Documents Archive – Adin Talbar – Sports – Berlin- Jewish Brigade

Archive of documents and letters from the estate of Michael Adin Talbar (Theilhaber, 1921-2013). Talbar was born in Berlin and was an outstanding sportsman in "Bar Kochba". Made Aliya to Eretz Israel with his parents in 1935. After graduating from the London School of Economics, enlisted to the Trans Jordan Frontier Force, and in 1942 to the First Regiment of the Jewish Brigade as a Demolition Officer. Talbar initiated and organized an endless number of sports competitions and events and was granted tens of medals. Talbar served as a diplomat, as General Consul in Canada, General Director of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Economic Advisor in the Embassy of Israel in Washington, and some other diplomatic roles. The collection presented includes hundreds of letters and documents from his estate, in German, English and Hebrew. Amongst the documents: eleven diary-notebooks (some with illustrations and photos), one notebook is devoted to "Maccabi HaTza'ir" in Berlin, a group named "the Clowns" of which Talbar was a member in the 1930s; a binder with newspaper cuttings concerning sports competitions; hundreds of family letters and letters from friends, a binder with letters and certificates of his days as a diplomat and other items. Lot of hundreds of items, sizes and conditions vary.