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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies
Creator:
Ahouse, John
Identifier/Call Number: 6274
Physical Description:
1.56 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): c. 1990s-2003
Abstract: Collection consists of research files related to the lives of European Jewish Émigrés to Los Angeles compiled by USC librarian
John Ahouse. Materials include clippings, photographs, illustrations, and correspondence.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Container: 2
John Ahouse was a librarian and curator of USC's American Literature Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections.
Collection consists of research files related to the lives of European Jewish Émigrés to Los Angeles compiled by USC librarian
John Ahouse. Materials include clippings, photographs, illustrations, and correspondence. Pamphlets and other materials from
the L.A. European Jewish Émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s exhibit and the Skirball Cultural Center 2005 exhibit pamphlet are
also present. The German Exiles in Los Angeles Guided Tour Map of houses of notable émigrés including those of Bertolt Brecht,
Heinrich Mann, Salka and Berthold Viertel, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley and Emil Ludwig, Hanns Eisler, Vicki Baum, and Lion
and Marta Feuchtwanger.
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of John Ahouse via Claude Zachary, circa 2019.
[Box/folder no. or item name], John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies, Collection no. 6274, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiocassettes
Clippings
Correspondence
Exiled Jewish authors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Jewish artists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Jewish refugees -- California, Southern -- Archival resources
Jewish refugees -- Europe -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Pamphlets
Photographs
Photographs -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Ahouse, John -- Archives
Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960
Brecht, Bertolt
Eisler, Hanns
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Feuchtwanger, Marta
Huxley, Aldous
Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948
Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955