Out of the Archives: Franz Werfel Family Correspondenceby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Above: Telegram from Marianne Rieser to mother Albine Werfel regarding meeting with Varian Fry. January 14, 1941. The Leo Baeck Institute, as part of its DigiBaeck project, has digitized the Franz Werfel Family Correspondence (AR 6225). This small collection documents the 1940 escape from France to the United…
by Alyssa Carver, Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History The Leo Baeck Institute’s newly processed Florence Mendheim Collection of Anti-Semitic Propaganda (AR 25441) contains a variety of American-made, pro-Nazi material from the 1930s, and even among such unpleasant company this publication stands out. On the cover of each issue of the National American Bulletin stands this figure: a muscular, loincloth-clad Native American performing the…
Out of the Archives: Agnon Poemby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History The Ofra D. Core Collection of Center partner the Leo Baeck Institute contains a handwritten Hebrew poem by Nobel laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon. It was written for Ofra’s husband David Core (born Uriel Bergmann, son of noted philosopher Hugo Bergmann) on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1935. …
Out of the Archives: Birthday Card for a “Wanderer”by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History This birthday card, found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Margaret Rothenberger Family Collection (AR 25465), is part of a scrapbook documenting the Rothenberger family’s two years in France, 1933-1935, after they fled Germany and before they immigrated to the United States. It was created by…