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Creator
Lewitan, Joseph D., 1894-1976
Call number
(S) *MGZMD 14
Physical description
211 items 39 folders
Language
In English, French, Russian, Spanish and German; English
Preferred Citation

Lewitan, Joseph D. Joseph D. Lewitan and Eugenia Eduardova Collection, (S) *MGZMD 14, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Repository
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Access to materials
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The collection consists of personal correspondence; passports, visas and official documents including many from Nazi Germany and Occupied France; dance reviews by Joseph Lewitan which were published in the New York Russian language paper “Novoe russkoe slovo”; a ballet exercise notebook of Eduardova's; clippings and programs relating to the work of Aurel Milloss; photographs, including some of Eduardova, Lewitan, Alexander von Swaine and Lisa Czobel.

Biographical/historical information

Part of the bequest of Joseph D. Lewitan, dance critic and founder of Der Tanz, and his wife, the former Maryinsky ballerina and ballet teacher Eugenia Eduardova. Emigres from Russia, the political situation in Europe in the 1930's and later, the Second World War, resulted in their moving from Germany to France, then Casablanca and finally the United States, where Mr. Lewitan was employed by the United Nations.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of personal correspondence; passports, visas and official documents including many from Nazi Germany and Occupied France; dance reviews by Joseph Lewitan which were published in the New York Russian language paper “Novoe russkoe slovo”; a ballet exercise notebook of Eduardova's; clippings and programs relating to the work of Aurel Milloss; photographs, including some of Eduardova, Lewitan, Alexander von Swaine and Lisa Czobel.|||In English, French, German, Spanish and Russian.

The Joseph D. Lewitan and Eugenia Eduardova Collection is arranged in nine series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift. Estate of Joseph D. Lewitan and Eugenia Eduardova. Material received: 1976.

Processing information

Processed by Ruth Carr.

Using the collection

Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor