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German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collections

German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collections

Personal and professional papers of German-speaking Émigré in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts and the organizations which assisted those who fled the Nazi regime.
In recognition of the serious scholarly interest in the mass migration of German speaking exiles from the Nazi regime, a German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection was established in 1976 at the University at Albany, State University of New York. This growing collection has been developed since the 1970s through the efforts of the University Libraries and Professor John M. Spalek of the University's Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature Department

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The correspondence files contain photographs, offprints and clippings in addition to the correspondence (ca. 5,000 letters), which dates primarily from Bates' U.S. years (1941-1974), although a few earlier letters are present in the collection. Several correspondences were continued after Bates' death in 1974 by his widow, Barbara, until as late as 1987. Letters are in German, English and French and have been divided into five sub-series: personal, legal, literary, mental health and drug research, and miscellaneous.

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Includes correspondence (2558 letters), as well as related photographs (106 photos), offprints and clippings, of Roy C. Bates (and after his death in 1974 continued by Barbara Bates) with friends and family members. Most notable among the personal correspondents are: Helmut circa Bates (son), wife, Dorit, and children Kenny and Denny; Tyll Bates (son) and wife, Francy; Wilhelm (Willy) and Imma von Bodmershof (née Ehrenfels), which includes correspondence during the early 1950s documenting Bodmershof's efforts to help Bates publish his poetry; Dr. Henry and Doris Brann; Dr. Ilse Bry; Baron Umar Rolf and Mireille Abeille von Ehrenfels, the most extensive correspondence in the collection, dating from 1939-1974 between Ehrenfels and Bates, and continuing between Barbara Bates and Mireille Abeille (1974-1987), documenting their combined efforts to publish Bates' work posthumously; Eva and Hans Friede; Erika Mann (and family members, Golo, Katja, and Klaus), 1940-1962, including legal correspondence over copyright issues in the filming of Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg; Ilse and Bernhard Reichenbach.

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The correspondence files contain over 40,000 items of correspondence, primarily from the years 1933-1984. The letters are in German, English and French and have been sub-divided into eight sub-series: 1) personal (family and friends); 2) professional; 3) correspondence with publishers and/or dealing with publications; 4) organizations; 5) politicians and public officials; 6) miscellaneous; 7) subject files; and 8) chronological files.

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The correspondence files are arranged in four series, general correspondence with individuals A-Z; correspondence with publishers, newspaper editors, etc.; correspondence relating to the publication of the three volume series Communication and Propaganda in World History, and correspondence relating to the 1975 Thyssen Workshop "Probleme der Regierbarkeit".

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This sub-series contains correspondences with numerous relatives, including numerous members of the Friedländer, Bergmann, Haase and Lichtenstein families, most forced to flee Nazi Germany because of their Jewish heritage, eventually settling in the United States, England, Israel and Australia. Among the correspondence with friends included in this series, are lengthy correspondences spanning four or five decades with Irma and Erich Berndt, Paul and Käte Brün, Alfred and Charlotte Dresel, Leo and Anne Marie Grebler, Isa Gruner, Werner and Hanna Heider, Mario and Dorothee Iona, Paul and Regina Kägi, Robert M.W. and Benedicta Kempner, Robert and Herthi Liebknecht, Dyno and Mara Löwenstein, Adolf and Elisabeth Lüchinger, Hilde and Hardi Meisels, Hans and Käte Siegel.