Found 2 collections related to Croce, Elena, 1915-1994

Koppel Shub Pinson (1904-1961) was an American educator and historian who specialized in German and Jewish history. He taught at Queens College of the City University of New York from 1937 to 1961. Collection consists of correspondence, a few personal papers, writings, lecture notes and outlines, teaching and student records, research notes, and printed material pertaining largely to Pinson's academic career. Correspondence, 1930s-1960s, is with colleagues and other scholars in the U.S. and abroad. Personal file contains photograph of Pinson, announcements of his lectures and tributes to him. Writings include typescripts of his articles, notes and outlines for his public lectures, and teaching file consisting of materials for courses he taught at Queens College and the New School. Also, student records as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and as graduate student at Columbia University; research notes for his dissertation and book, Modern Germany; bibliographies of works relating to Russian history and literature and to Jews and antisemitism; and scrapbook of clippings. less

This holograph manuscript, written in Italian, is the transcript of an interview of Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce. In it he describes leaving his home in Sorrento, Italy in 1943, to avoid being seized by the Germans as a hostage. He discusses the effect of Fascism on Italy and the history of his own struggle against it; the true meaning of liberalism, and its possible future after World War II; and other matters. A typed English translation of the interview by Croce's daughter Elena is included less