Guide to the Fritz Blumenthal Collection, 1930-1990
AR 4882
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Finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Emily Andresini on 2013-08-16. Finding aid written in English.
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Descriptive Summary | |
Creator: | Blumenthal, Fritz 1913-2002 |
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Title: | Fritz Blumenthal Collection |
Dates: | 1930-1990 |
Abstract: | The bulk of the collection (photocopies only) consists of Fritz Blumenthal’s poems: handwritten German poems, ca. 1929 – 1934; and typed English poems, ca. 1979 – 1987. Also included are genealogical materials – correspondence, notes, family trees – for the families Feibelmann and Wolff, as well as biographical materials about Fritz Blumenthal. |
Languages: | This collection is in English and German. |
Quantity: | 5 folders |
Identification: | AR 4882 |
Repository: | Leo Baeck Institute |
Biographical Note
The physician Fritz Blumenthal was born 1913 in Mainz, Germany. He studied at German universities in Frankfurt, Freiburg and Würzburg, graduating in 1937 in Berne, Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in 1938. Next to his medical career in Middletown, NY, Fritz Blumenthal worked as a painter and print artist, exhibiting in various museums in the United States. He also was a poet, creating poems in German as well as in English.
Fritz Blumenthal’s mother Recha née Feibelmann was the daughter of a prominent Jewish family with roots in Germany and in the United States.
Return to the Top of PageScope and Content Note
The bulk of the collection (photocopies only) consists of Fritz Blumenthal’s poems: handwritten German poems, ca. 1929 – 1934; and typed English poems, ca. 1979 – 1987. Also included are genealogical materials – correspondence, notes, family trees – for the families Feibelmann and Wolff, as well as biographical materials about Fritz Blumenthal.
The following names are included:
Bachmann family; Curth family; Davidson family; Detering family; Elkan-Sutro family; Feibleman, James; Flamme family; Fuchs family; Genz family; Günsburg family; Heinen, Alfred; Hermanns family; Hirschel family; Hochheimer family; Kauffmann family; Knopf family; Kreuer family; Krigman family; Krings family; Lehman family; Levy family; Löwenhardt family; Reger, Julius; Richter family; Salmon family; Speyer-Ofenberg family; Waldi family; Walter family.
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Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
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
Access Points
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Click on a subject to search that term in the Center's catalog.Individuals:
Families:
Subjects:
Document Types:
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Fritz Blumenthal Collection; AR 4882; box number; folder number; Leo Baeck Institute.
Return to the Top of PageOther Finding Aid
The original German-language inventory is available in the first folder
Return to the Top of PageContainer List
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection. Follow the links to access the digitized materials.
Container list: | |||
Box | Folder | Title | Date |
1 | 1 | Biographical materials about Fritz Blumenthal | 1980 |
1 | 2 | Fritz Blumenthal Gedichte: 60 German poems | 1930-1937 |
1 | 3 | Poems in English | 1940-1990 |
1 | 4 | The Wolff family: descendents of Rabbi Moses Wolff, 1825-1985 | 1985 |
1 | 5 | The Feibelmann family | 1933-1987 |