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Efraim Frisch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1034 / MF 510 / MF 107 / MF 116

Scope and Contents

Personal documents, manuscripts of Frisch's novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews; clippings by and about Ephraim and Fega Frisch and their work, including an essay by Alfred Vagts on Der Neue Merkur.

Photos of Efraim and Fega Frisch and other literary personalities.

The following materials have been moved to Der Neue Merkur Collection (AR 7141): MF 244 microfilm ("Der Neue Merkur" - Correspondence 1918-1925) and finding aid for Der Neue Merkur Collection (85-page name-index).

Editorial and personal correspondence of Efraim Frisch and his wife, Fega Frisch, with individuals and institutions, including Richard Beer-Hofmann, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, Micha Berdyczewski (pseudonym Micha Bin-Gorion), Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Carl Burkhardt, Bruno Cassirer, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Edmond Fleg, Frankfurter Zeitung, Manfred George, Stefan Grossmann, Willy Haas, Konrad Haemisch, Ludo M. Hartmann, Wilhelm Hausenstein, Wolfgang Heine, Hermann Hesse, Georg Hirschfeld, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Holitscher,Monty Jacobs, Siegfried Jacobsohn, Erich von Kahler, Hans Kauders, Rudolf Kayser, Friedrich Kayssler, Alfred Kerr, Hermann Kesten, Jacob Klatzkin, Siegfried Kracauer, Else Lasker-Schueler, Max Lehrs, Ferdinand Lion, Emil Ludwig, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Christian Morgenstern, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Max Picard, Max Reinhardt, Eduard Rosenbaum, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Arno Schirokauer, Ignazio Silone, Hermann Struck, Eduard Stucken, Kurt Tucholsky, Alfred Vagts, Jakob Wassermann, Frank Wedekind, and Karl Wolfskehl.

The following individuals are also mentioned in this collection: Amar, Licco; Amar, Emmy; Ansorge, Martin; Arx, Elisabeth von; Asch, Maria; Asch, Schalom; Barchau, Paul; Baum, Anneliese; Behmer, Marcus; Berneis, Benno; Bertram, Felix; Binding, Rudolf; Bloch, Eduard; Bodenhausen, Dora; Bruptbacher, Paulette; Buhrer, Jakob & Emmy; Burschell, Friedrich; Cassirer, Else; Cassirer, Julius; Craig, Gordon; Davidsohn, Cyril; Deinhardt, Hans; Droste, Trude; Durtaine, Luc; Ehrenpreis, Marcus; Einstein, Alfred; Eisner, Kurt; Erne, A.L.; Esswein, Hermann; Ettinger, Max; Eysold, Gertrud; Fontana, Oskar Maurus; Frey, A.M.; Fromm, Heinrich; Geheeb, Edith; Gitermann, Valentin; Glaser, Kurt; Goyert, Georg; Gremer, Leo; Guggenbuehl, Hans & Grete; Gumpenheim, Hanns von; Hardt, Philipp; Hatvany, Ludwig; Heimann, Moritz; Heimann-Marschalk, Trude; Heims-Reinhardt, Else; Hellingrath, N.; Hiller, Kurt; Hoboken, Annemarie van; Hollaender, Fritz; Holthusen, J.; Ilg, Paul; Jacob, H.E.; Jacobi, Hugo; Jacobovits, Hanna; Jacobs, Monty; Jaffe, Else; Kahn, Robert; Katzenstein-Sutro, Nertie; Kaufmann, Arthur; Kessel, Martin; Krommer, Heinrich; Landshoff, Ludwig; Lavater-Sloman, Emil; Leistikow, G.; Lendrot, Willy; Loerke, Oskar; Machol, Hans; Malter, Heinrich; Marc, Paul; Marschalk, Margarethe; Marschalk, Mathilde; Martersteig, Max; May, Valo von; Mayer, August; Mayer, Guste; Mayer, Rudolf; Meier-Graefe, Julius; Mendelssohn, Anja; Menkes, Hermann; Moellmann, Gertrud; Olbricht, Alexander; Oldendorff, P.; Oppenheimer, Franz; Oppenheimer, Wolfgang; Pinski, David; Poeschel, Hans; Pretorius, Emil; Raemisch, W.; Reinhardt-Heims, Else; Rhein, Fritz; Richnow, Margarete; Scheffler, Karl; Schlesinger, Bella; Schnitzler, Olga; Schuelein, Julius Wolfgang (1881-1970); Schwabacher, Sascha; Seelig, Carl; Solmitz, Werner; Soupault, Philippe; Speyer, Wilhelm; Spire, Andre; Steffens, Albert; Steinrueck, Ilse; Stern, Guy; Stoessl, Otto; Straposch, Alexander; Strich, Walter; Strindberg, Kerstin; Stucken, Hans; Suesskind, W.E.; Thodoroff, Petro; Toch, Ernst; Trebitsch, Siegfried; Ulitz, Arnold; Ullmann, Regina; Vallentin, Richard; Vollrath, Friedrich; Walser, Karl; Weerth, Ernst; Weiss, E.R.; Weissgerber, Grete; Weltsch, Robert; Winsloe, Christa; Witting, Klaus; Wolf-Ferrare, Ermanu; Yahuda, A.S.E.; and Ziegler, Leopold.

Dates

  • Creation: 1881-1984

Creator

Language of Materials

The collection is in German, English, and Yiddish.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Collection is microfilmed (MF 510, 13 reels).

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Born in Stry, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) on March 1, 1874, Efraim Frisch studied at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin, and Kiel, and settled in Berlin around 1900. He was a writer, dramatist, and journalist, and was editor of Der Neue Merkur from 1914 to 1925. Frisch emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 and died in Ascona, Switzerland, on November 29, 1942.

Extent

6 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Abstract

Editorial and personal correspondence of Efraim Frisch and his wife, Fega Frisch, with individuals and institutions.



Personal documents, manuscripts of Frisch's novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews; clippings by and about Ephraim and Fega Frisch and their work, including an essay by Alfred Vagts on Der Neue Merkur.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in 5 series.
  1. Series I: Manuscripts, Publications, and Reviews

  2. Subseries 1: [AR 2463] Handwritten manuscripts by Efraim Frisch include novels, essays, plays, short stories, essays on Judaism etc. [most of it published]; see pp.2-22 of inventory list

  3. Subseries 2: Typewritten manuscripts by Efraim Frisch: novels, essays, short stories on various subjects; book reviews; see pp.1-11 of inventory list

  4. Subseries 3: [AR 2469] Publications: ca.104 items published in various journals, magazines, and newspapers; see inventory list for detailed description

  5. Subseries 4: [AR 2533] Reviews on Frisch's work (8 items)

  6. Series II: [AR 2533]: Correspondence of Efraim and Fega Frisch, ca. 1896-1959: private correspondence; correspondence with publishers, journals and radio stations; correspondence regarding Der Neue Merkur. The letters refer to the closing of the Merkur, includes correspondence between Frisch and co-editor Wilhelm Hausenstein. There is also a 18p list of the literary correspondence of the Neue Merkur. (see inventory list for details)

  7. Addendum to the Georg Mueller Verlag [AR 3816]: Michael Georg Conrad, Efraim Frisch, Hans von Guenther, Ferdinand Hardekopf, Wilhelm Hausenstein, Kurt Hiller, Friedrich Hirth, Richard Schaukal [ca.56 items].

  8. Addendum to private letters collection: [AR 3466]: 67 letters, 75 postal cards, 1 cable/ Christian and Margarete Morgenstern.

  9. Series III: Personal Material [AR 2549]: certificates, contracts, diary, CVs, ID papers, photos, includes mebership card of the Schutzverband Deutscher Schriftsteller [32 items]

  10. Series IV: Misc: a) manuscripts, publications, poems (8 items); b) newspaper clippings, 1914-1918, includes items on Kurt Eisner, Thomas Mann [13 items]; c) photos of Schalom Asch, Bin-Gorion, Frisch, Moritz Heimann, Georg Hirschfeld, Siegfried Jacobsohn, Friedrich Kayssler, Heinrich Malter, Helene Marc, Max Marschalk, Christian Morgenstern, David Pinski, Max Reinhardt, Hermann Stehr, Lisbeth Strauss, Eduard Stucken

  11. Series V: AR 1034: Clippings, photos, includes 22 postal card and 61 letters to Martin Buber, 1907-1935 [photocopies from the Martin Buber Archives in Jerusalem], CV of Fega Frisch; letter by Efraim Frisch to Eduard Rosenbaum; correspondence between G. Joshua Lifschitz and Deutsche Akademie fuer Sprache & Dichtung in Darmstadt

Microfilm

Collection is available on 13 reels of microfilm (MF 510). Some materials also appear on MF 107, MF 79, and MF 116.
  1. Reel 1: 1/0 - 1/22
  2. Reel 2: 1/23 - 1/27
  3. Reel 3: 2/1 - 2/7
  4. Reel 4: 2/8 - 2/23
  5. Reel 5: 2/24 - 2/35
  6. Reel 6: 3/1 - 3/20
  7. Reel 7: 3/21 - 3/41
  8. Reel 8: 3/41 - 4/30
  9. Reel 9: 4/31 - 4/79
  10. Reel 10: 4/80 - 5/72
  11. Reel 11: 5/73 - 6/2
  12. Reel 12: 6/3 - 6/18
  13. Reel 13: 6/20 - 6/26
  1. [MF 107]: Mss.: Gog und Magog, Der Tod des Studenten Moissewitsch (also on MF 79), Die Kantine, Der Weg durch den Traum, Vier Vortraege ueber das Judentum, Lebenslauf (by Feja Frisch), Beantwortung der Fragen des Herrn Prof. Georg Stern von der Demson Universitaet.
  2. [MF 116(13)]: Letter: Hofmannsthal to Frisch (1919).

Separated Material

Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.

Related Names

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Efraim Frisch Collection, 1920s-1990 (bulk 1935-1955)   AR 1034 / MF 510 / MF 107 / MF 116
Author
Processed by LBI Staff
Date
© 2009
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Revision Statements

  • October 22, 2013 : Links to digital objects added in Container List.

Repository Details

Repository Details

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