John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of research files related to the lives of European Jewish Émigrés to Los Angeles compiled by USC librarian John Ahouse. Materials include clippings, photographs, illustrations, and correspondence. Pamphlets and other materials from the L.A. European Jewish Émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s exhibit and the Skirball Cultural Center 2005 exhibit pamphlet are also present. The German Exiles in Los Angeles Guided Tour Map of houses of notable émigrés including those of Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Salka and Berthold Viertel, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley and Emil Ludwig, Hanns Eisler, Vicki Baum, and Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1990s-2003
Creator
- Ahouse, John (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Biographical / Historical
John Ahouse was a librarian and curator of USC’s American Literature Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections.
Extent
1.56 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection consists of research files related to the lives of European Jewish Émigrés to Los Angeles compiled by USC librarian John Ahouse. Materials include clippings, photographs, illustrations, and correspondence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of John Ahouse via Claude Zachary, circa 2019.
Subject
- Ahouse, John -- Archives (Person)
- Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960 (Person)
- Brecht, Bertolt (Person)
- Eisler, Hanns (Person)
- Feuchtwanger, Lion (Person)
- Feuchtwanger, Marta (Person)
- Huxley, Aldous (Person)
- Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948 (Person)
- Mann, Heinrich (Person)
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Exiled Jewish authors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Jewish artists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Jewish refugees -- California, Southern -- Archival resources
- Jewish refugees -- Europe -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Photographs -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2023 February
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu