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[Letter about Adelsdorf].
No full textContains a letter of appeal, written in 1997, by Dr. Christiane Kolbet to raise awareness of an anti-semitic incident which occurred during a peaceful protest to change the name of a street in Adelsdorf which was named after a National Socialist party member.Processed for digitization bydigitize
AHC interview with Jerry (Gerhard) Reiss
No full textJerry (Gerhard) Reiss, 1997Jerry (Gerhard) Reiss was born in Vienna in 1925. He left Vienna in 1939 and went via Trieste to Shanghai, where he lived until he immigrated to the US in 1948.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Jerry Gerhard Reiss Collection (AR 10611
The economic role and social status of the Jews on the Radziwill estates in Lithuania in the eighteenth century.
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Memoirs of and from Robert "Shanghai Bob" Goldman 1910-1994
No full textThe memoir was originally handwritten by Robert Goldman, and then re-typed and introduced by his wife Faith Ann Goldman. Robert started to write the memoir in 1993, one year before his death, but it remained unfinished. His sister Sonja Goldman Hancox in Scotland has helped fill in some of the history about the later years, and the whole family contributed to the finished manuscript. The memoir starts with Robert's family background in Berlin, and then moves on to the situation in the Shanghai ghetto. The memoir includes photographs from Shanghai, Britain, passports, and a passenger list from the journey in 1958.Faith Goldman, 1997Faith Goldman, 2006Robert Goldman was born in 1940 in Shanghai, and lived there under harsh conditions. Robert and his father Noah Goldman who had a business store in Berlin before the war came to Scotland in 1958. Robert moved on to the United States in 1960. He and his wife Faith Ann have two children, Naomi and Sam. Robert died in 1994.Goldman, NoahGoldman, Sonjadigitize
AHC Interview with Rosi Gruenschlag 1922-1995
No full textRosi Gruenschlag was born into an orthodox Jewish family originating from a small town in Poland. Her parents Moritz and Cecilia Gruenschlag moved to Vienna between 1914 and 1915 together with their newborn son David Gruenschlag, who later became a gifted violinist and student of Bronislaw Hubermann. The family was living in Reichsbrueckenstrasse, Second District. Rosi Gruenschlag was born in 1922 and went to school in the second district. Description of family outings in the Vienna Prater. Like her other siblings she also showed from early on an outstanding talent for music and started to study piano with Hilda Stern-Pollak, who was already the teacher of her older sister Toni. Rosi had her debut at the “Grosse Musikvereinsaal” in Vienna in 1935 and became a student of Walter Kerschbaumer at the Vienna Music Academy. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany Rosi and Toni Gruenschlag managed to continue their studies with the encouragement of their teachers until June of 1938. Description of life in Nazi Austria. Her father was at that time already in Palestine, where he had been visiting his son David, who had an engagement with the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra. Her sister Toni started to prepare for their emigration and franticly tried to obtain exit permits. Description of a random arrest by Nazi affiliates a week before “Kristallnacht”. Support of a devoted neighbor. In January of 1939 their mother was able to join her husband and son in Palestine. Rosi and Toni Gruenschlag received student visas for England with the help of their brother’s mentor Bronislaw Hubermann. They arrived in London in April of 1939. Support by the Jewish Agency, who arranged for them to be taken care of by an English family. In November of 1939 they left for the United States and arrived in New York, where they stayed with their uncle in Brooklyn. Soon after they were joined by their parents. Description of their start of a new life. Their father got a position thro2 sound cassettes and transcript of audio tape. The interviewee mixes German and English in her responses.Rosi Gruenschlag, 1997[1 take one]: Family background and importance of music[1 take two/0:0-2:49]: Education, musical training and concerts[1 take two/2:49-4:30]: Religious background and education[1 take two/4:30-5:40]: Friendship and relationship to non-Jews[1 take two/5:40-8:05]: Household, family outings, summer vacations[1 take two/8:05-10:40]: Background of father, political beliefs and recollections of 1933[1 take two/10:40-14:55]: Antisemitism in Austria, Anschluss 1938[1 take three/0:00-6:37]: Vienna 1938, preparation for emigration[1 take four/0:00-1:15]: Vienna 1938, preparation for emigration[1 take five/0:00-5:40]: Life in Nazi-Austria, emigration, account of their arrest[1 take six/0:00-2:40]: Life in Nazi-Austria, abduction of apartment, emigration[1 take six/2:40-8:56]: Emigration, arrival in London, support of Jewish Agency, host family[1 take six/8:56-16:53]: Emigration to the United States, arrival and life in New York[1 take seven/0:00-7:51]: Life in New York, support of local synagogue, start of music career[2 take one/0:00-6:10]: Life in New York, music career[2 take one/6:10-10:03]: Death of their mother, teaching position, concerts[2 take one/10:03-12:17]: After 1945[2 take one/12:17-14:10]: Musical career, concerts, Austria[2 take one/14:10-30:00]: Visit in Vienna and relationship to AustriaThe pianist Rosi Gruenschlag was born the youngest of three children of Moritz and Cecilia Gruenschlag in Vienna, Austria. She studied at the Vienna Music Academy with Walter Kerschbaumer until June 1938 and emigrated together with her sister Toni Gruenschlag to England and the United States in 1939. She lives with her sister Toni in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Years of transition : The chronicle of how I came to America /
No full textChildhood memories of Schweinfurt (Lower Franconia); Nazi persecution; emigration to England in 1937 and life in the USA after 1947. Written in 1980, revised 1997 (printed 1999).Also included are photocopies of passports and other documents.Charles Marx was born in Schweinfurt (Lower Franconia) in 1920. In 1937, his parents sent him to England to continue his education. In 1949, he emigrated to the USA where he worked as an engineer.See also Marks Family Collection AR 11238Franconi
Victoria (Zetlin) Russman Pordes : 1903-1986.
No full textShort biographical abstracts of Victoria (Zetlin) Russman Pordes; her parents, Selig Selikov Zetlin and Esther Geselevna Zetlin; her four siblings, Hesse, Isabella, Lyova, and Anna; and Victoria Pordes’ husband, Rudolf Pordes.Also included is a box inventory of Eva Steiner Moseley’s original archival donation to the Leo Baeck Institute.digitizedEva (Steiner) Moseley is the niece of Victoria Pordes, née ZetlinThis family history is part of an archival finding aid for the Rudolf and Victoria Pordes Collection, AR 10516
Secular and spiritual humanism: Louis I. Kahn's work for the Jewish community in the 1950s and 1960s.
No full textArchitect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was a secular Jew who, in the 1950s and 1960s, received some of the Jewish community's most important public commissions. His American projects, which included synagogues, Jewish community centers, and a Holocaust memorial, paralleled and often chronicled the Jewish community's demographic and socio-economic shift from poor urban areas to middle-class suburbs. Kahn received two major commissions in Jerusalem after the 1967 Six Day War, for the country's single most important religious monument and its secular counterpart.Using the resources of the Louis I. Kahn Collection and the internal records of the patron institutions, this study examines why only one of these projects was fully completed. Lack of financing was the ostensible explanation but it can be shown that reasons for failure were more complex. A disparity between Kahn's aspirations and those of the client was often at the heart of each failure. While his clients were rarely satisfied with Kahn's work, their patronage challenged him to create some of his most significant designs and forced him to craft memorable phrases and pronouncements. This occurred because the Jewish community, like the modern movement in architecture, was in transition in the post World War II years. Kahn intuitively grasped that connection and eagerly embraced work for Jewish institutions because of the unique architectural opportunities it offered. Notions such as "Servant and Served" space and the dualities of "Silence and Light" were first developed or clarified for Jewish institutions. Kahn also used these projects to reinvigorate and redefine modernism; express his concern for human interaction; and explore his love of historical context.This dissertation investigates whether Kahn, sometimes labeled a Jewish mystic, actually infused his work with mystical or religious content. Projects with specific Jewish or Zionist meaning, where religious and philosophical views should have flowered, reveal that he had neither a mystical outlook nor a firm grounding in Jewish education or practice. Examination of Kahn's correspondence with clients, the lectures that he gave while working on these commissions, and the drawings produced, show that he interpreted Jewish institutions in a sincere but flawed manner. His connection with Israel was more complex and, in some ways, mutually rewarding. Kahn might not have categorized himself as a Zionist, but his work for Israel reveals an increasing commitment to the Jewish state and his own acceptance of Israeli nationalism.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1997.School code: 0175