(Former principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin. 1884-1966). Typed Letter Signed in German with a few words of Hebrew inserted in blue pen, on personal letterhead, to Dr. Marcus Cohn

WEINBERG, YECHIEL YA'AKOV.

(Montreux, Switzerland)

(1946?)

Written after the war, Weinberg bemoans the loss of his private library in Berlin. He writes poignantly, "meine besten Jahre in Deutschland dem deutschen Judentum gedient habe" ("my best years were spent in Germany serving German Jewry"). As some form of recompense, he asks his attorney-friend whether through the Joint Distribution Committee some of the Jewish books recovered from Nazi plunder might be acquired for him