The book collection of Carl Neuberg.
A collection of books from the library of the biochemist Carl Neuberg (1877-1956). In 2013 the Central and Regional Library of Berlin (Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, ZLB) restituted 40 volumes (representing 39 titles) from Carl Neuberg's former library as part of their search for books looted and expropriated by Nazis (NS-Raubgutforschung) among their collections. The books were returned to the granddaughters of Carl Neuberg who decided to transfer them to the library of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
Materials dealing with the court case against the auction house Sotheby’s, which took place in 1984, after it became known that the company was auctioning books and manuscripts that formerly belonged to the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums.
The collection holds one printed book - Shakespeare’s dramatische Werke, vol. 7, Berlin (S. Reiner), 1852. – with an autograph “Ruth Bachenheimer”, as well as an ex-libris for the library of “Herm. Otto Bachenheimer." Also included is correspondence from ZLB, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, pertaining to the collection’s transfer to the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.