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Hasia Diner Papers

Call Number

MC.153

Dates

1960-2021, inclusive
; 1970-1992, bulk

Creator

Diner, Hasia R.

Extent

49 Linear Feet in 34 record cartons, 29 manuscript boxes, and 2 half manuscript boxes
24 Gigabytes

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

Hasia Diner is a Professor of American Jewish History and is also the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at NYU. Her research interests include American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history. The following collection includes her research notes for four of her manuscripts.

Biography of Hasia Diner

Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, with a joint appointment in the departments of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and is the Director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Previously she was a professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. Professor Diner held a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Haifa in Israel, 1990-1991. She has been a Lilly Fellow at the Mary I. Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, in 1998 won election to membership in American Academy of Jewish Research and in 2004 to the Society of American Historians. She has also been a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her bachelor's degree was awarded in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin and her master's at the University of Chicago in 1970.

She has published many books and articles, including In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 (1977, 1995), A Time For Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration (1992), Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (1984), The Lower Eastside Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2000), Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2002), and We Remember with Reverance and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (2009).

Sources:

Hasia Diner, research notes.

Arrangement

Folders contain notes and source material arranged by the author. The files are grouped into one series with eight subseries.

Subseries I.A. Erin's Daughters
Subseries I.B. In the Almost Promised Land
Subseries I.C. Jewish Self-Governance
Subseries I.D. A Time for Gathering
Subseries I.E. Hungering for America
Subseries I.F. Lower East Side Memories
Subseries I.G. We Remember with Reverance and Love
Subseries I.H. Roads Taken

Scope and Contents

The Hasia Diner Papers collection is divided into one series which is broken down into eight subseries. Each subseries represents one of the books that Hasia Diner wrote. The material in this collection consists of research materials that Professor Diner used when writing about American Jewish history, American immigration history, and American women's history. Almost all of the material is photocopies of primary and secondary sources. Majority of the folder titles in the collection were transferred from Diner's original research folders.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by Hasia Diner, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Hasia Diner Papers; MC 153; box number; folder number; New York University Archives, New York University Libraries.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please request materials at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These records were transferred to the University Archives by Hasia Diner in 1998, 2012, and 2018, and 2022.

Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures

Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted. Born-digital materials have not been transferred and may not be available to researchers. Researchers may request access copies. To request that material be transferred, or if you are unsure if material has been transferred, please contact New York University Archives, special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596 with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

Collection processed by

University Archives staff. 2012 accretions to the collection were processed by Elizabeth Alleva.

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 17:51:03 -0400.
Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

Information about arrangement and description decisions made prior to 2018 have not yet been recorded. In 2018 an accretion of research materials for Roads Taken were rehoused in archival boxes and folders and incorporated into the collection as a new series, in accordance with the collection's existing arrangement structure. One dvd-r was removed from the collection using a separation sheet, and inventoried. The 2022s accretions hasve been rehoused in archival boxes and folders in its existing order and established as new series. Two flash drives were identified, physically separated, and inventoried, but have not yet been forensically imaged, analyzed, or described. New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content.

Revisions to this Guide

November 2018: Record updated by Rachel Searcy to reflect 2018 accretions
March 2020: Record updated by Marissa Grossman to reflect expanding box 16 into three boxes and removing floppy disks to shared media box
June 2022: Record updated by Rachel Searcy to reflect 2022 accretion
October 2022: Record updated by Rachel Searcy to reflect 2022 accretion

Repository

New York University Archives
New York University Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012