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Elaine Dorfman papers and oral histories, 1979-1993.
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Title:

Elaine Dorfman papers and oral histories, 1979-1993
Elaine Dorfman papers and oral history audiorecordings, 1979-1993

Creator/Contributor:

Dorfman, Elaine, creator, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1999.017.

Creator/Contributor:

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Abstract:

The collection contains oral history notes and transcripts created by Elaine Dorfman, by students in her oral history methodology classes, and others; audiovisual materials; miscellaneous correspondence; miscellaneous notes related to oral history activities; newspaper clippings; obituaries; and materials for oral history projects conducted by Elaine Dorfman, including Women in the Military during WWII and San Francisco Jews of Eastern European Origin.

Date:

1979 (issued)

Subject:

Oral history -- Sources
Jews
Jewish women
Jews -- Social life and customs
Women in combat -- United States
Histoire orale -- Sources
Juifs
Juives
Juifs -- Mœurs et coutumes
Femmes au combat -- États-Unis
Women in combat
Jews -- Social life and customs
Jews
Jewish women
Oral history
United States
Vista College.
Vista College
Dorfman, Elaine -- Archives
Bransten, Edward
Blackman, Julius -- 1913-2019
Reutlinger, Jacques -- 1913-2006
Bransten, Edward
Women college teachers

Note:

Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1999.017.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Elaine Miller Dorfman (November 17, 1923 - December 24, 1992) was the oral historian of the Western Jewish History Center of the Magnes Museum. In addition, she was a staff member of the Regional Oral History Office in the Bancroft Library, at the University of California, at Berkeley. She also taught oral history methodologies and sociology at Vista College. At the time of her death, she was working on a project documenting Jewish women in the military in World War Two.
Elaine Dorfman papers and oral histories, BANC MSS 2010/852, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.

Type:

oral histories (literary works)
transcripts.
Sound recordings
Interviews
Archives
Sources
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Oral histories.
Histoires orales.

Physical Description:

4.5 (2 2

Language:

English

Identifier:

2008576575

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.