Jewish History

In this section, you will find highlights related to Jewish History from our collections.

Frank (Karl Boromäus) papers: German psychologist, socialist, and anti-Nazi leader. Contains writings, correspondence, clippings, printed matter, and photographs relating to the communist, socialist, and anti-Nazi movements in Germany, post-World War II reconstruction in Germany, and political psychology.

Grossmann (Kurt R.) papers: German American author and journalist. Includes writings, correspondence, clippings, and serial issues, relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, postwar German and Austrian restitution payments to Jewish war victims, German-Israeli relations, the conditions of Jews throughout the world, and civil liberties in the United States and Germany.

Holtzman (Irwin T. and Shirley) collection: Prominent and enthusiastic bibliophile who has spent a lifetime collecting books on a wide variety of subjects. Consists mainly of material related to the life and work of the Russian authors Isaac Babel, Joseph Brodsky, and Boris Pasternak. It also includes material related to the publication of their writings and the process of collecting these publications by I. T. Holtzman. The collection includes biographical material about the writers; their correspondence and writings; material related to conferences and exhibits about their work; photographs; phonotape cassettes and videotapes; as well as drawings, posters, memorabilia, and clippings. 

Hook (Sidney) papers: Jewish American philosopher and author. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches and writings, lecture notes, printed matter, sound recordings, videotape, and photographs relating to philosophy, Marxism, communism in the United States and elsewhere, the question of communists in the educational system, campus disturbances in the 1960s, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other anti-communist movements, the thought of John Dewey, principles of education, the nature of academic freedom, and affirmative action programs.

Hurewitz (J.C.) papers: American historian and political scientist. Includes numerous publications issued by various Zionist parties in the period leading up to the creation of the state of Israel, speeches and writings; a subject file of clippings, articles, and reports; correspondence and conference materials; photocopies of documents; and printed matter.

Karski (Jan) papers: Liaison officer and courier of the Polish government in exile to the Polish underground, 1939–43; author, Story of a Secret State (1944). Contains correspondence, memoranda, government documents, bulletins, reports, studies, speeches and writings, printed matter, photographs, clippings, newspapers, periodicals, sound recordings, videotape cassettes, and microfilm, relating to events and conditions in Poland during World War II, the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, treatment of the Jews in Poland during the German occupation, and operations of the Polish underground movement during World War II.

Nicolaevsky (Boris I.) collection: Russian Menshevik, archivist, and historian. Contains correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, memoirs, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, leaflets, resolutions, bulletins, reports, clippings, newspapers, other printed matter, and photographs relating to Karl Marx and the international socialist movement; the First, Second, Third and Fourth Intenationals; Russian revolutionary, anarchist and socialist movements, the Russian Revolution and Civil War; Russian politics and government in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; communism in the Soviet Union; Russian émigré politics; the Vlasov movement during World War II; and Russian displaced persons after World War II.

Sini͡avskiĭ (A.) papers: Soviet literary critic, dissident, and political prisoner. Includes writings, diaries, correspondence, interrogation and trial records, printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Russian literature, civil rights in the Soviet Union, political trials and conditions of political prisoners in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré affairs.

Sino-Judaic Institute records: US nonprofit organization. Collection consists of memoirs, letters, personal identification documents, financial reports, bylaws, printed matter, photographs, and audiovisual material relating to Russian, Polish, other European Jews, and Jewish communal organizations in China, especially in Shanghai. 

Wolfe (Bertram D.) papers: American historian. Includes writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, clippings, other printed matter, and audiovisual material, relating to Marxism; the international communist movement; communism in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere; literature and art in the Soviet Union and in Mexico; and the Mexican artist Diego Rivera.