Audience members (including Max Rieser?); 3rd International Congress of Aesthetics; Venice Portraits Groups

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Audience members (including Max Rieser?); 3rd International Congress of Aesthetics; Venice Portraits Groups

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Max Rieser standing on the ruins at Delphi, Greece Portraits Men

Rieser was in Greece for the IVth International Congress of Aesthetics, held in Athens in 1960

Karl Josef Scheuermann Collection 1981-1986

Photocopies of correspondence between Scheuermann, Ernst Cramer, Cardinal Ratzinger, Reuben Hecht on Pope John XXIII and his alleged repentance prayer.

Leo Baeck Medal awarded to Axel Springer Coins and Medals

"Presented to Axel Springer devoted friend and generous benefactor of the Leo Baeck Institute 1977"

1933-1953 German Jewish Children's Aid

The records of the GJCA relate to the entire range of activities involved in receiving and placing refugee children from 1933 through the 1950s. The later materials are records of the European Jewish Children's Aid. Activities included: maintaining the reception center in New Jersey; transportation arrangements; placement in homes; issuing affidavits and passports; granting scholarships; naturalization of children; setting of GJCA policy. By-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence and certificate of incorporation. Correspondence of executive officers, mainly Cecilia Razovsky, 1930s. Correspondence between William Haber and Lotte Marcuse, 1939-40. File of Dr. Solomon Lowenstein. Minutes of meetings of the Finance Committee. Field reports, inter-office memoranda, financial and statistical reports. Correspondence with organizations and governmental agencies: Society of Friends (Quakers) in Vienna; Israelitische Kultusgemeinde of Vienna; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Department of Justice; New York State Department of Social Welfare; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; American Friends Service Committee; American Jewish Congress; B'nai Brith; National Council of Jewish Women. Correspondence with individuals: Max S. Perlman, William Rosenwald, Paul Felix Warburg. In addition to the general administrative records, there are thousands of case files.

Invitation to the opening of new Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

Invitation to Opening of New Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. Invitation to a reception for new building. Simeon N. Leo, M.D., Hon. Sec.