b'202 BRESLAUER, LEO (JEHUDA) (Rabbi in Frth, Bavaria and Washington Heights, New York. 1894-1983). Signicant personal, communal and scholarly archive. Contained in ve book-boxes (unsorted).Large collection of correspondence, manuscripts and related papers; along with personal publications (including drafts), periodicals and other ephemeral printed matter. Contains numerous manuscript notebooks - many extensive - with sermons, memos, notes on scholarly matters, civil affairs, records of interactions with congregants and communal ofcials, etc. Includes (in German, English and Hebrew): *Religious and communal history of Frth, with much original documentation (1767-1960).*Detailed records of deaths of synagogue members in Frth and in New York.*Detailed records of marriages of synagogue members in Frth and in New York.*Unpublished, completed scholarly manuscripts on Halachah and history.*Many manuscripts with notes on rabbinic topics including Halachah, Talmud, Bible, Aggadah. Also with hundreds of index cards on these topics.*Doctoral dissertation comparing Jewish Kawwana (intention and concentration of thought) with the Islamic Nijja and Aristotles Prohairesis.*Holocaust-era papers: Including correspondence with congregants serving in the military during World War II; seeking to assist European Jews entry to the United States; German reparation matters.*Correspondence with Agudath Israel leadership (Jacob Rosenheim, Harry Goodman, Mike Tress).*Papers (manuscript and printed) seeking to respond to and combat political Zionism in both America and Israel. Also correspondence with Neturei Karta.*Many copies of Breslauers publications: Maurosho and Am HaTorah. Many other printed pamphlets, newspaper cutting and offprints.*Personal and life-cycle documentation including health, immigration and related papers.*Miscellaneous correspondence, notes for speeches, photographs.FURTHER LISTING AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.$6000 - $9000AN IMPORTANT ARCHIVE, CONTAINING A WIDE VARIETY OF PRIMARY DOCUMENTATION, CERTAINLY A SOURCE OF MUCH ORIGINAL STUDY MATERIAL. Born in Kempen-in-Posen (Prussia), Rabbi Dr. Leo (Yehudah) Breslauer studied in Frankfurts Torah Lehranstalt (Breuers Yeshiva), followed by the Rabbiner Seminar Berlin, where he was ordained by Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman. After serving as a military chaplain, Breslauer was Rabbi in Kiel where he also completed his doctorate. In 1923 he was appointed to lead Frths Alt-Neuschul where he remained until its dissolution by the Nazis. Breslauer subsequently found temporary refuge in Holland, and in 1941, arrived in America. Within a year he founded, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, Congregation Kehillas Yaakov, which primarily served his former congregants from Frth, along with other refugees stemming from adjacent towns in Bavaria such as Nremberg. Washington Heights, new home to some 20,000 German Jews, was where Breslauer sought to maintain and model to his ock, a traditional Orthodox life imbued with High German custom and orientation, amidst the free-spirited nature of American society. This archive provides much material as to how this particular German Orthodox rabbi, with all his varied interests (rabbinic, scholarly, communal and political), sought to make the challenging adjustment from a rened position of leadership in Germany, to the very different society of America with its new, contemporary challenges. In addition to Breslauers own unpublished rabbinic scholarship, this archive contains important historical source material pertaining to the two communities Breslauer led over many decades. Also preserved here are les relating to Breslauers involvement with various Jewish political parties and other groups, especially Agudath Israel. Much may be gleaned from here in regard to the development of a community of Jews, deeply entrenched in their German roots and traditions, subsequently violently removed to the very different culture of America. The transition would naturally bring about many a range of results: A most notable example was statesman Henry Kissinger and his family, who were members of Breslauers synagogue. Indeed Breslauer presided over young Henrys barmitzvah in Frth and subsequently conducted the marriage ceremony between 25 year-old Henry and his (rst) wife Anne Fleischer, in the Kissinger family apartment in Washington Heights. (See N. Ferguson, Kissinger Vol. I (2015) pp. 225-26). Amidst the abundance of materials concerning the development of Breslauers new community in America, we may witness the language of expression moving from German to Englishwhile all along, Breslauers personal scholarship continues in Hebrew. Breslauer was a man of both varied and deep scholarship. He was also a man who held opinions which often went against the popular tide. Most strikingly so, his outspoken voice in opposition to the secularism that permeated the Zionist movement and the nascent State of Israel. We nd in this archive details of Breslauers actions during war-time and especially post-war, where he became a most active voice against political Zionism.97'