Metadata: Papers of Józef and Ernestyna Sandel
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 22 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 312/S/352
- Title:
- Papers of Józef and Ernestyna Sandel
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna Józefa i Ernestyny Sandlów.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sandel, Józef; Sandel, Ernestyna
- Date(s):
- 1894/1984
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- Extent:
- 9 boxes of documents
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises the private archives of Józef and Ernestyna Sandel. It has not yet been processed. It contains the following:
- index cards, notes and registers for preparation of the lexicon of Jewish artists being written by the Sandels; the most richly documented artists were Jankiel Adler, Józef Gabowicz, Samuel Hirszenberg, Maksymilian Fuerring, Henryk Glicenstein, Cyprian Godebski, Leon Lewkowicz, Halina Freund-Prot, Henryk Lewensztadt, Maks Lieberman, Henryk Hochman, Roman Kramsztyk, Artur Markowicz Henryk Berlewi, Helena Berlewi, Tomasz Gleb, Ber Kratka, Rafał Mandelzweig, Aleksander Sochaczewski;
- notes on synagogues, cemeteries and other objects of Jewish art: the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, the Old Synagogue in Kraków, Pińczów, Sandomierz, Zabłudów, Nowy Sącz, Oświęcim; the cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw;
- notes on Jewish holidays;
- notes about the Nazi camps;
- material for an article by Ernestyna Podhorizer-Sandel O zagładzie Żydów w dystrykcie krakowskim, (On destruction of the Jews in the Kraków district) published in the Jewish Historical Institute Bulletin 1959 No. 2 (30), pp. 87-109;
- typescripts and manuscripts of books and articles;
- private correspondence, with Jewish artists and their relatives about their fate and professional achievements (e.g., with the son of the architect Henryk Blum, with Andrzej Kramsztyk; with the artist, co-organiser and long-time head of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Stanisław Dawski), art historians, such as Hersz Fenster;
- copies of private correspondence written by Erna Sandel to relatives (Olga, Eliasz);
- correspondence on publication matters with reviewers, translators, publishers;
- Ernestyna Sandel's correspondence with the national insurance company (ZUS);
- Ernestyna Sandel's diary, written during her stay in Israel in 1964;
- sketches for a portrait of Józef Sandel (on paper napkins);
- posthumous biography of Józef Sandel by his wife;
- bibliography of works by Józef Sandel;
- press clippings;
- thematic folders with materials about Jewish artists;
- list of books in a private library;
- other notes.
- Archival history:
-
According to the donation deed of 28 July 1981, Ernestyna Podhorizer-Sandel donated collectibles and books to the Jewish Historical Institute. These items found their way to the Jewish Historical Institute archive after her death on 6 June 1984, together with lists of items, and although there is no mention of archival documents, they were probably deposited at that time.
Part of the material legacy of the Sandel family (a portrait of Sandel by Max Busyn, 7 paintings by Samuel Hirszenberg) and glass plates with photos of the paintings are in the Art Department of the Jewish Historical Institute. There are also typescripts of Józef Sandel's works.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Józef Sandel (born 1894 in Kołomyja, died 1962 in Warsaw) was an art historian and critic. During World War I he served in the Austrian army, and after the war he was a member of the Council of Workers' Delegates in Kołomyja. In 1920, he traded in textiles in Germany while studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden. He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany and co-founder of the left-wing magazine "Der Mob”. He was expelled from Germany in 1925 and lived in France and Austria until 1928, when he returned to Germany and ran a gallery in Dresden. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in Yugoslavia, then in Vilna and from 1936 in Warsaw, where he organised exhibitions, published, and collaborated with the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (ŻTKSP) and the Association of Jewish Artists and Designers. He survived the war in Lwów and then in Turkmenistan. After returning to Poland in 1946, he reactivated the ŻTKSP, and after its dissolution he served as the director of the Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute from 1950 to 1953. He published, among others: Yidishe motivn in der Poylishn kunst (Jewish motifs in Polish art, 1954), Umgekumene Yidishe kinstler in Poyln (Jewish artists who died in Poland, vol. 1-2 , 1957-1958), Plastishe kunst bay Yidn in Poyln (The Art of Jews in Poland), 1964.
Ernestyna Sandel (born on 1 April 1903 in Dębica, died 1984 in Warsaw), née Podhorizer, was the long-time custodian of the Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute and a respected museologist. After the war, she worked at the ŻTKSP, where, together with Józef Sandel, she collected works of art that had survived the war and material about Jewish art in Poland, or Jewish artists, their lives and works, especially during the war. When, in 1950, the art collections of the ŻTKSP were transferred to the Jewish Historical Institute, she started working in the museum department of the Institute. She published numerous articles on Jewish art in Poland. She collaborated with the editorial office of the Polski Słownik Bibliograficzny (Polish Biographical Lexicon) and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, being the author of many biographical entries on Jewish artists and a consultant for publications on arts and crafts.
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Cemeteries
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- Index cards with biographical notes for a lexicon are arranged more or less in alphabetical order. The rest of the material has not been put in any order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The original documents can be accessed in the reading room of the Jewish Historical Institute by appointment.
- Finding aids:
- There are no finding aids.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; November 2019
