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News from RBML’s Archivists and Collections Managers | October and September 2021

Posted on 2021-12-03 by Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. Here are newly processed, newly digitized, and/or newly described RBML collections, including notable oral histories that are now fully available online. Newly Digitized Oral History Collections Individual Interviews Individual Interviews are those that were […]

New from RBML’s Archivists | August 2019

Posted on 2019-08-19 by Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML’s Archivists. New finding aids Yehudah Joffe papers, 1893-1966, bulk 1920-1945 “The collection consists of Joffe’s correspondence, manuscripts/notes, and newspaper clippings. Joffe’s correspondence in Yiddish in English is both personal and professional, covering communication with institutions he was working at or hoping to work […]