TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Isaiah Sonne Papers. 1922-1960.

Manuscript Collection No. 513



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Sonne, Isaiah, 1877-1960.
Title: Isaiah Sonne Papers.
Dates: 1922-1960.
Quantity: 3.7 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, notes, bibliography of Jewish books, lectures, articles, and miscellaneous materials.
Collection Number: MS-513
Language: Collection material in English, German, Italian, and Hebrew.

Biographical Sketch

Scholar, bibliographer, and historian with a speciality in Italian Jewry, Sonne was born in Galicia in 1887 and studied at Swiss and Italian universities and at the Collegio Rabbinico in Florence. He came to the U.S. in 1940 where he worked as a librarian at Hebrew Union College and taught courses in rabbinic literature and Jewish history. He died in 1960.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, notes, bibliography of Jewish books, lectures, articles, and miscellaneous materials.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Isaiah Sonne 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. Isaiah Sonne, by the act of donating the Isaiah Sonne Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Isaiah Sonne 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 Isaiah Sonne Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-513. Isaiah Sonne Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Isaiah Sonne Papers were received from Mrs. Isaiah Sonne, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1961.

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.

Hebrew Union College -- Faculty
Jewish historians
Jewish librarians
Jews -- History -- Italy
Rabbinical literature
Sonne, Isaiah, -- 1887-1960