COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, manuscripts, professional papers and writings, reviews, publishing correspondence, syllabi, essays, dissertations, notes, meeting agendas, and other papers of Guido Kisch, relating to German legal history, humanist scholarship, Jewry law, publishing, and to his professional career as author and professor.
Dates
- [ca. 1934-1972].
Creator
- Kisch, Guido, 1889-1985. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Born Prague, the son of Alexander Kisch, the Chief Rabbi of that city; Author; humanist scholar; Professor of law, Jewish history and bibliography, and Jewry law at the University of Leipzig, the University of Halle, and the Jewish Institute of Religion (New York), later Hebrew-Union College; also Honorary Professor at the University of Basel; founder and editor of Historia Judaica.
Extent
2.4 cubic feet. (2.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, professional papers and writings, reviews, publishing correspondence, syllabi, essays, dissertations, notes, meeting agendas, and other papers.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, publications.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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