Bernhard Brilling, Lion Feuchtwanger, the Central Zionist Archives, Leo Baeck Institute ; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Abraham ; Mendelssohn, Joseph ; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix ; Moser, Moses ; Asia ; Africa ; Pacific basin;

This collection contains the extensive research of the historian Hanns Reissner. The most prominent subjects of the collection are the philosopher and jurist Eduard Gans and the Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden, although Reissner's research also addresses many other subjects within the field of both German and American Jewish history, e.g. the Mendelssohn family, the anti-Nazi boycott, and material on Jewish communities in the Caribbean. Included in the collection are extensive research notes and correspondence concerning his work, his unpublished manuscripts, clippings and offprints

Born in Berlin on November 29, 1902, the historian Hanns Reissner emigrated to India in 1939, the United States in 1948, and died in Philadelphia on August 6, 1977

"Rebellious Dilemma" - published in LBI Yearbook II

"Ein Leben" published as `Eduard Gans; Ein Leben im Vormaerz'; copy in Library

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