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Progressive primitivism: Race, gender and turn-of-the-century American art.
No full textThis dissertation explores concepts of art, race, and gender in the turn-of-the-century celebration of Native American handicrafts. Identifying the Progressive Era interest in Indian art as distinct from the modernist concerns of the twenties and thirties, I identify this phenomenon of the reformist Arts and Crafts Movement. Anglo-Americans of this period promoted private and federal support of "pre-industrial" Indian art to facilitate their own social and cultural progress and accelerate the "civilization" of Indian people. Middle-class women arguing that the advance of American civilization depended on the active participation of their sex helped redefine both the manufacture and enjoyment of Indian art as female activities. Like other aspects of federal assimilationist policy of the time, the celebration of Indian art encouraged Indian people to develop a modern, transcultural understanding of Indianness. This history is not only vital to the understanding of the subsequent course of Native American art, but it illuminates the role of visual culture in concepts of American cultural identity. While American artistic culture of this period is frequently described as anti-modern, conservative, and masculinist, my research allows us to see this period, and the history of American art in general, as a site in which attitudes toward art and commerce, and gender and race, are contested.I have arranged this material in four chapters. Chapter one analyzes the cultural messages about primitivism, civilization and gender in the use of Indian art as home decoration by examining photographs of the George Wharton James, Jewett and Joseph Keppler collections. Chapter two looks at publications celebrating handicraft-oriented Indian reform projects designed by non-Indians Sybil Carter and Estelle Reel to bring Native American women into a middle class American economy and value system. Chapter three examines the relationship between gender, primitivism and early American modernism in representations of Native American artists by pictorialist photographer Gertrude Kasebier. The last chapter looks at how Angel DeCora, a Winnebago painter, manipulated contemporary aesthetic ideas to advance a politicized theory of Indian art within the context of the Indian rights movement.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1999.School code: 0212
Neubergers & Wassermans.
No full textFamily tree for the Wasserman, Obermayer, Loewenstein and Neuburger families.Photographs of members of the Wasserman family and photographs of Baiersdorf have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.digitize
Berlin stories.
No full textClaudia Dreifus was born in New York in 1944 to Henry and Marianne (Willdorff) Dreifus. She received a degree in dramatic arts from New York University in 1966 and has taught at several universities in New York City. She is also a prolific journalist and writer and has contributed articles to various publications, including New York Times, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Premiere, Town and Country, Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, Progressive, Reader's Digest, and Glamour.Synopsis in fil
Besuch in Wien /
No full textThe memoirs are written in form of two letters. In the first letter "Besuch in Wien - Juni 1999", Hans Fliegel tells about his experiences on his visit to Vienna in May/June 1999 (following an invitation by the Jewish Welcome Service). He describes a walk in Vienna, mainly the second district, and as he stops in front of buildings with a personal significance for him, he unfolds parts of his family history, memories of family businesses and apartments.In the second letter "Ernuechterung - fuer immer verdammt?!", Mr. Hans Fliegel gives an overview of the history of European Jewry, the Jews in Vienna, and his views of Austria before, during and after World War II. He also reflects his own experiences.Hans Fliegel was born in 1920 in Vienna. He went to high school at "Realgymnasium" in the second district at Kleine Sperlgasse. In July of 1938, he emigrated with his family to Antwerp, Belgium. When he didn’t succeed to emigrate to South-America, he went instead to the United States. In New York, he married Alice Levi, learned diamond cutting, was involved in real estate ventures, and became a draftsman. 1966-1993 he worked in a leading position for the construction company Friedman Marble & Slate Works, which produced among other things marble panels for the World Trade Center in New York. Upon retirement he and his wife moved to Florida.Austrian Heritage CollectionFliegl, Eduard, M.D.Fliegel, Julius, Dr.Klausner, Rebekka and Leopol
AHC interview with Greta Garner.
No full textGreta Garner (nee Felix) was born in Vienna in 1912, where she then lived at Westbahnstrasse 21 in the seventh district. She went to school at "Gymnasium Klostergasse" in the eighth district. After the Nazis' rise to power, she immigrated to the US via France, where she was interned in Limoges, and Cuba. he deceased on 09/13/2004 in Yonkers, New York.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Greta Garner Collection (AR 10992
AHC interview with Marion Therese Bodor.
No full textMarion Therese Bodor, nee Hahn, was born in Vienna on December 16, 1910. She lived on Goldschmiedgasse in the first Viennese district, and immigrated to the US via Yugoslavia (Zagreb), India (Bombay), and China (Shanghai). In India, she was interned by the British army between 1940 and 1941. When she came to the US, she worked in fashion design sales. Marion Therese Bodor deceased in New York in 2002.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Marion Therese Bodor Collection (AR 10871
AHC interview with Gerta S. Freeman
No full textGerta Freeman (nee Spiegel) was born in Vienna in 1915. She attended elementary school in the ninth Viennese district from 1921-26. Then she went to "Reform Realgymnasium" in the eighth district. She became an English Teacher in 1934/35. She was a member of the "Roten Falken", s socialist group, and of social demokratic youth movement. Her brothers were politically active active in 'Schutzbund'. She left Vienna in April of 1938 for Switzerland, France (Paris). She took the ship "Britannic" from Le Havre to the USA in May 1938. She works in the USA as a sales manager.1 videocassette has been removed to the A/V collection.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Gerta S. Freeman Collection (AR 11035
The Ústí entrepreneurs and benefactors Eduard J. Weinmann and Ignaz Petschek /
No full textEconomic contributions of Jewish individuals to the social fabric of the Czech town Ústí nad Labem (formerly Aussig in Bohemia)digitizedDissertation at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republi
[Walter Aschaffenburg family tree].
No full textMulti-part family tree diagram with vital statistics data (birth and death dates, marriage dates) for members of Walter Aschaffenburg's extended family, with
information from approximately the mid-18th century through the late 20th century.Walter Aschaffenburg (born 1927 Essen, Germany; died 2005 Phoenix, Arizona), composer and educator, member of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1952-1987.
Aschaffenburg emigrated with his family to the United States in 1938. He also taught music at Oberlin, and some of his compositions were performed by the Cleveland
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AHC Interview with Ella Goldberg 1912-1999
No full textElla Goldberg was born as the second daughter of orthodox Jewish parents in 1912 in Vienna. Her parents owned a textile store. The family lived in the second district. They kept a kosher home and practiced charity. They served free lunches for Jewish students. Recollections of Jewish holidays and visits at the synagogue. Her father was a co-founder of a small temple. Rich family life. Summer holidays with the extended family. Regular visits at the Jewish theatre. Ella attended school in the second district. Afterwards she enrolled in courses at University. Marriage in 1934. Move to Berlin, where her husband was a real estate manager. They lived in a beautiful apartment in Berlin Charlottenburg. Birth of their children Paula and Herbert. In 1938 they left for Belgium. After the German invasion they fled to Paris and Toulouse. From there they managed to cross the Moroccan border with an illegal transport. Live in primitive circumstances in Saffi, near Casablanca. They still kept a kosher home, though with difficulties. Birth of their third child. With the help of Ella’s sister they got an affidavit for the United States and left in 1941. Difficult start of a new life in Connecticut. Death of their youngest daughter. Move to New York, where her husband started his own business. Ella Goldberg is a volunteer for the Jewish Museum in New York.Ella Goldberg, nee Nagler, was born 1912 in Vienna and grew up in an orthodox Jewish family. She attended lectures and university and got married in 1934. After their wedding Ella and her husband moved to Berlin, where they experienced the early Nazi years. In 1938 they emigrated to France via Belgium and managed to cross the Moroccan border with an illegal transport. In 1941 the family emigrated to the United States.Austrian Heritage CollectionJune 18, 199