Salo Wittmayer Baron: Architect of Jewish History

2000 ◽  
pp. 443-444
Author(s):  
Robert Liberles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Full Length ◽  
New York University

(New York: New York University Press, 1995); pp. xiii + 426 Salo Baron (1895‒1989), born in Tarnów, Galicia, became one of the foremost Jewish historians of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of academic Jewish studies in the United States. Liberles attempts to interweave two stories in this first full-length study of Baron and his ...

scholarly journals Collections, Compilations, and Convolutes of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in North America before ca. 1900

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/dlll ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 73-139
Author(s):  
Scott Gwara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Public Exhibition

Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.

scholarly journals Bernard V. Bothmer: a man of honour

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Diane Bergman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
The World ◽  
Museum Of Fine Arts ◽  
Brooklyn Museum ◽  
Library Collections

Bernard V. Bothmer left his mark on the world of Egyptology in three of the United States’ great art institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Brooklyn Museum and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He created gallery displays, developed library collections and founded image collections that continue to influence scholars worldwide. One can wonder how the course of American Egyptology would have developed if circumstances had not driven him out of his native Germany. Despite hardship, fear and a career interrupted, he trained and profoundly influenced at least four generations of historians of Egyptian art. BVB, as he was affectionately known to those close to him, inspired all who worked with him to the highest level of achievement, a standard which came to be known as “Brooklyn Quality”.

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