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Malkiel, Yakov Photographs from the Yakov Malkiel papers.
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Photographs from the Yakov Malkiel papersCreator/Contributor:
Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-1998, creatorAbstract:
Includes formal portraits and snapshots of Yakov Malkiel, his wife María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, his mother Claire Saitzew Malkiel,
his father Leon Malkiel, his uncles Leo Saitzew and Manuel Saitzew, his great-grandfather Moise Saitzew, and numerous other
family members, friends, colleagues and associates. Also includes two photograph albums; Yakov and María's wedding rings;
and a small number of postcards, greeting cards, short publications and miscellaneous ephemera.
Date:
approximately 1875-ca. 1995 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLinguists -- California -- Pictorial works
Philologists -- California -- Pictorial works
Linguistes -- Californie -- Ouvrages illustrés
Philologues -- Californie -- Ouvrages illustrés
Linguists
Philologists
California
Malkiel, Yakov -- 1914-1998 -- Pictorial works
Lida de Malkiel, María Rosa -- Pictorial works
Malkiel, Claire Saitzew -- Pictorial works
Saitzew, Manuel -- 1885- -- Pictorial works
Saitzew, Leo -- Pictorial works
Lida de Malkiel, María Rosa
Malkiel, Yakov -- 1914-1998
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Collected by Yakov Malkiel.
Numerous photographers.
Title and date devised by cataloger.
Includes formal portraits and snapshots of Yakov Malkiel, his wife María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, his mother Claire Saitzew Malkiel,
his father Leon Malkiel, his uncles Leo Saitzew and Manuel Saitzew, his great-grandfather Moise Saitzew, and numerous other
family members, friends, colleagues and associates. Also includes two photograph albums; Yakov and María's wedding rings;
and a small number of postcards, greeting cards, short publications and miscellaneous ephemera.
Box containing 2 wedding rings shelved in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:184--OBJ (Carton 14).
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transferred from the Yakov Malkiel papers (BANC MSS 91/13 z).
Gift ; Of Isabel Lida Nirenberg ; 2011.
Container list available in library.
Yakov Malkiel was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1914. He fled Russia during the civil war and moved to Germany where he received
his Ph. D. in Romance Linguistics. He emigrated to the United States in 1940 and joined the University of California, Berkeley
faculty in 1942. There he participated in founding the Department of Linguistics and in 1965 became a member of the department
where he taught until his retirement. Malkiel wrote and edited more than a dozen books and wrote hundreds of scholarly articles.
He founded the journal Romance Philology in 1946 and received many awards and honors during his career. His wife, Maria Rosa
Lida, an Argentine scholar, died in 1962. Malkiel died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 83.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Photograph albums.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
4 boxes and 1 oversize folder (approximately 400 photographic prints), 1 box (3 glass negatives), 1 box (2 wedding rings)
and 24 negatives : black and white and color ; 36 x 28 cm or smaller
Language:
English
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Box containing 2 wedding rings shelved in Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:184--OBJ (Carton 14).
NEGATIVES: RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via the
Reference Inquiry form.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.