Elisabeth Jastrow papers 1870-1971 1916-1965

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Elisabeth Jastrow papers 1870-1971 1916-1965

The Elisabeth Jastrow papers document the life and scholarship of this émigré archaeologist who left Germany due to the anti-Semitic policies of the Third Reich. The archive contains personal and professional correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, extensive research notes and photographic documentation on terracotta arulae from Magna Grecia, and teaching notes, as well as material related to her father, Ignaz Jastrow.

37.4 linear ft.; (67 boxes, 3 flat file folders)

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Hahn, Beate

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Jastrow, Ignaz, 1856-1937

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Kohn, Hedwig

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Physicist; born in Breslau, Germany. Received Ph.D., University of Breslau, 1913; became Lecturer in Physics, 1930. Worked with the nature of light emission from metal vapors in flames. Emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1930s; made instructor in physics at Women's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, 1940. Appointed lecturer at Wellesley College in physics, 1942; associate professor, 1945; full professor, 1948. After retiring joined the staff of the physics department at Du...

Brinckmann, Elsa

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Zancani Montuori, Paola

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Jacobsthal, Paul, 1880-1957

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Jastrow, Elisabeth

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Biographical/Historical Note Elisabeth Jastrow was born into an assimilated Jewish, academic family in Berlin on October 7, 1890. Her father, Ignaz Jastrow, was an economist, historian and professor of political science at the University of Berlin, as well as one of the founders, and later the Rector, of the Berliner Handelhochschule. Through her father's position, the family was part of the cosmopolitan world of intellectualism and salons th...

Bieber, Margarete, b. 1876.

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Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn.

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