Correspondence with Liebeschütz, Hans

Prof. Dr. Hans Liebeschütz (1893-1978) was a Jewish-German historian and medievalist. After being imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom 1938 the World War I veteran had emigrated to England. Since the mid-1940s he taught at Liverpool University. He became one of the co-founders of the Leo Baeck Institute in 1955.

See Liebeschuetz, W., ‘Liebeschütz, Hans’, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 14, Berlin, Duncker&Humboldt, 1985, pp. 489-90.

 

Correspondence with Liebeschütz, Hans 

56 letters 

The long-term correspondence covers various topics including: remarks on archival material in Hamburg (1952); the contriibution of Liebeschtütz to a Festschrift for Leo Baeck as well as problems with receiving a sufficient number of copies after its publication (1954); the writing of a review for the Library’s Bulletin (1956); the consignment of two eyewitness accounts of Alice Bloemendahl for the Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1957); giving advice on a third person’s dissertation (1958); and a public talk at The Wiener Library (1959). 

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