My Life 1895-1956

Apprenticeship as goldsmith; marriage in time of economic crisis (1919); persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Kassel; emigration to USA in 1940; beginnings of new life in USA.

Memoirs : Heida Hermanns Holde /

The author's mother Alice Goldschmidt was a gifted piano player, who studied with Carl Maria Breithaupt and became his most talented student. Childhood recollections. Early musical awakening. Outbreak of World War One. Recollections of air raids and scarceness of food. Inflation and political instability in post-war Germany. Piano lessons by her mother from an early age. Heida made her debut at age fourteen with the Wiesbaden Symphony under the conductor Carl Schuricht, who became a close mentor and friend. Close relationship to her mother, who had a great influence on her professional career. Heida had a number of outstanding teachers, among them Artur Schnabel, Karl Leimer and Egon Petri. Heida was accepted as a student of Petri at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Berlin, where she studied between 1922-1925. Salon at her aunt's house with guests such as the playwright Georg Kaiser and Siegfried Wagner. Her sister Elsie received her Ph.D. in economics and moved to Berlin as well. Heida graduated from the "Hochschule" in 1925. Soon after she won an international piano competition in Berlin. Engagements with various conductors such as Max Fiedler and Otto Klemperer. Private lessons with Arthur Schnabel and Carl Friedberg, the co-founder of Juilliard. Due to occasional experiences of antisemitism during her music career Heida decided to change her name from Goldschmidt to Hermanns. Position at the "Hoch Conservatory" in Frankfurt. Encounter with the music critic Artur Holde, Heida's future-husband. Engagement and wedding in 1932. Move to Berlin.

Walter, Greta and Karl Loewenstein Collection. 1821-2004 Bulk: 1933-1989

This collection holds papers of members of the Loewenstein family, especially Walter and Karl Loewenstein. Among the papers here are examples of Walter Loewenstein's writing, documentation of life in Rietberg in Westphalia (Germany) during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and correspondence concerning the fate of several family members during this time. Papers relating to Karl Loewenstein focus on his wartime activities. The genealogy of the Brandenstein family is also represented here along with a few papers of other family members. The collection consists of unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, official and restitution documentation, notebooks and notes, genealogical research, and fliers.

Analysis of Crude Protein and Allergen Abundance in Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea cv. Walter) from Three Growing Regions in Australia

The effects of plant growth conditions on concentrations of proteins, including allergens, in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) kernels are largely unknown. Peanuts (cv. Walter) were grown at five sites (Taabinga, Redvale, Childers, Bundaberg, and Kairi) covering three commercial growing regions in Queensland, Australia. Differences in temperature, rainfall, and solar radiation during the growing season were evaluated. Kernel yield varied from 2.3 t/ha (Kairi) to 3.9 t/ha (Childers), probably due to differences in solar radiation. Crude protein appeared to vary only between Kairi and Childers, whereas Ara h 1 and 2 concentrations were similar in all locations. 2D-DIGE revealed significant differences in spot volumes for only two minor protein spots from peanuts grown in the five locations. Western blotting using peanut-allergic serum revealed no qualitative differences in recognition of antigens. It was concluded that peanuts grown in different growing regions in Queensland, Australia, had similar protein compositions and therefore were unlikely to show differences in allergenicity.

Morris Rosenfeld papers, 1898.

Contains correspondence from M.R. and his translator, Leo Wiener, to F.H. Day, publisher, concerning M.R.'s poems in English translation, entitled, Songs from the ghetto.

Louis Lipsky papers 1898-1976

Consists of speeches, memoranda, correspondence, publications, clippings and ephemera pertaining to the life and career of a prominent American Zionist.

American Jewish Tercentenary celebration collection undated, 1949-1956

Contains correspondence, monthly newsletter and other publications of the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee. Also contains correspondence of the Tercentenary Committee of the American Jewish Historical Society primarily relating to the Conference of Historians (September, 1954) and correspondence, financial records and reports of the Office of Historical Information set up jointly by the AJHS and the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee. Includes also material relating to tercentenary celebrations and exhibits sponsored by the National Committee and various state and local committees, universities and synagogues, particularly Cong. Shearith Israel in New York City.

Beradt Family Collection 1850-1956

Documents related to Ulla Brode, née Beradt and her family.

Ira S. Goldberg Collection 1954-1956

Letters to Ira Goldberg from Dora Edinger (1955), Paul P. Homburger (1955), The New York Public Library (1956) in reference to Bertha Pappenheim; article about stamp dedication by the German postal service honoring Bertha Pappenheim (in Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, 11/5/1954)

The Soviet Union, Finland and the Cold War : The Finnish Card in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1956-1959

From the Soviet point of view the actual substance of Soviet-Finnish relations in the second half of 1950s clearly differed from the contemporary and later public image, based on friendship and confidence rhetoric. As the polarization between the right and the left became more underlined in Finland in the latter half of the 1950s, the criticism towards the Soviet Union became stronger, and the USSR feared that this development would have influence on Finnish foreign policy. From the Soviet point of view, the security commitments of FCMA-treaty needed additional guarantees through control of Finnish domestic politics and economic relations, especially during international crises. In relation to Scandinavia, Finland was, from the Soviet point of view, the model country of friendship or neutrality policy. The influence of the Second Berlin Crisis or the Soviet-Finnish Night Frost Crisis in 1958-1959 to Soviet policy towards Scandinavia needs to be observed from this point of view. The Soviet Union used Finland as a tool, in agreement with Finnish highest political leadership, for weakening of the NATO membership of Norway and Denmark, and for maintaining Swedish non-alliance. The Finnish interest to EFTA membership in the summer of 1959, at the same time with the Scandinavian countries, seems to have caused a panic reaction in the USSR, as the Soviets feared that these economic arrangements would reverse the political advantages the country had received in Finland after the Night Frost Crisis. Together with history of events, this study observes the interaction of practical interests and ideologies, both in individuals and in decision-making organizations. The necessary social and ideological reforms in the Soviet Union after 1956 had influence both on the legitimacy of the regime, and led to contradictions in the argumentation of Soviet foreign policy. This was observed both in the own camp as well as in the West. Also, in Finland a breakthrough took place in the late 1950's: as the so-called counter reaction lost to the K-line, "a special relationship" developed with the Soviet Union. As a consequence of the Night Frost Crisis the Soviet relationship became a factor decisively defining the limits of domestic politics in Finland, a part of Finnish domestic political argumentation. Understood from this basis, finlandization is not, even from the viewpoint of international relations, a special case, but a domestic political culture formed by the relationship between a dominant state, a superpower, and a subordinate state, Finland.

Tiempo kairológico y tradición oculta: la recepción de Walter Benjamin por parte de Hannah Arendt

Introducción: "La investigación titulada Tiempo kairológico y tradición oculta. La recepción del pensamiento de Walter Benjamin por parte de Hannah Arendt propone el esclarecimiento de las cuestiones y de las actitudes teóricas que Hannah Arendt tomó, selectivamente, de Walter Benjamin. Ambos comparten la conciencia del colapso moral y político de la Europa de entreguerras, no menos que la desconfianza ante las categorías de juicio transmitidas por una tradición, a la que no juzgaban vinculante. Discuten los mecanismos compulsivos de la lógica y los juzgan estériles e impropios para comprender y valorar. Impugnan un concepto de historia al que consideran obsoleto e indebido para discernir el significado de las acciones e inadecuado para dar cuenta de la novedad y el acontecimiento. En consecuencia, ambos recalan en “el fragmento y la ruina”, y enaltecen eventos olvidados y des-asidos del contexto referencial habitual. Así, presentan una historiografía fragmentada, compatible con una concepción del tiempo como origen y acontecimiento o, también, como disrupción de la linealidad cronológica. A esta noción llamamos tiempo kairológico..."

El tema del tiempo en la "Expositio in physicam" de Walter Burley

Resumen: El trabajo permite reconstruir el itinerario de la reacción inmediata del ultra realismo de Walter Burley frente a la crítica nominalista, tomando base en la teoría física y particularmente, en el tema del tiempo. Entendemos que el análisis comparativo de las doctrinas de Burley y de Ockham permitirá arrojar cierta luz sobre la historia de los primeros e importantes enfrentamientos al ockhamismo, procurando conformar una intelección nueva del siglo XIV donde Burley pasaría a ser un personaje de interés al motivar la reflexión de una figura como la de Ockham. Centramos nuestro análisis en torno a dos tópicos: aquel vinculado con la determinación del concepto de tiempo y su distinción del movimiento; y en segundo término, consideraremos el problema de la unicidad o pluralidad de tiempos. El trabajo propone tentativamente que ambos autores conocieron mutuamente sus doctrinas, se leyeron y corrigieron recíprocamente; y las profundas diferencias que conforman sus sistemas deben buscarse en una fundamentación gnoseo-ontológica diversa.

Diálogo teológico con Walter Kasper : la recepción de la eclesiología conciliar en la Argentina

Resumen: n esta intervención Carlos Galli dialoga con la valiosa ponencia del cardenal Walter Kasper resumiendo la recepción de la eclesiología conciliar desde la Argentina. Este diálogo se centra en cuatro puntos, la dialéctica liberación – libertad en el diálogo de la Iglesia con la modernidad, la recepción argentina de su eclesiología considerando las relaciones entre la fe del Pueblo de Dios y las culturas de los pueblos, la reforma evangélica radical a partir del paradigma de la conversión misionera de todo el Pueblo de Dios y de todos en el Pueblo de Dios. El género del texto une el comentario interpretativo y el diálogo teológico más constructivo que crítico.