Correspondence with Löwenstamm, Arthur

Identifier

WL3000/9/1/924

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

110658

Dates

31 Mar 1954 - 18 Dec 1962

Level of Description

Collection

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/110658

Extent and Medium

38 letters

Biographical History

Arthur Loewenstamm (1882-1965) was a British-German liberal rabbi from Berlin. He had been arrested during the November Pogrom 1938 and interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Upon his release he emigrated to England, serving later as research director of the Society for Jewish Study and assistant of its president Leo Baeck.

See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 244.

Scope and Content

Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence primarily concerns: the exchange of bibliographic, historical, and personal information; events hosted by Society for Jewish Study and a public talk given by Wiener; the contribution of a personal account about the November Pogrom in Berlin-Spandau for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1955-56).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the Eyewitness Testimony Collection.

People

Löwenstamm, Arthur

Subjects

Refugees
Rabbinate
Personal narratives
Jewish history

Places

Berlin-Spandau

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