Inventory of the Max Koppelmann papers
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Title: Max Koppelmann papers
Date (inclusive): undated
Collection Number: 2012C23
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
(13.5 MB)
(6.0 digital_files)
Abstract: Memoirs and photographs, relating to the Jewish community in Russia, Germany and Palestine.
Creator:
Koppelmann, Max, 1882-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Max Koppelmann was a Russian Jewish émigré in Germany. He was born in the Russian Empire (Mogilev) in 1882 and lived in Moscow
and St. Petersburg prior to the turn of the century. In 1901 he became a student at the Warsaw Polytechnic. Between 1907 and
1914 he was involved in the family business: grain trade and breweries. In the course of the First World War, Koppelmann engaged
in the production of munitions. Koppelmann left Russia during the Civil War and settled in Berlin (by 1921), where he lived
until 1936, at which time he left Germany altogether.
Scope and Content of Collection
The memoirs concern Jewish life in Russia, the revolutionary movement in the early 1900s (especially student attitudes), and
the 1917 revolution. For the 1920s and 1930s, the memoirs detail the growing difficulties Jews experienced in Germany. A good
portion of the memoirs is devoted to the author's 1935 trip to Palestine, which he describes in great detail.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jews -- Germany
Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
Jews -- Russia
Memoirs undated
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"The Memoirs of Max Kopelmann" undated
Physical Description: 159.0 pages
Edited and translated from the German by Gabrielle Kopelman, with one section translated from the Russian by Julia Kosich.
Note on page one: "There are two extant manuscripts of the memoirs of Max Kopelmann--one in German, the other in Russian (Cyrillic).
Both manuscripts have been donated to the 42St. N.Y. Public Library's Slavonic Division. The German ms. has been translated
into English by Gabrielle Kopelman, and excerpts from this English translation have been published in
Revolutionary Russia. For the most part, with only minimal differences, the chronology and material of the Russian ms. run parallel to the German
one. The exception, (see The Years 1933-36, p.97-142) translated by Julia Kosich, deals with a period in M.K.'s life in the
Thirties, not found in the German ms." File name: the_complete_max_memoirs.doc
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Gabrielle Kopelman "My Cousin Alex" undated
Physical Description: 10.0 pages
Max Koppelmann's older son, Alexander Kopelmann, was tried and sentenced as a communist in Berlin in 1937, and at the end
of his sentence in 1942, was killed in Mauthausen. Note on page one: "The following is an account of the fate of Max Koppelmann's
oldest son, Alex, as far as I--Gabrielle Kopelman--know it either by my own recollections, by way of hearing about it from
my parents, or from the memoirs of Max Koppelman. MK's two original manuscripts of his memoirs, one in Russian, one in German,
are now in the Slavonic Department of the NY 42 Street Public Library. In 1962, Alex's family in Israel published a small
book of Alex's letters from prison, in the original German and in Hebrew. I have a copy, and so does the Leo Beck Institute."
Includes embedded photograph. File name: alex_recollections_etc.doc
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Photographs undated
Physical Description: 3.0 items
Digitized copies of sepia and black and white photographic prints of Kopelman family. In the image of S. Koppelmann and sons,
Max Koppelman is on the right. The image of the Koppelmann daughters should be labeled "Eugenia Koppelmann, her daughters
and daughter-in-law." The woman standing in back to the left is Zima, the wife of Max Koppelmann.