Arno Nadel Archive

Nadel, Arno, 1878-1943 (Creator of the archive)
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Description

Arno Nadel (1878-1943) was a writer, musician, composer, teacher and painter. He was born in Vilnius in Lithuania. After training with cantor Eduard Birnbaum in Königsberg he moved to Berlin where he attended the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, and then worked as teacher and musician. He collected Jewish folk songs and synagogue music, and wrote music critiques and essays about music theory. In 1938 he was taken to Sachsenhausen for several weeks, and although he and his wife had the necessary paperwork for emigration to the United States, he was not able to leave. Instead, he was ordered to work in the library of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) in 1942, and with his wife deported to Auschwitz and murdered there in 1943. Part of his archive is kept in the Schreiber Jewish Music Library in Philadelphia.

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Reference Code
ARC. Ms. Var. 469 Arno Nadel Archive
Dates
1912-1951
Consists of
0.6 m.
Languages
German;
Description
The archive includes manuscripts, publications, and correspondence.;הארכיון כולל כתבי יד, פרסומים והתכתבויות.
Title
Arno Nadel Archive.
Additional Titles
כותרת בעברית: ארכיון ארנו נאדל.
Citation Note
ARC. Ms. Var. 469, Arno Nadel Archive, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Host Item
Arno Nadel Archive
Former Call Number
Ms. Var. 469
Level of Description
Fonds Record
Biographical summary
Arno Nadel was born in Vilna on October 5, 1878 as the son of a mechanic, and early on showed a musical talent. At seventeen he began studies at the Jewish Teacher's Institute in Berlin. In 1916, Nadel was appointed choir master and cantor of the synagogue am Kottbusser Ufer in Berlin, and shortly thereafter he became the musical supervisor of all Berlin synagogues. Besides being a musician he also show a gift for poetry, and until 1935 he published several volumes of poetry. He also translated works from Yiddish. Under the Nazis his books were burned and any further publication was forbidden. His poetry and his readings of it were most popular during the 1920s, since the poetry was influenced by Taoism. He collected and edited Jewish folk songs and synagogue music, in 1923 he was asked to compile an anthology of synagogue music for the Berlin Jewish community. He finished this work in 1938 and had intended to publish it in seven volumes. His artwork was shown at the first show of support group for Jewish artists in the arcade of the Berlin theater. He was initially arrested in 1938 and sent to Sachsenhausen for several weeks. He and his wife had assembled the paperwork for immigration to the United States and had it approved, but they were not able to leave because of the severe restrictions imposed by the Nazis. He was sent to forced labour in the library of the Reich security main office in 1942. On March 12 1943, he and his wife Anna (Anna Sara Guhrauer, born 13.8.1879, according to the transport list kept at the Arolsen Archives https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/127212837) were deported to Auschwitz and most likely murdered immediately. He had given his collection and archives to Käthe Kollwitz, much of it was destroyed in the war. Part of the remainder is being kept in Philadelphia, another part is the present collection at the National Library of Israel.
Language Note
The materials are in German.
Credits
Arno Nadel Archive, The National Library of Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
National Library system number
990026503900205171
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Nadel, Arno, 1878-1943 Music -- Germany -- Archives Germany
צילום: לא ידוע, [בערך 1929-1938]מתוך: אוסף אברהם שבדרון

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Credits

Arno Nadel Archive, The National Library of Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.

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