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Waronker 80
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
Waronker 81
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
Annual Report
No full textFolder originally titled: Passages, Annual Report, 2008Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Interview with Charlotte Jacobson
No full textOral history interview with Charlotte Jacobson, national president of Hadassah from 1964 to 1968 and a leader in the American and world Zionist communities.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
Waronker 68
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
AHC interview with Mark Joseph Brunner
No full textJanuary 18, 2008Mark Brunner was born in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in his family’s house in Moedling, a southern suburb of Vienna. His mother was catholic, and his father was Jewish, a descendent from Sephardim (Spanish Jews) who had settled in Hohenems (Austria) in the western province of Vorarlberg in the 17th century. After the ‘Anschluss’ Mark Brunner’s father was arrested and released after a few weeks; his business was confiscated. The family immigrated to the United States, and Mark Brunner eventually settled in San Francisco, CA.Austrian Heritage CollectionThe interview was made possible through a grant of the National Fund of the Republic of Austri
AHC interview with Trudy Jeremias
No full textJanuary 7, 2008Trudy Jeremias, née Epstein, was born on Sep. 20, 1925 in Hietzing (Vienna), Austria. In December 1938 the family fled via Switzerland to England, from where they immigrated to New York in January 1939. In New York Jeremias went to high school and college, graduating in 1943. After WW II Jeremias worked with Sabena Airlines at New York’s International Airport. She got married to a Swiss national, moving to Zurich and after her divorce to Vienna, returning three years later to New York. She worked as a jewelry designer until her retirement.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Trudy Jeremias' memoirs, ME 112
Die jüdischen Familien im ehemaligen Kreise Kirchhain : Beiträge zur Geschichte und Genealogie der jüdischen Familien [im Kreis Kirchhain].
No full textThe manuscript by Alfred Schneider about Jewish families in Kirchhain is preceded by various award materials for the Obermeyer German Jewish History Award, 2011digitizedKirchhain is situated in the heart of Hessen, Germany, in the eastern part of the county Marburg-Biedenkopf.Alfred Schneider was nominated for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 201
Eine juedisch-evangelische Liebe in schwerer Zeit : die Geschichte meiner Eltern 1939-1949.
No full textAnneliese Seidel’s father, who was Jewish, escaped Nazi Germany and emigrated to Guatemala in 1939. Anneliese, her brother Horst, and their Christian Protestant mother remained in Breslau, moving after WW II to East- and then to West-Germany. In 1949 they joined their father/husband in Guatemala.digitizedEpilogue by Martin Richau, BerlinAnneliese Heilborn Seidel was born 1934 in Breslau, the daughter of Heimann/Heinz and Margarethe, née Niedergesaess
Eine deutsche juedische Familie wird zerstreut : die Geschichte eines Steinitz-Zweiges /
No full textBibliography : p. 144-148