Guide to the James Simon Collection, 1931-1945
AR 5930
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=481215

• Processed by Julie Dawson
• Leo Baeck Institute
• Center for Jewish History
• 15 West 16^th Street
• New York, N.Y. 10011
• Phone: (212) 744-6400
• Fax: (212) 988-1305
• Email:lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
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© 2011 Leo Back Institute, New York. All rights reserved.
Center for Jewish History, Publisher.
Finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Julie Dawson on 2011-11-10. Finding aid written in English.
April 16, 2012 Links to digital objects added in Container List.

Biographical Note

James Simon was born in 1880 in Berlin. He studied music in Berlin and Munich and is regarded as a "lost" late romantic composer. In 1933 he emigrated via Switzerland to Amsterdam, where he stayed until his deportation in 1941 to Theresienstadt. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.

Scope and Content Note

The collection is primarily made up of the unpublished musical compositions of James Simon. There is one folder of biographical information.

The compositions were apparently sent to Toni Appelbaum / Apel, who emigrated from Berlin to the United States with her husband and daughter in 1937. Virtually all the compositions are affectionately and intimately inscribed to Toni. Folder one contains several postcards from Simon to Toni, Simon's obituary, several photographs, and a program advertising his work.

Access and Use

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Access Points

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

• Individuals:

  • Appelbaum, Toni
  • Lasker-Schüler, Else, 1869-1945 -- Musical settings
  • Morgenstern, Christian, 1871-1914 -- Musical settings
  • Simon, James 1880-1944

• Subjects:

  • German poetry -- Musical settings
  • Jewish composers

• Document Types:

  • Photographs
  • Sheet music

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); James Simon Collection.; AR 5930; box number; folder number; Leo Baeck Institute.

Other Finding Aid

Original inventory of songs is in folder 1.