Jewish Archival Collections Project
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg Collection
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Ann Kaplowitz Goldberg (1924-2009) of Brooklyn, New York, worked in classified communications with the Women's Army Corps from 1944 to 1946.
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Benjamin Cone Papers
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The Benjamin Cone Papers are composed of materials from the files of his personal office. As a result, it by no means represents a complete collection of his papers. Although the bulk of the material relates directly to Cone, a substantial amount deals with other members of his family.
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Bernard Cone Photograph Albums
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Bernard Milton Cone (1874-1956) was born in Baltimore as one of the youngest of Herman and Helen Cone's thirteen children. His elder brothers, Moses (1857-1908) and Ceasar (1859-1917), built Proximity Cotton Mills in Greensboro in 1895, and later launched Revolution Mill, White Oak Mill, and Proximity Print Works, creating one of the largest textile mill companies in the South. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia Law School, Bernard Cone worked as a lawyer in New York for seven years before settling in Greensboro in 1904. Over the next 45 years, he held various positions in the family's textile empire, including that of president of Proximity Manufacturing Company from 1917 to 1938. Cone was a skilled amateur photographer, and his photos provide a rich picture of life in Greensboro in the 1900s and 1910s. Images show: members of the Cone family and their mansions on Summit Avenue, the textile mills and their employees, the mill villages and their residents, and mill-sponsored schools and recreational activities. Cone also captured street scenes in downtown Greensboro and the city's 1908 centennial celebrations. In addition, the albums include several creative self-portraits.
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Bernard Greenhouse Personal Papers, 1916-2011
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The Greenhouse Collection features not only this master's fingerings and bowings to the standard repertoire, but also his performance annotations from the piano trio, piano quartet and piano quintet repertoire made during his years with Beaux Arts. It also includes all of Mr. Greenhouse's solo and chamber recordings, and archived tapes from his many years with the Bach Aria group, featuring such legendary singers as Marian Anderson, Jan Peerce, Eileen Farrell and Jenny Tourel.
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E. Cindi Basenspiler Oral History
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E. Cindi Basenspiler (b. 1970), of Murom, Russia, served in the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corps and the United States Army from 1988 to 2001.
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Egon Wellesz Contemporary Music Collection
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Egon Wellesz (1885-1974) was an Austrian-born British composer, tecaher, and musicologist who composed over 125 works in a variety of perfomance media. He was also a scholar who specialized in Byzantine music and taught at Oxford. Wellesz was a student of composer Arnold Schoenberg and his collection contains many of Schoenberg's published works.
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Elissa Minet Fuchs Papers
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Personal papers, artifacts, and recordings documenting the life of Fuchs in ballet and dance. The collection also includes personal papers relating to Peter Paul and Elissa Fuchs. Elissa Minet Fuchs (born Elise Minette Levy; March 10, 1919 – February 17, 2023) was an American ballerina and choreographer.
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Ellen Gerber Papers
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Ellen "Lennie" Gerber is a North Carolina attorney and activist who with Pearl Berlin, her partner of 52 years, was a plaintiff in the landmark 2014 marriage equality case Gerber et al. v. Cooper.
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Etta Cone Letters, 1927-1949
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This collection contains 27 letters. Twenty one of the letters were written by Etta Cone to her cousin, Richard Guggenheimer, between 1927 and 1935. Of the remaining six letters, two are written by Richard Guggenheimer to Etta Cone and four are to Richard from other members of the Cone Family (Frederic and Maxwell Cone, Sally and Jacob Moses), dated between 1931 and 1937. Topics include Etta's focus on building her art collection, as well as her social and business activities, travel plans, health concerns, and her support of Richard Guggenheimer's artistic endeavors. Also included in the file are newspaper clippings about the Cones from the Greensboro Daily News and Greensboro Sun; an article from the April 1979 volume of Arts Journal; and a catalog of an exhibit of the Cone collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum Oral History Collection
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The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, the only Jewish museum of its kind in North Carolina, is a Jewish museum created in collaboration with faculty and students in the Jewish Studies program and College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and the greater Greensboro Jewish public. Focusing on object as agent of faith or identity, the inaugural exhibition of the GCJM shines a light on everyday objects that facilitate contemporary Jewish identity in its varied forms. Contributors, Jewish residents of Greensboro, North Carolina, were prompted: “Please share a personal object imbued with significance to you as a Jew.” These household objects, their stories and the stories of their keepers are the content for a living archive that makes up our inaugural exhibition: 36+2. Developed by UNCG Jewish Studies Program Artist-in-Residence, Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem in partnership with Director of Jewish Studies, Ellen Haskell. In collaboration with: The University of North Carolina Greensboro Jewish Studies Program, Religious Studies Department, College of Visual and Performing Arts and Greensboro Project Space, and UNCG Special Collections & University Archives.
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Greensboro Jewish Federation
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Since 1940, the Greensboro Jewish Federation has funded programs that care for people at every stage of life – strengthening community, providing leadership, and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow. The Federation serves the community in many ways, offering programming, networking, and social events; brokering community relations; advocating for Israel, and organizing city-wide religious observances and celebrations. The collection currently consists of over 400 issues of the foundation's newsletter/magazine dating from 1973 to the present.
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Greensboro Massacre Collection
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The collection includes newspaper clippings related to the Greensboro Massacre and other social justice causes, trial materials related to the Greensboro Massacre criminal and civil trials, materials from the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, publications from social justice organizations like the CWP, audiovisual materials, and materials from Jim Waller, and drafts of writings by Signe Waller Foxworth. Digitization of this collection will be complete by spring of 2024.
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Harold Schiffman Archive
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Harold Schiffman (b. 1928; Greensboro, North Carolina) has composed in virtually all media. His commissions include those from such diverse groups as the Tallahassee Symphony, the International Trombone Association, the Apple Trio, the Concertino String Quartet, the Mallarme Chamber Players, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, as well as from a number of individuals including conductor Richard Burgin, flutist Albert Tipton, soprano Janice Harsanyi, pianist Jane Perry-Camp, and pianist/conductor Max Lifchitz (for North/South Consonance). The North Carolina Symphony and the ARTEA Chamber Orchestra of San Francisco, among others, have premiered his music. The collection contains approximately ninety scores of music written by Harold Schiffman from 1944 to 2011. They include orchestral works, ensemble works, piano, harp, and harpsichord pieces, vocal works and songs, and Chamber works.
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Hillel, 1976-1998
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Records pertaining to the Jewish student group at UNC Greensboro, primarily its constitution and documentation of campus recognition requests. Also included are a photograph from 1967 and a Jewish Identity Week event guide, presumably from 1990.
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Janet Froome Collection
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Janet Hester Froome, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served in the Army Nurse Corps from August 1941 until December 1945.
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Jude Eden Collection
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Jude Eden (b. 1977), of Halifax, Nova Scotia, served in data communications with the United States Marine Corps from 2004-2008. She was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq from 2005-2006.
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Klein Family Papers
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Min and Al Klein were prominent in both the Jewish and military communities in Greensboro during World War II. They served as coordinators for the soldiers' lounge at Temple Emanuel, were two of the founders of the Greensboro USO, and hosted Jewish soldiers at their house for dinner every Sunday night. Min also volunteered for the Jewish chaplains at the Overseas Replacement Depot. The digitized items include several documents that highlight Min Klein's involvement in supporting servicemen and women in Greensboro during World War II. The 1994 reminiscence that she wrote for Ned Harrison, which goes into detail about World War II Greensboro and her and her husband's involvement, has also been digitized (https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/ghm%3A12836).
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Laszlo Varga Musical Score Collection, 1924-2014
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The original manuscripts to his over fifty transcriptions for cello ensemble and other combinations, including several unpublished works, are an important part of the Varga Collection. Among these manuscripts are his solo cello transcriptions of the Bach D minor and E major violin partitas, and cello/piano arrangements of the Schubert F minor Fantasy op. 103, and the Kodaly Dances of Galanta (originally for orchestra). The collection also includes works written for the Varga Cello Quartet by Gunther Schuller, Robert Starer, and Meyer Kupferman, and other original cello quartets by Alain Kouznetzoff, Richard Heller and Arvo Paart.
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Laura Barbara Weill Cone Scrapbook
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This scrapbook, created by Laura Barbara Weill Cone between 1908 and 1912, documents Cone's experience as a student at the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Cone was active on campus, playing the role of "the little minister" in a play of the same name and serving as captain of the Senior Field Hockey Team. She later served as a correspondent for the Charlotte Observer. The scrapbook is annotated throughout and includes Adelphian ephemera, including a 1909 initiation program and alumni dinner menu; signatures, autographs, and notes from friends and classmates; a letter from William C. Smith, Jr., asking to be the class mascot; qualifications of the Teacher of History; a student teacher evaluation; a program for a YWCA-sponsored circus held at the college in 1909; a 1910 May Day program; a 1910 letter of acceptance to teach; a Dedication and first annual commencement invitation dating from 1893; a YWCA pamphlet titled "On Leaving College"; Field Day ribbons from 1910 and a list of Field Day activities; "Tree Song" lyrics; a photograph of students gathering daisies; and a photograph of Anna Gove with a camera.
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