| | Creator: | Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf, 1905-1966 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mordechai Bernstein collection | | | | Dates: | 1605-1965 | | | | Call No: | 1966.099 | | | | Abstract: | Mordechai Bernstein was a Jewish historian and Yiddish cultural activist who lived in Poland, Argentina, and the United States. The collection contains unique documents on Jewish life in Germany since the seventeenth century, on Displaced Persons camps in Germany after World War II, and Jewish life in Argentina in the 1950s, as well as transcripts, photocopies and descriptions of numerous original documents and publications maintained in Germany and on German Jewry. Bernstein's personal papers are also included in the collection. | | | | Size: | 30 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Archives -- Germany | Forṿerṭs | Holocaust survivors | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish Daily Forward (New York, N.Y.) | Jewish learning and scholarship | Jewish sermons | Jews -- Argentina | Jews -- Europe, Eastern | Jews -- Germany -- History | Jews -- History | Jews -- Poland | Jews -- United States | Libraries -- Germany | Refugee camps -- Germany | Refugees, Jewish -- Germany | Yiddish language | Yiddish periodicals | Zionism | |
| Creator: | Hochstein, Joshua | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joshua Hochstein papers | | | | Dates: | 1932-1980 | | | | Call No: | 1999.008 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains the correspondence, research materials, and publications of Joshua Hochstein, an independent scholar and educator, who collected an abundance of material on the Jewish communities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, Jewish life and practices, branches of Christianity, Latin American affairs, and Jewish-Christian relations. Hochstein's correspondence with leaders of various faiths about religious issues is also included in the collection. | | | | Size: | 17.0 Linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Antisemitism | Arab-Israeli conflict | Christianity | Conversion -- Judaism | Fasts and feasts -- Judaism | Hebrew language | Jewish diaspora | Jewish educators -- United States | Jewish sects | Jews -- Israel | Jews -- Italy | Jews -- Japan | Jews -- Latin America | Jews -- Portugal | Jews -- Spain | Jews -- United States | Judaism -- Customs and practices | Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity | Ladino language -- History | Ladino literature | Latin America -- Ethnic relations | Latin America -- Relations -- United States | Sephardim -- History | Spain -- Ethnic relations | United States -- Relations -- Latin America | Women in Judaism | Yiddish language | |
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