Selmar Spier: Collection of personal documents.
Civil status certificates, documents regarding his general and professional education and carrer in pre-war Germany, in palestine and Israel, and in post-war Germany, and documents pertaining to property restitution and compensation claims.
Marlene Spier: Correspondece; letters to her husband Selmar, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962.
The correspondence between Marlene and Selmar is extraordinarily comprehensive as they usually wrote several times a week whenever they were separated, if only for a short time.
The letters give a vast overview of their private life and professional activities.
Selmar Spier: Correspondence; letters to his wife Marlene, plus some other private letters 1930 - 1962.
The correspondence between Marlene and Selmar is extraordinarily comprehensive as they usually wrote several times a week whenever they were separated, if only for a short time.
The letters give a vast overview of their private life and professional activities.
Selmar Spier: Correspondence, essays, and articles pertaining to the Leo Baeck Institute
Selmar Spier: Correspondence, essays, and articles pertaining to his work with the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German and Central European Jewry, founded in 1955, before and after its foundation, regarding the institute's policy, administrative tasks and the publishing of articles and the institute's year book.
File Number : 1213
Type of Material : Correspondence, Booklet(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)
Selmar Spier: Diaries 1911 - 1962
Selmar Spier, born March 08, 1893 in Frankfurt / Main, Germany, deceased November 11, 1962 in Ramot Hashavim, Israel.
He grew up in Frankfurt / Main, studied jurisprudence and became a lawyer. In 1936, he emigrated to Palestine together with his wife Ully (later known as Marlene), née Hartmann, born 1910 in Luckenwalde near Berlin, and settled as a farmer in Ramot Hashavim. Both acquired citizenship in 1939.
All his adult life he worked parallel as a journalist for various German, Israeli and Swiss newspapers and journals, and wrote a small book on Frankfurt before WW I,...