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Israel Scholarships (Box 113, Folder 6)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 113. Folder originally titled: Israel Scholarships - 1997.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Mark Rothko and the politics of Jewish identity, 1939-1945.
No full textThis dissertation addresses the problem of Jewish identity as manifested in the life and work of Mark Rothko during World War II. It argues that abstraction was a key component in the construction and deconstruction of that identity and situates Rothko's move toward abstraction against the development of a notion of "Jewish" art in the 1930s and 40s. The problem of Jewish identity came to the fore between 1939 and 1945 as Rothko responded to competing social imperatives: to be a modern artist, to be American, and to respond to the events of World War II. This study argues that for Mark Rothko in the early 1940s dissimulation, conscious or not, of identifiably Jewish images was necessary to secure his social identity as a modern, American artist. Further, the visual and textual discourses Rothko generated partially carried out his own process of assimilation. Chapters Two and Three show that Jewish identity was a significant issue for Rothko; that his membership in the Jewish community in New York significantly colored his experience of the war; that this experience was different from that of other, Protestant artists and that his social position as a Jew was germane to his art and life at the opening of World War II. Chapter Three discusses the ways in which various artists' organizations and galleries in New York contributed to the positioning of an artist in terms of style, politics and ethnic identity. Myth, a key element in Rothko's artistic program, provided a conception of humanity that circumvented national, historical, ethnic, and religious differences. Chapter Four argues that part of the appeal of myth for Rothko and his cohorts was the universalizing--and therefore de-ethnicizing--aspect inhering in many contemporary views of myth. Chapter Five examines a range of American writings of the World War II period as a way of situating Rothko's fixation on tragedy--evidenced in his statements and the titles of works--within a larger discourse concerning modernity. The conclusion explores directions for further research.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 1997.School code: 0208
A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America.
No full textFamily background; parents; childhood memories; vacations with family; family experience after 1935; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; start of World War II; forced labor in Berlin; experiences during bombing of Berlin; end of war; enters Humbold Univeristy in 1946; experiences of Jacubeit family, Rackwitz family; emigration to USA; military service in US Army in Japan; entrance to Harvard University; graduate school at Harvard; meets wife; move to Bloomington, Indiana.Roger Newton was born as Gerhard Neuweg in Landsberg an der Warthe in 1924 and immigrated to the USA in 1946.Synopsis in fileDomestic life; 20th centuryEducation; primary and secondary; 1933-1945Education; higher; after 1945Harvard UniversityMilitary serviceUnited States; arm
[Our trip to Germany and France].
No full textRecollection from a trip to Europe, with information about the Kleeman family.Werner Kleeman was born in Gaukoenigshofen. His father was a grain dealer. After Kristallnacht he was imprisoned in Dachau. After his release he was able to emigrate to England, and sent for his family. His brother Siegfried had already left for the US. The family was also able to send a Sefer Torah, which Louis Kleemann, their father, had saved from the synagogue after the Kristallnacht, to the US. In 1942, he immigrated to US. He came back to Germany in 1945, as a soldier in the US army. Werner Kleeman then was an interior decorator in Flushing, NY.Synopsis in fil
Verfolgte und verstorbene Jüdinnen und Juden aus dem Gemeindegebiet Jüchen (1933-1945).
No full textList of Jews from the town of Jüchen who were persecuted and killed from 1933 to 1945. The list was assembled from various sources by city hall offices in Jüchen.digitize
Research and Catalog Cards (Box 1, Folder 1)
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