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1897
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2009
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1897
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1897
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2009
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{"value"=>"Lore Segal papers"}
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{"value"=>"Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and England during World War II, and their emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States; letters to Segal from throughout her life; letters from Segal as a young girl and documenting her time at Yaddo; and literary manuscripts documenting her novels, children's books, short stories and other writings. Also present are letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Lore Segal papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Segal, Lore Groszmann", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Author, translator, and teacher Lore Valier Groszmann Segal was born to Franzi Stern and Ignatz Groszmann in Vienna, Austria, in 1928. In December 1938, after Hitler's annexation of Austria, her parents sent her to England on the first Kindertransport (the Refugee Children Movement) from Vienna. During World War II, she lived with various British foster families, and through her letters to the Refugee Committee in London, she helped secure her parents domestic service visas to work in England. After the War, she attended Bedford College, University of London, and in 1948 received a degree in English literature. She spent the next three years living with relatives in Sosua, Dominican Republic, where she worked as a teacher and writer. In May 1951, she and much of her family emigrated to New York City. She spent parts of 1959 and 1960 at the Yaddo artists community, and sold several short stories to the New Yorker. She married literary editor David Segal in 1961; together they had two children, Paul (b.1962) and Beatrice (b.1964).</p> <p>In 1964, Segal published her first novel <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses,</span> based on her childhood experiences as a refugee in England. Over the next decades, she published three widely regarded novels – <span class=\"title\">Lucinella</span> (1976), <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span> (1985), and <span class=\"title\">Shakespeare's Kitchen</span> (2007) – and many short stories, essays, translations, and children's books, including <span class=\"title\">Tell Me a Mitzi</span> (1970) and a collection of Grimm tales entitled <span class=\"title\">The Juniper Tree</span>, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (1973). Segal taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University. Among the many awards and honors she received are the Clifton Fadiman Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center Fellowship, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, the O. Henry Prize, and she was finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Lore Segal lives in New York.</p> <p>David Irwin Segal (1928-1970) was born to Harry and Stella Segal, in New York City. He earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. After college he worked at his father's firm Dabern Textiles, and in 1962 joined the publishing company McGraw-Hill as a reader and later associate editor. From 1965 to 1966 he worked as senior editor for the New American Library. His next positions were as fiction editor then editorial director for Harper & Row (1967-1969), and finally senior editor at Knopf (1969-1970). He died in December 1970 at the age of 42.</p> <p>Franziska (Franzi) Stern Groszmann (1904-2005), Lore's mother, is also well represented in the collection. She was born in Austria, married Ignaz (Igo) Groszmann in 1927, and emigrated to England with her husband in March 1939. There they worked as domestic help for wealthy English families until the British Government interned Igo as a \"German speaking enemy alien.\" Igo died from a stroke shortly before the war ended. Franzi joined her brother Paul and parents in the Dominican Republic shortly after the death of her husband, and moved to New York city with her daughter in 1951. There she worked as a private nurse for newborns on the Upper West Side. She died in 2005 at the age of 100.</p> <p>Other family members documented in this collection include Lore's father, Ignatz (Igo) Groszmann (1895-1944); his brother Max (Mimi) Groszmann (b.1897) who emigrated to Panama; Lore's uncle Paul Stern (b.1911) who emigrated first to England in 1939, then to a Jewish enclave in Sosua, Dominican Republic, in 1940, and finally to New York in 1950; her aunt Erna, uncle Ernst, and cousin Inge Curth; and grandparents Joseph Stern (1912-1948) and Rosa Bemedik Stern (1877-1955), who owned a shop in Fischamend, Austria, and opened a grocery store in Santo Domingo; Rosa eventually moved to New Jersey.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection documents Lore Segal's personal life and her family's experiences fleeing Austria and as Jewish refugees in England, the Dominican Republic, and New York City during and after World War II. Also present are materials related to Segal's creative process, literary career, and social circle in New York, as well as the letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal. Of note are Lore Segal's letters and early writings describing her impressions of the Kindertransport (Refugee Children Movement) and of England, the source material for her fictionalized memoir <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Lore Segal papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18766#c1229967'>Series I: Groszmann-Stern Family Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1899-2000</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains letters and documents from Lore Segal and her extended family covering their experiences in Austria before and during World War II, and their lives as Jewish refugees in England, the Dominican Republic, and eventually, the United States.</p> <p>The Family Letters, which largely date from the late 1930s to the 1950s, contain details on everyday life as well as the procedures and trials of Jews emigrating from Austria during World War II. Family members wrote letters in both German and English. The letters from Lore include one batch to her parents and another to her cousin and friend Inge. They contain descriptions of the Kindertransport, life in the refugee camps, and her difficulties adapting to living with foster families. Years later, Franzi translated several of the letters from Lore to Inge; for some items the translations are the only surviving copies. The remaining family letters include items to Lore from her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, and a few to or from her foster families (Ellis and Cohen). The letters from Lore's parents document their activities in England working as domestic servants, as well as her mother's experiences upon first arriving in the Dominican Republic. In Lore's grandparent’s letters, they recount stories of living in Hungary and Austria and before the war, as well as their last months in Austria, and their living circumstances in the Dominican Republic. Other family members who wrote to Lore before and during the War include uncles Max (Mimi), Karl Benedik, Ernst, Otto, and Paul Stern; aunts Frida, Lizi, Edith, Ditta, and Else, and cousins Inge Curth, Otto Adler, and Peter Bergel. The Franzi Groszmann items consist of many incoming letters from friends and family, including many from Lore while staying at Yaddo in 1959 and 1960. The Igo and Max Groszmann items date from before the war.</p> <p>The Family Documents section consists of the family's official, business, and educational documents.</p> <p>The Genealogy material is comprised of family trees for the Stern, Groszmann, and Segal families, lists of birth dates for Lore's immediate family, a timeline for Paul Stern’s emigration activities, and letters with distant family members sharing genealogical information.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18766#c1230018'>Series II: Lore Groszmann Segal Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-2009</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>34 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of Lore Segal's biographical documents and write-ups, her incoming letters, her sketches, and drafts and edits of her writings.</p> <p>The Biographical Material section contains items that document Lore Segal's life, such as a baby book; diaries; educational documents; travel, medical and banking documents; printed biographies, interviews, clippings; and materials concerned with the Kindertransport documentary <span class=\"title\">Into the Arms of Strangers</span> (2000) that featured Lore and Franzi.</p> <p>The Correspondence section has general correspondence organized by individual senders, and chronological files of letters spanning 1938 to 2009. These letters provide a window into Segal's personal and social life as well as her professional, intellectual, academic, and creative endeavors. The general correspondence section contains letters from individual letter writers or concerning specific events. These include groups of items to Lore from several friends in England (1945-1960); letters from friends and literary colleagues George and Mary Elliott, Ruth and Peter Gay, Maurice Sendak, Mona Van Duyn, and others; sympathy letters on the deaths of David Segal (1970) and Franzi Groszmann (2005); and letters between Lore and David Segal, primarily dating from Lore's stay at Yaddo in 1960. The chronological correspondence consists of incoming letters from family, friends, collaborators, colleagues, publishers, students, and fan mail.</p> <p>The Sketches section contains two sketchbooks and many loose sketches created by Lore Segal from throughout her life. Most are pencil and pen portraits. Additional sketches can be found in various letters throughout the collection.</p> <p>The Writings section contains material related to Segal's novels, children's books, short stories, essays, reviews, lectures, and translations. These items document her entire creative process from early notes and drafts, to later drafts and indexes, to edits and feedback from editors, to corrected galley proofs. There are letters from editors, publishers, colleagues, and friends giving feedback and personal reactions to her writing, as well as letters from readers, young and old, who shared their appreciation for the books and stories with the author. Also present are Segal’s contracts and communications with publishers and agents. This section contains several unpublished stories and essays, along with juvenilia, saved by her mother, from as early as the 1940s, and floppy disks containing drafts of stories, novels and essays. Best documented are Segal's novels <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses</span> and <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span>. Material relating to <span class=\"title\">Other People's Houses</span> includes Segal's earliest attempts at developing her memories of the Kindertransport and her life in England into prose, as well as drafts of each chapter originally published in the New Yorker. Several reader response letters are from Jews who as children also escaped on the Kindertransport. <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span> material, which spans an 18-year period, includes early drafts and notes, an \"Aborted Novel,” folder’s of unused material labeled “Carter,” and her screenplay for <span class=\"title\">Her First American</span> developed for Pippa Scott. These folders have been kept in their original order.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18766#c1230320'>Series III: David Segal Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1946-1970</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains the letters, documents, and writings of literary editor David I. Segal. The letters are both incoming items and carbon copies of outgoing mail spanning 1946 to 1970. These primarily document David Segal's professional activities as a literary editor and include related office documents and attachments such as publication lists. Many of the letters are communications with authors about their work, and responses from reviewers, some of them prominent writers such as Anthony Burgess reviewing Hind's Kidnap, and Philip Roth on Cynthia Ozick (both 1970). Several letters are accompanied by typescripts of poems, essays, and reviews. Of note are many early letters to his parents from his time in school at Michigan and early in his career, letters from novelist Frederick Exley, and a stack of carbon copies of letters from David Segal to every author he editing at Harper Row announcing his departure from the company for Knopf (June 22, 1970).</p> <p>The Writings section is comprised of typescripts of book reviews, theater reviews, essays, and letters to the editor from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an undated typescript story entitled \"Seek.\" There is also a folder of writings from David and Lore's friends and colleagues, such as poems by Denise Levertov (\"The Ninetieth Year\"), Cynthia Ozick (\"Fire-Foe\"), George P. Elliott (\"Young Women's Song\"), Larry Ross (\"Mors Amoris\" and The Imaging\"), and the Leonard Michaels short story \"Binoculars.\" Documents include address books, month-at-a-glance calendars (1962-1969), and a correspondence register for David Segal's time at Knopf (1970).</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 2012</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Philip Heslip,</span><span class=\"date\">2012</span>; <span class=\"name\">Heather Lember</span>, <span class=\"date\">2015</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Much of the collection had no discernible original order except for some of the literary material and some groups of letters. When possible, folder-level order was maintained. Some brittle letters and typescripts were photocopied for preservation.</p><p>Additional materials were received and processed in 2015. New materials are in boxes 35 and 36.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Copyright retained by any document's creator.</p>"}
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15.3 linear feet (38 boxes)
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1939
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1990