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Title: Leslie Gottesman papers
Date (inclusive): 1935-2011
Collection Number: 2015C5
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
13 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 card file box
(6.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, other printed matter, audio and video recordings and transcripts
of interviews, and slides relating to the history of Eritrea, including its political and social conditions as well as education.
Used in part as research material for Leslie Gottesman's book,
To Fight and Learn: The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's War of Independence (Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1998).
Creator:
Gottesman, Leslie
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
[Identification of item], Leslie Gottesman papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Leslie "Les" Gottesman, an American teacher and writer, was born in Portland, Oregon in 1941. He attended Columbia University,
receiving a B.A. in 1968 and an M.A. in 1969, and an Ed.D from the University of San Francisco in 1994 and a MFA from the
California College of the Arts in 2011. He is a professor emeritus of English at Golden Gate University in San Francisco,
where he taught for twenty eight years, as well as serving as the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996
and as Director of General Education from 2001 to 2007.
Gottesman's 1998 book,
To Fight and Learn: The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's Independence War, published by Red Sea Press, was based on research done in Eritrea in 1993. His research continued during visits to Eritrea
in 2000 and 2001.
In San Francisco, Gottesman writes poetry and, under the imprint Omerta Publications, publishes poetry chapbooks by himself
and others.
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes materials collected over nine years and three research trips to Eritrea in 1993, 2000, and 2001 relating to the history,
political and social conditions, and education in Eritrea, such as correspondence, writings, pamphlets, bulletins, serial
issues, other printed matter, audio and video recordings and transcripts of interviews, and slides. A portion of the collection
was used as research material for Leslie Gottesman's book,
To Fight and Learn: The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's War of Independence (Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1998).
David D. Laitin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Paul Henze papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Eritrean subject collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Ethopian subject collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Slides (Photography)
Education -- Eritrea
Eritrea -- History
Eritrea -- History -- Revolution, 1962-1993