TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1996-2004.

A Finding Aid to the Harvey Gotliffe Research Materials. 1996-2004.

Manuscript Collection No. 830

NHPRCFunding, in part, for the arrangement and description of this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Gotliffe, Harvey, 1936-
Title: Harvey Gotliffe Research Materials
Dates: 1996-2004
Quantity: 1.4 linear feet (1 record carton, 1 Hollinger box)
Abstract: This collection consists of research materials on Holocaust denial, particularly focusing on advertising in college newspapers.
Collection Number: MS-830
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Harvey Gotliffe received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1981. He is a professor of journalism and mass communication at San Jose State University in California. Gotliffe is the editor and publisher of The Ho-Ho-Kus Cogitato and is the author of the Ben and Zen, Now and Then Writing Almanack and My Father Was Born on Trafalgar Street. He was editor and publisher of The Highway Seventeen Almanack & Gazetteer. His articles and editorials on Holocaust survivors, former Japanese American internees, media, politics and travel have appeared in magazines, newspapers and online publications.


Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of research materials on Holocaust denial, particularly focusing on advertising in college newspapers. This research was used in eighteen presentations on the subject given at various college campuses by Dr. Gotliffe from 1998-2004. Materials include newspaper articles, editorials, interviews, videos, correspondence, and advertising. These research materials are representative of both the Jewish perspective on Holocaust denial and the perspective of the Holocaust deniers mostly represented by the Committee for the Open Debate of the Holocaust. A full index of materials is located in the first folder of this collection.


Arrangement Note

This collection is arranged in single series, arranged topically.


Conditions of Access and Use

Terms of Access and Use

This collection is 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

Harvey Gotliffe, by the act of donating this collection to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Harvey Gotliffe or his heirs. Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of some 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 Harvey Gotliffe Research Materials and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-830. Harvey Gotliffe Research Materials. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Harvey Gotliffe Research Materials were received from Harvey Gotliffe, San Jose, Calif., in October, 2004.

Processing Information

Processed by Michelle Wirth, October, 2011.

This collection was arranged and described according to minimal-processing standards. Funding, in part, for the arrangement and description of this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.


Box Folder Listing

Series A. General. 1996-2004.
Box
1 Articles, editorials, interviews, denial advertizing. [75 folders]
Box
2 Materials from Jewish Organizations and presentations. [44 folders]

Search Terms

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

Persons and Families

Gotliffe, Harvey, 1936-

Institutions

Committee for the Open Debate of the Holocaust
United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission

Subjects

College students –- Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial

Occupations

Journalists