[Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus] VI

The file is the sixth and final part of a collection of invitations, press cuttings, lists and correspondence (handwritten, typed and printed) from the archive of Aby S. Warburg from Hamburg. It consists of protocols, attendance lists and reflections of meetings of the Association of Defense against Antisemitism and the Working Group for Inner Peace. Included are the statutes of the Association, the program of its assembly in Frankfurt/Main in May, 1927 and its printed summary as well as a newspaper article about the event. Further correspondence gives a deeper insight about the motivations and goals behind the creation of the working group for Inner Peace. Of interest is the letter by Max Warburg to Count von Bernstorff, 29th of January 1930 regretting not being able to attend the Palastine meeting in the hotel Atlantic, emphasizing the great agricultural advances in Palastine by Jewish settlers, language development (Hebrew) and political unrest (starting from the Western Wall, with talks in Geneva).Furthermore there is a correspondence to Dr. Brodnitz of the CV dt. Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens, Dr. Hermann Samson and Aby S. Warburg about positioning pro Zionism in the association (no) vs. individuals (yes) and Zionism as an argument for anti-Semites (should one therefore refrain from supporting it – response: cowardice). There is correspondence between Aby S. Warburg and Prof. Baumgarten, Kiel about expected unrest in Schleswig-Holstein esp. Kiel in October 1930 (Prof. Baumgarten complains about harassment by right wing students). Finally there is a protocol of the meeting from 27.3.1933 with the decision to abstain from further public activities, the dissolution of the association, and resignation of Georg Gothein.