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Singer, Charles (1876-1960): Correspondence relating to Jewish academics in Nazi Germany (microfilm)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 599c

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Singer, Charles (1876-1960): Correspondence relating to Jewish academics in Nazi Germany (microfilm)

Date(s): 1935-1936

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 165 frames

Name of creator(s): Singer | Charles Joseph | 1876-1960 | historian of medicine and science

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Charles Joseph Singer (MA, DM, D.Litt.,Hon D.Sc., FRCP), born 2 Nov 1876, London; studied University College London, and from 1896-1899 studied zoology at Oxford, graduating BA, BCh.; qualified from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School MRCS LRCP, 1903. He gained other degrees honours during his career: MA MD; FRCP; Honorary DSc. From 1904-1908 Singer held various posts in England and abroad, including Sussex County Hospital; Brighton; Government House, Singapore; Abyssinia (Medical Officer to exhibition); Malta and Salonica, where he trained during the First World War when he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Singer held various posts throughout his career: Registrar to the Cancer Hospital, London; Physician to the Dreadnought Hospital; Lecturer in the history of medicine at University College London, as well as work abroad including Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence documenting the concerns of the distinguished academic, Charles Singer and colleagues, in relation to the restrictions on academic freedom in Nazi Germany and in particular the discrimination against non-Aryan professors during the Heidelberg University Jubilee celebrations, 1935. Correspondents include: J.D. Bernal, P.J. Noel Baker, E.M. Forster, Leonard Woolf, C.M. MacInnes, J.R. Marrack, Bishop of Durham, F.M. Powicke, Sir Josiah Stamp, Leonard G. Montefiore, Alfred Wiener, Ephraim Little, Cyril Bailey, Aldous Huxley.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mostly English

System of arrangement:

The correspondence was not filmed in any particular order. Copy outgoing correspondence of Charles Singer is mixed in with the incoming letters.

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:

Singer family

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See also the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (www.library.wellcome.ac.uk/) Collection No. GB 0120 PP/CJS for further manuscript correspondence of Charles Singer, including material relating to Jewish refugees.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Freedom of thought | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Interethnic relations

Personal names
Baker | Philip John | Noel- | 1889-1982 | Baron Noel-Baker of the City of Derby | Labour politician and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize x Noel-Baker | Philip John x Baker of the City of Derby | Baron | Noel- x Noel-Baker of the City of Derby | Baron
Bernal | John Desmond | 1901-1971 | physicist
Forster | Edward Morgan | 1879-1970 | novelist and critic
Huxley | Aldous Leonard | 1894-1963 | author
Singer | Charles Joseph | 1876-1960 | historian of medicine and science
Stamp | Josiah Charles | 1880-1941 | 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands | statistician x Stamp of Shortlands | 1st Baron

Corporate names
University of Heidelberg x Heidelberg University

Places