IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 521
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Spiegel, Käthe (fl 1939): papers (microfilm)
Date(s): 1850s-1939
Level of description: collection
Extent: c250 frames
Name of creator(s): Spiegel | Käthe | fl 1939 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Dr. Käthe Spiegel was the daughter of the Professor of Public Law at the German University of Prague, and for many years senate member of the Parliament of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Ludwig Spiegel. She trained as a historian and librarian and worked as her father's secretary. She also worked for a number of other mostly student organisations in Prague. Letters of reference suggest that she probably emigrated to Great Britain in 1939.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This collection consists of two parts: Käthe Spiegel's personal and family papers, including obituaries of her father; and an essay entitled 'Studieen zum Werke des Agathokles', a cover title for a critique of Mein Kampf.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German
System of arrangement:
2 groups: Personal and family papers; her own writings
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Howard Falksohn
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007