{"value"=>"<p>The largest and most significant series in this collection, this series is divided into seven sub-series. The Books sub-series (Boxes 6-40) includes drafts and research notes on almost all of Sanders' eight major works on Jewish history. No drafts of his first work, <span class=\"title\">Socialist Thought. A Documentary History,</span>are included, only a dust jacket. Some of the Book sub-series files included research materials such as small spiral notebooks of handwritten notes, and photocopies of documents and articles that Sanders studied as he worked. (Some are in foreign languages, e.g.: French.) Usually these materials are arranged with their respective titles. However, the materials in Boxes 38-40 contain unidentified research notebooks. Readers interested in materials for the book, <span class=\"title\">Shores of Refuge...,</span>and an unpublished fictional work, <span class=\"title\">The Bowery Gardens,</span>should review Box 40 as well.</p> <p>All of his full-length books were concerned, in some way, with Jewish history as a subject. Two of them, <span class=\"title\">Israel: a View from Masada,</span> and <span class=\"title\">Reflections on a Teapot,</span>are taken from Sanders' personal experiences. He examines the influences and events behind the Zionist movement in Britain and the founding of the State of Israel in the <span class=\"title\">High Walls of Jerusalem...</span> He discusses Jewish immigrant life in the East Side of New York in <span class=\"title\">The Downtown Jews,</span>and Jewish emigration over the a century in <span class=\"title\">Shores of Refuge.</span> A comparison between Jewish and African, and to some extent, Native American immigration is discussed in <span class=\"title\">Lost Tribes and Promised Lands.</span> His later books are biographies of prominent individuals, Kurt Weill and Isaac Bashevis Singer, though the latter was not published as a full-length book.</p> <p>Sanders created scrapbooks to chronicle several of his major works. They generally include a dust jacket, reviews of the book, significant correspondence about the book between the publisher and the author and congratulatory notes from friends and relatives. Two of these scrapbooks have been keep as they were created. For preservation reasons, the others were disassembled and the materials were placed in folders.</p> <p>The sub-series, Essays, Articles, and Stories, (Boxes 41-42) includes some articles that were expanded into longer pieces or book chapters. Several are labeled \"early writings,\" which is the term that appeared on label from the original envelope. Proposals (Box 44) contains the project descriptions Sanders wrote for his full-length books to present to publishers or major grant funding organizations, for monies to continue research. Unpublished Works include two full-length books and several short stories, all of which were labeled as unpublished works on their original folders.</p> <p>Sander's College Papers are arranged by class subject, if the class for which it was written was indicated on the cover or the container; if not, it was put in alphabetical order by title. Of note is the 1952 script for a musical drama for television, <span class=\"title\">They're Playing Our Song,</span> written by the Sanders father and son duo (Box 47, folder 26), and some research notes on Sanders' proposed Ph.D. dissertation subject, Jean Jaurès, (Box 47, folder 25).</p> <p>The Miscellaneous Items sub-series includes several notable items: a 1970 speech Sanders penned for <span class=\"persname\">Senator Eugene McCarthy</span>on US-Israeli relations, a poem written by Sanders and wife Beverly, transcripts of several radio interviews with Sanders after various book publications, and some translations of short stories and poetry.</p>"}