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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
Tuteur family history.
No full textEnhanced edition of a previous, incomplete version of the Tuteur family history.The original edition of the Tuteur family history is available in AR 10333.Members of the worldwide Tuteur family are descendents of two brothers, Aron and Moses Tuteur, who originally were soap and candle peddlers from Winnweiler in the Rhenish Palatinate.digitize
AHC interview with Charles Holzer.
No full textSep. 23, 2008Charles Holzer was born on Sep. 25, 1920 in Frankfurt, Germany. At the age of 2 he and his family moved to Vienna, Austria, where he grew up and went to school. When the Nazis annexed Austria, the family left for Prague. His family was put on a train and told that they were going to America, because they had valid visas for the United States. In reality, they were brought to the Ghetto of Lodz. From there, Holzer was brought to a labor camp in Posen, then to Auschwitz and to its side camp in Fuerstengrube. On a death march heading west, he was able to flee. He stayed with a pastor for a year and afterwards settled in the town of Harzgerode. He immigrated to the US in 1949 and worked as a salesman, retiring in New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt F. J. Heinrich.
No full textJune 6, 2008Kurt Heinrich was born on May 31, 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He lived on Elterleinplatz in Vienna’s 17th district (Hernals). Heinrich belonged to the youth organization ‘Oesterreichisches Jungvolk’. In the summertime, Heinrich visited his relatives in the eastern province Burgenland. After the 'Anschluss', Heinrich fled to Italy and then on to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1957 he immigrated to the US.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Finding home in Babel: Transnationalism, translation, and languages of identity.
No full text"Finding Home in Babel" examines literary representations of (im)migrant identity formation and translation, or the ways in which cultural identity is created and articulated at linguistic crossroads. It explores the constructions and processes attending gendered accounts of immigration, Holocaust survival, and multilingual Polish, Yiddish, and English authorship in the autobiographical writings of three Polish Jewish American writers: Jadwiga Maurer, Irena Klepfisz, and Eva Hoffman. Through poems, short stories, and memoirs, these authors illustrate how immigrant identities are formed in the process of acquisition of American English, the adopted language, which informs and frames their own lives, as well as the lives of their fictional protagonists.While tracing the linguistic transitions in Maurer's, Hoffman's and Klepfisz's works, this project also examines these writers' conceptualization of home and homeland, and argues that they rest as much in language as in geography. In an exploration of synchronic and diachronic accounts of immigration and Holocaust survival, "Finding Home in Babel" combines literary examinations of culturally and linguistically displaced lives. It further highlights their distinctive voices by drawing upon extended interviews with all three writers. It proposes a fundamentally linguistic and transnational understanding of immigration that Hoffman, Klepfisz, and Maurer depict as interwoven with the history and memory of the Holocaust. Such a mix of literary analyses, oral history, and critical genre shows how Maurer's, Hoffman's and Klepfisz's representations of language and identity illustrate the ways that displacement and translation provide specific, often ambivalent, points of view on border crossing, home, and homeland. It provides a broader view of how immigrant writers create literary representations that make it possible for them to integrate their past experienced in native language(s) with their present lived in American English.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2008.School code: 0127
AHC interview with Luba Abramovich
No full text1/19/2008Luba Abramovich (Ljuba Israeljewna Abramowitsch) was born in Slonim, Poland, in 1920. She was a member of the partisan unit 'Einheit 51'. In 1996 she moved to the United States and settled in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Helene Lilly Brenner.
No full textJanuary 14, 2008Helene Lilly Brenner, née Kurlandski was born on April 28, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where she grew up in the 20th district. She had due endure anti-Semitism from childhood on. After the Anschluss her fathers business was looted by a former employee, and she was forced to scrub a street in Vienna. Helene Kurlandski managed to escape to Switzerland, but the Swiss Police arrested her in Basel and deported her to Nazi-Germany. Back in Vienna she escaped to Palestine in 1939, going by boat on the Danube to the Black Sea and then with a freight ship to Haifa. Her parents perished in the Holocaust. In 1952 she moved to the United States, settling eventually 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 Bianca Gross.
No full textBianca Gross née Wien was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. Her father died after World War I. After the 'Anschluss' in 1938, Bianca Gross, together her sister and her mother, emigrated to Italy and from there to Switzerland, where she worked as an au pair girl. When an American Quaker sent an affidavit to the family, they immigrated to the United States in November of 1939.Austrian Heritage Collectio
[To: The Obermayer German Jewish History Award Committee].
No full textThis manuscript consists of materials pertaining to the work of the teacher Wolfgang Kemp, who researched and promoted the history of the former Jewish communities in the towns of Oppenheim and Nierstein in Germany. Included are a list of his publications, material regarding his nomination for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award, and newspaper articles about him.Wolfgang Kemp was nominated for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 2011Processed for digitizatio
That land is our land: Israel in American Jewish culture, 1948--1967.
No full textResponding to momentous global events such as the Holocaust and the birth of Israel, participating in major domestic trends such as suburbanization and the so-called "religious revival," and caught up in the anxious political atmosphere of the Cold War years, American Jews confronted the challenges of postwar life with guarded optimism and a sense of grave responsibility. Shouldering the gargantuan tasks now attendant on them both as citizens of the world's sole democratic superpower and as the thriving remnant of Diaspora Jewry, American Jews sought to gracefully navigate a tangled web of national, religious, and ethnic loyalties---a scenario both enlivened and complicated by the birth of Israel.This dissertation reveals how the emergence of Israel in 1948 set in motion a complex process of cultural adjustment and innovation among American Jews throughout the postwar period. Specifically, it examines how American Jews integrated Israel into American Jewish culture, from literature and the arts to consumer and material culture to education, in both secular and religious settings. It is precisely in these arenas that American Jews fashioned an idealized but multi-hued Israel that, in their estimation, could be all things to all Americans---teenagers and housewives, art lovers and business entrepreneurs, Zionists and non-Zionists, Jews and non-Jews. Israel thus came to be seen as a source of spiritual and communal regeneration, a spur to inter-ethnic and international brotherhood in the age of the atom bomb, an ally in the spread of free-market capitalism, and as a player in the international culture scene. What's more, in propagating the idea that Israel---a new, impoverished Middle Eastern nation of uncertain geopolitical worth to the United States---was a true analogue to postwar America, American Jews positioned Israel as a bridge between Jewish and non-Jewish Americans in the postwar decades. The Israel of the American Jewish imagination thus served as both a means of outreach and a communal cause. As this dissertation argues, postwar American Jews succeeded in domesticating Israel in this period, transforming the Jewish state from terra incognita into a recognizable entity and, they hoped, an admired and treasured American friend.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2008.School code: 0315