- Creator
- Mandel, Ernest, 1885-1951
- Call number
- MssCol 1856
- Physical description
- 3.96 linear feet (4 boxes)
- Preferred Citation
Ernest Mandel papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Collection consists of Mandel's correspondence, writings, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Includes writings and exercises as a student at New York University (Class of 1907); materials for teaching English to Hungarian immigrants through a correspondence course conducted by the Mandel family starting in 1905; literary papers including his guide-books entitled Amerikai Kalauz (1913); papers from his journalistic career with various Hungarian-American periodicals and as an officer of the Foreign Language Press Association; and 1925 diary. Correspondence concerns his welfare work and the Americanization of Hungarian immigrants through organizations such as the Society of Hungarian Engineers and Architects, 1901-1926, and the Hungarian Free Lyceum of New York, 1910-1922; and his active role in promoting Kossuthville in Polk County, Florida, a resettlement project for Hungarian farmers, 1924-1948. Scrapbook, 1915-1928, contains pasted newspaper articles in English and Hungarian, many written by or concerning Mandel, and a small amount of ephemera. The bulk, dating 1925, are from the New York paper Amerikai Magyar Nepszava, regarding Kossuthville, Florida.
Biographical/historical information
Ernest Mandel (1885-1951), civil engineer, journalist and editor, was active in Hungarian-American affairs in New York City.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Donated by Serena Mandel, 1951
Processing information
Compiled by Leslie Hansen Kopp, 1987, updated by Susan P. Waide, 2014
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- Americanization
- English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
- Hungarian Americans -- Florida
- Hungarian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
- Hungarian Americans -- Societies, etc
- Journalism -- New York (State) -- New York
- Social work with immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York
Occupations
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328