Fritz Friedlaender Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 7201 / MF 621

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection mainly contains articles, notes, manuscripts and other writings by Fritz Friedlaender on various topics as well as articles from other authors on related topics. There are articles on Gabriel Riesser, Friedrich Meinecke, Moritz Heimann, Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Ulrich Sanders and others. The collection also contains letters to Friedlaender from Leo Baeck, Ismar Elbogen, and Max Wiener (1935-1972), and misc. personal documents.

Dates

Creation: undated, 1924-1980

Creator

Friedlaender, Fritz, 1901-1980 (Person)

Language of Materials

The collection is in German and English.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Collection is microfilmed; use MF 621.

Photocopy permitted for reference purposes only. For possible publication, written permission from donor required.

Access Information

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

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 Berlin in 1901 to a drug store owner, Fritz Friedlaender was a Social Democratic journalist, teacher and activist of the Centralverein. He contributed to Der Morgen and to the Philo-Lexikon and was an editor of the Zeitschrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland. From 1933 to 1938 he was a teacher at Jewish schools in Berlin. After his arrest in Sachsenhausen concentration camp he emigrated to Shanghai in 1939 and to Australia in 1946. He died there in 1980.