Oral History master’s student and RBML graduate student worker, Kyna Patel, was part of the team that organized and processed a collection that documents important moments in black journalism in America. The Black Journalists Oral History Project consists of interviews with journalists, editors, publishers, and various members of the black press about a wide range […]
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Literary Remains
Earlier this summer some of the items from our Tennessee Williams Papers made their way back to Morningside Heights after having been borrowed for the Morgan Library & Museum’s fantastic show No Refuge but Writing. In the final weeks of the exhibition, its curator, Carolyn Vega, gave a tour to a group of local rare […]
Hear & Now: An Interactive Oral History Exhibitions
Have a look and listen to digital materials from Spring 2018’s Oral History Masters of Arts student exhibitions. […]
Newly available collections – July 2018
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened by RBML archivists. Scuola Grande Synagogue Records “Records of the Scuola Grande Synagogue (also known as the Norsa Synagogue or the Scuola del Torrazzo) and the Jewish community of Mantua, Italy, dating between 1707 and 1829.” https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_8507583 Marc Raeff Papers “Correspondence, research materials, and personal papers of […]
George Arthur Plimpton and Hebrew Manuscripts
The interconnections between collections here in the RBML continue to emerge as researchers use our materials, but also as our librarians continue to be curious scholars and preservations. Michelle Chesner, Librarian for Jewish Studies, and Jane Siegel, Rare Book Librarian, discovered this connection between the George Plimpton collection and our Jewish Studies collections: Thanks to the intrepid work […]