Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger

Manuscripts by Feuchtwanger on various topics, including the Jewish Question and history and sociology of the Jews; clippings by and about Feuchtwanger; and photos

Curricula vitae, bibliographies, professional documents, and material relating to Feuchtwanger's search for employment in Great Britain, including letters of recommendation from Leo Baeck, Leo Baerwald, and Martin Buber

Manuscripts by other individuals, including Bertha Badt-Strauss, Chaim Bloch, Werner Cahnmann, Dora Edinger, Georg Hermann, Hans Kohn, and Nelly Sachs

Field letters from the Verein Mekor Chajim, an orthodox group affiliated with the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft of Frankfurt am Main, to Jewish soldiers during World War I; sermons from the Nazi period by various rabbis, including: Alexander Altmann, Joseph Carlebach, Max Eschelbacher, Moses Hoffmann, Jakob Horovitz, Alfred Jospe, Max Kapustin, Emil Levy, Siegmund Maybaum, Hermann Schreiber, Caesar Seligmann, and Hermann Vogelstein

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:

Altmann, Alexander; Badt-Strauss, Bertha; Baeck, Leo; Baer, Erwin; Baerwald, Leo; Baumgarten, Beate; Ben-Chorin, Shalom; Ben-Gavriel, M.Y.; Bialik, Chaim Nachman; Blau, Ernst; Bloch, Chaim; Bloch, Olga; Blumenfeld, Walter; Bornstein, Paul; Buber, Martin; Caesar, Egon; Cahnmann, Werner; Carlebach, Joseph; Cohen, Carl; Cohn, Willie; Doernberg, Erwin; Edinger, Dora; Eisenstaedter, Julius; Ernst, Rudolf; Eschelbacher, Max; Essrog, Chaim; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Flank, Joseph; Fraenkel, Fitz Meir; Friedlaender, Fritz; Fuerstenthal, Ernst; Gallinger, Arthur; Glaser, Siegfried; Gundersheimer, Hermann; Guttmann, Julius; Hepner, Isi; Hermann, Georg; Herz, Reinhold; Hirsch, Siegmund; Hirschfeld, Georg; Hoffmann, Moses; Homburger, Hanna; Horovitz, Jakob; Joachimsthal-Schwabe, Anna; Jospe, Alfred; Kapustin, Max; Katten, M.; Kisch, Guido; Kohn, Hans; Lamm, Hans; Lamm, Louis; Leisegang, Hans; Lemkowitz, Albert; Lemle, Heinrich; Leuner, Leo; Levi, Julius Walter; Levy, Emil; Lichtenstein, Erich; Loewe, Fritz; Loewe, Heinrich; Loewenthal, Ernst; Ludwig, Elly; Mainz, Annie; Martius, Adam; Marx, Hilde; Maybaum, Siegmund; Mayer, Karl; Mayer, Ludwig; Petuchowski, Ernst; Posen, Ida; Prinz, Joachim; Rabinowitz, Sally; Reichberger, Arthur; Rothschild, Lothar; Sachs, Nelly; Schach, Fabius; Schilcher, Johann; Schmitt, Rudolf; Schreiber, Hermann; Schuster, M.; Schwarz, Martin; Seligmann, Caesar; Siegel, Emes; Sinsheimer, Hermann; Steckelmacher, Ernst; Steil, Moses; Straus, Raphael; Sturmann, Manfred; Tramer, Hans; Untermeyer, Max; Vogelstein, Hermann; Warburg, Max; Wassermann, Rudolf; Wechselmann, Ernst; Weinberg, Josef; Weltmann, Lutz; Wertheimer, Martha; Wittelshofer, Fritz; Wittenberg, Erich

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Born in Munich on November 28, 1885, Ludwig Feuchtwanger was trained as a lawyer, but worked as an author, journalist, and publisher. He was editor of the publishing house Duncker & Humbolt and lecturer at the "Mittelstelle der juedischen Erwachsenenbildung." He emigrated to Great Britain in 1939, where he was briefly interned on the Isle of Man. He was a lecturer at the "Jewish Historical Society of England" and died in Winchester, Great Britain, on July 14, 1947

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