Archive for Sexology

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The following sampler gives a first impression of the documents in our collection, which contains many more items than are shown here. The entire collection can be studied on location at our archive during regular opening hours.

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Theilhaber was a Berlin physician with a broad-based education and a multitude of interests, of which one was sexology. He was particularly concerned with questions of population, being an early advocate of liberalized birth control and a general reform of sex laws. As an ardent Zionist, he moved to Palestine, where he prospered and remained engaged in various social and humanitarian causes. Among other things, he founded a large health insurence company which survives to this day in Israel. He was also a good athlete, running in Marathon races well into his sixties. The photo to the right shows Theilhaber in the 1920's. For a list of Theilhaber´s writings, click here. For a tribute to Theilhaber by his son Adin Talbar, click here.

1. Theilhaber at sixty, participating in the Makkabi athletic games. [44K]	2. Title page of Theilhaber's book of 1911 on "The Decline and Fall of German Jews". [31K]	3. Theilhaber’s book on "Circumcision" (Berlin, 1927) [33K]

4. Theilhaber’s book on "Goethe - Eros and Sexus" (Berlin, 1929) [22K]	5. Letterhead of a German lobbying group for the reform of sex laws. Theilhaber's name appears together with those of Magnus Hirschfeld, the feminist Helene Stöcker, and Arthur Kronfeld, a psychiatrist, who worked at Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexology. [70K]	6. Office building of the Kupat Cholim Maccabea in Tel Aviv. The administrative wing is named in honor of Felix Theilhaber. [83K]

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