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Identifier: 6213
Abstract
Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records...
Dates:
1843 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6224
Abstract
Three issues of the newsletter, Das Blatt, published in Bogotá, Colombia by the Asociación Israelita Montefiore. The issues are dated: 1966 November 30; 1968 March 1; and 2019 November. The full title on the two issues from the 1960s is: "Das Blatt: Mitteilungen der Asociación Israelita Montefiore (AIM)." The 2019 issue is an 80 year anniversary edition. The Asociación Israelita Montefiore is an association for the Masorti Jewish community in...
Dates:
1966 November 30; 1968 March 1; 2019 November
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6188
Abstract
The Der Politische Soldat: Politischer und Kultureller Informationsdienst für den Einheitsführer collection comprises a sequential run of all but seven issues of a Nazi Party periodical published by the Nationalsozialistische (NS) Führungsstab der Wehrmacht in cooperation with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) toward the end of World War II. The intended audience of Der Politische Soldat was the unit...
Dates:
1944-08 - 1945-01
Collection
Identifier: 6215
Abstract
A collection of screenplay drafts, research notes, subject files, correspondence, photographs, books, audio and video tapes, and one 16mm film compiled by Lorenzo DeStefano for a film about G. Allan Hancock's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands during 1930s. DeStefano never completed his film, but his research for the project--which began in the 1970s--forms a significant collection of documentation on the people and events involved in the Hancock Expeditions.
Dates:
1930s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 2017
Abstract
This collection contains production files for twelve American film projects of German director William Dieterle (1893-1972), dating from 1936 to 1950. The files chiefly include production and wardrobe stills, research files, and outlines.
Dates:
1923 - 1950
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6137
Abstract
Included in this collection are On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light, On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat, and 46 other original papers by Einstein, in all comprising a complete collection of Einstein's papers published in the "Annalen" from 1901-1922.
Dates:
1901-1922
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6062
Abstract
Sigmund Einstein was born in Munich on July 20, 1899. He was a Jewish unskilled worker whose home and other assets were taken during the 1940s. This collection contains Gestapo documents regarding the seizure of his assets.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Collection
Identifier: 6091
Abstract
Papers of Erna (Sascha) Marcuse, nee Reich (1905-1967). They consist predominantly of her correspondence with a boyfriend, Emil Kuehne, during the early 1920s, but also include other miscellaneous personal effects from her years in Los Angeles. Erna Reich was a native Berliner who resided there throughout her early life until her marriage in 1928 to Ludwig Marcuse. In 1933, the couple moved to France; in 1939 they relocated to Los Angeles where Marcuse took up a teaching position at the...
Dates:
1885 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1925
Collection
Identifier: 0204
Abstract
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a celebrated German-Jewish novelist and outspoken enemy of the Nazis. He began his literary career as a theater critic and turned his talent to writing plays in the 1910s and 1920s. He first became internationally known for his historical novel Jud Süss published in 1925. In 1933, he went into exile in Southern France and in 1941 he emigrated to the United States. He was an important figure in intellectual and artistic circles in Los Angeles during the...
Dates:
1906 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1958
Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract
This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates:
1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987