Found 4 collections related to Translations (documents)

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

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. 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