Hermann Marcus Selzer Collection 1909 - 2000
In: Leo Baeck Institute LBI Archives 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
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The collection consists of personal items, correspondence and manuscripts produced and acquired in the course of Hermann M. Selzer’s life. ; The personal items include birth certificates (translations and copies), passports, visas, school and university records of Kate and Hermann Selzer (Universities of Cologne and Berlin, Medical Academy of Duesseldorf); Awards of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) and the Salvation Army; various documents recording Hermann Selzer’s occupations, especially his membership and grades in masonry lodges, but also German insurance forms, documents on bank deposits, his wife’s cookbook. Also included documents and correspondence of Hermann Selzer with German authorities, concerning his efforts to regain the German citizenship. ; The bulk of the collection consists of typewritten manuscripts of essays (the most of them being nonfictional, but also fictional), containing reflections about Lahore/Pakistan where Hermann Selzer spent his professional life from 1937 to 1971, reflections on his life course, ranging from his childhood and young adult years in Europe trough his professional life in Pakistan to his settlement and retirement in Israel; on religion (mainly Jewry, but also Christianity and Indian religions), on freemasonry, on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Israeli society, on Swiss banks; on his family and friends in Israel, the U.S. and elsewhere. They include a detailed and coherent account on his life course, his parents and grandparents, photos of his own family members and friends. ; Correspondence contains both letters to and from family members, mainly in the U.S. (1941 — 1981), letters from patients at the Lahore surgery (1952-70), and letters to and from different authorities in Germany and Israel. ; Hermann Marcus Selzer was born in Stryj (then Poland; now Stryi, Ukraine), in 1909 as the second of four children of Moshe Selzer and Deborah (née Spiegel). His father, an orthodox Jew, struggled to support the growing family. In 1914, the family ...
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Hermann Marcus Selzer Collection 1909 - 2000
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Selzer, Hermann Marcus1909-2007 |
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Zeitschrift: | Leo Baeck Institute LBI Archives 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA |
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