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David H. Hirsch papers (MS.2012.030)

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Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
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Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence, 1960-1999

Series 1. Subseries 1. Professional, 1961-1999

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 American Philosophical Society
1981-1985
Box 1, Folder 2 Bar-Ilan University
1965-1969
Box 1, Folder 3 G.K.Hall and Co.
1985-1991
Box 1, Folder 4 Grolier Inc.
1977
Box 1, Folder 5 Holocaust and Genocide Studies
1994-1995
Box 1, Folder 6 Magnes Press
1983-1995
Box 1, Folder 7 Modern Language Association
1977-1989
Box 1, Folder 8 Modern Language Quarterly
1963-1989
Box 1, Folder 9 Modern Philology
1996-1998
Box 1, Folder 10 Mouton and Co.
1963-1977
Box 1, Folder 11 Northwestern University
1978-1979
Box 1, Folder 12 Northwestern University Press
1997
Box 1, Folder 13 Novel: a forum on fiction
1969-1970
Box 1, Folder 14 Ohio State University
1961-1965
Box 1, Folder 15 Sewanee Review
1964-1994
Box 1, Folder 16 Shofar
1993-1995
Box 1, Folder 17 South Atlantic Review
1995-1996
Box 1, Folder 18 University of North Carolina Press
1983-1989
Box 1, Folder 19 University Press of New England
1989-1993
Box 1, Folder 20 Organizations: A-F
1963-1998
Box 1, Folder 21 Organizations: G-L
1962-1999
Box 1, Folder 22 Organizations: M-N
1962-1994
Box 1, Folder 23 Organizations: O-P
1978-1998
Box 1, Folder 24 Organizations: Q-T
1963-1998
Box 1, Folder 25 Organizations: U-Z
1963-1997

Series 1. Subseries 2. Personal, 1960-1999

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 26 Aharon Appelfeld
1994
Box 1, Folder 27 Nehama Aschkenasy
1988-1991
Box 1, Folder 28 Stanley Baumblatt
1972
Box 1, Folder 29 Saul Bellow
1981
Box 1, Folder 30 John Berryman
1963
Box 1, Folder 31 Morton Bloomfield
1974
Box 1, Folder 32 Cleanth Brooks
1983-1989
Box 1, Folder 33 Eric Carlson
1994
Box 1, Folder 34 Terrence Des Pres
1982
Box 1, Folder 35 Charlotte Downey
1996
Box 1, Folder 36 Trevor Eaton
1972-1978
Box 1, Folder 37 Harold Fisch
1977-1996
Box 1, Folder 38 Benjamin Fisher
1981-1998
Box 1, Folder 39 Charles Fishman
1994
Box 1, Folder 40 Henry Louis Gates
1992
Box 1, Folder 41 Ezra Greenspan
1993
Box 1, Folder 42 Alfred Kazin
1994
Box 1, Folder 43 Frank Kermode
1968
Box 1, Folder 44 Milton Kessler
1964-1998
Box 1, Folder 45 Richard Kopley
1990-1998
Box 1, Folder 46 Krzysztof Kulisiewicz
1983-1989
Box 1, Folder 47 Stanley Kutler
1985-1991
Box 1, Folder 48 Maynard Mack
1986-1988
Box 1, Folder 49 Frank Murphy
1977
Box 1, Folder 50 Heidi Neumark
undated
Box 1, Folder 51 David Patterson
1997
Box 1, Folder 52 Eli Pfefferkorn
1968-1999
Box 1, Folder 53 Donald Reiman
1981
Box 1, Folder 54 James Reston
1976-1981
Box 1, Folder 55 Jeffrey Richards
1998
Box 1, Folder 56 Tom Rockmore
1991-1994
Box 1, Folder 57 A. M. Rosenthal
1990-1994
Box 2, Folder 1 David Roskies
1985-1986
Box 2, Folder 2 Sandor Rot
1984
Box 2, Folder 3 Lois Cuddy Rudnick
1975-1991
Box 2, Folder 4 Abraham Sutzkever
Contents Note: In Yiddish
1986-1989
Box 2, Folder 5 Michael Taub
1988-1989
Box 2, Folder 6 Jane Turner Hart
1973-1990
Box 2, Folder 7 Hyatt Waggoner
1961-1981
Box 2, Folder 8 Elie Wiesel
1982-1999
Box 2, Folder 9 Richard Wilbur
1978
Box 2, Folder 10 George Will
1990-1991
Box 2, Folder 11 Andrew Wright
1963-1964
Box 2, Folder 12 Jonathan Yardley
1988
Box 2, Folder 13 Miscellaneous personal
1960-1969
Box 2, Folder 14 Miscellaneous personal
1970-1979
Box 2, Folder 15 Miscellaneous personal
1980-1984
Box 2, Folder 16 Miscellaneous personal
1985-1989
Box 2, Folder 17 Miscellaneous personal
1990-1994
Box 2, Folder 18 Miscellaneous personal
1995-1999
Box 2, Folder 19 Miscellaneous personal
undated
Box 2, Folder 20 Student correspondence
1973-1996
Box 2, Folder 21 Miscellaneous Brown University related
1973-1999
Box 2, Folder 22 Modern Language Studies
1983-1994
Box 2, Folder 23 Schever-Waxman Amendment
1975
Box 2, Folder 24 Hirsch salary
1965-1995
Box 2, Folder 25 Hirsch job offers
1967-1991
Box 2, Folder 26 Hirsch parents
1983
Box 2, Folder 27 Empty envelopes
1976-1999

Series 2. Personal and teaching, 1961-2000

Series 2. Subseries 1. Personal, 1961-1999

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 28 Curriculum vitae
1977-1995
Box 2, Folder 29 Stipends and leaves
1968-1983
Box 2, Folder 30 Travel documents
1972-1999
Box 2, Folder 31 Car documents
1988
Box 2, Folder 32 Medical documents
1961-1999
Box 2, Folder 33 Financial documents
1971-1999
Box 22, Folder 3 Office documents
1981
Box 22, Folder 4 Computer manuals, floppy disk (Apple OS)
1987-1994
Box 2, Folder 34 Roslyn Hirsch (wife)
1988
Box 2, Folder 35 Helene Hirsch (daughter)
1983-1985
Box 2, Folder 36 Joe Hirsch (son) tuition
1977-1987
Box 2, Folder 37 Miscellaneous personal
1976-1995
Box 2, Folder 38 Note pad
circa 1972
Box 2, Folder 39A Miscellaneous notes
1986-1999
Box 2, Folder 39B Miscellaneous political, cultural, and editorial clippings and photocopies
1977-1999
Box 2, Folder 40 Photographs
1997

Series 2. Subseries 2. Teaching, 1968-2000

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 41 American Civilization Department
1971-1987
Box 2, Folder 42 English Department
1969-2000
Box 2, Folder 43 Judaic Studies Department
1978-1999
Box 2, Folder 44 Religious Studies Department
1973-2000
Box 2, Folder 45 Academic Advising
1975-1984
Box 2, Folder 46 Course proposals and general curricula
1976-1988
Box 3, Folder 1 Educational Policy Committee
1974-1988
Box 3, Folder 2 Preliminary Examination Committee
1968-1990
Box 3, Folder 3 Faculty Senate publications, memos, bulletins
1973-1999
Box 3, Folder 4 Student publications
1969-1984
Box 3, Folder 5 Miscellaneous Brown administrative documents
1977-1999
Box 3, Folder 6 Hirsch writings on teaching and education
undated
Box 3, Folder 7 Miscellaneous articles and clippings on education 1
1976-1990
Box 3, Folder 8 Miscellaneous articles and clippings on education 2
1980-1999
Box 3, Folder 9 Howard Foundation Award
1999
Box 3, Folder 10 Fulbright Award
1983
Box 3, Folder 11 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award Committee
1985-1987
Box 3, Folder 12 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award Committee, Readers' reports
1985
Box 3, Folder 13 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award Committee, Readers' reports
1986
Box 3, Folder 14 Phi Beta Kappa Gauss Award Committee, Readers' reports
1987
Box 3, Folder 15 Miscellaneous grants and awards
1983-1986
Box 22, Folder 5 Recommendations and references for Hirsch colleagues
1972-1994
Box 22, Folder 6 James Matory manuscript
1991
Box 22, Folder 7 John Schwartzman manuscript, chapters 1-3
1991
Box 22, Folder 8 John Schwartzman manuscript, chapters 4-8
1991
Box 22, Folder 9 James Shreeve manuscript
1975

Series 2. Subseries 3. Conferences, 1971-1999

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 16 Ashkenaz Conference (Poland)
1997-1998
Box 3, Folder 17 Association for Jewish Studies Conference
1994-1998
Box 3, Folder 18 Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature Conference (Israel)
1981-1982
Box 3, Folder 19 Despair and Desire Conference (Atlanta)
1996
Box 3, Folder 20 Holocaust and the Churches Conference
1996-1999
Box 3, Folder 21 Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton. Administrative and correspondence
1996-1999
Box 3, Folder 22 Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton. Hirsch contributions
undated
Box 3, Folder 23 Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton. Participant writings
1996
Box 3, Folder 24 Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton. Correspondence regarding conference publication
1996-1998
Box 3, Folder 25 Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton. Fragments from Wroxton publication
1998
Box 3, Folder 26 Jews of Poland Conference (Brandeis University)
1986
Box 3, Folder 27 Pym Research Conference (Nantucket)
1986-1988
Box 3, Folder 28 Remembering for the Future Conference (Oxford)
1987-2000
Box 3, Folder 29 Santiago de Compostela Conference
1994-1995
Box 3, Folder 30 Sao Paulo Conference
1985-1986
Box 3, Folder 31 Miscellaneous conferences
1971-1999

Series 2. Subseries 4. Courses: Judaic Studies, 1983-1999

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 1 JS007: Literature of the Judaic Experience
1983-1984
Box 4, Folder 2 JS007A: Holocaust Literature: Syllabus, reading list, class lists, etc.
1985-1992
Box 4, Folder 3 JS007A: Holocaust Literature: Lecture notes
1985-1989
Box 4, Folder 4 JS007A: Holocaust Literature: Poetry readings
undated
Box 4, Folder 5 JS007A: Holocaust Literature: Supplementary readings
undated
Box 4, Folder 6 JS039: Holocaust Literature: Syllabus and notes
1993-1998
Box 4, Folder 7 JS039: Holocaust Literature: Notes and readings
1993-1998
Box 4, Folder 8 JS039: Holocaust Literature: Notes on Feuchtwanger's The Oppermanns
Contents Note: See also Box 18, folder 7
1997
Box 4, Folder 9 JS039: Holocaust Literature: Bound course reserve pack
undated
Box 4, Folder 10 JS039: Holocaust Literature: Course reserves
1998-1999
Box 4, Folder 11 JS198, Section 1: Holocaust: Literary and Historical Perspectives
1994-1997
Box 4, Folder 12 JS199A: Holocaust: Literary and Historical Perspectives: Lecture notes
1992-1995
Box 4, Folder 13 Miscellaneous class notes
1984-1998

Series 2. Subseries 5. Courses: Religious Studies, 1974-1978

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 14 RS111: Studies in Biblical Literature: The Book of Job and Joban Literature
1975-1978
Box 4, Folder 15 RS193/EL127: Types of Old Testament Narrative
1974-1975

Series 2. Subseries 6. Courses: English Literature, 1966-1992

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 16 H12
1979-1986
Box 4, Folder 17 EL015: The Novel
1974-1978
Box 4, Folder 18 EL016: Introduction to Poetry
1982-1984
Box 4, Folder 19 EL024: Polemical Writing
1983
Box 4, Folder 20 EL041: American Literature
1989-1991
Box 5, Folder 1 EL042: American Literature
1984-1987
Box 5, Folder 2 EL050: British and American Romanticism
1976-1989
Box 5, Folder 3 S72: Literature of Passional Thinking
1977
Box 5, Folder 4 S90: British and American Romanticism
1987-1988
Box 5, Folder 5 S90: The Poe Aura
1993
Box 5, Folder 6 S93: British and American Romanticism
1987-1988
Box 5, Folder 7 EL115: Literary Criticism and Theory: Syllabi, rosters, book lists
1986-1989
Box 5, Folder 8 EL115: Literary Criticism and Theory: Course reserves
1986
Box 5, Folder 9 EL115: Literary Criticism and Theory: Lecture notes
undated
Box 5, Folder 10 EL115: Literary Criticsm and Theory: Supplementary readings
undated
Box 5, Folder 11 EL116: Principles of Literary Criticism
1987-1988
Box 5, Folder 12 EL143: American Poetry
1969-1975
Box 5, Folder 13 EL144: American Poetry
1968-1976
Box 5, Folder 14 EL145: Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville
1992-1993
Box 5, Folder 15 EL146: Edgar Allan Poe
1996
Box 5, Folder 16 EL147: Musical Comedy: Syllabus, roster, lecture notes
1982-1983
Box 5, Folder 17 EL147: Musical Comedy: Cassette tape "Eliot"
Genre: 1 audiocassette
undated
Box 5, Folder 18 EL147: Musical Comedy: Readings
1982-1983
Box 5, Folder 19 EL149: Literature of the Holocaust
1971-1972
Box 5, Folder 20 EL154A: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
1995
Box 5, Folder 21 EL211: Poe
undated
Box 5, Folder 22 EL212: Age of Emerson
1966-1990
Box 5, Folder 23 EL225: Poe and Hawthorne
1966-1991
Box 5, Folder 24 EL261: [Biblical Literature]
1969-1970
Box 5, Folder 25 EL273A: Hawthorne and Poe: Syllabi, rosters, reading lists
1983-1990
Box 5, Folder 26 EL273A: Hawthorne and Poe: Lecture notes
1988
Box 5, Folder 27 EL273A: Hawthorne and Poe: Course reserves
1985-1988
Box 5, Folder 28 EL273A: Hawthorne and Poe: Hirsch supplementary writings
1988
Box 5, Folder 29 EL273A: Hawthorne and Poe: Supplementary readings
1973-1987
Box 6, Folder 1 EL274: Major American Literary Figures
1979-1992
Box 6, Folder 2 EL274: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
1978-1990
Box 6, Folder 3 EL274: Poe Readings 1
1981
Box 6, Folder 4 EL274: Poe Readings 2
1981
Box 6, Folder 5 EL274: Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain
1977-1979
Box 6, Folder 6 EL275: [Poe and Melville]: Syllabi, notes, etc.
1978-1981
Box 6, Folder 7 EL275: [Poe and Melville]: Course reserves
1976
Box 6, Folder 8 EL291-292: Reading and Research
1980-1981
Box 6, Folder 9 Miscellaneous Course Material
1967-1990
Box 6, Folder 10 Non-Hirsch Syllabi
1968-1992

Series 3. Research and Writing, 1826-1999 (Bulk, 1961-1999)

Series 3. Subseries 1. Early English Literature, 1968-1985

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 11 Colonial literature: Anne Bradstreet, Philip Freneau, Edward Taylor, John Trumbull.
undated
Box 6, Folder 12 "New England Writers and the Legacy of Puritanism: A Prolegomena." Hirsch paper presented to the Newport Historical Society.
1984-1985
Box 6, Folder 13 "The Reality of Ian Watt": Hirsch paper
1968-1969
Box 6, Folder 14 Portion of edited manuscript and correspondence concerning Hirsch book: Reality and Idea in the Early American Novel
1971

Series 3. Subseries 2. Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 1826-1999

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 15 Henry Adams
undated
Box 6, Folder 16A "Charles Brockden Brown as a Novelist of Ideas": Hirsch manuscript
undated
Box 6, Folder 16B William Cullen Bryant: notes
undated
Box 6, Folder 17 "James Fenimore Cooper as a Novelist of Ideas": Hirsch manuscript and correspondence
1970
Box 6, Folder 18 Stephen Crane
1981-1984
Box 6, Folder 19 Emily Dickinson
1964-1990
Box 6, Folder 20 "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed": Hirsch paper on Dickinson's poem
1983-1985
Box 6, Folder 21 Ralph Waldo Emerson
1968-1991
Box 6, Folder 22 Hirsch article on Emerson for Grolier's People's Encyclopedia
1968
Box 6, Folder 23 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
1980
Box 6, Folder 24 Subdued Meaning in 'A New England Nun': a Review of Local Color: Hirsch manuscript and correspondence
1964-1965
Box 6, Folder 25 Leah Blatt Glaser writings on M.E.W. Freeman and correspondence
1991-1994
Box 7, Folder 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne
1962-1983
Box 7, Folder 2 "'Roger Malvin's Burial' and the Limits of Freudian Criticism": Hirsch manuscript and correspondence
1972
Box 7, Folder 3 "Arthur Dimmesdale and the Courtly Love Tradition": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1961-1962
Box 7, Folder 4 William Dean Howells
1963
Box 7, Folder 5 Henry James: Hirsch notes and writings
undated
Box 7, Folder 6 Henry James: Miscellaneous annotated photocopies
1978-1993
Box 7, Folder 7 "Henry James and the Seal of Love": Hirsch paper and notes on Portrait of a Lady
undated
Box 7, Folder 8 Henry James: Notes on Daisy Miller, The Wings of the Dove, The Turn of the Screw
1963
Box 7, Folder 9 James's The Ambassadors: Hirsch Lecture
undated
Box 7, Folder 10 James's The Ambassadors: Hirsch Paper 1: notes and drafts
undated
Box 7, Folder 11 James's The Ambassadors: Hirsch Paper 2: various edited versions
undated
Box 7, Folder 12 James's The Ambassadors: Hirsch Paper 3: various editied versions
undated
Box 10, Folder 8 "'The Man Against the Sky' and 'The Problem of Faith'": Hirsch paper on Edward Arlington Robinson, with correspondence
1968-1969
Box 10, Folder 9 Mark Twain: notes
undated
Box 10, Folder 10 Walt Whitman: annotated photocopies
undated
Box 10, Folder 11 Miscellaneous Nineteenth-Century American writers
1984-1998
Box 10, Folder 12 General criticism
1977-1994
Box 10, Folder 13 Nineteenth-century New England magazine articles about phrenology, typology, body/soul
1831-1835
Box 10, Folder 14 Nineteenth-century American literature bibliographies
undated
Box 10, Folder 15 Miscellaneous notes
undated

Series 3. Subseries 3. Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Herman Melville, 1851-1998

Container Description Date
Box 7, Folder 13 Hirsch response to J. H. Kavanagh on Benito Cereno
undated
Box 7, Folder 14 Billy Budd: notes
undated
Box 7, Folder 15 "Hamlet, Moby-Dick, and Passional Thinking": Hirsch paper: 1
undated
Box 7, Folder 16 "Hamlet, Moby-Dick, and Passional Thinking": Hirsch paper: 2
1976-1977
Box 7, Folder 17 "Hamlet, Moby-Dick, and Passional Thinking": Hirsch paper: 3, page proofs, correspondence
1974-1976
Box 7, Folder 18 "Yojo and the Leviathan" ["Verbal Reverberations in Moby Dick"]: Hirsch manuscript
1965
Box 7, Folder 19 "Verbal Reverberations and the Problem of Reality in Moby Dick": Hirsch paper: 1
1971
Box 7, Folder 20 "Verbal Reverberations and the Problem of Reality in Moby Dick": Hirsch paper: 2: plus correspondence
1967
Box 7, Folder 21 "Verbal Reverberations and the Problem of Reality in Moby Dick": Hirsch paper: 3: manuscript with revisions
undated
Box 7, Folder 22 "Verbal Reverberations and the Problem of Reality in Moby Dick": Hirsch paper: 4: page proofs, galleys, correspondence
1971
Box 7, Folder 23 Moby Dick manuscript, chapter 6
undated
Box 7, Folder 24 "Moby Dick, Romantic Epic": Hirsch lecture
1988
Box 7, Folder 25 "Transcendentalism, empiricism, and Melville's Ishmael": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 7, Folder 26 "Melville's Ishmaelite": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1963-1966
Box 7, Folder 27 Jonah and Moby Dick manuscript fragments
undated
Box 8, Folder 1 Paper on Melville and Keats for the Canadian Association for American Studies (C.A.A.S.) Conference
1978
Box 8, Folder 2 Drafts of Hirsch paper on "The Whiteness of the Whale" and Keats' Urn
undated
Box 8, Folder 3 "The Character of Mrs. Glendinning in Melville's Pierre": Hirsch student paper and notes.
undated
Box 8, Folder 4 Typee: notes
undated
Box 8, Folder 5 White Jacket: notes and correspondence
1964-1965
Box 8, Folder 6 "Melville Deconstructs the Romantic Meditative Poem": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 8, Folder 7 Melville and the British Romantics: draft, notes, correspondence
1986
Box 8, Folder 8 Melville and Shelley
undated
Box 8, Folder 9 Hirsch evaluation of a playscript about Melville and Hawthorne
1987-1988
Box 8, Folder 10 Hirsch book reviews and reader reports on Melville scholarship
1977-1988
Box 8, Folder 11 General Melville
1965-1985
Box 13, Folder 14 Microfilm reels: Melville Family Papers (Gansevoort Lansing Collection)
Genre: 2 reels microfilm
1851-1853
Box 13, Folder 16 Cassette tape: "Moby-Dick"
Genre: 1 audiocassette
undated
Box 8, Folder 12 Melville Society Extracts
1983-1998
Box 8, Folder 13A Hirsch manuscript fragments and notes on Melville
undated
Box 8, Folder 13B Non-Hirsch papers and writings on Melville
1978-1981
Box 8, Folder 14 Melville bibliographies
undated

Series 3. Subseries 4. Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Edgar Allen Poe, 1826-1999

Container Description Date
Box 8, Folder 15 "Berenice": notes and supplementary readings
undated
Box 8, Folder 16 "Poe as Moralist: 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Transvaluation of Values": Hirsch lecture
1997
Box 8, Folder 17 "Poe as Moralist: 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Transvaluation of Values": Hirsch paper
1998
Box 8, Folder 18 "Poe as Moralist: 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Transvaluation of Values": publication proofs
1995-1998
Box 8, Folder 19 "'The Duc de L'Omelette' as Anti-visionary Tale": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1976-1978
Box 8, Folder 20 "Another source for Poe's 'The Duc de L'Omelette'": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1966-1967
Box 8, Folder 21 "Imp of the Perverse": notes and supplementary readings
undated
Box 8, Folder 22 "Ligeia": notes and supplementary readings
undated
Box 8, Folder 23 "Poe's 'Metzengerstein' as a Tale of the Subconscious": Hirsch paper
1981
Box 8, Folder 24 "Poe's 'Metzengerstein' as a Tale of the Subconscious": Correspondence and reader evaluations
1970-1982
Box 8, Folder 25 Hirsch notes on "Metzengerstein"
undated
Box 8, Folder 26 "Murders in the Rue Morgue": supplementary readings
1982
Box 8, Folder 27 Pym Essay
1988
Box 8, Folder 28 "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym": supplementary readings
1993
Box 8, Folder 29 The "Oval Portrait" lecture: notes and drafts
1989
Box 8, Folder 30 Hirsch lecture on deconstructionist reading of "The Pit and the Pendulum" (Brockport Lecture)
1993
Box 8, Folder 31 Theme as Style in "The Pit and the Pendulum": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1967-1968
Box 8, Folder 32 "Theme as Style in 'The Pit and the Pendulum'": page proofs
undated
Box 8, Folder 33 "Theme as Style in 'The Pit and the Pendulum'": edited manuscript fragments
undated
Box 8, Folder 34 "Another source for 'The Pit and the Pendulum'": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1968-1970
Box 8, Folder 35 "The Pit and the Apocalypse": Hirsch paper
1968
Box 9, Folder 1 "The Pit and the Pendulum": Hirsch notes and correspondence
1964-1973
Box 9, Folder 2 Hirsch response to Jeanne Malloy's essay on "The Pit and the Pendulum."
1993
Box 9, Folder 3 "The Purloined Letter": Hirsch notes
1988-1993
Box 9, Folder 4 "Rappaccini's Daughter": Hirsch notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 5 "The Raven": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 9, Folder 6 "The Raven": Hirsch paper drafts and notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 7 "The Raven and the Nightingale": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1979
Box 9, Folder 8 "The Raven": Hirsch notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 9 "Shadow and silence": notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 10 "Tamerlane": notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 11 "The Tell-Tale Heart": notes
1993-1997
Box 9, Folder 12 "The Visionary": notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 13 Postmodernist Criticism of Poe: notes and annotated photocopies
undated
Box 9, Folder 14 "'Postmodern' or Post-Auschwitz: the Case of Poe": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 9, Folder 15 "Pym, Poe, and the 'Postmodern'": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 9, Folder 16 "Poe and Postmodernism": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 9, Folder 17 "Poe and Postmodernism": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1988-1994
Box 9, Folder 18 Hirsch response to Kenneth Dauber article "The Problem of Poe."
undated
Box 9, Folder 20 Chronological list of Postmodern Writers
undated
Box 9, Folder 21 Poe and Coleridge: notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 22 Poe and Baudelaire: notes
undated
Box 9, Folder 23 "The End of the Concept of 'Western Man': Poe and Nietzsche": Hirsch lecture
1995
Box 9, Folder 24 Limitism-Problem: Poe and Emerson: Hirsch handwritten draft
undated
Box 9, Folder 25 Hirsch reader reports on Poe manuscripts and correspondence
1980-1987
Box 9, Folder 26 Hirsch reviews of books about Poe
1969-1973
Box 9, Folder 27 Hirsch notes on journals that originally published Poe
undated
Box 9, Folder 28 Hirsch miscellaneous short papers on Poe
undated
Box 9, Folder 29 Hirsch notes on Poe
undated
Box 9, Folder 30 Barton St. Armand and George Monteiro offprints on Poe
1971-1986
Box 9, Folder 31 Non-Hirsch papers on Poe
1974
Box 9, Folder 32 Photocopies of Poe source material from anthologies and journals
1826-1843
Box 9, Folder 33 Photocopies of source material on premature burial, death, dreams
1831
Box 9, Folder 34 Poe societies and conferences
1984-1999
Box 10, Folder 1 Poe Studies Association newsletter (Worcester Polytechnical Institute)
1973-1999
Box 10, Folder 2 Poe Newsletter/Poe Studies (Washington State University)
1968-1981
Box 10, Folder 3 Poe Studies: v. 30, no. 1-2 proof
1997
Box 10, Folder 4 Poe bibliographies
1988-1996
Box 10, Folder 5 Non-Hirsch reviews of books about Poe
1983-1999
Box 10, Folder 6 Book jacket: Collected Works of E. A. Poe, v. 1, by Thomas Mabbott
undated
Box 10, Folder 7 General Poe photocopied materials
undated

Series 3. Subseries 5. Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1964-1968

Container Description Date
Box 10, Folder 16 " Hard Times: a Re-evaluation, or Hard Times and F. R. Leavis": Hirsch paper
1964
Box 10, Folder 17 Non-Hirsch paper on Walter Pater, and correspondence
1973
Box 10, Folder 18 "'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' and the 'Lucy' Question": Hirsch paper with correspondence
1966-1968
Box 10, Folder 19 Hirsch notes on the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
undated
Box 10, Folder 20 Wordsworth's "The Prelude": annotated articles
undated
Box 10, Folder 21 Miscellaneous annotated photocopies on the British Romantics
undated
Box 13, Folder 17 Cassette tape: Prelude, Prufrock, Ash Wednesday
Genre: 1 audiocassette
undated

Series 3. Subseries 6. Twentieth-Century Literature, 1930-1989

Container Description Date
Box 10, Folder 22 "John Barth's 'Freedom Road'": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1969-1970
Box 10, Folder 23 "T.S. Eliot and the Vexation of Time": Hirsch paper and correspondence, part. 1
1965-1967
Box 10, Folder 24 "T.S. Eliot and the Vexation of Time": Hirsch paper and correspondence, part 2
1965-1967
Box 10, Folder 25 "T.S. Eliot and the Vexation of Time": Hirsch paper and correspondence, part 3
1965-1967
Box 10, Folder 26 Prospectus for Prufrock book: correspondence and bibliographies
1970-1983
Box 11, Folder 1 Prufrock essays
Box 11, Folder 2 Critical Essays on The Waste Land: Table of Contents, essays, correspondence, permissions
undated
Box 11, Folder 3 Critical Essays on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, edited by David Hirsch and Lois Cuddy: manuscript part 1
undated
Box 11, Folder 4 Critical Essays on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, edited by David Hirsch and Lois Cuddy: manuscript part 2
undated
Box 11, Folder 5 Additional essays on The Waste Land for collection, and correspondence
1989
Box 11, Folder 6 William Spanos on The Waste Land, with Hirsch notes and annotations
undated
Box 11, Folder 7 Eliot and Pound: notes
undated
Box 11, Folder 8 Miscellaneous Eliot research: notes and photocopies
1960-1984
Box 11, Folder 9 Langston Hughes
1974-1986
Box 11, Folder 10 Thomas Mann
undated
Box 11, Folder 11 Flannery O'Connor
1961
Box 11, Folder 12 Ezra Pound: photocopies of letters and critical material
Contents Note: Legal-size folder
1930-1956
Box 11, Folder 13 "Ezra Pound, L. A. Waddell, and the Aryan Tradition of The Cantos": non-Hirsch manuscript, correspondence and critical material
1984
Box 11, Folder 14 "Order and 'The Idea of Order at Key West'": Hirsch paper on Wallace Stevens, and correspondence
1977
Box 13, Folder 15 Cassette tape: "Stevens and Cummings"
Genre: 1 audiocassette
undated
Box 11, Folder 15A "William Carlos Williams and The Dial": non-Hirsch paper
1976
Box 11, Folder 15B Miscellaneous American: Agee, Dickey, John O'Hara, Penn Warren, Plath
1969-1994

Series 3. Subseries 7. Literary Criticism, 1964-1999

Container Description Date
Box 11, Folder 16 Quentin Anderson, "The Imperial Self": Hirsch review essay
undated
Box 11, Folder 17 Erich Auerbach, "Mimesis": Hirsch notes
undated
Box 11, Folder 18 Sacvan Bercovitch, "Reconstructing American Literary History": Hirsch review and correspondence
1987
Box 11, Folder 19 Gerald Bruns, "Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language"; Edwin Fussell, "Lucifer in Harness": Hirsch review essay and correspondence
1974-1975
Box 11, Folder 20 Stanley Fish: Hirsh notes and non-Hirsch essays
1982-1987
Box 11, Folder 21 Edwin Fussell, "Lucifer in Harness": Hirsch review and correspondence
1975
Box 11, Folder 22 Christopher Norris, "What's Wrong with Postmodernism": Hirsch review and notes
undated
Box 11, Folder 23 Lionel Trilling: partial Hirsch manuscript and notes
undated
Box 11, Folder 24 Untitled Hirsch paper on literary structuralism
undated
Box 11, Folder 25 Untitled Hirsch paper on Imagism and Modernism in American poetry
undated
Box 11, Folder 26 "The American Tradition of 'Romance'": Hirsch paper
undated
Box 11, Folder 27 "American Dionysian Poetry and Modern Poetics": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1974-1975
Box 11, Folder 28 "Dwelling in Metaphor": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1980
Box 12, Folder 1 "Linguistic Structure and Literary Meaning": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1970-1971
Box 12, Folder 2 Metaphor and Structuralism: Hirsch paper
undated
Box 12, Folder 3 "Penelope's Web": readers' reports on Hirsch manuscript, and correspondence regarding publication
1989-1991
Box 12, Folder 4 "Signs and Wonders": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1979
Box 12, Folder 5 "Speech Acts of Fluid Language": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1976-1981
Box 12, Folder 6A "'Twelve Angry Men': Work of Art or Liberal Propaganda?": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1978
Box 12, Folder 6B Prospectus for Hirsch anthology: table of contents and introduction
1990-1999
Box 12, Folder 7 Miscellaneous Hirsch book reviews
1969-1998
Box 12, Folder 8 Miscellaneous Hirsch short essays
1988
Box 12, Folder 9 Unidentified manuscript fragments 1
undated
Box 12, Folder 10 Unidentified manuscript fragments 2
undated
Box 12, Folder 11 Hirsch student papers
undated
Box 12, Folder 12 Offprints and photocopies of miscellaneous Hirsch critical writings
1964-1988
Box 12, Folder 13 Notes: stenographer's pads
undated
Box 12, Folder 14 Notes: loose
undated
Box 13, Folder 12 Notes: file cards
Contents Note: Shoebox
undated
Box 13, Folder 13 Notes: file cards
Contents Note: Shoebox
undated
Box 12, Folder 15 George Monteiro offprints, photocopies
1968-1996
Box 12, Folder 16 Offprints from colleagues
1977-1994
Box 12, Folder 17 Photocopy of dissertation manuscript on Emerson, Whitman, Crane and Levertov, part 1. (Lacking title page, author unknown)
undated
Box 12, Folder 18 Photocopy of dissertation manuscript on Emerson, Whitman, Crane and Levertov, part 2. (Lacking title page, author unknown)
undated
Box 13, Folder 1 Non-Hirsch papers and essays, with correspondence
1969-1977
Box 22, Folder 10 Miscellaneous publishers' catalogs
1977-1999

Series 3. Subseries 8. Literary Criticism: topical, 1953-1996

Container Description Date
Box 13, Folder 2 American civil religion: notes, clippings, photocopies
1976-1988
Box 13, Folder 3 General literary criticism
Contents Note: See also Box 20, folders 15-26, and Box 21, folders 1-5 for material on Deconstruction theory
1974-1990
Box 13, Folder 4 Intellectual History and Academia
1985-1996
Box 13, Folder 5 Liberalism
1979-1989
Box 13, Folder 6 Linguistics and Semiotics
1972-1991
Box 13, Folder 7 Marxism, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Utilitarianism
1976-1988
Box 13, Folder 8A Metaphor
1962
Box 13, Folder 8B Postmodernism
1990-1993
Box 13, Folder 9A Poststructuralism
1988-1996
Box 13, Folder 9B Science, Myth and Religion
1953
Box 13, Folder 10 Translation
1982
Box 13, Folder 11 Bibliographies
undated

Series 3. Subseries 9. Judaica and Holocaust Studies, 1858-1999

Container Description Date
Box 14, Folder 1 Twentieth-century European history
1981-1999
Box 14, Folder 2 Photocopies of New York Times articles about Germany and Hitler
1933-1934
Box 14, Folder 3 Antisemitism and Racism
1858-1997
Box 14, Folder 4 Concentration Camps
1983
Box 14, Folder 5 Hitler
1983-1991
Box 14, Folder 6 Hitler's Officers
1956-1994
Box 14, Folder 7 Jewish Refugees
undated
Box 14, Folder 8 Jewish Youth Movements
1990
Box 14, Folder 9 Kristallnacht
1988
Box 14, Folder 10 Nazi Family Life
1988-1994
Box 14, Folder 11 Frances Henry "Victims and Neighbors: a Small Town in Nazi Germany Remembered" (monograph)
1984
Box 14, Folder 12 Nazism
1974-1993
Box 14, Folder 13 Resistance
1942-1977
Box 15, Folder 16 Fragmentary Hirsch notes and writings related to Holocaust Studies
undated
Box 15, Folder 17 Holocaust bibliographies
undated

Series 3. Subseries 10. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Poland, 1936-1996

Container Description Date
Box 14, Folder 14 General Polish
1936-1985
Box 14, Folder 15 Ghettos
1993-1996
Box 14, Folder 16 Resistance
1943-1991
Box 14, Folder 17 Ukrainian Jews
1996
Box 14, Folder 18 "Dolhinow Testimony," translated by David and Roslyn Hirsch
1983
Box 14, Folder 19 "Preservation and transformation: the expedition of Shlomo An-ski," paper by Sarah Stein
undated

Series 3. Subseries 11. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Post-war, 1974-1999

Container Description Date
Box 14, Folder 20 Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations
1986-1995
Box 14, Folder 21 Modern Germany
1992-1999
Box 14, Folder 22 Kurt Waldheim
1986
Box 14, Folder 23 France and the Holocaust
1986-1998
Box 14, Folder 24 Great Britain and the Holocaust
1988-1996
Box 14, Folder 25 Catholic Church and the Holocaust
1989-1999
Box 14, Folder 26 Israel
1984-1998
Box 14, Folder 27 Children of Holocaust Survivors
1981-1997
Box 14, Folder 28 Holocaust Commemorations and Memorials
1984-1998
Box 14, Folder 29 Holocaust Denial
1980-1999
Box 14, Folder 30 War atrocities, genocides, accountability in non-German nations
1985-1999
Box 14, Folder 31 Historiography
1978-1998
Box 15, Folder 1 Teaching the Holocaust
1985-1998
Box 15, Folder 2 Hirsch correspondence with the Jerusalem Post regarding Yehudah Bauer lecture on teaching the Holocaust
1986
Box 15, Folder 3 Uniqueness of the Holocaust, includes Hirsch published response to Henryk Grynberg
1986-1997
Box 15, Folder 4 Moral and Ethical Aspects of the Holocaust
Box 15, Folder 5 "Some Afterthoughts on Holocaust Ethics": Hirsch paper; Didier Pollefeyt correspondence and related paper.
1998
Box 15, Folder 6 Hirsch response to D. Pollefeyt paper "The Kafkaesque World of the Holocaust."
Box 15, Folder 7 Bruno Bettelheim: Hirsch notes
Box 15, Folder 8 Primo Levi: Hirsch writings and notes
1988-1999
Box 15, Folder 9 Zsuzsanna Ozsvath: Hirsch notes and correspondence
1992-1997
Box 15, Folder 10 Tzvetan Todorov: Hirsch notes, correspondence, critical material
1988-1996
Box 15, Folder 11 Elie Wiesel: Un die Velt, photocopy with Hirsch partial translation
1981
Box 15, Folder 12 Hirsch translations of Wiesel, and correspondence
1984-1985
Box 15, Folder 13 Against Silence: prospective Wiesel anthology? (photocopies)
undated
Box 15, Folder 14 Elie Wiesel: miscellaneous writings (photocopies)
1974-1995
Box 15, Folder 15 "Elie Wiesel's Struggle with God": Hirsch and Pfefferkorn article for Midstream, miscellaneous photocopied articles and clippings about Wiesel
1983-1998

Series 3. Subseries 12. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Holocaust Literature, 1939-1999

Container Description Date
Box 15, Folder 18 Literature of the Holocaust: annotated photocopies of critical articles
1966-1985
Box 15, Folder 19 Hirsch entries for the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust; Oryx Press correspondence and contracts
1999
Box 15, Folder 20 Holocaust issues of Modern Language Studies
1986-1994
Box 15, Folder 21 Holocaust issues of Modern Language Studies: manuscripts
1994
Box 15, Folder 22 Hirsch notes, correspondence, table of contents for prospective anthology of Holocaust literature
undated
Box 15, Folder 23 Holocaust authors: lists, bibliographies
1986-1989
Box 15, Folder 24 The Holocaust in Poetry, poems collected by Judith Abrahami Einat (manuscript paste-up)
undated
Box 15, Folder 25 Polish poetry (photocopies)
1939-1994

Series 3. Subseries 13. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Holocaust Memoirs, 1940-1999

Container Description Date
Box 15, Folder 26 Holocaust testimony, memoirs, and recollections, critical material and correspondence
1982-1999
Box 15, Folder 27 Interviews with Holocaust Survivors: Taryn Simon thesis
undated
Box 15, Folder 28 Translations of survivor accounts (Yad Vashem)
undated
Box 22, Folder 1 Photocopies of Yiddish source material, some stamped Yad Vashem, part 1
1940-1945
Box 22, Folder 2 Photocopies of Yiddish source material, some stamped Yad Vashem, part 2
1940-1945
Box 15, Folder 29 Polish Holocaust memoirs
1960-1984
Box 16, Folder 1 Notebook (unknown hand) on W. Kielar and J. Heschel memoirs
circa 1946
Box 16, Folder 2 Notebook : Hirsch notes on Nelkin (?) diary translation
undated
Box 16, Folder 3 Michal Borwicz: Hirsch notes and annotated photocopy
undated
Box 16, Folder 4 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): part 1 of copyedited manuscript (photocopy) and correspondence
1995
Box 16, Folder 5 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): part 2 of copyedited manuscript (photocopy)
1995
Box 16, Folder 6 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): Hirsch and Pfefferkorn notes
1995
Box 16, Folder 7 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): correspondence and legal forms
1986-1997
Box 16, Folder 8 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): reviews
1996-1997
Box 16, Folder 9 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): Polish and Yiddish source material (photocopies); background material
1943
Box 16, Folder 10 Justyna's Narrative (Gusta Davidson Draenger): excerpts and floppy disk
Genre: floppy disk
1995
Box 16, Folder 11 Marek Edelman, The Ghetto Fights: annotated photocopy
1946
Box 16, Folder 12 Haya Elbaum-Dorembus, The Aryan Side (manuscript photocopy of translation of Oyf der Arisher Seit, by Moshe M. Kohn), part 1
undated
Box 16, Folder 13 Haya Elbaum-Dorembus, The Aryan Side (manuscript photocopy of translation of Oyf der Arisher Seit, by Moshe M. Kohn), part 2
undated
Box 16, Folder 14 Anne Frank: Hirsch notes, annotated criticism
1995-1997
Box 16, Folder 15 Harry Gordon. The Shadow of Death as my Witness (manuscript photocopy)
undated
Box 16, Folder 16 Henryk Grynberg, "A Jewish Woman in Warsaw from September 1939 to …": annotated manuscript, Hirsch translation?
undated
Box 16, Folder 17 Krystyna Modrzewska, "Memoir of the Occupation": manuscript of Hirsch translation, photocopy of original, and correspondence
1982-1994
Box 16, Folder 18 Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, "Pillars of Samson": Hirsch translation manuscript and correspondence, copy 1
1991
Box 16, Folder 19 Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, "Pillars of Samson": Hirsch translation manuscript, copy 2
1991
Box 16, Folder 20 Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, "Pillars of Samson": Hirsch translation manuscript photocopy (slightly different edition)
undated
Box 16, Folder 21 Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land: correspondence and reviews
1983-1986
Box 16, Folder 22 Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Zydzi Woswiecimiv: photocopy of typescript
Contents Note: legal size
1966
Box 16, Folder 23 J. Rajgrodzki, "Eleven Months in Treblinka": Hirsch translation and photocopy of original
undated
Box 16, Folder 24 Rachel Roth, "There Is No Tomorrow": Hirsch translation manuscript, part 1, and correspondence
1996
Box 16, Folder 25 Rachel Roth, "There Is No Tomorrow": Hirsch translation manuscript, part 2
1996
Box 16, Folder 26 Rachel Roth, "There Is No Tomorrow": Hirsch translation manuscript, part 3
1996
Box 17, Folder 1 Adolf Rudnicki: Hirsch notes, photocopies of biographical material, and bibliography
undated
Box 17, Folder 2 Jorge Semprun: Hirsch notes
1998
Box 17, Folder 3 Julian Stryjkowski: Hirsch review essay
undated
Box 17, Folder 4 I. Trzesniewski, "Written With a Fingernail/Toenail": manuscript, Hirsch translation?
undated
Box 17, Folder 5 Controversial Holocaust memoirs
1996
Box 17, Folder 6 Jerzy Kosinski: Hirsch notes and reviews, clippings
1965-1996
Box 17, Folder 7 Binjamin Wilkomirski: Hirsch notes and reviews, clippings
1996-1999

Series 3. Subseries 14. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Camp Songs and Poems, 1936-1997

Container Description Date
Box 17, Folder 8 Camp music and songs: general
1948-1989
Box 17, Folder 9 Camp songs: lyrics
undated
Box 17, Folder 10 Camp songs: recordings
Genre: 2 audiocassettes
undated
Box 17, Folder 11 Aleksander Kulisiewicz, part 1
1977-1979
Box 17, Folder 12 ALeksander Kulisiewicz, part 2
1977-1987
Box 17, Folder 13 D. Hirsch, "Camp Music and Camp Songs: Szymon Laks and Aleksander Kulisiewicz": Chapter 10 of Confronting the Holocaust
1997
Box 17, Folder 14 H. Leivick, The Eternal Song: translations by David Hirsch
undated
Box 17, Folder 15 H. Leivick, Lecture Delivered to the PEN Congress in Buenos Aires; photocopy of finding aid for PEN American Center Archives at Princeton; newspaper photocopies
1936-1997
Box 17, Folder 16 Abraham Sutzkever: Hirsch biographical entry for the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust; Hirsch lecture
undated
Box 17, Folder 17 Abraham Sutzkever: Hirsch Binghamton Talk, and supporting critical material
1989
Box 17, Folder 18 Abraham Sutzkever: Kol Nidrei, translation by R. and D. Hirsch
undated
Box 17, Folder 19 Abraham Sutzkever: Sinai Poems, translation by R. and D. Hirsch; "In the Sinai Desert": essay by D. Hirsch
undated
Box 17, Folder 20 Abraham Sutzkever: Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1944 (memoir): Hirsch translation (?)
1947
Box 17, Folder 21 Abraham Sutzkever: Vilna Poems (Burnt Pearls), Hirsch translation (?)
1982
Box 17, Folder 22 "Abraham Sutzkever's Vilna Poems": Hirsch article
undated
Box 17, Folder 23 Correspondence regarding Hirsch translation of A. Sutzkever's poems
1981-1988
Box 17, Folder 24 Hirsch translation notes on Sutzkever
1987
Box 17, Folder 25 Miscellaneous critical material on Sutzkever
1983
Box 17, Folder 26 Published Hirsch translations of Sutzkever poetry
1982-1984
Box 17, Folder 27 Published non-Hirsch translations of Sutzkever poetry
1974-1988
Box 17, Folder 28 Vilna Songs (Miscellaneous authors): Hirsch translations
undated

Series 3. Subseries 15. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Yiddish Literature, 1970-1999

Container Description Date
Box 17, Folder 29 Yiddish literature: Hirsch notes, critical material
1973-1983
Box 18, Folder 1 "Ezekiel Among the Poets": Hirsch lecture on Yiddish Holocaust writers
undated
Box 18, Folder 2 Miscellaneous translations of Yiddish stories
1994
Box 18, Folder 3 S.Y. Agnon: Hirsch translation and correspondence
1982
Box 18, Folder 4 Aharon Appelfeld: Hirsch notes, photocopied biographical material and reviews
1981-1992
Box 18, Folder 5 Hirsch manuscript on Appelfeld and Abba Kovner
undated
Box 18, Folder 6 Abraham Cahan: Hirsch translations, critical material, photocopies of Yiddish source material
1970-1997
Box 18, Folder 7 Lion Feuchtwanger: Hirsch notes on Feuchtwanger's novel The Oppermanns; photocopies of critical and source material
Contents Note: See also: Box 4, folder 8
1983-1997
Box 18, Folder 8 Ida Fink: Hirsch translations, critical material, non-Hirsch papers
1994-1998
Box 18, Folder 9 Chaim Grade, "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner": annotated photocopy of Yiddish text, Hirsch notes
undated
Box 18, Folder 10 Chaim Grade: Hirsch translations of poems, photocopies of Yiddish originals, proposal, bibliography, and critical material
undated
Box 21, Folder 23 David Ignatoff. Af vayte vegn: photocopies
undated
Box 18, Folder 11 Abba Kovner: Charles Herman, "The Wedding of the Holocaust and 'The Song of Songs': a Study of Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge' and Abba Kovner's 'My Little Sister,'" and photocopies of Celan's poetry
1976
Box 18, Folder 12 Abba Kovner: Two papers by Eli Pfefferkorn
undated
Box 18, Folder 13 Hanna Krall: Hirsch translations of several stories, and correspondence with Krall (photocopied) and publishers
1998
Box 21, Folder 24 Moishe Nadir (Isaac Reis): annotated photocopies
undated
Box 18, Folder 14 Israel Rabon: Hirsch translation of "Balut," and annotated photocopy of original Yiddish
undated
Box 18, Folder 15 Israel Rabon: Hirsch translation of "Notes on the Year 1939," and annotated photocopy of Yiddish original
undated
Box 18, Folder 16 Israel Rabon: Hirsch translation of "Sketches of 1939" and photocopy of Yiddish original
undated
Box 18, Folder 17 Israel Rabon and Isaiah Spiegel: Microfilm copy of Rabon's "Balut" and Spiegel's "Mitn Ponem Tsu Der Zun"
Genre: 1 microfilm reel
undated
Box 18, Folder 18 Mendele Mocher Sforim: annotated photocopy of Yiddish text
undated
Box 18, Folder 19 Isaiah Spiegel, Ghetto Kingdom: Hirsch translation and introduction, notes, Yiddish originals (photocopies), correspondence
1985-1991
Box 18, Folder 20 Isaiah Spiegel: Hirsch translations of individual stories, and correspondence
1983-1984
Box 18, Folder 21 Isaiah Spiegel: three published copies of Hirsch translation of Ghetto Kingdom in shrink-wrap
1999
Box 18, Folder 22 Isaiah Spiegel: Hirsch correspondence regarding publication of Spiegel translations
1985-1999
Box 18, Folder 23 Isaiah Spiegel: photocopies of Yiddish originals, some annotated by D. Hirsch
undated
Box 19, Folder 1 Mordechai Tsanin, "A Child Among the Gods": Hirsch translation, Yiddish original, correspondence (in Yiddish)
1995-1996
Box 19, Folder 2 "Meir Wieseltier: an Israeli Poet Reconstructing the Jewish Past": article by D. Hirsch and E. Pfefferkorn, along with translations.
1973
Box 19, Folder 3 Anzia Yezierska: non-Hirsch critical material
1990-1992
Box 21, Folder 25 Unidentified Yiddish photocopied material, some stamped Yad Vashem, with Hirsch annotations and notes.
undated
Box 21, Folder 26 Unidentified Yiddish photocopied material, some stamped Yad Vashem, unannotated, part 1
undated
Box 21, Folder 27 Unidentified Yiddish photocopied material, some stamped Yad Vashem, unannotated, part 2
undated

Series 3. Subseries 16. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Contemporary culture, 1949-1999

Container Description Date
Box 19, Folder 4 Holocaust as artistic inspiration: papers, clippings, critical articles
1978-1991
Box 19, Folder 5 German literature
1985
Box 19, Folder 6 German drama
Box 19, Folder 7 Das Boot (film): Modern Language Studies essay
1988-1989
Box 19, Folder 8 Life Is Beautiful (film): reviews and criticism
1999
Box 19, Folder 9 Schindler's List (film): Hirsch critical writings and correspondence
1995
Box 19, Folder 10 Schindler's List (film and book): reviews and clippings; soundtrack
Genre: 1 audiocassette
1983-1997
Box 19, Folder 11 Seven Beauties (film): Hirsch notes and criticism
1979-1984
Box 19, Folder 12 Shoah (film): reviews
1980-1986
Box 19, Folder 13 Sophie's Choice (film and book): Hirsch notes and reviews
1979-1983
Box 19, Folder 14 Miscellaneous contemporary literature: critical material
1970-1989
Box 19, Folder 15 "Jewish American Writers and American Civil Religion": Hirsch talk
1984
Box 19, Folder 16 Saul Bellow: Hirsch notes and critical material
1971-1988
Box 19, Folder 17 John Hersey's The Wall: critical material
1950-1989
Box 19, Folder 18 Franz Kafka: critical material
1967-1982
Box 19, Folder 19 "The Short Stories of Bernard Malamud," critical paper by Begonia Sio-Castineira, with Hirsch preface (edited typescript)
undated
Box 19, Folder 20 Arthur Miller: Hirsch notes on Death of a Salesman
1964
Box 19, Folder 21 Cynthia Ozick: critical material
1989
Box 19, Folder 22 Philip Roth: Hirsch review and notes, critical material
1994
Box 19, Folder 24 "Jewish Identity and Jewish Suffering in Bellow, Malamud and Philip Roth," Hirsch offprint and partial manuscript
1971-1972
Box 19, Folder 24 Isaac Bashevis Singer: Hirsch notes and critical material
1969-1998
Box 19, Folder 25 "Secularism & Yiddishkeit in Abraham Cahan's 'The Imported Bridegroom' and Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'The Little Shoemakers,'" Hirsch paper and correspondence
1995
Box 19, Folder 26 D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel: non-Hirsch critical material
1984-1986
Box 19, Folder 27 Holocaust-inspired musical scores: David McKay and Arnold Schoenberg
1949-1985
Box 19, Folder 28 Miscellaneous post-Holocaust literature and music
Genre: 1 audiocassette
1976-1991
Box 19, Folder 29 Reviews of post-Holocaust drama, film and fiction
1967-1994
Box 19, Folder 30 Miscellaneous contemporary newsletters relating to Jewish culture, history, etc.
1979-1999
Box 19, Folder 31 Hirsch response to Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life: revised manuscripts, part 1
1999
Box 20, Folder 1 Hirsch response to Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life: revised manuscripts, part 2
1999
Box 20, Folder 2 The Holocaust in American Life: reviews, related bibliographies
1999
Box 20, Folder 3 Miscellaneous Hirsch notes and clippings related to the Holocaust
1997-1999
Box 22, Folder 11 Miscellaneous publishers' catalogs
1977-1999
Box 22, Folder 12 Educational programs and presentations
1977-1999

Series 3. Subseries 17. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Judaic theology, literature, and philosophy, 1954-1999

Container Description Date
Box 20, Folder 4 Judaism
1964-1999
Box 20, Folder 5 Judaism and Christianity
1989-1998
Box 20, Folder 6 Christianity
undated
Box 20, Folder 7 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
1954-1960
Box 20, Folder 8 Psalms, including partial draft of Hirsch essay on Psalm 19
undated
Box 20, Folder 9 Bible as Literature
1970-1973
Box 20, Folder 10 "Job poet as reliable narrator": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1967-1968
Box 20, Folder 11 "Cultural and intellectual ferment and acceptance in three generations of Jewish intellectuals": Miriam Wallk paper
1978
Box 20, Folder 12 Ernst Cassirer: photocopied critical material
undated
Box 20, Folder 13 Emmanuel Levinas: Hirsch notes and critical material
undated
Box 20, Folder 14 Franz Rosenzweig: photocopied critical material
1986-1987

Series 3. Subseries 18. Judaica and Holocaust Studies: Heidegger, Deconstruction, and Related Literary Theory, 1963-1996

Container Description Date
Box 20, Folder 15 Martin Heidegger: annotated photocopies of critical material
1964-1992
Box 20, Folder 16 Heidegger and Nazism
1987-1993
Box 20, Folder 17 Heidegger and the University: photocopied translations of Heidegger writings; Hirsch correspondence
1982
Box 20, Folder 18 Heidegger and Deconstruction Theory
1987
Box 20, Folder 19 Hirsch's The Deconstruction of Literature: reviews and correspondence
1991-1994
Box 20, Folder 20 "Deconstruction and Nazism": Hirsch paper, and correspondence
1990-1991
Box 20, Folder 21 "Postmodernism, Hellenism and Hebraism": Hirsch paper and correspondence
1995-1996
Box 20, Folder 22 Hirsch review of William Spanos's Heidegger and Criticism: revisions and correspondence
1994-1995
Box 20, Folder 23 Hirsch comments on Erich Kahler's The Tower and the Abyss
undated
Box 20, Folder 24 "After Alien Gods": Hirsch review of deconstruction theory, Heidegger, and Nazism, and correspondence
1988
Box 20, Folder 25 Miscellaneous Hirsch reviews of books about history and deconstruction
1992-1994
Box 20, Folder 26 Hirsch notes on Ortega, Kahler, and dehumanization in art
1985-1988
Box 21, Folder 1 Hirsch essay on Hannah Arendt; annotated critical material
1963-1995
Box 21, Folder 2 "Paul De Man and the politics of deconstruction": Hirsch paper and related correspondence
1987-1988
Box 21, Folder 3A Clippings and articles about Yale literary critic Paul De Man
1987-1992
Box 21, Folder 3B Jacques Derrida: critical material
1980-1993
Box 21, Folder 4 Deconstruction
1982-1987
Box 21, Folder 5 Hirsch notes and writing fragments on Deconstruction theory
undated

Series 5. Posters, 1977-1995
5.0 items

Container Description Date
Oversize 5N, Map-case 3, Drawer 12 The Greenleaf Garden Records presents Blackwolf and Lunasea, Thayer Street, Providence, RI, May 18 (poster)
1.0 item

undated
Oversize 5N, Map-case 3, Drawer 12 International Conference on American Literature: The Short Story (poster)
1.0 item

1995
Oversize 5N, Map-case 3, Drawer 12 International Symposium on Fernando Pessoa, Brown University (poster)
1.0 item

1977
Oversize 5N, Map-case 3, Drawer 12 A History of the English Language (poster)
1.0 item

undated
Oversize 5N, Map-case 3, Drawer 12 "The Night Was Long and Neverending: Reading the Holocaust" by Elija Brownell (student book)
1.0 item

spring 1994

Series 5. Joe Hirsch, 1974-1988

Series 5. Subseries 1. Fiction, 1977-1985

Container Description Date
Box 21, Folder 6 The Greenhouse: versions and correspondence
1977-1979
Box 21, Folder 7 Guru (collection)
1985
Box 21, Folder 8 Jack Despair in abortion city (collection)
undated
Box 21, Folder 9 "Sleeping in high places": handwritten manuscript
undated
Box 21, Folder 10 "Sleeping in high places": typed manuscript
undated
Box 21, Folder 11 Stories (collection)
undated
Box 21, Folder 12 "Trails in a vacant maze"
1984
Box 21, Folder 13 Short stories: A-H
undated
Box 21, Folder 14 Short stories: I-R
undated
Box 21, Folder 15 Short stories: S
undated
Box 21, Folder 16 Short stories: T-Z
undated

Series 5. Subseries 2. Poetry

Container Description Date
Box 21, Folder 17 Poems
undated

Series 5. Subseries 3. Drama

Container Description Date
Box 21, Folder 18 Short dramas
undated

Series 5. Subseries 4. Notes, correspondence, etc., 1974-1988

Container Description Date
Box 21, Folder 19 Notebook 1
undated
Box 21, Folder 20 Notebook 2
undated
Box 21, Folder 21 Notes, miscellaneous correspondence
1981-1988
Box 21, Folder 21 Story submissions and correspondence
1974-1988