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Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6001 / MF 562

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Manuscripts by Feuchtwanger on various topics, including the Jewish Question and history and sociology of the Jews; clippings by and about Feuchtwanger; and photos.

Curricula vitae, bibliographies, professional documents, and material relating to Feuchtwanger's search for employment in Great Britain, including letters of recommendation from Leo Baeck, Leo Baerwald, and Martin Buber.

Manuscripts by other individuals, including Bertha Badt-Strauss, Chaim Bloch, Werner Cahnmann, Dora Edinger, Georg Hermann, Hans Kohn, and Nelly Sachs.

Field letters from the Verein Mekor Chajim, an orthodox group affiliated with the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft of Frankfurt am Main, to Jewish soldiers during World War I; sermons from the Nazi period by various rabbis, including: Alexander Altmann, Joseph Carlebach, Max Eschelbacher, Moses Hoffmann, Jakob Horovitz, Alfred Jospe, Max Kapustin, Emil Levy, Siegmund Maybaum, Hermann Schreiber, Caesar Seligmann, and Hermann Vogelstein.

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:

Altmann, Alexander; Badt-Strauss, Bertha; Baeck, Leo; Baer, Erwin; Baerwald, Leo; Baumgarten, Beate; Ben-Chorin, Shalom; Ben-Gavriel, M.Y.; Bialik, Chaim Nachman; Blau, Ernst; Bloch, Chaim; Bloch, Olga; Blumenfeld, Walter; Bornstein, Paul; Buber, Martin; Caesar, Egon; Cahnmann, Werner; Carlebach, Joseph; Cohen, Carl; Cohn, Willie; Doernberg, Erwin; Edinger, Dora; Eisenstaedter, Julius; Ernst, Rudolf; Eschelbacher, Max; Essrog, Chaim; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Flank, Joseph; Fraenkel, Fitz Meir; Friedlaender, Fritz; Fuerstenthal, Ernst; Gallinger, Arthur; Glaser, Siegfried; Gundersheimer, Hermann; Guttmann, Julius; Hepner, Isi; Hermann, Georg; Herz, Reinhold; Hirsch, Siegmund; Hirschfeld, Georg; Hoffmann, Moses; Homburger, Hanna; Horovitz, Jakob; Joachimsthal-Schwabe, Anna; Jospe, Alfred; Kapustin, Max; Katten, M.; Kisch, Guido; Kohn, Hans; Lamm, Hans; Lamm, Louis; Leisegang, Hans; Lemkowitz, Albert; Lemle, Heinrich; Leuner, Leo; Levi, Julius Walter; Levy, Emil; Lichtenstein, Erich; Loewe, Fritz; Loewe, Heinrich; Loewenthal, Ernst; Ludwig, Elly; Mainz, Annie; Martius, Adam; Marx, Hilde; Maybaum, Siegmund; Mayer, Karl; Mayer, Ludwig; Petuchowski, Ernst; Posen, Ida; Prinz, Joachim; Rabinowitz, Sally; Reichberger, Arthur; Rothschild, Lothar; Sachs, Nelly; Schach, Fabius; Schilcher, Johann; Schmitt, Rudolf; Schreiber, Hermann; Schuster, M.; Schwarz, Martin; Seligmann, Caesar; Siegel, Emes; Sinsheimer, Hermann; Steckelmacher, Ernst; Steil, Moses; Straus, Raphael; Sturmann, Manfred; Tramer, Hans; Untermeyer, Max; Vogelstein, Hermann; Warburg, Max; Wassermann, Rudolf; Wechselmann, Ernst; Weinberg, Josef; Weltmann, Lutz; Wertheimer, Martha; Wittelshofer, Fritz; Wittenberg, Erich

Dates

  • Creation: 1908-1973

Creator

Language of Materials

This collection is in German, English and Hebrew.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Collection is microfilmed (MF 562).

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Born in Munich on November 28, 1885, Ludwig Feuchtwanger was trained as a lawyer, but worked as an author, journalist, and publisher. He was editor of the publishing house Duncker & Humbolt and lecturer at the "Mittelstelle der juedischen Erwachsenenbildung." He emigrated to Great Britain in 1939, where he was briefly interned on the Isle of Man. He was a lecturer at the "Jewish Historical Society of England" and died in Winchester, Great Britain, on July 14, 1947.

Extent

5 Linear Feet

Abstract

Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Arrangement

  1. SERIES I: Manuscripts by Ludwig Feuchtwanger
  2. SERIES II: Correspondence, 1928-1938
  3. SERIES III: Manuscripts by others
  4. SERIES IV: Feldbriefe (circular)
  5. SERIES V: Sermons
  6. SERIES VI: Varia
  7. SERIES VII: Clippings, undated, 1923-1968
  8. SERIES VIII: Addenda, undated, 1910-1947

Other Finding Aid

See Inventory list

16-page inventory for Series I-VII

Microfilm

Collection is available on 14 reels of microfilm (MF 562).

  1. Reel 1: I/1/1 - I/1/6
  2. Reel 2: I/1/7 - I/1/12
  3. Reel 3: I/1/13 - II/3/10
  4. Reel 4: III/1/1 - III/2/6
  5. Reel 5: III/2/7 - VII/2/20
  6. Reel 6: VII/2/21 - VII/2/28
  7. Reel 7: 3/1 - 3/6
  8. Reel 8: 3/7 - 3/13
  9. Reel 9: 3/14 - 4/3
  10. Reel 10: 4/4 - 4/10
  11. Reel 11: 4/11 - 4/20
  12. Reel 12: 4/21 - 5/4
  13. Reel 13: 5/5 - 5/17
  14. Reel 14: 5/18 - 5/24
Title
Guide to the Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection, 1908-1973 AR 6001 / MF 562
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2010
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • October 24, 2013 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.

Repository Details

Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository

Contact:
15 West 16th Street
New York NY 10011 United States