Published: 2024-07-05

The Case of Financial Aid from the National Culture Fund to Being in Exile Adolf Berger in the Correspondence between Oscar Halecki and Jan Hulewicz (1942-1944)

Renata Wiaderna-Kuśnierz
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.2.01

Abstract

This article discusses the question of financial aid to Adolf Berger from the National Culture Fund operating at the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education in Exile, which he applied for in the first years after arriving in the United States. Berger was a Polish diplomat, lawyer, specialist in Roman law, and a Byzantinologist. This article was based on correspondence between the director of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America in New York City, Oskar Halecki, and the then head of the National Culture Fund, Jan Hulewicz (1942-1944). In these letters, they discussed the issue of granting subsidies to Adolf Berger. The reason for examining these unknown facts from Berger’s life is the 140th anniversary of his birth and the 60th anniversary of his death, last year. The article was based on unpublished archival materials from the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America as well as the New York Public Library.

Keywords:

Adolf Berger, Roman law, National Culture Fund, emigration, scholarship, Oskar Halecki, Jan Hulewicz, Betty Drury, Rafał Taubenschlag, New School for Social Research, École Libre des Hautes Études, Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars

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Wiaderna-Kuśnierz, R. (2024). The Case of Financial Aid from the National Culture Fund to Being in Exile Adolf Berger in the Correspondence between Oscar Halecki and Jan Hulewicz (1942-1944). Zeszyty Prawnicze, 24(2), 5–21. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.2.01

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