Found 3 collections related to Jews -- New York (State) -- New York

Charles Patrick Daly (1816-1899) was an American jurist, lecturer and writer who served as a judge of the New York City Court of Common Pleas for over forty years, the last twenty-seven as chief justice. Maria Lydig Daly, his wife, was active in the Democratic Party and various welfare organizations of the Civil War period. Her diaries of this period were published in 1962 under the title: Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865. Papers include correspondence; legal papers; writings and lectures; personal and legal scrapbooks; and diaries and notebooks. Also included are papers belonging to Maria Daly, wife of Charles P. Daly; of her father, Philip Mesier Lydig; and some letters and accounts of the French-born author and explorer Paul du Chaillu less

Collection contains correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings, and other printed memorabilia of the Gershoy family. Correspondence, 1912-1935, consists of letters written to Miriam and Morris Gershoy from their children and relatives and friends in Europe and the U.S., and letters to and from their daughter Eugénie. Letters by Leo Gershoy reflect his life at Cornell and Rochester universities and his travels in France. Letters by Alexander Gershoy concern his career as a botanist at the University of Vermont. Also, photographs of the family, biographical notes and printed matter. less

The Adah Fogel papers contain correspondence and literary translations, 1949-1969. Most of the material pertains to Fogel's research for Irving Howe in preparation for his book World of our Fathers. The collection contains seven letters from Howe (1968-1969 and undated), along with two from David Rudkin pertaining to a proposed Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Golem. Also included is Mrs. Fogel's translation of Zavl Rimer by her father, Menahem Boraisha, a writer and editor for the American Jewish Congress less