Fritz Jellinek archive

Fritz Jellinek archive.

כותרת בעברית: ארכיון פריץ ילינק.

Archive of Fritz Jellinek.

ARC. Ms. Var. 453 Fritz Jellinek archive, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

Fritz Jellinek archive

Ms. Var. 453

Fonds Record

Jellinek was born in Brno, Moravia in August 1892. He was director of the Jellinek & Seidl weaving plant in Brno and turned it into an international company. After he emigrated to London in 1938, he established a weaving mill in Huddersfield, which he managed until 1957. In Czechoslovakia he was also a well-known journalist and he wrote on literature, economics, and other public (including Jewish) affairs. He expanded these interests after he moved to England. Neither a Zionist nor a Jewish communal worker, he felt deeply about the Jewish community and individual and saw Palestine as a cultural center of World Jewry. He represented Czech Jewry on the Administrative Council of the Jewish Agency and attended the World Jewish Congress in 1936 and during the Second World War he was on the committee in England for the establishment of a Jewish Brigade. His older brother, Oskar Jellinek, was one of the leading novelists of the Prague Circle.

The archive was given to the National Library in 1970 by his widow, via the British Friends of the Hebrew University.

The material in the archive is in German and English.

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