TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers. 1926-1967.

Manuscript Collection No. 462



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Diesendruck, Zevi Hirsch Wolf, 1890-1940.
Title: Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers.
Dates: 1926-1967.
Quantity: 1.6 linear feet.
Abstract: Collection consisting of correspondence, lectures, and notes from Diesendruck's career as a professor of philosophy.
Collection Number: MS-462
Language: Collection material in English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

Biographical Sketch

Born in Galicia in 1890, Diesendruck came to the U.S. and became a professor of philosophy at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Diesendruck specialized in the philosophy of Maimonides, publishing several works on this topic. Diesendruck died in 1940.


Scope and Content Note

Collection consisting of correspondence, lectures, and notes from Diesendruck's career as a professor of philosophy.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck 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

Mrs. Zevi Diesendruck, by the act of donating the Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck 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 Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-462. Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck Papers were received from Mrs. Zevi Diesendruck, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1954.

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.

Diesendruck, Zevi Hirsch Wolf, -- 1890-1940. -- Manuscripts
Hebrew Union College -- Faculty
Jewish philosophers -- Ohio -- Cincinnati