Tape-recorded interview conducted June 14, 1977, by Peter Gordy of the Historical Society staff with Alfred J. Hopf, Madison, Wisconsin, concerning his childhood as the son of a millionaire brewer in Nuremberg, Germany, his university education, anti-Semitism in Nuremberg, his career as a lawyer and banker, his 1937 departure from Germany, settling in Madison and his difficulty in getting even menial work, the hostile reception given German Jewish refugees by the resident Russian Jewish community, his "Jewish atheism," and other topics.
