The papers of the Cleve family, a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence and papers prior to the Cleve family's departure, correspondence and papers related to their flight, interactions with emigre organizations after their arrival, and documentation of their lives in the United States. Highlights of the collection include a letter to Felix Cleve from the Emergency Association of German Scientists Abroad three months prior to the Cleve's flight from Austria directing him to the International Committee for the Placement of Intellectual Refugees in Geneva; correspondence, 1940-1942, following the Cleve family's arrival in New York with their cousin and benefactor Edwin Fruend, various refugee and assistance organization (including the American Friend's Service Committee, the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars and Selfhelp of Emigres from Central Europe, and various university presses that Cleve approached in these early years regarding the publicaion of his text on the philosophy of Anaxagoras; Fanny Cleve's sheet music collection, along with performance programs, reviews, and sheet music, letters from the 1920s to her from Otto Klemperer and others regarding her career at the time, as well as an exchange in 1938 with Klemperer upon her arrival in New York about opportunities to perform; photographs of Geroge Cleve, as well as music and memorabilia from his youth and his correspondence with his parents during his years training at the Eastman School of Music and during his career as a conductor; and Felix Cleve's manuscripts on philosophy, documentation about his student status at the University of Vienna, his applications for federal employment in 1943, 1947 and 1953 (revealing much autobiographical and employment information), and documentation during the 1950s and 1960s of his teaching years at the New School for Social Research and Long Island University. Also included are correspondence, recordings, sheet music, and ephemera created and collected by Ernest and Regina (Gina) Wassing. [Adapted from bookseller's description.]