Correspondence with Klee, Hans
Extent and Medium
51 letters
Creator(s)
- Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz
Biographical History
Hans Klee (1906-1959) was a Jewish-German-Swiss lawyer, politician and journalist. The lifelong Zionist had started his career as official in several Jewish organisations and as journalist of a Jewish magazine. Upon his emigration to Switzerland in 1934 he was committed to refugee aid. Later he was editor of the Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz. See Die deutschsprachige Presse: Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch, Vol. 1, ed. by Bruno Jahn, Munich, KG Saur, 2005, p. 546.
Scope and Content
The correspondence covers various issues including among others: the lending of books from the Library; arrangements for a trip of Alfred Wiener to Switzerland; the exchange of information and materials, including the persons of Kurt Sabatzky, Erich Wolfsfeld and George Mantello; and a report about a Lutheran conference on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany. Different views of Klee and Wiener on Jewish-German relations are illustrated throughout the correspondence.
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People
- Klee, Edith
- Sabatzky, Kurt
- Wolfsfeld, Erich
- Mantello, George
- Klee, Hans
Subjects
- Jewish press
- Refugees
- German-Jewish dialogue
Places
- Switzerland