Guide to the Samuel Zagat Drawings and Photographs TAM.623

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012
(212) 998-2630
tamiment.wagner@library.nyu.edu

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive

Collection processed by Mary Allison Farley, Erika Gottfried, and Rachel Searcy

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Creator:	Zagat, Samuel, 1890-1964
Title:	Samuel Zagat Drawings and Photographs
Dates [inclusive]:	1912-1962
Abstract:	Samuel Zagat was a Lithuanian-Jewish artist best known for his work as a cartoonist, first for his popular comic strip Gimpel Beinish and later for his political cartoons. This collection documents Zagat's career as a cartoonist and more generally illustrates the efforts of an American cartoonist working in Yiddish. Materials include photographs, original drawings, negatives, contact prints, and newspaper clippings. Major subjects include labor relations, anti-Semitism, Cold War diplomacy, Israel and the Middle East, and humorous aspects of daily Jewish life.
Quantity:	11.25 linear feet in 2 record cartons, 2 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize flat boxes, and 4 card file boxes.
Language of Materials note:	Materials are in English and Yiddish.
Call Phrase:	TAM.623