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Max Kreutzberger Palestine collection

Call Number

AD.MC.009

Date

1917-1948, inclusive

Creator

Extent

3.75 Linear Feet in 9 document boxes.

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The Max Kreutzberger Palestine Collection contains official reports, debates, correspondence and opinion literature regarding the administration of Palestine, collected by Max Kreutzberger, a German Jewish historian and social worker.

Biographical / Historical

This collection was assembled by Max Kreutzberger, a prominent German Jewish historian and social worker. He was born in Germany in 1900, but spent much of the 1930s in Palestine before eventually moving to New York in 1955. Kreutzberger is perhaps best known for becoming the first director of the Leo Baeck Institute, a research library for German Jewish history in New York. During his lifetime, he amassed a collection of over 10,000 pages on Palestine. Kreutzberger died in 1978.

Source: Ritchey Oummia, Dianne, and Leo Baeck Institute Staff. "Guide to the Papers of Max Kreutzberger (1900-1978), 1848-1998 AR 7183 / MF 798." Leo Baeck Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2015

Arrangement:

The order was defined by the bookseller's collection guide, which categorizes the collection into 11 series based on origin. Series are often related to a single committee or organization, except in the case of the final 'miscellaneous' category. Within each series, the documents are arranged chronologically.

Source: Adapted from bookseller's collection guide: 'The Palestine Problem: An Important Collection of Documents on Zionism and the Administration of Palestine, 1920-1948', Walkabout Books.

Scope and Contents:

The Max Kreutzberger Palestine Collection contains offical and unofficial documents relating to Palestine in the period 1915-1948 (largely 1920-1948). It contains official materials, including transcripts of speeches, relating to the organizations responsible for deciding the future of Palestine, such as the UN Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP), the British Government and the Anglo-American Committe of Inquiry. The Kreutzberger Collection also includes records of the British administration of Palestine in the form of administrative reports and command papers ('white papers'). Unofficial documents include correspondence, newspaper editorials and extensive opinion literature on Palestine. Finally, the collection contains multiple publications from Zionist organisations of the time.

Source: Adapted from bookseller's collection guide: 'The Palestine Problem: An Important Collection of Documents on Zionism and the Administration of Palestine, 1920-1948', Walkabout Books.

Conditions Governing Access:

The collection is open to researchers. For more information contact nyuad-asc-group@nyu.edu.

Conditions Governing Use:

The collection is subject to all relevant copyright laws. For more information, contact nyuad-asc-group@nyu.edu.

Preferred Citation:

Published Citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date; Max Kreutzberger Collection; ADMC 009; box number; folder number; NYUAD Archives and Special Collections; New York University Abu Dhabi Libraries.

Provenance:

NYUAD Library acquired the collection in August 2015 from Walkabout Books, who acquired it from the estate of Daniel Crosswell, Max Kreutzberger's son and original inheritor of the collection.

Related Materials

A larger group of the papers of Max Kreutzberger is held by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. A finding aid for that collection, as well as a digitized copy of its contents, can be found on the website of the Institute, at: https://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=121525.

Collection processed by

Charlotte Gundry

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-21 18:17:28 +0400.
Language: English

Processing information

Processed by Charlotte Gundry, 2015.

Repository

NYU Abu Dhabi, Archives and Special Collections
NYU Abu Dhabi
New York University Abu Dhabi, C-2
P.O. 129188
Abu Dhabi
nyuad-asc-group@nyu.edu