AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the last Rabbi of Nuremberg RABBI KURT L. METZGER to FAITH BALDWIN'S daughter HERVEY after hearing of her mother's death.

Metzger, Rabbi Dr. Kurt L. (1909-1992). Incarcerated at Buchenwald for several months, he served as the last Rabbi of Nuremberg before immigrating to the U.S. as war broke out.

Published by New York, March 21, 1978., 1978

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- Over 350 words penned on both sides of his personal 10-7/8 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide stationery. Responding to a brief mailgram he received from Hervey on March 19th informing him of her mother Faith Baldwin's death. Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger writes a lengthy consoling letter. "Though it is always bitter and painful to loose [sic] a dear one and especially a mother such as yours, I do hope that after the initial experience of her passing away a feeling of gratitude will replace your emotions of sorrow. For the last two years must have been for your mother a horrible period of frustration since she was no longer able to live a life of independence." He describes how she has been relieved of her pain and frustration at "no longer being able to use her God-given gift of being productive in the literary field in which she has secured for herself the immortality of an extremely beloved and highly appreciated author." He hopes that although her mother has passed, they will stay in touch "and continue a relationship which I enjoyed with your mother so much over the years." Signed "Kurt". Folded for mailing with a short tear along the left edge and offsetting near the middle. Very good with the original mailgram from Hervey. A friend of Faith Baldwin, Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger (1909-1992) was born in Nuremberg and was the Rabbi of Landau from 1935 to 1938. He was arrested while attending the Jewish Theological Seminary and incarcerated at the Buchenwald concentration camp for months but eventually released to serve as the Rabbi of Nuremberg. Metzger immigrated to the United States in 1940, serving as Rabbi of Temple Beth El in Glen Falls, New York. The last Rabbi of Nuremberg, he returned to visit Germany several times after he was and was named the Honorary Rabbi of his former native town of Nuremberg in 1977. The American author of romance novels and other fiction, Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) often wrote of women juggling careers and family enabling working women of all ages to identify with her characters. As a youth, Baldwin lived for two years in Europe, living in Dresden with one of her mother's close friends while the First World War was raging. She learned German and went to cooking school before returning to the U.S. in 1916. She began working for the War Camp Community Service where she met her future husband.

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• Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the last Rabbi of Nuremberg RABBI KURT L. METZGER to FAITH BALDWIN'S daughter HERVEY after hearing of her mother's death.
• Publisher: New York, March 21, 1978.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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  • Literature