Kurt SchwerinCollection 1841-1993 bulk 1931-1993

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Kurt SchwerinCollection 1841-1993 bulk 1931-1993

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This collectiondocuments the life and work of Kurt Schwerin. Kurt Schwerin immigrated to the UnitedStates in 1938 where he became a librarian and professor of law. Contained areseveral of his writings, research notes and other papers mainly related to hisattempts to organize the immigration of his family, to settle down in the UnitedStates and regarding to his function as board member and head of the Chicago Chapterof the Leo Baeck Institute.

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Schwerin, Kurt, 1902-1995

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Kurt Schwerin Kurt Schwerin was born April 17, 1902 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia - then Germany but now part of Poland. He attended Jewish primary and secondary schools and studied at the University of Breslau from 1930 until forced to cease attending by the Nazi government in 1934. He taught at a Jewish secondary school from 1934 to 1938, marrying Herta Bernstein in 1937. In 1938, Schwerin and his wife came to the United States on travelers' visas; he managed to stay in th...

Mainzer, Martin, 1915-

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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...

Leo Baeck Institute, Chicago Chapter

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