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Gisela Stein Collection 1938 - 1965

by: Stein, Gisela

Topics: Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962, Grillparzer, Franz 1791-1872, Böll, Heinrich 1917-1985, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish college teachers, Women college teachers, German literature

Collection: LeoBaeckInstitute; microfilm; americana; additional_collections

Contributor: Leo Baeck Institute Archives

Language: German

Volume: 01

Documents, correspondence and writings of Gisela Stein

Austrian Heritage Collection

Gisela Stein was born in Vienna, Austria on Jan. 27, 1924. She went to the Schwarzwald Realgymnasium in Vienna until 1938, when she and her mother suffered from Nazi persecution. Stein left Vienna in May 1939 and arrived in the United States in June 1939. She finished her high school education in Brooklyn, NY, winning a city-wide essay contest on National Unity in 1941. She acquired a Ph.D. degree in German literature from New York University and taught at Brooklyn College in New York. Gisela Stein died in 2005