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Guido Kisch papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6314

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

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.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also: Guido Kisch Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, New York: http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=229838

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

Contact:
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