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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives holds more than 6,000 archival collections that document war, revolution, and peace that shaped our world in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our archival collections related to Jewish History.

Archival Collections

American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism records: American Jewish anti-Zionist organization. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, and printed matter, relating to Jewish-Arab relations in the Middle East. 

Erman (Irma C.) papers: This collection documents the life and creative work of Irma Erman, a German-Jewish writer and artist, and refugee to Shanghai and the United States. A majority of the collection consists of materials related to Erman's artistic and writerly practice. Handwritten, typed, and printed versions of her poetry, some of it first drafted in the 1930s and 1940s; multiple versions of Erman's plays from the 1970s; and several pages of autobiographical prose document Erman's thinking and reflection on her time in Shanghai, antisemitic persecution, war and peace, friendship, art, and the natural world.

Fait (Margaret Eleanor) papers: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration public relations officer, United States Zone, Germany, 1945-1946. Includes reports, dispatches, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to relief aid to displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, and to Jewish refugees in transit to Palestine.

Frank (Ludwig E.) papers: German resident of Japan during World War II. Contains writings, interview transcripts, correspondence, reports, identification documents, printed matter, photographs, and videocassette relating to the persecution of Jews in Japan during World War II.

Gopshtein (E. E.) papers: Holocaust survivor. Includes diaries, and historical, biographical and bibliographical writings, relating to the history of the Crimea, especially during the period from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s; the history of publishing in the Crimea during this period; notable persons of the Crimea, especially artists; the Jewish community of Simferopol'; and the German occupation of Simferopol' during World War II. 

Katz (Friedrich) collection: Austrian historian. Collection consists of clippings, notes, and pamphlets, relating to international relations, international economic conditions, the oil industry, domestic conditions in Croatia, Croatia's role in international relations, the history and condition of Jews throughout the world, and military operations during World War II.

Koppelmann (Max) papers: Russian Jewish émigré. Contains memoirs and photographs, relating to the Jewish community in Russia, Germany, and Palestine.

Lilienthal (Alfred M.) papers: American author, attorney, and anti-Zionist. Collection includes speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, press releases, serial issues, conference papers, interviews, studies, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, video cassettes, and sound recordings relating to the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Zionism, Israel/Palestine, and American foreign policy in the region. 

Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych: Includes correspondence, bulletins, memoranda, reports, studies, lists, financial records, and photographs, relating to Polish foreign relations during World War II, the Polish government in exile in London, Allied diplomacy during World War II, conditions in Poland during the war, deportation of Poles to the Soviet Union, Polish refugees, the Jewish holocaust in Poland, and Polish military operations. Includes some records of Polish foreign relations during the interwar period.

Romerstein (Herbert) collection: Specialist on espionage, Soviet political warfare, international terrorism, and internal security. Contains pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, studies, reports, and synopses of intelligence documents relating to the Communist International, communism and communist front organizations in the United States, Soviet espionage and covert operations, and propaganda and psychological warfare, especially during World War II.

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