Dorothy and Ralph LeVine papers (P-1011)
The collection documents the personal and professional lives of Dorothy and Ralph LeVine, owners of Airflow Mattress Company in Brooklyn, New York. The materials highlight their mattress and furniture business as well as their personal and social lives as residents of Brooklyn. The collection contains business records, legal documents, administrative records, financial records, trademarks, business cards, fliers, correspondence, stationary, blueprints, photographs, pedigree dog certificates, a diploma, a menu, a yahrzeit calendar, real estate records, an event program, and printing dies.
Gertrude Hammerschlag Berg Collection (AR 25862) [Digitized]
Gertrude Berg, née Hammerschlag, was born on April 10, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where her family lived in the Gersthof section of Vienna’s 18th District, Währing. Getrude graduated from Sachs Gymnasium in Vienna in 1938 with further study at the Lambert-Offer Acting School. After Anschluss in March 1938, the family obtained affidavits from relatives in New York, but only Gertrude left Vienna on November 1, 1939, arriving in New York on November 17 on the ship Saturnia. In 1961 she obtained a certificate from the New York School of Interior Design. Collection includes correspondence and some official documents pertaining to Gertrude Hammerschlag, her parents and others from her forced emigration from Vienna until after the war.
Ina Golub Papers (YUM 04)
The Papers of Ina Golub document the creative career of this New Jersey-based artist, who primarily made fiber-based works with Jewish themes. She created custom-designed fiber art, including tapestries, Jewish ceremonial objects, and textiles with secular content, for synagogues, museums, and private collectors. The papers include commission records (business records, sketches, correspondence), photographs, slides, and digital images of her works, and materials concerning her career retrospective at the Yeshiva University Museum in 1996 as well as other exhibitions of her work.
Norbert Troller Collection (AR 7268) [Digitized]
Born in Bruenn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czechoslovakia) in 1896, Norbert Troller served as a soldier in World War I, spending time as a prisoner-of-war in Italy. After the war he studied architecture in Brno and Vienna and worked as an architect in Brno until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, where he worked as an architect for the Jewish self-administration of the camp, and produced works of art as well. In 1944 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo, and was sent to Auschwitz later that year. After liberation, he lived briefly in Cracow, and then reopened his architectural business in Prague and Brno. He emigrated to the United States in 1948 and worked for the National Jewish Welfare Board in New York designing Jewish community centers, before opening his own practice.
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