Correspondence with American Jewish Kartell-Convent (KC) Fraternity Inc.
Extent and Medium
27 letters
Biographical History
The (K.C.) was an umbrella organisation of Jewish-German student fraternities. Founded in 1896 it had to cease to function in 1933. After the Second World War refugees reconstituted K.C. chapters in some of their respective countries of settlement, including the United States. See Weltsch, R. (ed.), , vol. 3, 1958, pp. 122-39.
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding a meeting of K.C. members in Chicago, an article on the Jewish community in Bentschen (now Zbąszyń, Poland) Alfred Wiener contributed to a K.C. jubilee publication, and birthday notes for Frederick S. Aron, Bruno Weil, and the late Ludwig Holländer. Contained is an issue of the American Jewish K.C. Fraternity Bulletin including a brief article by Wiener on Bruno Weil.
Conditions Governing Access
open
People
- Weil, Bruno
- Holländer, Ludwig
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish KC Fraternity
- Kartell Convent
Subjects
- Student fraternities
- German-Jewish organisations
- Refugees
Places
- Zbaszyn
- United States
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