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The Life And Work Of S.M. Dubnov: Disapora Nationalism And Jewish History, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Sophie Dubnov-Erligh's work The Life and Work of S.M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History. Translated by Judith Vowles, and edited by Jeffrey Shandler.

Stephen Crane At Claverack College: A New Reading, Thomas A. Gullason

The Courier

BEFORE HIS ONE-YEAR STINT as a college student-first at Lafayette College (September to December 1890), then at Syracuse University (January to June 1891) Stephen Crane attended two coeducational preparatory schools with strong Methodist ties: Pennington Seminary (September 1885 to December 1887), and Claverack College and Hudson River Institute (January 1888 to June 1890). Both schools were to play key roles in young Crane's literary, cultural, and intellectual life. The new evidence offered in this essay corrects long-held positions regarding why Stephen left Pennington for Claverack and the "diminished" reputation of Claverack as a preparatory school.

The Kipling Collection At Syracuse, Thomas Pinney

The Courier

The following is an edited transcript of the talk given by Professor Pinney to the Syracuse University Library Associates on 25 September 1992. Professor Pinney is the editor of The Letters of Rudyard Kipling.

Though Kipling is known to have visited New York State, it is unlikely that he ever saw the streets of Syracuse. However, he is notably present in the city now through the large, important, and growing collection of his letters and printed works assembled here in the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections. There are other important Kipling collections in the United States. Kipling's great …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxvi, No. 2, Fall 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

71125: Fifty Years of Silence and B 11226: Fifty Years of Silence, Artists' Books on the Holocaust. Purchased with funds from the Jerome and Arlene Gerber Endowment Fund.

The Library recently acquired two limited-edition artists' books in which Holocaust survivors Eva and Eugene Kellner recall their experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The books were designed and printed by their daughter Tatana, who is artistic director ofthe Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York.

Fore-Edge Paintings At Syracuse University, Jeff Weber

The Courier

MANY PEOPLE, EVEN BOOK collectors, have never seen or heard of fore-edge paintings,l though such paintings have embellished books for more than four centuries. The art form originated in sixteenth-century Italy. Fore-edge paintings appeared in England during the mid-seventeenth-century and were produced for about forty years (165 I -ca. 1690). They reappeared in 1785 with the firm of Edwards of Halifax. Since then, many thousands of books have received fore-edge paintings and, contrary to popular opinion, the great majority of them are products of the twentieth century. Indeed, probably ninety percent of fore-edges available for sale today were painted during …

Courier, Volume Xxvii, Number 2, Fall 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

A Dominican Gradual ofSaints, circa 1500 / George Catalano, p. 3 -- Stephen Crane at Claverack College: A New Reading / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 33 -- Fenimore Cooper's Libel Suits / Constantine Evans, p. 47 -- The Kipling Collection at Syracuse / Thomas Pinney, p. 75 -- Fore-edge Paintings at Syracuse University / Jeff Weber, p. 89 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 115.

Hebrew Poetry Written With A Gothic Script, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Else Lasker-Schueler's work A Study in German-Jewish Literature.

Modernism From Right To Left: Wallace Stevens, The Thirties, And Radicalism, Alan Filres

The Courier

IN 193 I, not quite a year into the Great Depression, Wallace Stevens and his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, agreed that there ought to be a new edition of his first book, Harmonium (1923). Stevens decided to delete three poems and add fourteen. Most of these "new" poems had indeed been written after Stevens brought the manuscript of his first book to Knopf in December 1922, yet none had been written after 1924. But poetry, or rather the status of poetry, had changed a great deal during the seven years since Stevens had ceased to think of himself as a …

Courier, Volume Xxvii, Number 1, Spring 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Radicalism / Alan Filreis, p. 3 -- Adam Badeau's "The Story ofthe Merrimac and the Monitor" / Robert J. Schneller, Jr., p. 25 -- A Marcel Breuer House Proj ect of 1938-1939 / Isabelle Hyman, p. 55 -- Traveler to Arcadia: Margaret Bourke-White in Italy, 1943-1944 / Randall I. Bond, p. 85 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Seven) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 111 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 159.

Traveler To Arcadia: Margaret Bourke-White In Italy, 1943-1944, Randall I. Bond

The Courier

DURING the nineteenth century, American artists, writers, and intellectuals flocked to Italy, seeking an escape from the exigencies of the modern world. To them, Italy was a dream realm, a golden Arcadia. Some, however, like the painter Thomas Cole, saw through the dream and brought back to America a stark message about the displacement of nations and the fall of empires. In the 183os, on the eve of America's westward expansion, Cole painted his Course of Empire series, tracing the progress of Rome from an Arcadian State, to the Consummation of Empire, to Destruction, finally ending in Desolation. Cole was …