While most of the collection, addressed to psychoanalyst Rivkah Schärf Kluger, deals with psychiatry, some never-before-seen letters show Jung's fascination with Hebrew writings
Documents detailing births, deaths and marriages dating back to the 19th century are purchased by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
Letter is from passenger on US Navy ship that moored in Jaffa in 1834; when told he couldn't visit J'lem: 'Like Moses, we are only permitted to see Promised Land but not enter it'
Handwritten, signed document from 1950 was sent to his former assistant and scientific partner Ernst Gabor Strauss, discusses physicist's early work on unified field theory
Statements describe deaths of Jews in Holocaust collected by rabbis at end of WWII to prevent surviving spouses from becoming 'chained' and unable to remarry
Newspaper article on revolt, printed underground by Jewish resistance group and distributed in September 1943, describes 'determined' militia 'fighting to the last'
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