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Joseph Melzer was a Jewish-German Bookseller and publisher who had emigrated to Palestine in 1932. In 1958 he returned to West Germany and founded the Joseph Melzer publishing house in Cologne.
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Correspondence regarding a restitution related enquiry for a copy of a Jewish magazine (Freie Jüdische Monatsschau) published in 1931; support with bibliographic information for a catalogue on Postwar publications on German Jewry, planned as the first publication by the newly founded Melzer publishing house in Cologne; and the sending of books by Melzer. Contained is a two letter correspondence with the Entschädigungsamt (department for restitution claims) in West Berlin (1958).
Correspondence with Joseph Melzer Verlag, Buchhandlung & Antiquaritat