Rudolf Kayser Archive

Kayser, Rudolf, 1889-1964 (Creator of the archive)
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Rudolf Kayser (1889-1964) was a German literary historian. He was editor at the S. Fischer Publisher, and managing editor of the Neue Rundschau until 1933. He was married to Ilse (1897–1934), the stepdaughter of Albert Einstein, and he wrote a biography of his father-in-law under a pseudonym. In 1933 he emigrated to the Netherlands and in 1935 to New York, where he became professor of German and European literature at Brandeis University. In 1936, after Ilse's death, he married Eva Urgiss, daughter of German screenwriter and film critic Julius Urgiss.

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Reference Code
ARC. 4* 1820 Rudolf Kayser Archive
Dates
1914-1993
Consists of
5 m.
Languages
German; English;
Description
The archive includes correspondence, manuscripts and publications, as well as teaching materials and papers collected and created by his wife, Eva Kayser.;הארכיון כולל התכתבויות, כתבי יד ופרסומים, וכן חומרי הוראה ומאמרים שנאספו ונוצרו על ידי אשתו, אווה קייזר.
Title
Rudolf Kayser Archive.
Additional Titles
כותרת בעברית: ארכיון רודולף קיזר.
Archive of Rudolf Kayser.
Contributors
Citation Note
ARC. 4* 1820, Rudolf Kayser Archive, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Host Item
Rudolf Kayser Archive
Level of Description
Fonds Record
Copies
Copies/עותקים: Xerox copies (in an bound volume: Annotated guide to literary letters from the estate of Eva A. Kaiser) of the correspondence in Mappe 1-20.
Biographical summary
Rudolf Kayser (28 November 1889 in Parchim - 5 February 1964 in New York City) was a German author and literary journalist. Rudolf Kayser studied literature and received his doctorate with a thesis on Arnim and Brentano. As a young lecturer at the Berlin Lessing University he made his debut in 1918 with the essay The Intellectuals and the Spiritual. Erwin Piscator brought Kayser to the Volksbühne Berlin as dramaturgical advisor in the mid-1920s. In 1919 he joined the editorial staff of the S. Fischer publishing house and became editor in chief of the literary periodical Die Neue Rundschau in 1924. Kayser was suspended from these posts by the Nazis in 1933, settled in the U.S., and held the chair of German and European literatures at Brandeis University from 1951 to 1957. In 1930 Kayser wrote a biography of his father-in-law, Albert Einstein, under the pseudonym "Anton Reiser". His Jewish interests found expression in the essays and reviews that he contributed to Jewish periodicals, which included the Neue Juedische Monatshefte, Der Jude, and Historia Judaica, and in books such as Moses Tod. Legende (1921), Spinoza, Bildnis eines geistigen Helden (1932), and The Life and Time of Jehuda Halevi (1949). His biographical studies also include Stendhal, oder das Leben eines Egotisten (1928), and Kant (1934). In his biographies he was less interested in discovering new facts about his subjects than in revealing their mental outlook and their world views. He was especially influential in pre-Nazi Germany, discovering and encouraging literary talent not only through Verkuendigung (1921), his anthology of young lyricists, but also as editor of the Neue Rundschau, one of the most authoritative literary organs of the era. He lectured at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., in Germanic languages, and literature, as well as philosophy, from 1951 until his retirement in 1957.
Ownership history
The material was received from the Albert Einstein Archive, Jerusalem.
Language Note
The materials are in German and in English.
Credits
Rudolf Kayser 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
990027154220205171
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Kayser, Rudolf, 1889-1964 German literature -- Archives Germany United States
Photograph by unknown, after 1935.From: Rudolf Kayser Archive

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Credits

Rudolf Kayser 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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