Eva Dukes Collection undated, 1925-2001 bulk 1971

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Eva Dukes Collection undated, 1925-2001 bulk 1971

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This collection contains material relating to the personal and professional activities of Eva Dukes. It includes personal correspondence from 1938 to 1943 and materials about Dukes's teenage years as a student at the Schwarzwaldschule in Vienna. Professional materials relating to her work as a writer, researcher and translator include correspondence about her search for two favorite children's books from her youth, Jüdische Kindermärchen (1932) by Ilse Weber (née Herlinger) and Das verschlossene Buch; juedische Maerchen (1925) by Irma Singer (aka Irma Miriam Berkowitz). Also found here are typescripts of selected translations from these books into English, as well as extensive correspondence between Dukes and Singer, after Dukes discovered Singer living in Israel in the 1970s.

0.25 linear feet

eng,

ger,

rum,

Leo Baeck Institute.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6345579

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Singer, Irma.

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Dukes, Eva.

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Eva Dukes née Altmann was born in December 18, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Until 1938, she attended Realgymnasium at the Schwarzwaldschule, the first school in Austria to offer Matura (advanced high school diploma) to girls. The school was founded by women's education pioneer Eugenia Schwarzwald. In Vienna, Dukes was involved in the swimming club Haschachar Akiba Hakoah, as well as a Zionist youth group. In 1939, at age 15, Dukes fled Vienna, and via Hungary, Switzerland, a...

Schwarzwaldschule

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Mârculescu, A.

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Weber, Ilse, 1903-1944

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