Original documents from France pertaining to her Jewish population during World War I; the inter-war period; and the time of German occupation during World War II. Most documents originated with the Comité français d’information et d’action auprès des Juif des pays neutres and with the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
Jews in Germany after 1945 collection
The collection consists of clippings from West-German, Swiss, and US newspapers, as well as some correspondence, published materials and ephemera, describing various aspects of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust.
Jews in Weimar
This small collection holds name lists of Jewish residents in Weimar, 1879-1941, as well as reports from survivors of the Holocaust in Weimar. Also included is correspondence, describing these reports’ provenance.
Johanna Fischer Family Collection.
Family documents (1882-1939); photographs.
John H. Bergmann Collection
Extensive collection of genealogical information, family trees, manuscripts, and clippings on Swabian Jewish communities, with a special focus on the Jewish community in Laupheim.
John H. E. Fried Collection
The John H. E. Fried Collection contains legal briefs prepared by Fried as a legal consultant to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Manuscripts, legal briefs, clippings, offprints, and memoranda by Fried, Justice Robert Jackson, John J. McCloy and others, cover a range of topics including war crimes, National Socialism, international law, and human rights. The collection contains proceedings of war crimes trials, in particular those of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Also of interest are drafts and research notes by Fried for books on human rights and international justice.
Josef Kastein Collection
The collection holds materials by and pertaining to the writer Josef Kastein (1890-1946).
Joseph Fraenkel Family Collection
Wedding songs and other celebratory writings as well as school and business materials pertaining to the extended family of Joseph Fraenkel, Berlin
Joseph Lehmann Collection
The collection consists of published sermons and speeches by Joseph Lehmann in folder 2, as well as obituaries for him by the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin in folder 1.
Joseph Rodgers Family Collection
Joseph Willner
Photos, clippings, manuscripts, program posters, correspondence, ID's, of Joseph and Adrienne Willner. There are ID cards regarding his work in C.I.C. - Headquarters Command USFA in Vienna, as well as pamphlets on magic tricks, lecture scripts on hypnosis, various scripts for theater plays, and notes and clippings on the death of Joe Willner, the magician.
Josephine Zwirn Collection
The collection contains questionnaires I + II of the Austrian Heritage Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute. Included are photocopies of correspondence and official documents pertaining to Walter Schwarz’s imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp; as well as various materials, such as photocopies of vital records and emigration papers pertaining to Josephine Zwirn’s second husband, Otto Zwirn; and photocopies of photographs of Josephine’s parents, Karl and Hilda Schindler.
Joshua Eli Plaut Family Collection
Various materials pertaining mainly to Joshua Plaut’s father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, and to Joshua Plaut’s grandfather, Rabbi Jonas Plaut. In addition there are 11 homemade videos of reunions and celebrations of various members of the Plaut family. Included is also some family correspondence of Rabbi Walter Plaut and Hadassah Yanich Plaut, as well as some genealogical research into ancestors of the Yanich family.
[Judenfamilienregister Zaberfeld]
These are pages from the original family register of the town of Zaberfeld in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, recording the households of Jewish families from the mid-1800s to the 1930s. Mentioned are the names and dates of male and female members of the households; the names of their respective parents; and the households’ children.
Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar Breslau
Various materials from and about the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, including manuscripts, publications and photographs.
Jüdische Friedhöfe im Kreis Bad Kreuznach - Rheinland-Pfalz.
The file contains documentation of the Jewish cemeteries in Bad Kreuznach County: photographs of the gravestones, transcripts and translations of the inscriptions that appear on them and correspondence.
Judith Sander collection
Materials by and about the opera soprano Judith Sander, including original documents, clippings, photographs and sound recordings.
Juedischer Kulturbund Hamburg Collection
A nearly complete collection of programs, circulars, and other printed matter of the Kulturbund, Hamburg, from 1934 to 1938. Also a collection of newspaper clippings, many of them about the Reichsverband der juedischen Kulturbuende for the same period.
Julius Picard Family Collection
The collection documents the lives of members of the Picard, Dreyfuss, Epstein and Kahn families in Alsace/Lorraine (now France) and Baden.
Julius Streicher Collection
The collection contains statements by and about Julius Streicher from the time of the Nuremberg trials, 1945-46. Also included are items that had belonged to Streicher.
Julius Voehl Collection
School documents; reports; photos. Letters from World War I (Feldpostbriefe). Diaries from World War I
Kadimah Collection
This collection contains the proceedings of the 1. Allgemeiner Jüdischer Studententag (First Jewish Students’ Conference: Vienna, Austria: 1919), as well as two speeches delivered on the 50th anniversary of the student Zionist association Kadimah (1933) and an exchange of letters regarding the unseating of Weizmann as head of the Zionist World Organization.
Kantorowicz Family Collection Addenda
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Gertrude M. Meyer (Porto Alegre, Brasil) to Prof. Robert E. Lerner pertaining to the Kantorowicz family from Posen, Jan. 2002-[Dec.] 2005.
Kappel-Kristeller Collection
The collection contains documents (birth and death certificates, diplomas, wills, etc.) and correspondence related to the Kristeller and Kappel families. One section deals with Hans Kristeller's collection of materials related to Jacques Offenbach. There is extensive documentation about him sending the collection to the US in 1937 and trying to sell it there. The fate of the collection is unknown.
Karl Wolfskehl collection
Various items pertaining to Karl Wolfskehl.
Kartell Jüdischer Verbindungen Collection
The collection contains arious materials pertaining to the Kartell Jüdischer Verbindungen in Palestine/Israel (KJV or ק.י.פ.).
Kathleen Evans Ex Libris Collection
A collection of bookplates from German public and private (mostly Jewish) libraries. A diverse array of scenes are depicted in the bookplate images including people, landscapes, animals, buildings and graphic lettering. Some scenes are idyllic while others are morbid, the majority fall somewhere between these two poles.
Klein-Cohn Family Collection
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Fanni Blatny, née Klein in England to her niece Alice Jaffé, née Rice in Maryland. Also included are correspondence and immigration documents pertaining to the extended Klein family. There are explanatory notes by Alice Jaffé throughout the collection.
Konrad Morgen Collection
The collection contains photocopies from the National Archives of the proceedings of the Military Government Court in the case of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The bulk consists of Konrad Morgen's testimonies against Karl Koch, the SS commandant of Buchenwald.