Adolph Oko collection of Spinoza materials, 1610-1958, bulk 1914-1958

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Series V: Clippings, 1901-1943



Box 7 Unnamed folder (Blue folder), 1930s and 40s

A variety of newspaper clippings in German and English related to Spinoza, from the 1930s and 40s


Box 7 Unnamed folder (Red), 1901-1930s

A variety of telegrams, newspaper clippings and personal notes related to Spinoza


Box 7 Unnamed folder (Brown) (labeled in German), 1920s and 30s

A variety of newspaper clippings in German


Box 7 Unnamed folder (light green), Late 1920s and 30s

Newspaper clippings in German



Box 8 "Masterpieces Catalogue", Nov-1932

Issue of newspaper "Gemendeblatt" with cover story about Spinoza


Box 8 "Masterpieces Catalogue", Nov-1929

Cut-out from The Jewish Layman, an article in a series called Silhouettes from Modern Jewish History: Spinoza—Excommunicated Saint, by Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon.


Box 8 "Masterpieces Catalogue", Jul-1929

Cut-out from International Jewish Press Beaureau about Spinoza


Box 8 "Masterpieces Catalogue", May-1929

Cut-out article from International Jewish Press Beaureau, article titled "Einstein and Spinoza v. Cardinal O'Connell" by S.S. Levy


Box 8 "Masterpieces Catalogue", May-1929

Cut-out book review on a book by a Mr. Sokolov on Spinoza


Box 8 Notebooks (Med.), Jan-1933

Letter about a week of Spinoza-related events in the Hague, from Felix Meiner.


Box 8 Notebooks (Med.), 1934

Unopened letter to Oko from Surrey, from the Spinoza Society


Box 8 Notebooks (Med.), March-1927

An issue of Abwehr-Blatter about anti-semitism


Box 8 Rest of box (not in folders)

Variety of French newspaper clippings, panphlets related to Oxford University Press, portraits of Spinoza



Box 9 Poland, 1927

A variety of newspaper clippings in Yiddish and English related to Spinoza


Box 9 Unnamed folder, 1943

Newspaper clippings in Yiddish


Box 9 Rest of box

Variety of Yiddish newspaper clippings



Box 10 "CG", 1907-1930s

Clippings in French and German mainly


Box 10 brown unlabled folder, 1930s

Including programs for conferences in the 30s about Spinoza and a declaration of the first ever "Spinoza community"


Box 10 "memorandum fur die Sitzung", 1930s

"Memorandum fur die Sitzung," with information in English and German about the Spinoza Society.


Box 10 "1932" and illegible German description, 1932


Box 10 "1932" and illegible German description, 1932


Box 10 "1932: Carl Gebhardt, Spinoza", 1932


Box 10 "1932: Spinoza - Feier in Padora", 1932


Box 10 "1932: Spinoza" and illegible German description, 1932


Box 10 "1932" and described as related to a Spinoza event in Amsterdam, 1932


Box 10 "1932" described as related to lectures in Potsdam, 1932


Box 10 "1932 - Spinoza en passant", 1932


Box 10 "1932 - Spinoza = Aussbildung de Biblioteque in Paris", 1932


Box 10 "1932" on Spinoza lectures in Holland, 1932


Box 10 "1932" on Spinoza evennt in Russland, 1932


Box 10 "1932 Spinoza = Feier und Vortage in England", 1932


Box 10 "1932 Spinoza = Feier und Vortage in USA", 1932


Box 10 "Fudentum und Spinoza", 1932


Box 10 "1932" related to Spinoza in the Dutch press, 1932


Box 10 "1932" related to Spinoza in the press, 1932


Box 10 "1932 - domus Spinoza", 1932

newspaper clippings about Spinoza's home


Box 10 "1932" about a Spinoza event in Berlin in 1932/33, 1932/1933


Box 10 "1932 - Rudolph Keyser, Spinoza", 1932



Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza" in Stockholm, 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza" in USA, 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza" pertaining to Professor Adolfo Rava, 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza" pertaining to Dr. J. Upslicki, 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza" in English, 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza Belgioche Presse", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinoza Frauzoriche Pressse", 1932


Box 11 "Septimana Spinozana", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinozana", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinozana", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinozana", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinozana", 1932


Box 11 "1932 - Septimana Spinozana", 1932



Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - Spinoza = Feiern mit Vortagen von Carl Gebhardt in Mannheim, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxemburg, Hamburg", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Kurt Engelbrecht", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Will Scheller", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Winfried Barnes", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Dr. Heinrich Taorchner", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Karl Quengel", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Berliner Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Berliner Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Deutsche Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Aufsatz von Josef Kliche", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Sandinavinche Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Presse der USA", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932" Belgian Press, 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932" German Press, 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Katholinhe Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Spinoza = Citate als Teol-artikel", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Destereichinche Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932 Schreizer Presse", 1932


Box 12 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932



Box 13 "1932 - 24 November 1932", 1932


Box 13 "1932 - Dutch Clippings", 1932


Box 13 "1932 - English clippings", 1932


Box 13 "English clippings", 1927-1932


Box 13 Article from The New Statesman (1927), 1927


Box 13 Card from North Short Congregation Israel (1927) when Rabbi gave sermon on Spinoza, 1927


Box 13 Bulletin from Rock Avenue Temple in Cincinatti, OH (1927), 1927


Box 13 Bulletin from Temple Emanu-El in San Fransisco (1927), 1927


Box 13 Synagogue Bulletin for Baltimore Hebrew Congregation (1927), 1927


Box 13 Bulletin for Temple Israel Chronicle in New York City (1927), 1927


Box 13 Articles from the International Jewish Press Bureau, 1927


Box 13 Article from American Hebrew Journal on ties between Rembrandt/Spinoza, 1927


Box 13 Sermon from Spanish Portugese Synagogue in New York, 1930


Box 13 Official Register of Harvard University: the Theological School, 1925


Box 13 Issue of the Periodical, published by Oxford University Press, 1925


Box 13 Order of Service from Liberal Jewish Synagogue, 1934


Box 13 Official Register of Harvard University: Semitic Languages and History, 1921


Box 13 Official Register of Harvard University: Division of Philosophy, 1922


Box 13 Bnai Brith Newspaper, 1913


Box 13 Articles about Spinoza in Yiddish


Box 13 Isssue of the New York Sun, 1926


Box 13 Issue of the Jewish Gaurdian, 1920


Box 13 Other miscellaneous clippings, 1920


Box 13 "Gebhardtiana", 1932


Box 13 flyers mailed to Gebhardt from Hebrew Union Library in Cincinnati, 1932


Box 13 letter to Oko about 30th anniversary of Spinoza Society at the Hague, 1932


Box 13 miscellaneous flyers and minutes from the Spinoza Society, 1932


Box 13 multiple copies of manuscript: Annus Spinozanus by Eine Denkshrift, 1932


Box 13 German clippings, 1932


Box 13 clippings in various languages, 1932


Box 13 English clippings, 1932


Box 13 Journal of Ethics, January 1929, 1929


Box 13 Constructive program for Feburary 1927, 1927


Box 13 Jewish Daily Bulletin from Nov 22 1932, 1932


Box 13 NY Sun clipping, 1927


Box 13 The Times clipping Sept 7 1932, 1932


Box 13 Cincinatti Post clipping Nov 4 1932, 1932


Box 13 Menorah Journal clipping, 1932


Box 13 Other miscellaneous clippings, 1930


Box 13 "Gebhardtiana (A.S.O.)", 1932


Box 13 German clippings, 1932


Box 13 Dutch clippings, 1932


Box 13 German clippings, 1932


Box 13 Hebrew and Yiddish clippings, 1932



Box 14 Spinoza clippings in various languages


Box 14 New York Times book review from October 30 1938, 1938


Box 14 "Samuel Alexander, 1 piece"


Box 14 "Ernst Altkirch, 1 piece", 1914


Box 14 "American Philosophy, 1 piece"


Box 14 "Helene Askenasy"


Box 14 "Ernst von Aster", 1913


Box 14 "David Baumgart, 2 pieces", 1932


Box 14 Book Jackets, 1915


Box 14 Charlie Dunbar Broad, 2 pieces


Box 14 Joachim de Carvalho, 1931


Box 14 Gustave Cohen, 1931


Box 14 Leo Chestov, 2 pieces


Box 14 Adolf Chajes, 1 piece, 1869


Box 14 Hermann Cohen, 4 pieces


Box 14 H. Cunynghame, 1 piece, 1924


Box 14 Benjamin DeCasseres, 3 pieces, 1925


Box 14 Victor Delbos, 1920


Box 14 Wilhelm Dillthey, 2 pieces, 1925


Box 14 Robert A. Duff, 1904


Box 14 Stanislaus Dunin-Borkowski, 1932


Box 14 Will Durant, 7 pieces, 1926


Box 14 Berthold Edelstein, 1926


Box 14 Havelock Ellis, 1928


Box 14 French philosophy since 1867


Box 14 Jacob Freudenthal, 1900


Box 14 Jakob Freudenthal, 4 pieces


Box 14 Carl Gebhardt, 1938


Box 14 Giovanni Gentile, 2 pieces, 1938


Box 14 Siegfried Graymisch, 1 piece, 1902


Box 14 J. Alexander Gunn, 3 pieces, 1926


Box 14 Karl Gutzkow, 2 pieces, 1926


Box 14 Wilhelm Heims to Carl Gebhardt, 1926


Box 14 Bernard Heller, 1927


Box 14 Johann Gottfried Herder, 1941


Box 14 Siegfried Hessing, 2 pieces


Box 14 Leo Hirsch, 1 piece, 1937


Box 14 Harald Hoffding, 4 pieces, 1926


Box 14 Das Inschelschiff (reference to Spinoza on p. 164), 1920


Box 14 Rufus M. Jones


Box 14 Walter Jungst, 1914


Box 14 Jakob Klatzkin, 2 pieces


Box 14 E.G. Kolbenhayer, 4 pieces, 1933


Box 14 Gotthold Lessing, 1 piece, 1931


Box 14 Wyndham Lewis, 1 piece, 1934


Box 14 Letters from Library of Congress to Oko, 1940



Box 15 Clippings



Box 16 Richard P. McKeon, 5 pieces, 1929


Box 16 Fritz Mauther, 1911


Box 16 S.M. Melamed, 1916


Box 16 Non-Spinoza


Box 16 Miscellaneous Publishers' Items, 12 pieces, 1925


Box 16 Old Testament, 1 piece


Box 16 Pan-European Union, 1930


Box 16 Karl Pearson, 1 piece, 1936


Box 16 Otto Pfleiderer, 4 pieces, 1908


Box 16 Gustav Phillipson, 1 piece


Box 16 Frederick Pollock, 4 pieces, 1937


Box 16 Edward B. Powley, 1 piece, 1927


Box 16 Samuel Rappaport, 1 piece


Box 16 Leon Rich, 1929


Box 16 Gustav Theodor Richter, 4 pieces, 1914


Box 16 Alois Riehl, 1 piece, 1925


Box 16 A.A. Robach, 1930


Box 16 Lewis Robinson, 3 pieces, 1928


Box 16 Hans Rosenkrans, 1 piece, 1927


Box 16 Cecil Roth


Box 16 Saint-Evremond


Box 16 Schlerath, Franz


Box 16 Schreiner, Olive


Box 16 Septimana Spinozana


Box 16 Smith, T. V.


Box 16 Sokolov, Nahum


Box 16 Sorley, W. R.


Box 16 Strong, Dr. C. A.


Box 16 Tak, Willem Gerard van der


Box 16 Tharaud, Jerome and Jean


Box 16 Van Loon, Hendrick Willem


Box 16 Vloemans, Antoon


Box 16 Volkelt, Johannes


Box 16 Waton, Harry


Box 16 Waxman, Meyer


Box 16 Whittaker, Thomas


Box 16 Windelband, Wilhelm


Box 16 Wolf, A.


Box 16 Wolfson, Harry Austryn


Box 16 Miscellaneous, 11 folders