Correspondence with Kisch, Guido

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/774
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110506
Dates
27 Oct 1952 - 28 Apr 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Prof. Dr. Guido Kisch (1889-1985) was a Jewish-German lawyer and scholar of legal history. Being dismissed from university he had emigrated to the US in 1935 and to Switzerland in the early 1960s. Kisch continued publishing, and held high position at the Jewish Claims Conference. See Walk, J., Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden 1918-1945, Munich et.al., K. G. Saur, 1988, p. 194.

Scope and Content

Beside a visit of the Library the correspondence deals with the purchase of published material. This refers mainly to the Historia Judaica, a learned journal on Jewish History edited by Kisch.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Kisch, Guido

Subjects

  • Refugees
  • Academic journal [s]
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