Percy Matenko Collection 1964-1974

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Percy Matenko Collection 1964-1974

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This collection contains materials related to research that Matenko conducted for a publication of correspondencebetween Rahel and Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the family of Rahel's brother, Ludwig Robert.

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Matenko, Percy, 1901-

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Percy Matenko was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), Russia, in 1901. He was the son of Isaac (founder and principal of first Yiddish school in Canada) and Helen (Moskowitch) Matenko. The family immigrated to Canada via Ellis Island in 1906. Percy immigrated to the US in 1925, where he taught German at Columbia University, Brooklyn College and Hunter College. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1933. In 1939, he married Natalie Ruben. In 1937, he became a professor at Broo...

Tieck, Ludwig, 1773-1853

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Austrian soprano. From the description of [Album leaf in the hand of Jenny Ney], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270943107 Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet and novelist, translator, editor, and critic; Tieck was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. From the description of Ludwig Tieck letter, 1839 June 17. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 429673827 German novelis...

Robert, Ludwig, 1778-1832

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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...

Varnhagen, Rahel, 1771-1833

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