Germany
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Lotte Strauss Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25287 / MF 938
Abstract
The Lotte Strauss Collection documents Lotte and Herbert Strauss’ efforts to leave Germany, their experience in Switzerland and the fate of Lotte Strauss’ family during World War II. The collection includes clippings, eye-witness accounts, personal and official correspondence, vital, and immigration documents, lists, photographs, audio-visual materials, reports, and manuscripts.
Dates:
1868, 1933-2005; Majority of material found in 1933-2005
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Lotte Strauss Collection
Louis Herz Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 2561
Abstract
This collection contains three generations of family and personal documents pertaining to the family of Louis Herz. Included are vital documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, and identification cards, as well as passports, death notices, school documents, and military papers.
Dates:
1862-1939
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Louis Herz Family Collection
Ludwig Marum Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 4969
Abstract
The Ludwig Marum collection documents Ludwig Marum’s involvement with politics and Elisabeth Lunau’s genealogical research about the Marum family.
Dates:
1760-2004; Majority of material found within 1909-2004
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ludwig Marum Collection
Ludwig Philippson Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 2679
Abstract
This collection holds the papers of rabbi Ludwig Philippson and other Philippson family members. Noteworthy items in this collection include handwritten manuscripts by Ludwig Philippson, correspondence between various family members, and diaries kept by Henriette and Moritz Philippson; the latter describes experiences as a medical student in Jena. In addition, the collection also holds manuscripts by the geographer Alfred Philippson that describe in depth family members as well as his experiences as a student, lecturer, and professor. Other items include detailed family trees, official papers, poems, notes, clippings, wills, and photographs.
Dates:
1810-1989
Mandel Herrmann Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 11934
Abstract
The collection documents the immigration to New York City of Sophie and Fritz Herrmann, her parents Chaim and Pauline Mandel, and his mother Gertrud Herrmann, which had led them through Belgium, France, Cuba, and Venezuela. Documents include passports and other identity records, as well as various official documents and a few photographs.
Dates:
1884-1971; Majority of material found within 1937-1952
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Mandel Herrmann Family Collection
Marvin Lowenthal, papers
Collection
Identifier: P-140
Abstract
This collection contains Marvin Lowenthal's correspondence, journals, diaries, documents, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials relating to his life, writings, Zionist activities, and relief work on behalf of German Jewry. Includes material on his youth, school work, and college years, as well as autobiographical writings and family correspondence containing information on Horace Kallen and early 20th century Zionist activities. Of particular note is his later correspondence with Jacob Billikopf, Jerome Frank, Horace M. Kallen, Elmer Rice, Eugene C. Taylor, and Stephen S. Wise.
Dates:
undated, 1871-1959
Max Busyn Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7093
Abstract
The Max Busyn collection centers on material about the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner and the circle of devotes around him. The collection consists primarily of essays and correspondence between several followers of Brunner, who tried to reactivate the circle and to republish Brunner's work in the 1950s and 1960s after the Nazis had destroyed it.
Dates:
1903-1975; Majority of material found within 1930-1960
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Max Busyn Collection
Max Buxpan Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6141
Abstract
The Max Buxpan Collection sketches the biography of Max Buxpan and his family. The collection centers on the correspondence of Buxpan family members and associated friends. Most of these documents date from the 1930s until the 1960s, including the time of immigration. Buxpan also collected a lot of material about the First and Second World Wars and the immediate periods thereafter, primarily postcards and newspaper articles.
Dates:
1902-1983; Majority of material found within 1914-1970
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Max Buxpan Collection
Max Hamburger Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7280
Abstract
The collection of Max Hamburger (1897-1970) documents his scholarship on the relationship between ancient philosophy and modern jurisprudence. It also shows the efforts of an independent émigré scholar to promote himself and his work to universities, publishers, granting agencies, and other scholars. There is very little personal material in this collection. The main document types are correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and research notes.
Dates:
1921-1960s
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Max Hamburger Collection
Metallgesellschaft Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25139 / MF 927
Abstract
Materials collected by Helmut Waszkis about the Metallgesellschaft AG
Dates:
[unknown]
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Metallgesellschaft Collection
Morris “Moe” Berg Papers
Collection — Consolidated Box P25, Folder: P-853
Identifier: P-924
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Morris "Moe" Berg, who was a professional baseball player, linguist, lawyer, and international spy during WWII. Berg's papers are in the form of correspondence, contracts, telegrams, newspaper and magazine clippings.
Dates:
undated, 1924-1972; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960
Name File Records in the Hadassah Archives
Collection
Identifier: I-578/RG 10
Abstract
The Name File record group is a collection of documents representing various individuals, corporations, and non-profit groups who were affiliated with Hadassah. These files were originally arranged alphabetically by the organization's central filing department as a ready reference source on leaders, doctors, speakers, donors, and religious figures associated with Hadassah's many projects. This collection includes correspondence, clippings, newsletters, and other ephemeral documents.
Dates:
1918-2007; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1990
Norman Salit (1896-1960) Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-35
Abstract
This collection contains material relating to Norman Salit's activities with various organizations, including the Synagogue Council of America, the Rabbinical Assembly of America, the Wartime Emergency Commission for Conservative Judaism, the Boy Scouts of America, the Jewish Education Committee, the American Child Guidance Foundation, Religion in American Life, the Valley Forge Foundation, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the National Community Relations Advisory Council. There are also speeches, writings, sermons, items related to Sharit's legal work and Zionist activities, as well as some letters from Mordecai Kaplan.
Dates:
undated, 1916-1965; undated, 1916-1965
Oppenheimer and Sander Families Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6943
Abstract
The Oppenheimer and Sander Families Collection provide details of family members' lives via profuse personal correspondence, especially the letters of Emilie Oppenheimer and her daughter Betty. In addition to the many letters and postcards are a family tree, some poems and notes.
Dates:
1868-1905, 2006; Majority of material found within 1868-1900
ORT Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 380
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs and negatives of World ORT conferences and congresses, various individuals connected with ORT, and ORT vocational programs and activities, including in Displaced Person’s camps, in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Cuba, and North and South America.
Dates:
1904-1972; Majority of material found within 1920-1960
Oscar I. Janowsky Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-874
Abstract
University professor, historian, and scholar Oscar I. Janowsky sought to understand Jewish culture and human rights in light of modern anti-Semitism, imperialism, and pluralistic states. Throughout his robust career he was a professor of history at the City College of New York, he also served as an advisor to League of Nations High Commissioner James G. McDonald, directed and authored major studies in the fields of Jewish community centers and education. The papers in this collection include his correspondence with colleagues and friends, research notes and article drafts, and his unpublished memoirs.
Dates:
undated, 1916-1993; undated, 1916-1993
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
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ottilie Schoenewald Collection
Otto H Ehrlich Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25192
Abstract
The Otto Ehrlich Collection documents the life and professional activities of Otto Ehrlich, economist, lecturer, advertisement artist, and teacher. The collection includes brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, financial and immigration documents, minutes, notes, photographs, photo collages, examples of his advertisement work, printed materials and writings. Documents comprising the collection reflect various aspects of Otto Ehrlich’s personal and professional life, teaching, research and writings in the fields of economics, and to a lesser extent his involvement with the field of advertisement and music.
Dates:
1876-2004; Majority of material found within 1908-1979
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Otto H Ehrlich Collection
Otto Mainzer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10342
Abstract
The Otto Mainzer collection documents the life and professional activities of Otto Mainzer, lawyer, writer, and financial consultant; the collection also sheds light on the life of Otto Mainzer’s wife, Ilse Wunsch, a musician and a teacher. The collection includes correspondence, financial, vital, immigration, and legal documents, notes, photographs, printed materials, and writings, by Otto Mainzer and Ilse Wunsch as well as a small number of manuscripts by other authors. The collection is divided into two distinct sections, one pertaining to Otto Mainzer and the other to Ilse Wunsch.
Dates:
late 1800s-2003; Majority of material found in 1922-1998
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Otto Mainzer Collection
Papers of David Pinski (1872-1959)
Collection
Identifier: RG 204
Abstract
This collection contains documents relating to David Pinski’s role as a Yiddish writer, playwright, essayist, translator, editor, literary critic, and author of novels, plays, short stories, essays, and poems. There is personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts of novels, plays, poems, essays, and articles, translations of Pinski’s works into English and Russian, lectures made on various occasions, personal documents and photographs, programs, notes, and newspaper clippings. These materials demonstrate Pinski’s important role in Yiddish drama and literature, Jewish community life and Yiddish cultural institutions.
Dates:
1880-1952, 2005-2011
Papers of Grigori Gurevitch
Collection
Identifier: RG 88
Abstract
The Grigori Gurevitch Papers consist of materials pertaining to his involvement with the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire and abroad. The bulk of the collection consists of Gurevitch’s manuscripts on politics, history of Kiev, anti-Semitism, Russian political immigrants, and Jewish revolutionaries, notes, and drafts and also includes correspondence, small amount of clippings, receipts, two petitions, and a photograph
Dates:
1888, 1901-1928
Papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888-1957)
Collection
Identifier: RG 366
Abstract
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Russian-Jewish political writer, leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party during the 1917 revolution in Russia, People’s Commissar of Justice in the first Bolshevik government, leader of the Jewish Territorialist Movement and of the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization, and a founding member of the YIVO Institute in Vilna. These materials include Steinberg’s writings, personal correspondence, clippings, journals, meeting announcements, and some photographs. These materials relate mainly to Steinberg’s work with the Freeland League and plans for the large-scale settlement of Jews in various places around the world.
Dates:
1893-1968; Majority of material found within 1919-1956
Papers of Maxim Vinawer
Collection
Identifier: RG 84
Abstract
Maxim Vinawer Papers consist of materials pertaining to Maxim Vinawer’s activities as a political and a communal leader. The collection covers the period between 1915 and 1926. These materials illuminate Vinawer’s participation in Russian politics as one of the leaders of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets), his appointment as a Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Crimean Regional Government in 1919, and his activities as a prominent figure among Zionist and émigré groups in Paris. The collection consists of correspondence, circular letters, memoranda, bulletins, clippings, minutes of meetings, essays, manuscripts, drafts and notes
Dates:
1914-1926
Papers of Philip Friedman (1901-1960)
Collection
Identifier: RG 1258
Abstract
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of historian and bibliographer Philip Friedman. These materials include correspondence with individuals and with organizations, newspaper clippings, subject files, manuscripts of works by Friedman and by others, and some of Friedman’s personal documents. These materials relate to Friedman’s work on the histories of various Jewish communities, particularly those in Poland, and his work gathering source documents about the Holocaust.
Dates:
1914-1993; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960
Papers of Virginia Dorsey Lightfoot
Collection
Identifier: RG 715
Abstract
This collection consists of a book with profiles of 328 German Jews from Breslau, and correspondence between Mrs. Lightfoot and the government agencies she sought to persuade to help them.
Dates:
1939-1941
Paul Proskauer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25641
Abstract
This collection holds the correspondence and papers of the professor Paul Proskauer, his brother Henry (Hans) Proskauer, and to a lesser extent, his parents. Although personal correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection, an additional focus is his and his brother's professional reviews and articles. Further materials include official documents, photo and postcard albums, programs, a diary and newspaper and magazine clippings.
Dates:
1926-2009; Majority of material found within 1943-1980
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Paul Proskauer Collection
Percy Matenko Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7047
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to research that Matenko conducted for a publication of correspondence between Rahel and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the family of Rahel's brother, Ludwig Robert.
Dates:
1964-1974
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Percy Matenko Collection
Peter Bloch Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25353
Abstract
The Peter Bloch Collections includes mostly personal materials pertaining to various members of the Bloch family. Included in the collection are correspondence, documents, printed materials, and writings.
Dates:
1916-2008
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Peter Bloch Collection
Peter H. Amann Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25371
Abstract
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Peter Amann, mostly correspondence but also including family papers, personal and professional writings, publicity materials relating to Peter Amann’s wife, and other personal documents. These materials reflect his role as a professor, author and prominent American historian as well as providing information about the rest of his family, including his father Paul Amann.
Dates:
1919-2009
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Peter H. Amann Collection
Peter Lipman-Wulf Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3270
Abstract
The Peter Lipman-Wulf Collection documents the life and professional activities of Peter Lipman-Wulf, a sculptor and a teacher; it includes correspondence, writings and interviews, printed materials, personal, professional, and financial documents, and drawings. The bulk of the collection consists of both, personal and professional correspondence and biographical and professional writings with other types of materials constituting a far smaller portion of the collection.
Dates:
1917-1995; Majority of material found within 1940-1993
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Peter Lipman-Wulf Collection
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