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Translators

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

David Berger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6471
Abstract

This collection contains various typescript translations and speeches by the translator David Berger.

Dates: 1943-1993

Doris Orgel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25931
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of the children's author and translator Doris Orgel. It primarily focuses on her career as a writer of children's books, and documents both her writing process as well as her interaction with colleagues including publishers, editors, agents, and other authors. Included in this collection are many drafts of her stories and novels, a large amount of notes and notebooks, research, reviews, professional correspondence, idea files, contracts, biographical articles, , and a small amount of personal papers.

Dates: 1954-2014; Majority of material found within 1978-2008

Essays and fragments

 Collection
Identifier: AR 740
Abstract

Various biographical essays and fragments by the author, translator and teacher Paul Amann.

Dates: 1900-1950

Eva Dukes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25476
Abstract

This collection contains material relating to the personal and professional activities of Eva Dukes. It includes personal correspondence from 1938 to 1943 and materials about Dukes's teenage years as a student at the Schwarzwaldschule in Vienna. Professional materials relating to her work as a writer, researcher and translator include correspondence about her search for two favorite children's books from her youth, Jüdische Kindermärchen (1932) by Ilse Weber (née Herlinger) and Das verschlossene Buch; juedische Maerchen (1925) by Irma Singer (aka Irma Miriam Berkowitz). Also found here are typescripts of selected translations from these books into English, as well as extensive correspondence between Dukes and Singer, after Dukes discovered Singer living in Israel in the 1970s.

Dates: 1925-2001; Majority of material found within 1971-1973

Eva Dukes Collection Addenda

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25915
Abstract

This collection holds the personal documents and written works of Eva Dukes, an Austrian Jew who escaped Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States. In her later years, Eva wrote extensively about her early life in Austria, her family, and her experiences facing the rise of Naziism in Europe. Along with her writings, this collection includes photographs, official documents, correspondence, restitution papers, and other materials pertaining to the life of Eva Dukes.

Dates: 1924-2011; Majority of material found within 1951-2003

Fedor Ganz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7238
Abstract

The collection contains documents, correspondence, unpublished writings, sketches, photos, and various flyers, postcards, posters, and a substantial amount of family documents.

Dates: 1870-1984

Fega Frisch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2555
Abstract

The collection holds original translations and clippings of Russian and Yiddish literature into German by Fega Frisch. Also included are some personal documents, such as education records and ID papers.

Dates: 1897-1959

Franz Rosenzweig - Martin Buber notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4219 / MF 877
Abstract

22 notebooks (carbon copies), comprising 1,998 pages, dictated by Franz Rosenzweig and addressed to Martin Buber, pertaining to the Rosenzweig-Buber translation of the bible.

Dates: 1925-1929, 1954

Frida Ilmer Grosser Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10562 / MF 954
Abstract

Personal papers and writings of Frida Ilmer Grosser, documenting her career as a scholar of German literature.

Dates: 1901-1992

Hersch Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3543
Abstract

This collection documents the literary work of Heinrich Hersch as well as the artistic career of his son Eugen Hersch. Included are unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles, educational and award certificates and a few family photographs.

Dates: 1905-1957

Julius Sachs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7042
Abstract

This collection documents the work of journalist Julius Sachs on a German-English thesaurus that sought to capture the nuances of language that are often lost in typical inter-language reference works. The work was never published.

Dates: undated, 1943-1968

Marion Rosenthal Biel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25703
Abstract

The Marion Rosenthal Biel Collection holds papers of Marion Rosenthal Biel, her husband Frederick (Fritz) Biel, and of some of their family members. Prominent in the collection are documentation of Marion's early life in Germany and of her life during the early 1940s in England, Wales, and New York, as well as Frederick's time as an interpreter in the United States Army during World War II. The collection includes diaries, military documentation, photographs and a photo album, a small amount of correspondence, family members' official documents, and various other papers.

Dates: 1845-1975 ; 2007-2016; Majority of material found within 1924-1946

Paul Amann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3305/MF 771
Abstract

The collection of author and translator Paul Amann (Prague, 1884 – Connecticut, 1958) contains both personal and professional correspondence and manuscripts. The manuscripts include novels, essays and short stories as well as nonfiction works, translations and one folder of poetry. The collection also contains personal papers and a folder of material from third parties.

Dates: 1911-1972

Siegfried Jacoby Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6517 / MF 1016
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of members of the Siegfried Jacoby family, depicting the family's private lives as well as their literary work. Most prominent among the papers here are many unpublished manuscripts, family correspondence, and Siegfried Jacoby's herbarium. There is also personal correspondence with others, some professional correspondence, official and personal papers, newspaper clippings, and a few notebooks and family photographs.

Dates: 1892-1991; Majority of material found within 1920-1939

Victor Polzer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3683 / MF 477
Abstract

Vital documents and educational and military papers; correspondence; articles, interviews, lectures, and stories by Victor Polzer.

Dates: 1899-1989