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AHC interview with Michael Johann Samek.
No full textMichael Johann Samek was born in Vienna in 1920 where he lived at Lerchenfelderstrasse 30 in the eighth district. He was a member of the boy scouts, and had to leave his high school, the Realgymnsium shortly before graduation. He fled from Vienna on 09/30/1938 to Switzerland where he stayed for 10 months. He boarded a ship in Le Havre, France, and arrived in the USA on 7/26/1939. In the USA, he went to Columbia University, New York, from 1948-1952. He later worked in various jobs, from a clerk in a liquor store, a fabric worker, to business executive.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Family memories /
No full textEnglish version of an original text, written in Stuttgart in 1933.History of the Lieberg family and especially Erna Sander's father Moritz Lieberg who operated the metal factory 'Messinghof' near Kassel; life in Messinghof;Also included are photographs taken in Messinghof in 2002.The German original may be found in ME 393.Messingwer
Erinnerungen.
No full textThe memoir is dedicated to Mark Ettinger's family, and has the subtitle: "Adolescence in Poland, escape and life in the Soviet Union--a Jewish fate". The first chapter of Mark Ettinger's memoir in entitled "In Poland (until October 1939)", describing his family background, his childhood, his schooling years, and the beginning years under Hitler. Chapter 2 is called "Time of uncertainty and reckless attempts (October 1939 until May 1940) where. The third and last chapter is "In the Republic of Komi (July 1940 until June 1944). Mark Ettinger describes his professional life, and the entry of the Soviet Union into World War 2. The German translation is provided by Rita Schick, it is edited by Hermann and Leni Prell.Hermann Prell, July 2005Original manuscript in Russian available at the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, GermanyMark Ettinger was born in 192
[Family history research: Zinner from Hamburg, Stein from Mussbach].
No full textThis collection contains a genealogical chart tracing the Zinner family from Bohemia (later Hamburg) and the Stein family from Mussbach from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Brief biographical details are given for certain individuals as well.digitize
Conflicting diasporas, shifting centers: Migration and identity in a transnational Polish Jewish community, 1878--1952.
No full textOver the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of East European Jews made the decision to abandon their places of birth and migrate to larger cities throughout the world. This dissertation examines how mass migration prompted the development of new forms of Jewish communal organization and identification. Focusing on one city in Poland, Bialystok, this dissertation explores the strategies and organizations Jews developed as they tried to cope with the challenges of migrant life. When inhospitable conditions forced Jews to leave Bialystok in their search for better living conditions, they transplanted and reconfigured the institutions and strategies they had developed in Bialystok to facilitate their adaptation to their new homes. Through a cross cultural analysis of the institutions, philanthropic organizations and writings of Bialystoker Jewish emigres in the United States, Argentina, and Palestine, the three main places of Bialystoker emigre settlement, this dissertation highlights the shared and distinct forces that shaped East European Jewish migration, adaptation and acculturation at the turn of the century.As Bialystoker Jewish emigres settled throughout the world, they still maintained a close relationship with their former home. While both popular folklore and scholarship have portrayed Jewish life, culture and identity as primarily shaped by Jews' diasporic mentality rooted in their dispersal from the biblical land of Israel, this dissertation illustrates how the institutions, philanthropy and writings of the transnational Bialystoker Jewish community belie the standard, static view of the Jewish diaspora. These East European Jews saw themselves as part of a diaspora stemming from Eastern Europe and the created new strategies to remain connected with their former home. This examination highlights how in its contemporary context, and in the perspective of history, the generalized notion a Jewish identity informed by one dispersal rooted only in Zion overlooks many of the complexities which informed the geographies of East European Jewish identity in the age of mass migration.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2002.School code: 0175
National regeneration in the Diaspora: Zionism, politics and Jewish identity in late Habsburg Galicia, 1883--1907.
No full textThrough a case study of Galician Zionism before the first world war, this thesis seeks to broaden scholarly understanding of Jewish nationalism and identity in the modern period. It does so on two levels. First, it demonstrates the extent to which Jewish nationalism as a movement included not only ideologies interested in resettling the Jews in a sovereign state in Palestine, but also ideologies focused on national achievements in the Diaspora. In Galicia, where national minority rights were legally guaranteed in 1867 (although not to the Jews), the so-called Zionist movement was, from the beginning, far more interested in acquiring national rights in the Habsburg Empire, and, above all, in nurturing a secular national identity. As a result, Galician Zionists were deeply concerned with creating a secular national culture, for which they appropriated traditional Jewish religious concepts and rhetoric. The birth of the Galician Yiddish press in the 1890s, for example, was facilitated by Zionists who sought to transform traditional Jews into Jewish nationalists, without necessarily convincing them of the rightness of the Zionist cause.At the same time, by analyzing Jewish political discourse across the political spectrum, from socialists on the left to the Polonized secular intelligentsia on the right, this study aims to reframe the entire question of Jewish nationalism. It moves away from a narrow view of the Zionist movement, although this does form the core of the dissertation, towards a broader understanding of Jewish nationalism as an identity, which increasing numbers of Jews embraced despite their opposition or simply ambivalence towards the Zionist movement.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.School code: 0262
The 'Counting of the Jews' by the German army in the First World War : the background, the controversy, and its historical impact.
No full textEnglish abstract of Ph.D. thesis, submitted to Hebrew University.See also Jakob Rosenthal’s published book "Die Ehre des jüdischen Soldaten" : die Judenzählung im Ersten Weltkrieg und ihre Folgen, Campus Judaica ; Band 24, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. LBI Library call number st 7130.Rosenthal, Jaco
"Ich, Lazarus Morgenthau aus Huerben..." : Ueber die schwaebischen Wurzeln einer weltbekannten Familie.
No full textTranscript of a lecture about the forefather of the world-known American family Morgenthau
The price of flight: German Jews, the Nazi regime and the finance of the Ha'avarah Agreement, 1933--1939.
No full textThis work traces the origins, development and operation of the Ha'avarah Agreement (Transfer Agreement) signed between German and Palestinian Jews and the Nazi Administration in 1933 to facilitate the orderly and legal transfer of sequestered German-Jewish wealth to Palestine. Not only does it place the agreement into the broader context of social and political developments in Jewish Palestine before World War II, but also it seeks to explain the economic and political importance of the agreement to the Nazi regime. This is most notable in the years between 1933 and 1936, when Nazi power remained weakest and when Reich authorities pursued every opportunity for financial advantages leading to rapid economic recovery. The deal established the basis for renewed and augmented trade between the Third Reich and Palestine. It also provided a vehicle for Reich authorities to expand trade, with Jewish participation, throughout the Near and Middle East. In this way, this manuscript places the Ha'avarah Agreement within the context of broader Reich trade initiatives, especially those leading to bilateral clearing treaties, which the Reich engineered with twenty-five nations before 1939. The Ha'avarah Agreement, therefore, is understood as a small, but important component in the complex mosaic of reoriented trade strategy, which took place under the direction of Reich Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht before 1936--37.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The George Washington University, 2002.School code: 0075
Conflicting diasporas, shifting centers: Migration and identity in a transnational Polish Jewish community, 1878--1952.
No full textOver the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of East European Jews made the decision to abandon their places of birth and migrate to larger cities throughout the world. This dissertation examines how mass migration prompted the development of new forms of Jewish communal organization and identification. Focusing on one city in Poland, Bialystok, this dissertation explores the strategies and organizations Jews developed as they tried to cope with the challenges of migrant life. When inhospitable conditions forced Jews to leave Bialystok in their search for better living conditions, they transplanted and reconfigured the institutions and strategies they had developed in Bialystok to facilitate their adaptation to their new homes. Through a cross cultural analysis of the institutions, philanthropic organizations and writings of Bialystoker Jewish emigres in the United States, Argentina, and Palestine, the three main places of Bialystoker emigre settlement, this dissertation highlights the shared and distinct forces that shaped East European Jewish migration, adaptation and acculturation at the turn of the century.As Bialystoker Jewish emigres settled throughout the world, they still maintained a close relationship with their former home. While both popular folklore and scholarship have portrayed Jewish life, culture and identity as primarily shaped by Jews' diasporic mentality rooted in their dispersal from the biblical land of Israel, this dissertation illustrates how the institutions, philanthropy and writings of the transnational Bialystoker Jewish community belie the standard, static view of the Jewish diaspora. These East European Jews saw themselves as part of a diaspora stemming from Eastern Europe and the created new strategies to remain connected with their former home. This examination highlights how in its contemporary context, and in the perspective of history, the generalized notion a Jewish identity informed by one dispersal rooted only in Zion overlooks many of the complexities which informed the geographies of East European Jewish identity in the age of mass migration.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2002.School code: 0175