Leo Baeck Institute New York. Catalog of the Archival Collections

Edited by Fred Grubel, in cooperation with Alan S. Divack, Frank Mecklenburg, Michael A. Riff and Nusi Sznaider. With a preface by Fritz Stern.

The library and archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York contain perhaps the most extensive collection of German-language Jewish literature in the western world. One of the primary reasons for founding the Leo Baeck Institute was to create a place where these remnants of public and family archives could be collected and preserved for study and research. lt was hoped that papers, books, documents and pictures - simple people's letters as well as scholars' manuscripts - would attest to centuries of Jewish life in German speaking lands. Following a catalog edited by Max Kreutzberger, which mainly focuses on the Institute's library, this new catalog describes its archival collections in two sections. The first section includes 284 Major Collections (each having more than one hundred items), and 3.825 Small Collections. The Major Collections appear alphabetically and are numbered consecutively. The time span covered by the materials is listed immediately following the collection's name, which in most instances is the name of the donor. Each Major Collection is described at length. Indexes of subjects, names and places make the material accessible. XIII,409 Seiten, Leinen (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts; Vol. 47/Mohr Siebeck 1990)