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Mit dem Leben davongekommen : Aus den Erfahrungen eines Opfers des NS-Staats 1912-1980
No full textMemoir to document the influence of the Nazi terror on the author's later life:Reinhard Marcuse's family background, and his education in Germany. Description of Nazi persecution; his life in exile in Italy between 1937-1939; his emigration to Sweden and the difficulties starting a new life. In 1948, he visits his home town, Cologne, for the first time after the war. He describes the bombed city, and experiences with people. The part covers his professional career in Sweden, where he worked as a chemist.Reinhard Marcuse was born in in Cologne in January of 1912. His father owned the Glockenapotheke, a pharmacy in Cologne. He emigrated from Germany to Italy in 1937. In 1939 he went to Sweden where he worked as a chemist.Ehrenpreis, MarcusGermany--Jews--History--1800-1933Baron von Herwart
Bulawayo Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Interior 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
Morocco (Box 114, Folder 16)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: Morocco - 2004.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Rabbanite-Karaite relations in Fatimid Egypt and Syria: A study based on documents from the Cairo Geniza.
No full textThis thesis narrates the history of relationships between Karaite and Rabbanite Jews in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine during the eleventh century and asks whether Karaites constituted a sect apart from the Rabbanites in any sociologically meaningful sense of the term. Previous histories have examined polemics, religious law, and other prescriptive literature and represented the Karaite-Rabbanite schism as progressing inexorably until it reached a point of no return. Shifting the inquiry from the literary to the social plane, this work adduces documentary sources from the Cairo Geniza to show that centuries after the first boundaries were drawn, Rabbanites and Karaites stole across them with ease and frequency.Collaboration between the two groups owed partly to a certain style of social relations in the medieval Near East. Geographic mobility, the breakdown of old social ties, and the resulting tendency of the elites to seek affiliations across a broad variety of social networks created conditions conducive to Karaite-Rabbanite intimacy. Karaites and Rabbanites formed business partnerships and intermarried with the approval of their legal authorities; Rabbanite scribes and judges willingly wrote documents according to the Karaite formulary; rabbinic leaders maintained warm relationships with Karaite grandees, not merely in consideration of their political and economic power but because they took social enmeshment for granted.More than merely seeking alliances, the two groups depended on one another in their institutional and communal lives. Karaites contributed funds to the rabbinic academy in Jerusalem and helped the rabbinic academies in Baghdad extend their leadership over Mediterranean Jewry by carrying responsa and donations back and forth. Aspiring rabbinic leaders in Palestine recognized that Karaite support was indispensable to their campaigns for office. Over the course of the eleventh century, the ties binding the two groups to each other became stronger rather than weaker, so that as Mediterranean communities turned away from the centers of rabbinic learning in Iraq and Syria, their efforts to develop institutions of Jewish regional self-government drew decisively on Karaite collaboration. Finally, it is argued that the toleration the rabbis evinced toward Karaism forces one to reconsider the nature of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in medieval Judaism.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2004.School code: 0054
Old trees new roots: The resettlement experience of older Jews from the former Soviet Union.
No full textThe challenges of making an international migration in old age are enormous. Soviet Jews are the second largest immigrant group in New York City and 30% were over 60 when immigrating. (HIAS, 2000). This dissertation was a descriptive, cross sectional non-probability study of the demographic, social and health utilization profile of older Jews from the former Soviet Union living in the Bronx who emigrated after 1991. It asked what, if any, personal, familial and community support variables were associated with life satisfaction among this sample of older refugees. The study used a convenience sample (N = 62) identified from Bronx agencies and housing complexes who provided services to older immigrants. A 23 page structured questionnaire comprised of a series of standardized scales and open ended questions translated into Russian was completed in face to face interviews with Russian speaking research assistants.The research findings are understood within the limitations of the study. Limitations included recruitment difficulties due to subjects' and agencies' suspiciousness about the research purpose, the cultural sensitivity of the tools and the small homogeneous sample. This was a well-educated professional sample with strong family supports and a high level of service utilization. Though most self-rated their functional health as independent in ADL (81%), over 50% had help at home. 71% participated in adult day care programs. All reported having medical care. Life satisfaction was positively correlated with those having larger family support networks, participating in a larger number of Jewish community agencies and describing the reception of the Jewish community as good or excellent. Life satisfaction was lower for those who scored as having depressive symptoms and those with siblings.Implications for social work education included the need for improved cultural competence, mediation skills and sensitivity on concepts of health and life satisfaction. Further research is needed on the impact of the Holocaust on these refugees and their children and on the impact of the immigration process on intergenerational relationships, as refugees are so dependent on family support.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fordham University, 2004.School code: 0072
The transformation of Jewish identity in Vienna, 1918--1938.
No full textThis dissertation examines the ways in which literature, theater, politics and gender not only reflected but also actively shaped the identities of Viennese Jews after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In response to more narrowly defined constructions of Jewish identity, it draws out the subtler patterns of association and socialization that characterized modern Jewish life, including matters of taste, cultural alignment and political membership. Study of these socio-cultural affiliations ultimately shows that for many Austrian authors, dramatists, and politicians---and for their broader audience---a Jewish background mattered a great deal in the process of negotiating and fashioning culture.The first chapter introduces the issues at stake during the insecure, uncertain and volatile years from 1918 to 1938 that profoundly affected all Austrians, but transformed the lives of Jewish Austrians in particular. It investigates the wide spectrum of Jewish responses to the postwar political and social crises as Jews were forced to renegotiate previously comfortable identities. The second chapter explores one such response through the involvement of socialist leader David Joseph Bach in the cultural policies of "Red Vienna," which reflected the emphasis on Bildung already popular among secular Central European Jews. In contrast to this enthusiasm for Bildung, journalist Else Feldmann's position as an impoverished Jewish woman allowed her to make visible the problems of interwar Socialism often glossed over by more idealistic, bourgeois party leaders. The third chapter considers authors Veza Canetti and Mela Hartwig, who likewise maintained critical distances to ideologies supported by many of their male counterparts, including socialism and psychoanalysis. Chapter four argues that new space in the Viennese public sphere allowed women including Eugenie Schwarzwald, Berta Zuckerkandl and Alice Schalek to flourish as journalists, educators, and organizers of social welfare systems, even as the parallel development of antisemitism and misogyny limited their success. The last chapter examines Jewish participation in both Yiddish theater and the baroque Catholic Salzburg Festival, illustrating how the Jewish responses to political and social changes in interwar Austria included both support for and rejection of traditional notions of Jewish and Austrian identities.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004.School code: 0265
AHC interview with Eva Kahn
No full textEva Kahn (née Krafft) was born in Eger, Czechoslovakia, in 1926. She was a member of a Zionist club for children. She left Eger for Prague in fall of 1938, then stayed some weeks on the countryside until the Munich Conference, when she went back to Prague. She fled to Belgium where she stayed for one night, then France where she stayed in Paris for a week, before she boarded the ship "Normandie". She arrived in New York on Nov. 10, 1938, and then lived in Chicago until 1947, where she was supported by the relief organziation "Selfhelp". 1940-43 she went to Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and then (1943-47) to Bryn Mawr College, where she earned a BA magna cum laude. In 1977, she received an MS in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College, and for twenty years she worked as a genetic counselor
AHC Interview with Alice Weiss
No full textAlice Weiss, nee Weisz, was born in Vienna on February 9, 1926. She lived on Sandwirtgasse in the sixth Viennese district. She was interned in Hungary and Auschwitz, Poland. After her liberation, she stayed at a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria. Then she went to Munich and Bremen, Germany, and on the ship "Erny Paul" to New York in 1947. She worked as salesperson
Bekanntheit von verfolgten Kuenstlern.
No full textStudy of 'Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analyse mbH': how well-known are five persecuted artists in Germany
[Hans Stern family tree].
No full textFamily tree of the Hans Stern family from 1756 to the late 20th century. The family tree includes limited birth and death dates, as well as notes on where branches of the family live.digitize