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Jews -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on Jewish Americans in the United States. Works on American Jews outside the United States are entered under Jews, American.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

"Justus Rosenberg: A Life in Translation" independent oral history project

 Collection
Identifier: NS-07-01-03
Overview

Scott Ritner, a graduate student of The New School for Social Research, conducted this series of oral history interviews with New School faculty member Justus Rosenberg in 2012. Rosenberg (born 1921 in Danzig) took part in the French Resistance during World War II, immigrated to the United States, and taught at The New School for over fifty years. The collection consists of a transcript and an event flier as electronic files.

Dates: 2012; Modified: 2016
Found in: The New School Archives / "Justus Rosenberg: A Life in Translation" independent oral history project

Larry Freund interviews with Esther Hoffman

 Collection
Identifier: MP-0022-01
Abstract

This collection consists of transcripts of seventeen interviews with Esther Hoffman Wexler (1918-2014), conducted by her cousin, Lawrence Freund, between 2012 and 2014. Hoffman, a Canadian-born concert pianist and a longtime piano teacher at the Mannes College of Music (which became a division of The New School in 1989), discusses her life experiences and her career as a musician and as a teacher in New York City and Toronto.

Dates: 2012-2014
Found in: The New School Archives / Larry Freund interviews with Esther Hoffman