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AHC interview with Fanny Freund.
No full textFranny Freund was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She visited the Chajesgymnasium (High School) until 1938, emigrating to Palestine in 1939, where she lived on a Kibbutz. She immigrated to the United States via France in 1947.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The rise and fall of the social democratic press in Europe.
No full textReprint from Kesher No. 35, Winter 2007, pages 76-83
Tell no one : Leo Baeck and the terrible secret.
No full textLeo Baeck has been criticized for withholding information from Jews in Germany and in the Theresienstadt ghetto about the transports to the east, which he knew were destined for Auschwitz. This study looks at what exactly Leo Baeck knew about the transports, and why he chose to keep his knowledge a secret.A thesis submitted to the faculty of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the department of HistoryBibliography : page 11
The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, OH (Box 0S 8, Folder 6)
No full textTorah mantlesDigital ImageDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Kurt Sonnenfeld.
No full textMarch 19, 2007Dr. Kurt Sonnenfeld was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. He immigrated t the United States via Switzerland, France and Spain.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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No full textEva Lesser was born on May 7, 1923, in Berlin. In April of 1939 she emigrated with her parents Dr. Fritz and Edith Lesser to Shanghai, where she got married to Wilhelm Stricks (originally from Vienna, Austria) on January 12, 1947. In 1947 they left for Canada and immigrated to the US in 1951
Lazar Gulkowitsch, sein Lehrstuhl fuer juedische Wissenschaft und die Universitaet Tartu : Festrede, gehalten in der Aula der Universitaet Tartu am 15. Mai 2007.
No full textLaudation for Lazar Gulkowitsch, who had served as professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia from 1934 to 1940
From plaster casts to old masters : The Nettie G. Naumburg bequest and the transformation of the Fogg Art Museum, 1895-1945.
No full textThe thesis looks at the development of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum since Nettie G. Naumburg’s bequest in 1930 and compares it to other major American museums.A thesis in the field of museum studies for the degree of master of liberal arts submitted at Harvard Universit
AHC interview with Lucie Benedikt.
No full textJune 27, 2007Lucie Benedikt was born in Feb. 1925 in Vienna, Austria. Right after the 'Anschluss' in March of 1938, her mother was forced to scrub the streets with a toothbrush. In December of that year, she and her five year younger brother Edmund went to England with the help of ‘Kindertransport’. In November of 1943 she sailed from on SS Jamaica Planter from Bristol, England to New York, where she arrived on Dec. 8, 1943. – Lucie Benedikt studied at Hunter College and Columbia University, before starting her long and successful career as a social worker.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Gertrud Kolmar: Dichten im Raum.
No full textThe focus of my dissertation is the German-Jewish poetess, Gertrud Kolmar (born in Berlin in 1894), who died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. My particular interest is in Kolmar's re-workings of various contemporary spatial images that sought to define, confront, and manipulate the Jewish self. Theoretical writings on the theory of space, as being sociological, political, and collective, inform my reading of Kolmar's poems, her novel as well as her essays.My first chapter analyzes Kolmar's "Gotterdammerung", and her increasing disillusionment in the 1920s and 30s with the German cultural landscape she grew up in. Kolmar, as I show in my dissertation, understands modern Jewry as cultural and not as religious community insufficient in its imitation of German models.The second chapter considers the problem of the idolization of the German Classics in Jewish cultural circles. I read Kolmar's novel Die judische Mutter as a literary reworking of the conflict between "hyper-assimilation" with the belief in a German-Jewish symbiosis and the internalization of anti-Semitic cliches. Martha, the main protagonist of the novel, becomes the mirror of an artist who is not capable to create freely, as she is caught between definitions of "Jewish" and "German" identities.My analyses in the third and fourth chapters focus on selected poems. I look at imagined geographies in the form of imperial and colonial fantasies as well as Jewish reactions to an orientalized image of Asia. Kolmar's poetic answer poses a challenge to Zionist discourse of the Jewish community. The result is a retreat of the poetic-female language from the world into the inner space of the poem.My last chapter is dedicated to Kolmar's fascination with Jewish culture and Hebrew poetry as well as her redefinition of the "Jewish" work of art. This approach promises new insight into Gertrud Kolmar's poetics. It also reveals the world-view and self-understanding of modern Jewry before and during National Socialism, in which the demand for a "room of one's own" became ever more urgent. It is the argument of this dissertation that Kolmar's rich topographical imaginations allow critical insight into the corpus of her literary work.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2007.School code: 0242