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Alphabetical index and genealogical tables of the Berlowitz family : Compiled by Jacques and Chana Berlowitz.
No full textBased on “Tol 'dot Mishpachat (the generations of the Berlowitz family)” by Wiliam K. Berton.digitizedBerton, William K : Tol 'dot Mishpachat (the generations of the Berlowitz family) / Saginaw, MI , 1998. LBI call number: CT 1098 B47 B4
Trip to Israel--Leonard Glickman (Box 114, Folder 11)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: L. Glickman Trip to Israel - February 2003.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Redemption through sin: Judaism and heresy in interwar Europe.
No full textThis is a study of the encounter with the problem of heresy in Europe between the World Wars, in Germany and among Jews above all. It is first and foremost an intellectual history, though not exclusively so, and has four related aims. It argues, first, that the advent of a heretical ideal among Jews in the interwar period marked the definitive end of a chapter in German-Jewish history that began with Moses Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn's gambit and the liberal Judaism that arose in its wake proved unworkable by this time, and the arrival of avowedly heretical forms of Jewish return signaled the end of his epoch. But we also find in this period the beginnings of a search for post-liberal modes of Jewish identity in which its predecessor endured in interesting and unexpected ways. Second, the dissertation reconstructs and analyzes the two leading languages of heresy in the interwar period, the gnostic and the pantheist. The first pined for salvation from a sinful world by the grace of a wholly transcendent, extramundane and therefore absent God, or a deus absconditus , and was associated in the interwar period with the Protestant representatives of dialectical theology. The pantheist language of heresy, by contrast, contested the gnostic spirit by divinizing the world, and was associated with the interconfessional revival of Spinoza. On the strength of this contextual reconstruction, the study aims, third, to reinterpret the philosophical careers of three important twentieth-century thinkers, all of them German-Jewish emigres: Hans Jonas, whose philosophical biology made him an unproclaimed "guru" to the German Green movment; Leo Strauss, the philosopher and unwitting father of a neo-conservative revolt in American politics; and Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion and Jewish culture. The study shows how their diverse projects all had origins in their encounter with the problem of heresy in interwar Europe. Their projects had also a common end: all resurrected the ancient Greek distinction between physis (nature) and nomos (law), and all contested normative Judaism by coming down squarely on the side of the former as the ground for Jewish identity in particular and human being more generally. Fourth and last, the dissertation makes an argument for the abiding salience of a theological dimension to European intellectual life between the wars and beyond. If nothing else, the stories presented here should alert us to the ways in which talk about God could be adapted for talk about nature, or politics, or art, to the ways in which discourses of the divine not only endure in this worldly world of ours, but flourish.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.School code: 0028
Dreams and realities.
No full textIn the first part of his memoir Paul Schratter describes the life of his family in Vienna and east-central Europe. He writes about the early death of his mother and his feelings. He describes his protected childhood in Vienna and surprisingly agreeable time in an orphanage. Later he describes political topics like the great depression and the beginning of Nazi activities, culminating in Hitler’s welcome to Vienna and the events of ‘Kristallnacht’. The second part of the memoir is mostly about his immigration to the US and his return to Vienna as a soldier of the U.S. Army. At the end of this chapter, he describes the early days of his marriage. The third part covers the bulk of the memoir (approximately 200 pages). He mainly describes his work in international marketing and the different countries he visited. He also includes remarks about his family, his feelings towards Germany and Austria after the World War II, and his thoughts on current politics.Paul Schratter, son of Emil and Grete Schratter (nee Schall), was born in Vienna on March 6, 1922. One of his cousins was thefamous physicist Felix Bloch. In 1938, at the age of 16, he immigrated to the United States just by himself. His father could not get out of Austria and his mother had died in 1926. Contact with his father was difficultat the beginning of World War II. All attempts to bring the rest of the family to the US failed. Paul Schratter served in the U.S Army from 1942 till 1945, working as an interpreter for war prisoners. In Vienna, he found out that his father and many other relatives had died in concentration camps. Back in the US, he lived in Baltimore and in 1947 married Marlis Doser (born Marie Luise Goldschmidt in 1919). The family moved to Boston, and in 1951 their daughter Reina was born. Paul Schratter worked in international marketing traveling all over the world.Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)See also Paul Schratter Collection (AR 10868) and the diary of mother Margarethe Schall (ME 1181). Austrian Heritage Collectio
[Some details about Jacob's and Sara lives].
No full textThis collection contains a family tree tracing the descendants of "Sara and Jacob" of Gelsdorf, Germany, who were married in 1843. Brief biographical sketch followed by family tree. Second page contains heading "Lina Simon's family" tracing that family from late 19th to early 20th century. The following family names are listed in the chart: Bach; Berg; Blumenfeld; Friesem; Fultheim; Kaufman; Reiter; Simon; Sobersky; Stein; Vos; Werner.digitize
Meeting with HIAS Clients (Box 115, Folder 10)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 115. Folder originally titled: Meeting with HIAS Clients - 2002.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
120 HIAS Stories Reading at Park East Synagogue (Box 120, Folder 12)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 120. Folder originally titled: 120 HIAS Stories Reading at Park East Synagogue - November 12, 2002.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
World Congress of Russian Jewry, Leadership Development, Moscow (Box 114, Folder 10)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: Leadership Development - Moscow - July 2002.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
