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The New Deal murals of Ben Shahn: The intersection of Jewish identity, social reform, and government patronage.
No full textThis dissertation discusses the eight murals that Ben Shahn (1898-1969) created under the auspices of the New Deal. It begins in 1933 when the federal projects were initiated and ends with Shahn's mural for the Social Security building in Washington, D.C., completed in 1942. This work examines Shahn's murals within the sociopolitical history of the New Deal, foregrounds the social events that Shahn depicted, and problematizes the issue of Jewish identity within the context of public murals. Shahn proposed eight mural projects, completing four; in addition to Social Security (1940-42), he painted a mural for the Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey on immigration and the labor movement (c.1936-38), Resources of America for the Bronx Central Post Office, New York (1938-39), and the Four Freedoms for the Woodhaven Station, New York post office (1939-41). Officials rejected Shahn's satirical Prohibition Era for the Central Park Casino, New York (c.1934), his The Great State of Wisconsin, for the planned community of Greendale, Wisconsin (c.1937), and his Four Freedoms, submitted to the St. Louis, Missouri post office competition (1939). Officials canceled his project for Riker's Island Penitentiary, New York (c.1933-35) as Shahn began work on site.Three questions motivate this study of Shahn's murals. These questions are about Jewish identity, social reform, and government patronage. How did Jewish identity relate to the subject matter of Shahn's murals, and the contemporary Jewish American experience? Which particular issues of social reform did Shahn present in his murals and how did these relate to New Deal initiatives? How did the procedures, opportunities, and policies of government art patronage intersect (encourage, censor, modify, or parallel) with Shahn's message of social reform and Jewish identity? What was the Jewish ethnic and sociopolitical content within Shahn's murals and how did he negotiate these messages within the New Deal art projects? This work locates these answers within the sociopolitical terrain of the 1930s and early 1940s to establish how Shahn's narratives express the particular situation of American Jews between the wars.Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1997.School code: 0046
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Robert Mueller und Ephraim Frisch.
No full textTranscriptions of correspondence between Müller and Frisch.Schwarz, Thomas (ed.): “Der Briefwechsel zwischen Robert Müller und Ephraim Frisch”, in: Mueller, Robert : Briefe und Verstreutes , Oldenburg, 1997, pp. 87-12
From St. Poelten to America [1906-1997]
No full textThe memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.Rosa Kubin, 1998Rosa Kubin was the oldest daughter of Richard and Klara Lustig. She was born in St. Poelten, Austria in 1906. Rosa studied chemistry at the Vienna University. She emigrated with her husband Ludwig Kubin to the United States in 1938.Synopsis in fileHabsburg-Lothringen, Otto, 1912-St. PoeltenBostonCambridgeParisPortlandSemmeringWalthamViennaAustriaAmerican-Austrian-AssociationAmerican Chemical SocietyAustrian Chemical WorksChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Harvard UniversityHospitalsOregon Medical Schoo
A Bit of Family History.
No full textMemoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.Eleanor Alexander, nee Eyck was born in Berlin in 1913. She began to study medicine but in 1933 emigrated to Paris, where she met her husband Paul Alexander, and then to London, Brazil, and the United States.Synopsis in filesee also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, ME 1071, ME 1113, ME 1276BudapestGenealogyHungaryParisPragueViennaWeimar German
[Memoir] : [1938-1945] /
No full textThe memoir takes the form of a letter from Henry R. Meisels to a cousin in Gdansk, Poland. He explains how he survived the holocaust.Henry Rudolf Meisels was born 03/26/1920 in Vienna, Austria and lived in the sixth district in Vienna. He attended elementary school and commercial school. After the war had begun, he was arrested in Bratislava, CR, for 4 months. Then he was arrested in Sered, Slovakia for several weeks. In 1945 he stayed in Theresienstadt for three weeks. After the liberation by the Russian Army in May 1945 he went back to Vienna, where he stayed until 1948. Then he emigrated to New York,USA. There he married and got a Masters Degree from Columbia U. He worked as a librarian until he retired in the late eighties. Henry Meisels died in 2001.Austrian Heritage Collectio
[Budesarchive R 39 Anhang : Personenstandsregister jüdischer Gemeinden aus Westpreusse].
No full textTranscript of a list of Jews in the town of Gollub (today Golub-Dobrzyń, Poland) in the West-Prussian administrative region of Marienwerder, who assumed new family names in accordance with an order on Oct. 31, 1845.digitizedOriginals held at Bundesarchiv R 39, German
A conversation with Franz Alt : Oral history.
No full textTranscript of a conversation with Franz and Annice Alt in their apartment in Washington Heights about the "Vienna Circle", together with Berthold Schweizer, Abe Sklar and Seymour Kass.The mathematician Franz Leopold Alt was born 1910 in Vienna, Austria, where he earned a PhD in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1932. He immigrated to the United States in 1938. Alt was a founding member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and served for 11 years on its council. 1948-1967 he was the deputy chief of the Applied Mathematics Division at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC., and then until his retirement in 1973 he was deputy chief of the Physics Information Division at the American Institute of Physics, New York
Ursula Ruth Ploschitzky
No full textFace of a girl with brown hair facing viewer's right. Surrounded by text And so I can sit...Digital imagedigitize