Heinz Edgar Kiewe (1906-1986) was an English business man and historian of Jewish-German descent. He had fled to England in the late 1930s. After being interned as enemy alien on the Isle of Man he settled in Oxford, started a needlework business and became a researcher of the history of textiles and knitting techniques.
Correspondence with Kiewe, Heinz Edgar
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Correspondence regarding the exchange of published and unpublished materials, an information request on the German minority in Transylvania, and the annual renewal of Kiewe’s library membership. Furthermore, letters by Kiewe to The Evening Standard, the politician Quintin McGarel Hogg, and the editors of The Oxford Dictionary – all regarding the misuse of potentially antisemitic stereotypes – are included. Additionally, copies of some published material are contained.
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