Leo Baeck Collection 1885-2001 bulk1935-1965

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Leo Baeck Collection 1885-2001 bulk1935-1965

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The Leo Baeck Collection documents the life and work of Rabbi Leo Baeck,well-known as a leader, scholar, and spokesman for German Jewry. Although the most prominent items in this collection are articles, clippings, andbiographical material on Leo Baeck, the collection also holds original manuscripts of his writing, as well as personal documents, correspondence,and a small amount of photographs and artwork.

4.5 linear feet + 1 oversized box + 1 card file box.

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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Leo Baeck institute

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Stefan Zweig was born November 28, 1881, in Vienna, Austria into a family of wealthy industrialist. He studied in Austria, France, and Germany, earning his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna. After a short stop as literary editor of the Neue Freie Presse under Theaodor Herzl, Stefan Zweig became a most prolific and widely read critic and author of novels, biographies, plays, etc. In 1913 he settled in Salzburg, getting married to Friderike von Winternitz in 1914. During World War I he w...

Baeck, Leo

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Leo Baeck was born in Lissa (now Leszno, Poland), in the then German province of Posen on May 23, 1873. He was the son of the rabbi Samuel Baeck and Eva née Placzek and grew up with four sisters. Some of his earliest schooling took place at the Johann-Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium in Lissa. From 1891-1894 Baeck went to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), studying at the Jewish Theological Seminary as well as at the University there. Leo Baeck continued his studies in Berlin at the Lehranstalt ...