Arthur Loewenstamm (1882-1965) was a British-German liberal rabbi from Berlin. He had been arrested during the November Pogrom 1938 and interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Upon his release he emigrated to England, serving later as research director of the Society for Jewish Study and assistant of its president Leo Baeck. See Walk, J., <a href"http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/1957">Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 244.
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Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence primarily concerns: the exchange of bibliographic, historical, and personal information; events hosted by Society for Jewish Study and a public talk given by Wiener; the contribution of a personal account about the November Pogrom in Berlin-Spandau for The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project (1955-56).
Correspondence with Löwenstamm, Arthur