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Samuel Melnick Family Papers, 1921-1976 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

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Belsky Family Immigration Records, 1914-1927 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

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B. Z. Goldberg papers, 1873-1989 (inclusive) 1917-1976 (bulk)

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110 linear feet

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Benjamin Waife (1895–1972) was a Belarusian-born Jewish-American journalist. He is primarily known by his pen name Ben Zion Goldberg. He worked with a variety of newspapers, including Der tog (The Day); Eynikayt (Unity); Jewish Digest; and American Jewish Almanac. His best known books include The Sacred Fire : The Story of Sex in Religion and The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union : Analysis and Solution. This collection largely documents Goldberg's professional career, through correspondence, writings, publicity, and his own research. There is some personal and family material; and material relating to his father-in-law, Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem, particularly via My Father,the biography Marie Waife-Goldberg (daughter of Aleichem and wife of Golberg) wrote about her father.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Joseph A. Levine papers, 1918-2021 (inclusive) 1980-2010 (bulk)

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30 linear feet (33 boxes) and 24.9 gigabyte(s)

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Joseph A. Levine was a cantor for over 35 years for at least eight synagogues across the United States, ultimately settling in Philadelphia. The Joseph A. Levine papers consists of sheet music from over 500 composers, extensive research files for over 200 subjects, over a hundred CDs and cassette tapes, issues of the Journal of Synagogue Music, and Levine's writings and personal materials, all dating from 1918 to 2021.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Papers of Walter Slavin, 1936-2003 (inclusive) 1977-2000 (bulk)

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6.5 linear feet (50 boxes)

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Correspondence files, working papers, presentation/instructional materials, reports, and publications of American engineer, scientific instrument designer, and science journal editor Walter Slavin. The materials in this collection document Slavin's career at Perkin-Elmer Corporation and his editorship of the science journal Spectrochimica Acta, Part B.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Osip Mandelʹshtam Papers, 1900s-1970s (inclusive) 1914-1937 (bulk)

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6 boxes and 2.4 linear feet

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Osip Mandelʹshtam was a Russian poet, novelist, essayist and critic. A member of the Guild of Poets, a radical faction of the acmeist movement in poetry, he criticized the literary conformity demanded by Russia's new communist government. The collection consists of Russian-language works, correspondence, and printed matter of Mandelʹshtam. It contains holograph and typed manuscripts of his poems, reviews, articles, and essays, often in draft form representing different stages of his work, many of which are in the hand of his wife, Nadezhda, who acted as his amanuensis.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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William Jovanovich Papers, 1950-1996 (bulk) 1815-2006 (inclusive)

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61 boxes and 32.8 linear feet

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William Jovanovich (1920-2001) was an American publisher, author, and businessman, who led the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1954 to 1991, as president and later as chief executive officer. The collection consists of Jovanovich's author and publisher files, including an extensive file on Charles A. Lindbergh, along with correspondence, writings, personal and family papers, memorabilia, and other files documenting his career as a major American publisher in the 20th century, his creative pursuits in fiction and nonfiction, and his interest in Yugoslav literature and textbook publishing.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Sergei Alekseyev Correspondence, 1915-1987, (inclusive) 1964-1970 (bulk)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet

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Consists of correspondence, photographs, and emphera sent to Ina Tillman from her friend Sergei Alekseyev in the Soviet Union (Siberia). Tillman and Alekseyev were pen pals, and, as Esperantists, they used Esperanto to communicate with each other. The collection spans 1915 to 1987, with a bulk of the collection being their correspondence from 1964 to 1970.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Benjamin Nerenberg Papers, 1912-1919 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

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Chaim Korman and Yente Yesersky Family Correspondence, 1904-1906 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear feet (3 folders)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]