TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Joshua Trachtenberg Papers. 1930-1959.

Manuscript Collection No. 295



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Trachtenberg, Joshua, 1904-1959.
Title: Joshua Trachtenberg Papers.
Dates: 1930-1959.
Quantity: 2.8 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, sermons, addresses, and other materials relating to Jewish mysticism and folklore, and Zionism.
Collection Number: MS-295
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Rabbi, of Easton, Pa. and Teaneck, N.J.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, sermons, addresses, and other materials relating to Jewish mysticism and folklore, and Zionism.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Joshua Trachtenberg Papers are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Edna Trachtenberg, by the act of donating the Joshua Trachtenberg Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Joshua Trachtenberg and his heirs. Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Joshua Trachtenberg Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-295. Joshua Trachtenberg Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Joshua Trachtenberg Papers were received from Edna Trachtenberg, Teaneck, New Jersey, in 1959.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Jewish folk literature
Jewish sermons, American
Jews -- New Jersey -- Teaneck
Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Easton
Mysticism -- Judaism
Rabbis -- New Jersey -- Teaneck
Rabbis -- Pennsylvania -- Easton
Trachtenberg, Joshua -- 1904-1959
Zionism