Jacob Mestel 1914-1958

Correspondence with individuals: Jacob Ben-Ami, Ossip Dymow, Ovsei Liubomirskii, Kalman Marmor, Nachman Meisel, Melech Ravitch, Dov Sadan, Michael Weichert and Zalman Zylbercweig. Correspondence with organizations: Hebrew Actors' Union, IKUF, YIVO. Manuscripts of plays collected by Mestel as director, including adaptations by Mestel. Mestel's writings: manuscripts of poems, plays, essays, articles, notes, translations. Theater production materials: scripts with Mestel's direction notes, prop and set design notes. Miscellaneous theater materials, including course notes, theater programs. Clippings: Mestel's writings, biographical articles, reviews of performances. Family correspondence and personal papers including papers of Sara Kindman-Mestel. Photographs relating to Yiddish theater in New York, 1930s-1950s.

Naomi Block Manners Stern collection of Eleanor Roosevelt correspondence undated, 1941-1962, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1984, 2003

This collection is mainly composed of correspondence between Ms. Stern and Mrs. Roosevelt, spanning the years from their first acquaintance in 1941 to Mrs. Roosevelt's decease in 1962. Letters that hold particular interest concern Ms. Stern's experience at the Summer Student Leadership Institute, and the White House. Additional material in the collection encompasses articles, newsclippings, programs, press releases, and photographs. The articles and newsclippings folder contains information pertaining to Ms. Stern's college career, the first Summer Student Leadership Institute, Mrs. Roosevelt's talk at Community Day, National Youth Association, and a donation of an ambulance to the war effort by Hunter college students. Naomi Block Manners Stern personal folder contains an article Naomi Block wrote in her college magazine, "Echo," describing her perceptions of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill during her first visit at the White House. Also included is her graduation program, listing Mrs. Roosevelt as the main speaker, a commemoration of President Roosevelt in 1972 in which Ms. Stern took part, an article and press release describing Ms. Stern's career at Revlon, and a 2003 written summary of Ms. Stern's relationship with Mrs. Roosevelt. Photographs were taken by Naomi Block and others at the Summer Leadership Institute in 1941 portray identified fellow students, Mrs. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, the Roosevelt home in Campobello, and Felix Frankfurter.

Louis Kraft papers undated, 1914-1975.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, official documents and other similar materials pertaining to Kraft's long career in Jewish Social Service at the JWB, the JDC and related organizations.

Upper Valley Jewish Community Hanover, New Hampshire collection, undated, 1984-1996

The Upper Valley Jewish Community (UVJC) is an egalitarian congregation on the campus of Dartmouth College. The congregation hosts a Hebrew School and publishes the newsletter, "The Jewish Connection." This collection consists of several issues of the publication, "The Jewish Connection," as well as other miscellaneous invitations and programs for a variety of events.

My [Schoemann] family history 1811-1984

A 21 page typescript accompanied by copies of vital records and a family tree.

Schmidl-Speyer Family Collection 1914-1935, 1988-1993

Autographs: Postcards and picture postcards (all photocopies) written by luminaries such as Richard Beer- Hofmann, Otto Brahm, Josef Floch to Paula Schmidl-Speyer, Anton Hanak, Theodor Herzl, Wilhelm Mueller-Hofmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Jakob Wassermann, and David Wolfson.

Hautamuistomerkki elämän ja kuoleman tulkitsijana : Heikki Häiväojan, Kain Tapperin ja Matti Peltokankaan tekemät hautamuistomerkit 1952-2002

Grave sculpture as interpreter of life and death. Grave sculptures done by Heikki Häiväoja, Kain Tapper and Matti Peltokangas 1952-2002. The thoughts of Philippe Ariès and Erwin Panofsky on western funeral art constitute the starting point of this study. These scholars speak about the 20th century as a period of decline regarding western funeral art. The reason for this situation lies, according to them, in the fact that death has been rejected and become a private affair in modern society. Especially Panofsky sees an important reason for the decay of funeral art also in the separation of death from religion. In this study, I approach the view of Ariès and Panofsky from the angle of Finnish funeral art. The subject of the study is grave sculptures of three Finnish sculptors: Heikki Häiväoja, Kain Tapper and Matti Peltokangas, from 1952 to 2002. (The analysis of the grave sculptures has been performed with the Iconology of Erwin Panofsky. The analysis has been deepened by the ideas of a graveyard as a semiotic text according to Werner Enninger and Christa Schwens. In order to confirm their argumentation, they analyse the graveyard text with the model of communicative functions of Roman Jakobson and verify that the graveyard is a cultural text according to Juri Lotman.) Results of the study In the grave sculptures of the sculptors, different worldviews appear alongside Christian thoughts indicating a new stage in the tradition of funeral art. In the grave sculptures characterised as Christian, the view of life after death is included. In these memorials the direction of life is prospective, pointing to the life beyond. Death is a border, beyond which one is unable to see. Nevertheless the border is open or marked by the cross. On this open border, death is absence of pain, glory and new unity. In memorials with different worldviews, the life beyond is a possibility which is not excluded. Memorials interpret life retrospectively; life is a precious memory which wakens grief and longing. Many memorials have metaphysical and mystic features. In spite of democratization the order and valuation of social classes appear in some memorials. The old order also materializes in the war memorials relating the same destiny of the deceased. Different burial places, nevertheless, do not indicate social inequality but are rather signs of diversity. The sculptors' abstract means of modern funeral art deepen the handling of the subject matter of death and reveal the mystery of it. Grave sculptures are a part of Finnish and sacral modern art, and there is an interaction between funeral art and modern art. Modern art acquires a new dimension, when grave sculptures become a part of its field. Grave sculptures offer an alternative to anonymous burying. The memorial is a sign of the end of life; it gives death significance and publicity and creates a relation to the past of the society. In this way, grave sculptures are a part of the chain of memory of the western funeral art, which extends throughout Antiquity until ancient Egypt. (In this study I have spoken of funeral art as a chain of memory using the thoughts of Danièle Hervieu-Léger.) There are no signs of decay in the grave sculptures, on the contrary the tradition of funeral art continues in them as a search for the meaning of life and death and as an intuitive interpretation of death. As such, grave sculptures are part of the Finnish discussion of death.

Heilbronn City Visits Collection 1984-1987

Brochures with speeches, clippings, photos documenting the "Woche der Begegnung", visits of former Jewish residents of Heilbronn, 1984-1987.

Kriegs-Tagebuch 1914-1917

World War I diary of the physician Nathan Wolf

Erika Blumgrund Collection 1984-1986

Letter to Aufbau with a series of poems entitled: "Ich moechte wieder beten lernen" (1984); another collection of poetry entitled: Seele im Spiegel (Mirror of the Soul)

Sapientia, 1984, Vol. XXXIX, nº 153 (número completo)

Contenido: Aspectos fundamentales del conocimiento humano. III. Valor trascendente del conocimiento / Octavio N. Derisi -- Del ente participado al Ser imparticipado / Octavio N. Derisi -- Las tesis de C. Fabro / Julio Raúl Méndez -- Exigencias filosóficas para determinar "lo psicológico" en el proceso de aprendizaje / William R. Darós -- Lo inteligible / Alejandro De Paoli -- Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Sapientia, 1984, Vol. XXXIX, nº 152 (número completo)

Contenido: Aspectos fundamentales del conocimiento humano. II. El conocimiento intelectivo / Octavio N. Derisi -- El ser y los entes / Octavio N. Derisi -- Poder y persona en la sociedad humana / Pedro E. Baquero Lazcano -- Refutaciones actuales de la "falacia naturalista" / Carlos I. Massini -- La sabiduría en Santo Tomás : ascensión a la intimidad con Dios por la participación de la verdad y el amor / Ciro Schmidt Andrade -- Consideraciones en torno al tema de los valores / Mieczyslaw Gogacz -- Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Letras, 1984, nº 10 (número completo)

Contenido: Los modos de producción y “reproducción” del texto literario y la noción de apertura / Diego Catalán – La poesía de Santiago Sylvester: entre la protección y el desamparo / Alicia Chibán – Cultura y espiritualidad: San Juan de Dios / María Rosa Saurín de la Iglesia – Sobre algunos problemas en el estudio del romancero español / Daniel Devoto – La música en Hermann Hesse y Thomas Mann / Dolores de Durañona y Vedia – En busca de Orélie Antoine Primero / Luis Martínez Cuitiño – Aproximaciones a Benito Lynch y su obra / María Luisa Montero – El suicidio de Melibea: ¿Voluntad personal o influencia mágica? / Iván Marco Pelicaric – Notas sobre la titulación de capítulos en Galdós / Beatriz Entenza de Solare – Reseñas bibliográficas

Teología, 1984, Tomo XXI nº 044 (número completo)

La verdad del alma. Una lectura de la cuestión 10 “De Veritate” / Héctor Aguer -- Naturaleza teológica de los Nuevos Ministerios / Osvaldo D. Santagada -- Teoría de la evolución: actualización bibliográfica / Miguel de Asúa – Cecilia Demargasso Nuevos aportes bibliográficos I. Teología cristiana del judaísmo (Jorge Mejía) II. Ontología y libertad. A propósito de un libro de E. Briancesco sobre San Anselmo (José Pablo Martín) -- Crónica de la Facutad -- Notas bibliográficas -- Libros recibidos – Índice del volumen XXI