Jehiel Weinberg letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this letter in 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of one letter, written by Rabbi Dr. Jehiel Weinberg, undated but circa 1946, to Dr. Marcus Cohen in Basel, Switzerland. In the letter, Rabbi Weinberg, the pre-war principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin, writes about the wartime loss of his private library and asks his friend whether the Joint Distribution Committee might be able to assist him in acquiring some Jewish books recovered from Nazi plunder.