Melvin Urofsky collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains 21 typescripts from oral history interviews with individuals associated with Stephen S. Wise. The interviews were conducted primarily by Melvin Urofsky for a biography and transcribed at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also includes over 300 photocopies of correspondence to and from Stephen S. Wise, found in the Yale University Library, Princeton University Library, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, American Jewish Archives and the Harry S. Truman Library.
Dates
- 1898-1977
Creator
- Urofsky, Melvin I. (Person)
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 (Person)
- Berman, Morton Mayer, 1899-1986 (Person)
- Chinitz, Zelig (Person)
- Aron, Zvi (Person)
- Elath, Eliahu, 1903-1990 (Person)
- Goldmann, Nahum, 1895-1982 (Person)
- Goldstein, Israel, 1896- (Person)
- Halprin, Rose Luria, 1896-1978 (Person)
- Jacobson, Charlotte, 1914- 2010 (Person)
- Kol, Moshe, 1911-1989 (Person)
- Levinthal, Louis E. (Louis Edward), 1892-1976 (Person)
- Lourie, Arthur, 1903- (Person)
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 (Person)
- Meltzer, Julian (Person)
- Neumann, Emanuel, 1893- (Person)
- Shapiro, Ezra (Person)
- Tartakower, Aryeh, 1897-1982 (Person)
- Szold, Robert, 1889-1977 (Person)
- Voss, Carl Hermann (Person)
- Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977 (Person)
- Wise, James Waterman, 1901-1983 (Person)
- Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987 (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
For reference questions, please email: inquiries@cjh.org
Extent
2 Manuscript Boxes
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains 21 typescripts from oral history interviews with individuals associated with Stephen S. Wise. The interviews were conducted primarily by Melvin Urofsky for a biography and transcribed at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also includes over 300 photocopies of correspondence to and from Stephen S. Wise, found in the Yale University Library, Princeton University Library, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, American Jewish Archives and the Harry S. Truman Library.
- Aron, Zvi
- Berman, Morton Mayer, 1899-1986
- Chinitz, Zelig
- Elath, Eliahu, 1903-1990
- Goldmann, Nahum, 1895-1982
- Goldstein, Israel, 1896-
- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
- Halprin, Rose Luria, 1896-1978
- Jacobson, Charlotte, 1914- 2010
- Kol, Moshe, 1911-1989
- Levinthal, Louis E. (Louis Edward), 1892-1976
- Lourie, Arthur, 1903-
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
- Meltzer, Julian
- Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987
- Shapiro, Ezra
- Szold, Robert, 1889-1977
- Tartakower, Aryeh, 1897-1982
- Voss, Carl Hermann
- Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977
- Wise, James Waterman, 1901-1983
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949
- Zionism
- Title
- Guide to the Melvin Urofsky Collection, 1898-1977 P-515
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by marc2ead_ajhs.xsl
- Date
- © 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- September 2020: RJohnstone: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
