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AHC interview with Hilde Kovacs.
No full text1/23/2007Hilde Kovacs, née Kulberg, was born on April 29, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. In August of 1938 she sailed on board of the 'President Harding' from Hamburg to New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Julius Rudel
No full text6/21/2007The orchestra conducter Julius Rudel was born March 6, 1921, in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to the USA via France in June 1938.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ilse Loeb
No full text1/22/2007Ilse Loeb, née Morgenstern, was born on June 17, 1925, in Vienna, Austria. She left Vienna in November of 1938 for Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she found refuge with a Jewish foster family until June of 1942. After that she went into hiding with gentile families until 1945. She immigrated to the United States in June 1947.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Livingstone Hebrew Congregation Hall, Livingstone, Zambia, Exterior View
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, Kenya, and Ethiopia
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
Annual Report
No full textFolder originally titled: Passages, Annual Report, 2007Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Oral history of Edith Menkes Wolloch.
No full textMarch 2006Edith C. Menkes (later Wolloch) was born May 17, 1921 in Vienna, Austria. After the Anschluss in 1938 she managed to escape Austria. She went to England. After about a year she boarded the Britannic in England and came to New York.Edith Menkes Wolloch’s oral history was recorded by herself on audio tapes.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
