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AHC Interview with Julia Heinz 1905-1998
No full textJulia Heinz was born in 1905 in Vienna. The family lived in the 7th district and were members of the Schmalzhoftempel. Her father seldom went to the synagogue, but her mother took Julia and her younger sister Grethe regularly to services on Saturdays. Elementary school at Ammerlinggasse. Friendship with Felix Galimir. Memories of the outbreak of World War One. Her father had a position with the army in Vienna. First recollection of anti-Semitism among fellow students during a summer camp in Baden at the end of World War One. Passion for music. Private piano lessons. After three years at the lyceum Julia discontinued her schooling and took classes in French and Italian at the language institute Weiser. Friendship with Leo and Willy Gross, who became a biochemist and husband of her sister. Acquaintanceship with her husband to be, Hans Heinz, who studied music in Berlin. Marriage in 1928. In 1929 Julia and her husband moved together with her sister and their friends to Berlin. Her husband got a position at the Stadttheater in Duesseldorf. After the Nazi take over he was suspended from his position in 1934. Julia and Hans Heinz moved to her sister to Berlin. Soon after her sister and her husband emigrated to London, where Willy Gross got a position as a biochemist. Experiences of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Hans Heinz participated in performances of the Kulturbund. In 1936 Julia moved back to her parents Vienna, after she was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo because of the couple’s friendship with political opponents of the Nazi regime. Her husband got a position in Czechoslovakia. In 1937 Julia and Hans Heinz toured with a group of musician, the Salzburg Opera Guilt, in the United States. Her husband already had a premonission about the political situation in Austria and tried to prolong their artist visa, so they were able to stay in the United States. Some of their colleagues went back to Europe and escaped the Nazi terror with great difficulJulia’s parents were able to join their daughter in England. Parts of Julia’s family though perished in the Holocaust. Julia and Hans Heinz first lived in Baltimore. In 1956 Hans Heinz became a position at the Julliard School of Music in New York, where he taught singing. Julia Heinz still plays chamber music in a private ensemble. She lives in New York.May 18, 1998Julia Heinz, 1998Julia Heinz was born as Julia Schwarz on January 15th, 1905 in Vienna. She attended lyceum and had a great passion for music and playing piano. In 1928 she got married to the singer Hans Heinz, and the couple moved together with friends to Berlin in 1929. They experienced the early Nazi years in Germany. In 1937 the couple toured with a group of musicians in the United States and decided not to return. Hans Heinz got positions in Baltimore and New York. In 1956 he became a teacher at the Julliard School of Music. Julia Heinz still plays chamber music and lives in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Photography, philanthropy, and the politics of American Jewish identity.
No full textHistorians and sociologists of American Jewish life have identified a tension between the American Jewish impulse towards integration and Jewish group survival. Philanthropy, however, as an expression of the Jewish values of righteousness and charity has interceded to mitigate these competing values and, in fact, has functioned to strengthen American Jewish solidarity. This dissertation investigates Jewish self-representation in the photographic campaigns sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the aftermath of World War Two through the mid-1990s. It posits the photographic production of these philanthropies as an alternative medium through which we may investigate the fabrication of American Jewish identities.Although these photographic campaigns have had the alleged function of charting the rescue and rehabilitation operations of the UJA and the JDC, I suggest that these images indirectly represent the centrality of American Jews to modern Jewish existence. Two general questions frame this inquiry: (1) to what extent is Jewish identity in America inscribed within Jewish philanthropy? and (2) how does the photographic practice of Jewish philanthropies reinforce the imperatives of the organized sector of American Jewry, and participate in the fabrication of American Jewish identities? Analysis of the interface between the visual and written texts suggests that these photographs not only document the rescue efforts of oppressed and impoverished Jews abroad, but equally illustrate how many American Jews anchor their identities in the task of philanthropic relief.This study probes how this self-definition responds to a Jewish identity that has ruptured into a multiplicity of identities, exacerbated by the competing impulses of integration and survival in the modern world. I suggest that the photographic production of mainstream American Jewish philanthropies charts a dual journey of rehabilitation, restoring not only the threatened existence of Jews who inhabit hostile counties, but also the faltering identities of American Jews. My dissertation thus argues that through philanthropy, many American Jews renew their commitment to the Jewish religion and establish their centrality to Jewish survival, while defining a more holistic and organic Jewish community.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.School code: 0031
Jüdische Heimat Thalmässing.
No full textBrochure describing the local Jewish history.Also included in the paper collection is an undated brochure about the local Jewish cemetery, "Jüdischer Friedhof Thalmässing von 1832".digitize
The impact of Judah Abravanel's (1469?-1548) dialogues on love on Giordano Bruno's (1548-1600) Italian dialogues.
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Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine—Visiting elderly Jews in need and distributing Yad L'Yad aid
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Siegmund Forst: A lifetime in arts & letters /
No full text"This catalogue accompanies the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition "Siegmund Forst : a lifetime in arts & letters", September 21, 1997-July 31, 1998.Contents articles by Sylvia Herskowitz, Max Eisler and Cynthia Elyce Rubin.Yeshiva University Museum, 1998Synopsis, cover and title page only on MF 502.Exhibition checklist : p. [57]-76.Siegmund Forst was born in Vienna in 1904. He immigrated to the US in 1939, where he designed graphics for Hebrew textbooks and Haggadot.Synopsis in fileAustrian Heritage CollectionSee also AHC interview with Siegmund Forst (AHC 126)Published version available in LBI library (DS 135 A93 F67 L54 1997
Before the Holocaust : Letters to Alice (and Edith) 1939-1941 /
No full textEdited transcripts of 32 letters written by Flora Mattersheim Kleinmann in Vienna, Austria, to her daughter Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein and her granddaughter Edith from July 1939 to October 1941.The letters are accompanied by an introduction by Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein's granddaughter, Ruth Leeds Love (Inge Ruth Loewenstein), as well as by notes, photographs and family trees; transcripts by Herbert Weber.The original letters are on deposit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein immigrated to the United States in 1939 with her daughter Edith. Her mother, Flora Mattersdorf Kleinmann, stayed in Vienna and was deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942, where she died shortly afterwards
From the Edge of the Abyss : Family Letters 1940-1946.
No full textThis very well documented and researched family history covering the Holocaust years - "From the Edge of the Abyss: Family Letters 1940-1946" - was put together and translated from the German by Gerald Weiss. Including an introduction, notes, a complete family tree, it consists of 61 letters, most of them in full, five in the form of excerpts. Twelve additional letters are summarized. The letters were sent from Europe to Gerald Weiss’ parents in the USA. Most of the family members were safely out of Germany by the end of 1938, in Palestine, Holland, France, and England. But some had not gone far enough and were trapped when the German armies overwhelmed Western Europe in the spring of 1940. Five survived in hiding. Six were taken into concentration camps (Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt), and five of them survived. The originals were written in German, except for three in French and a few lines of Dutch. There are seven chapters: "1940-1941, Holland", "1940-1941, Germany", "1945, Those who had been in Hiding", "1945, Those who returned from the Camps", "Aftermath", "The Diary of Jacob Mueller", and an "Epilogue". Gerald Weiss worked on putting these things together between 1995 and 1997, and also included a translated extract of a diary/memoir of Jacob Mueller (1894-1967) which was thought lost. He had been in hiding in Amsterdam, Netherlands during the war. The original was typed on 41 legal size sheets. Except for three pages covering a two month period, the diary is not a daily journal but was written retrospectively in two spurs, the first 26 pages while he was underground (from June 1, 1942 until the liberation of Holland), and the last 12 pages after the liberation.Also included are family trees of the Weiss, Michel, Falk, and Lieben families from the Rhineland (1735-1946), 1999.1/1 Manuscript: "From the Edge of the Abyss : Family Letters 1940-1946 ", translated from the German with introduction, notes and a commentary by Gerald Weiss, typed, viii + 181 p., New York // 1997Gerald (Gert) Weiss was born in Cologne, Germany in 1922. He reached the United States in December 1939 together with his father, Jacob Weiss (1883-1965), mother, Selma nee Falk (1898-1968), and sister, Margaret (Marga) Weiss (b. 1924).See also memoir by Jacob Mueller in the Memoir Collection [ME 1028]digitize