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Scripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Bernhard Altmann Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25672
Abstract

The collection holds papers, photographs, documents and correspondence pertaining to four generations of the Altmann family. Topics of the collection are, among others, the lives of the family members in Austria-Hungary, in pre-war Austria, in the emigration process and in the United States. Part of the material focuses on the family’s genealogy. The collection comprises correspondence, memoirs, personal and official papers, family photographs, postcards and some notes.

Dates: 1916-1987; Majority of material found within 1933-1966

Camp Massad Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-550
Abstract

Founded by Shlomo and Rivka (Wolman) Shulsinger, Camp Massad was the pre-eminent Hebrew camp in the United States. The collection, comprised of material donated by former staff, counselors, and campers contains administrative records, correspondence, newsletters, play scripts, photographs, oral histories and movies.

Dates: undated, 1944-2015; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1990

Records of the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls (New York, N.Y.)

 Collection
Identifier: I-24
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, financial data and reports (some published) on the work and activities of the School. Among the officers were N. Taylor Phillips, treasurer, and his wife, Rosalie Solomons Phillips, president and first vice president.

Dates: undated, 1905-1944

Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25709
Abstract

The Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer Collection documents the professional and personal life of law professor Edgar Bodenheimer as well as that of his wife, Brigitte Bodenheimer (née Levy). The collection contains documentation on their early legal work during the 1940s, Edgar's participation in the Nuremberg Trials, and postwar work as professors, as well as material on their daily lives and other family members. The collection includes a copious amount of correspondence, lecture texts, certificates and diplomas, diaries and notebooks, newspaper clippings, teaching material, poetry, a friendship album, and other papers.

Dates: 1897-1992, 2011; Majority of material found within 1920-1983

Ernst Mueller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6736
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Ernst Mueller: mathematician, writer, philosopher and librarian. The most prominent material here are his unpublished writings, including autobiographical items such as diaries and memoirs along with essays, articles and drafts of longer works. Major themes of the collection reflect Mueller's interest in Kabbalah and anthroposophy, in addition to a number of works relating to various areas of Jewish studies. Other materials in this collection include correspondence of Ernst Mueller and his wife Frieda, notes, many poems of himself and his brother Edmund, and a few biographical articles and official papers.

Dates: 1891-1994; Majority of material found within 1919-1954

Esther-Rachel Kaminska Theater Museum Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 8
Abstract

The collection contains play manuscripts, programs, playbills, posters, photographs, correspondence, agreements, scrapbooks, clippings, printed ephemera, and memorabilia relating to Yiddish theater primarily in the early twentieth century, especially the interwar period. Also included are items of printed ephemera related to Yiddish film, Hebrew theater, and a broad range of Jewish performers, including cantors, singers and dancers. Geographically, the materials originate predominantly in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, including parts of the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union; and, to a lesser extent, the United States, especially New York City. Also included are materials from Western Europe, Palestine (Eretz Israel), South America, and other regions around the world. Among the theater personalities represented in the collection with significant amounts of material are Herz Grossbard, David Herman, Joseph Winogradoff, Rudolf Zaslavsky, Zygmunt Turkow, Jonas Turkow, Moyshe Lipman, Ida Kaminska, and Esther Rachel Kaminska. The theater groups best represented include the Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Teater (VYKT; Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater), founded by Zygmunt Turkow and Ida Kaminska; the Vilna Troupe; Yung Teater / Nay Teater (Warsaw; Vilna), under the direction of Michael Weichert; the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (known by its Russian acronym "GOSET"); Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre, of New York; and the Hebrew theater "Habimah." A wide variety of other professional as well as amateur theater groups are represented with smaller amounts of material.

Dates: 1887 - 1942; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1939

Folksbiene Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 512
Scope and Contents

The collection includes manuscripts of plays by Abraham Goldfaden, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Friedrich Hebbel. Photographs of Folksbiene productions. Scrapbooks containing ads, reviews and articles about the Folksbiene. 13 tapes of Folksbiene performances in the 1950s-1960s.

Dates: 1930s-1960s

Hans Heller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25858
Abstract

The Hans Heller Collection contains papers of the businessman and author John (Hans) Heller, originally from Vienna. The collection focuses on his creative writing, such as novels, poems, plays, essays, and his memoirs, as well as on files related to the Heller Candy companies in Austria, England, and in the United States, including the original company’s finances and property in Austria. The collection also includes personal documents, personal correspondence, some papers of his wife, artist Helen Heller, family photographs, and other materials.

Dates: 1907-2010; Majority of material found within 1930-2007

Jacob Ben-Ami Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 755
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to Ben-Ami's theatrical career and include playscripts, programs and playbills, posters and clippings, personal documents, photographs.

Dates: 1902 - 1977

Jacob Mestel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 280
Abstract

The collection of Jacob Mestel consists of the general, professional and personal correspondence of Jacob Mestel, manuscripts of plays by other authors, manuscripts of poetry, essays and plays by Jacob Mestel, translations of plays into Yiddish, production material, clippings, theater programs, personal documents, and theater photographs.

Dates: 1910-1958

Jacob P. Adler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1177
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and some printed copies of Yiddish plays. Photographs.

Dates: undated

Jewish Media Service, records

 Collection
Identifier: I-513
Abstract

Contains material collected by the Jewish Media Service (JMS) on Jewish films, film company catalogs, resources and information from and about various media centers. The majority of the Jewish Media Service records date from when the JMS operated independently from 1975 to 1987. Types of material found in the collection include articles, brochures, catalogs, correspondence, examination study guides, filmographies, film stills, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, posters, publications, scripts, and slides.

Dates: undated, 1898, 1944, 1955, 1957, 1961-1990; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1987

Joe Willner’s magic tricks collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25707
Abstract

This collection contains the magical tricks of Joseph Willner, an Austrian Jewish magician born in 1903. It includes both his own manuscript as well as published magical tricks collected by him.

Dates: undated, 1952

Lederer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25911
Abstract

The collection holds the correspondence of Emil Lederer to his family and friends in Czechoslovakia. Emil had emigrated to Canada and tried to establish his own farm. The collection also holds manuscripts for a book and several plays written by Emil’s mother Paula Lederer, who published under the name Paul Lederer.

Dates: 1930-1987; 1930-1940

Louis Gross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 429
Scope and Contents

Scripts of Gross's radio talks, commentaries, and other appearances. Clippings. Sound recordings of Jewish folk, theater, and cantorial music. Correspondence pertaining to the radio programs. Correspondence relating to the visit of the Soviet Jewish writers Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Feffer to the U.S. in 1943.

Dates: 1937 - 1958

Luba Rymer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 482
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to Rymer's theatrical career and include correspondence, clippings, photographs, scripts of parts, programs.

Dates: 1936 - 1958

Mark Schweid Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 357
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Yiddish writers and theater personalities including A. Almi, Salo Baron, Yitzhak Dov Berkowitz, Menahem Boraisha, Reuben Brainin, Daniel Charney, Mendl Elkin, Peretz Hirschbein, Yudel Mark, David Pinsky, Melech Ravitch, Zalman Reisen, Maurice Schwartz, Abraham Sutzkever, Zalmen Zylbercweig. Correspondence with organizations including Congress for Jewish Culture, American Jewish Historical Society, Jewish National Workers Alliance, Jewish Daily Forward. Programs and playbills of theatrical performances. Manuscripts of radio scripts, translations of works by Shakespeare. Clippings of articles by and about Schweid, including reviews and obituaries. Material for an anthology of German-Jewish authors.

Dates: undated

Menashe Oppenheim Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 684
Scope and Contents

The papers relate primarily to Oppenheim's acting career and include correspondence, personal documents, scripts of plays, sheet music, and photographs.

Dates: 1935-1960s

Michael Preiss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 506
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, personal documents, reviews, clippings, playscripts, programs, posters, and photographs relating to Preiss's career.

Dates: 1920s-1960s

Molly Picon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 738
Scope and Contents

Photographs, scripts, playbills, musical scores, correspondence, recordings, plaques, and art objects relating to Picon's theatrical career. Personal photographs of Picon and her husband Jacob Kalich. Photographs of Picon in various stage and film productions including the films Fiddler on the Roof, East and West, Mamele, Yidl mitn fidl, Milk and Honey, and the plays Kuni Leml, Motel Payse. Manuscripts of plays including Shmendrik and Yankele. Music by Abe Ellstein, Mordecai Gebirtig, Abraham Goldfaden, Molly Picon, Joseph Rumshinsky. Playbills and programs from films and theater. Scrapbook of correspondence, theater tickets. Recordings of songs performed by Picon. Plaques, citations, awards. Original art items including portraits, illustrations and cartoons on various topics, many of them studies of Picon.

Dates: 1900 - 1972

National Jewish Welfare Board, Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-337
Abstract

The collection documents the National Jewish Welfare Board's (JWB) evolution from an organization founded in 1917 to provide support for soldiers in times of war to an agency involved in all aspects of Jewish life both in the United States and abroad. In 1990 JWB recreated itself as the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.

Dates: undated, 1889-1995 (bulk 1917-1990)

Papers of Alexander Asro and Sonia Alomis

 Collection
Identifier: RG 729
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to the careers of Asro and Alomis in the Yiddish theater and to their work with the Vilna Troupe. Correspondence and other documents relating to the establishment of the Vilna Troupe. Playscripts, programs, photographs, reviews, memorabilia. Reproductions and original art works by Asro, consisting of drawings, prints, paintings, sketches, theater designs.

Dates: 1916-1961

Papers of Anshel Shor and Dora Weissman

 Collection
Identifier: RG 689
Scope and Contents

The papers include playscripts by Shor and by others, sheet music, personal documents, materials relating to Weissman's activities in various charities, texts of her radio programs, materials from her agency, photographs.

Dates: 1906 - 1966

Papers of Bella Bellarina

 Collection
Identifier: RG 574
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with family, friends, writers, organizations. Personal documents. Manuscripts of plays, some with director's annotations. Reviews of performances of the Vilna Troupe. Memoirs entitled Zikhroynes vegn der vilner trupe by Chaim Shneur, Bellarina's husband.

Dates: 1910s-1960s

Papers of Ben Bonus and Mina Bern

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1168
Scope and Contents

The collection relates to the theatrical careers of Bonus and Bern and consists primarily of printed and manuscript music and lyrics, and scripts of plays. Also includes photographs, flyers, programs, posters, and clippings.

Dates: 1940 - 1983

Papers of David Carey

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1175
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of Yiddish plays, skits.

Dates: undated

Papers of Heinz and Luba B. Condell

 Collection
Identifier: RG 504
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to H. Condell's theatrical career in Germany and in the U.S. Correspondence relating to work in the theater. Personal documents. Clippings of reviews and notices relating to productions of the Kultur Bund Teater in Berlin, 1930s. Clippings include reproductions of art work. Photographs of stage sets and designs. Original designs, including ink and paint on boards, for Bronx Express by Ossip Dymow and Nathan the Wise by Gerhard Lessing. Materials relating to L. Condell's theatrical career: correspondence, clippings, photos, reviews, programs, scripts, and personal documents.

Dates: 1928-1970s

Papers of Ludwig Satz (1891-1944)

 Collection
Identifier: P-844
Abstract

This collection contains materials relating to the musical and theatrical career of Ludwig Satz and includes sheet music, concert programs, a play script, and publicity notices. There are also paintings, printing plates, a walking cane, and a plaster head cast in the Museum collections.

Dates: 1916-1955, 1970, undated

Papers of Nachum Melnick and Devorah Rosenblum

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1147
Scope and Contents

The collection pertains to the artistic careers of Nachum Melnick and and Devorah Rosenblum and consists of scripts, publicity programs, sheet music, photographs, clippings, set designs, drawings.

Dates: 1920s-1960s

Paul Burstein and Lillian Lux Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 706
Scope and Contents

Play scripts, clippings, sheet music, correspondence, photographs, personal documents. Autobiography of P. Burstein. Radio programs of the Lillian Lux show.

Dates: 1930s-1970s