| Creator: | Davidson, Ed (Edward H.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ed Davdison screenplay "Primo" | | | | Dates: | 1998 | | | | Call No: | 2000.005 | | | | Abstract: | Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919 and was trained as a chemist. He was interned in Auschwitz in 1944, and, after liberation, was a writer on fiction and non-fiction works on the Holocaust. The collection consists of a screenplay by Ed Davidson entitled "Primo," written in 1998, as well as a letter from Davidson to Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, the Dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University about the screenplay from March 1999. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | Authors, Italian -- Fiction | Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Drama | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama | |
| Creator: | Alexandre, Emanuel | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emanuel Alexandre papers | | | | Dates: | 1943-1963 | | | | Call No: | 1986.033 | | | | Abstract: | Emanuel Alexandre was an attorney, art collector, and a close personal friend of former Yeshiva University president Dr. Samuel Belkin. Mr. Alexandre donated his entire collection of 3,000 books to Yeshiva University Library in 1977. The archival collection includes an invitation to the luncheon of the American Biblical Encyclopedia Society, a list of participants at a dinner for the Jewish Publication Society of America, and a meeting announcement of a landsmanshaft synagogue. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Friendly societies -- United States | Jews -- Charities | |
| Creator: | Post, Emil L., (Emil Leon), 1897-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emil L. Post mathematic notebooks | | | | Dates: | 1921-1953 | | | | Call No: | 1989.004 | | | | Abstract: | Emil L. Post was a prominent Jewish mathemetician. Born in Poland, his family emigrated to New York when he was a child. His work focused on proof theory and logic. The collection contains photoduplicates of mathematical treatises by Emil L. Post (1897-1954), including his work on closed truth systems, creative logic, the theory of finite processes, definability, and absolutely unsolvable problems. | | | | Size: | 4.5 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Logic, Symbolic and mathematical | |
| Creator: | Rosenthal, Erwin Isak Jakob, 1904- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Erwin Rosenthal correspondence and notes | | | | Dates: | undated, 1961-1968 | | | | Call No: | 1993.013 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains a letter from Erwin Rosenthal, a scholar of Jewish and Islamic thought, to Herbert Junker, a Catholic scholar and teacher of the Old Testament, on the occasion of Junker's 70th birthday. Included with the letter are some of Rosenthal's notes on religion and philosophy in Islam and a copy of the title page of a festschrift in honor of Junker's 70th birthday. | | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | | Subjects: | Jewish scholars -- Correspondence | Philosophy, Islamic | |
| Creator: | Margolis, Esther | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Esther Margolis incoming correspondence | | | | Dates: | 1943-1944 | | | | Call No: | 1994.001 | | | | Abstract: | Esther Margolis was active in Hashomer Hadati, a religious Zionist youth group related to the Bnei Akiva movement in Israel, and taught at a school in Washington, D.C. The collection contains the incoming correspondence of Esther Margolis between the years 1943-1944. The letters are personal, from family and friends, sent while she was teaching in Washington, D.C. Also included are general letters and updates from Hashomer Hadati. | | | | Size: | 3 folders | | | | Subjects: | Religious Zionism | |
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