This group, named the "Kahler-Kreis" by Charles Greenleaf Bell (1916–2010), had its physical center at the Kahlers' house, One Evelyn Place in Princeton, New Jersey.
Erich Kahler, a scholar, author, and lecturer, arrived in Princeton in 1939 as a financially destitute Jewish refugee from the Nazi regime.
One Evelyn Place welcomed Jewish intellectual refugees from Europe and was filled with visitors, boarders, and cultural conversation.
[1] The Kahler circle of friends also included Erwin Panofsky, Hetty Goldman, Ernst Kantorowicz, Kurt Gödel, and the painter Ben Shahn.
[7] The M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives at the State University of Albany, New York, has 13 cubic feet (0.37 m3) of items in its inventory of Erich (von) Kahler Papers, 1906–1968.