Correspondence with Foerder, Ludwig

Ludwig Foerder (1885-1954) was a Jewish-German lawyer from Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He had held the position as vice president of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.), and campaigned courageously for its goals. In 1933 he emigrated to Palestine. Foerder was a friend of Alfred Wiener. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et. al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 94. 

Correspondence with Foerder, Ludwig 

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The friendly but professional correspondence between Foerder and Alfred Wiener centres on the exchange of various information and information material including an eyewitness account by Foerder (1954) on a Pogrom in Breslau that would later be merged into The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project. A recurring subject of the correspondence is the late Paul Nathan and the dealing with his person in Israel. Among the handwritten and typewritten letters are three press cuttings with obituaries as well as two transcripts of one of them. 

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