The Feuchtwanger Memorial Library is part of Special Collections. We are located on the second floor of Doheny Memorial Library on the USC Campus. The reference desk of Special Collections can be found in room DML 209.

HOURS

Monday - Friday: 9AM-5PM

Saturdays during the semester: 1PM-5PM

Please be advised to contact the curator of the collection you are planning to work with in advance to make sure we have your materials available.

Holocaust Studies

Warner Brothers Archives

Holocaust Documentary Films in Leavy Library

USC Shoah Visual Archive

LA Opera - The stigmatized

What happens when art collides with its society

Enemy Number One - A Tour and Performance

Enemy Number One - A Panel Discussion

The Devil in France

Exiled German-speaking intellectuals in Southern California

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Marta Feuchtwanger willed her house and her husband's fine library to the University of Southern California. The house was sold to a German consortium interested in preserving this historic monument as a study center, and the proceeds were committed to create a suite of rooms as a permanent memorial to Lion Feuchtwanger, to his late widow Marta (1891-1987), and to his literary legacy.

Today, the bookcases and cabinets in the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library which is located on the second floor of Doheny Library contain the most important books from the author’s collection, as well as Feuchtwanger’s own writings in various editions and translations.

Students working with primary sources in the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library
Photo: Jon Vidar

Another 20.000 books from Feuchtwanger’s library are still on long-term loan at his former house, Villa Aurora, which is now an artist residence and historic landmark.

Besides Lion Feuchtwanger’s collection of rare books, the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library also houses his personal materials such as correspondences, manuscripts and photographs as well as archives on other German-speaking exiles such as Marta Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Marcuse, Hanns Eisler, Felix Guggenheim and Heinrich Mann.

Researchers from around the world turn to the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library for their research on the German-speaking exiles in Southern California or other related subjects.  

The Feuchtwanger Memorial Library also offers research grants to those interested in working with the collections.