This guide identifies manuscript collections that are related to Jewish studies.  Particular strengths of these collections include Jews and Communism, the Holocaust, Atlanta rabbis, and the Leo Frank case.

This guide is not intended to be a complete finding aid to the collections.  It serves as a preliminary research tool, providing a brief description of holdings with basic information on size, inclusive dates, types of records, and broad subject areas.  More detailed descriptions of the sources listed below are available in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) and through EUCLID, the Emory Libraries’ online catalog.  EUCLID contains bibliographic records for the majority of the manuscript collections held in MARBL as well as books and other printed material available at Emory University.  EUCLID is accessible through the Internet at http://www.library.emory.edu.  Finding aids for these sources are also available through MARBL's Web site at http://marbl.library.emory.edu/FindingAids/index.html.  Please note that some collections may not yet have finding aids available and that this site is a work in progress.  Please contact the University Archives for additional information concerning Jews at Emory.

Please note that not all manuscript collections are housed in MARBL.  Some collections are located at an off-site storage facility and must be requested in advance.  In addition, some collections have access restrictions.  Researchers are encouraged to contact MARBL to insure that materials will be available.  We are also happy to pull materials in advance of a research visit.

Researchers should also consult the guide to secondary sources in Jewish Studies that can be found online at Woodruff Library:
http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/studies/jewish/

Researchers may visit MARBL Monday through Friday 8:30-5:30; Saturdays 9- 5:30. Hours are subject to change during holiday and intersession periods. During the summer, Saturday hours are 10-4. It is recommended that researchers contact the archives in advance to confirm information about the collections and business hours. Address inquiries to: Research Services, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta, GA 30322. Phone: 404-727-6887; Fax: 404-727-0360; Email:marbl@emory.edu. You may also visit our Web site at the following address for further information about the archives and its holdings: http://marbl.library.emory.edu

Collections

ABRAM, MORRIS B.  (MSS 514)

Papers, ca. 1940-1993; 96 linear ft. (96 boxes, 3 oversized folders)

Abram (1918-2000), a Georgia native, served as an educator, lawyer, statesman, president of Brandeis University and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations European office. The materials document Abram's lifelong dedication to civil rights and human rights issues through his participation in, and appointment to, national and international committees.  The collection contains information about Abram's leadership in several Jewish organizations, as well his involvement in higher education at Morehouse College, Brandeis University, Yeshiva University, and his work with the United Negro College Fund, U.S. Commission on Human Rights, and the United Nations.

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, ATLANTA CHAPTER, ATLANTA CHAPTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT (MSS 596)

Records, 1976-1983; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

The Atlanta Oral History Project was begun in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary (1980) of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and was an effort of the Atlanta Chapter to preserve the history of the Jewish community in Atlanta.  The collection project was conducted from 1976-1983. Included in the project are oral history interviews with such members of prominent Atlantans as John Sibley, David Marx, Harry Epstein, Sam Eplan, Rebecca Gershon, Donald Oberdorfer, Joseph Cohen, Josephine Heyman, Cecil Alexander, and Sinclair Jacobs. The interviews pertain to recollections about the history of their own community and of Atlanta in general. Also includes audiotapes relating to oral history meetings, educational programs, and the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee seventy-fifth anniversary celebration.

BOOZER, JACK STEWART (MSS 685)

Papers, 1950-1989; 56.5 linear ft. (57 boxes)

Jack Stewart Boozer (1918-1989), scholar and teacher of religion, was a graduate of Emory University, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Religion at Emory, a published author and lecturer, and an activist in civic and social movements.  Notes, research materials, manuscripts, and published articles reflect Boozer's research and writing on Paul Tillich, Rudolph Otto, the Holocaust, and ethical issues. Correspondence and administrative and printed materials relate primarily to Emory University, faculty committees, student groups, his musical interests, and his involvement with the Druid Hills Civic Association.

DRAPER, THEODORE (MSS 579)

Research files, 1919-1970; 30 linear ft. (48 boxes, 122 microfilm reels)

Theodore Draper (1912-2006), writer on twentieth century international affairs, was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel and Annie Draper.  He was educated at Brooklyn College and went on to write extensively for many publications and publish several books.  Draper is perhaps best known for his historical studies of the American Communist Party.  He has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (1963-1974) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1968-1973).  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as consultant to the Twentieth Century Fund.  In 1979 Emory University acquired from Theodore Draper the files of material that he had collected during the course of his research on the history of American Communism.  The materials in this collection document the history of the American Communist Party, 1930-1945, and, to a lesser extent, American Communism from 1919-1929, as well as the persons (primarily Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1930-1945) who were active in party affairs, particularly for the later period.  The papers include material related to Jews involved in American Communism and the situation of Jews in America in general.

EMORY UNIVERSITY. ATLANTA HILLEL (RG 300/Series 9)

Records, 1963-1988; 2 boxes

Atlanta Hillel, an organization for Jewish College students in Atlanta (Ga.), includes students from Emory University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oglethorpe University.  The collection consists of records of Atlanta Hillel from 1963-1988. The files include membership applications, correspondence, subject files, public relations materials, budget reports, and information on the programs at Georgia Tech, Oglethorpe University, and Emory University. Files also include papers of the Reformed Jewish Students Committee (ca. 1982-1984) and pledge cards from the Jewish dental fraternity, Alpha Omega (ca. 1963-1977).

EMORY UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL CHANGE

WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST (RG 600/Series 11)

Project files, 1978-1982; 31 boxes

The late Dr. Fred Roberts Crawford, Director of Emory’s Center for Research in Social Change and a witness to the liberation of Dachau, founded and directed the Project.  The Witness to the Holocaust Project’s original aim was to collect eye witness accounts from the soldiers who liberated the German concentration camps during World War II, from Holocaust survivors, and from other witnesses in order to refute claims that the Holocaust never occurred.

The collection includes audio and video recordings of oral histories with liberators, survivors and others; transcriptions of oral history interviews; photographs, slides and films donated by liberators; Project publications; other  publications, including entire issues of such newspapers and magazines as Hadassah, Martyrdom and the Resistance, and The Southern Israelite; and television programs produced by the Project.  Some of this material can be found online at http://sage.library.emory.edu/collection-0608.html.

EPSTEIN, MELECH (MSS 803)

Papers, 1964-1978; 2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Melech Epstein (1889-1979), author and journalist, was born in Byelorussia and moved to the United States in 1913.  He was a member of the Communist party until 1939 and edited the Yiddish Communist daily, Die Freiheit.  The collection consists of papers of Melech Epstein from ca. 1964-1978.  The papers include Epstein's writings, research, books and other printed materials, much of it pertaining to Marxism, Communism, and related topics.  The papers also include photographs, memoirs, and correspondence relating to the publication of his writings and to personal matters, particularly his involvement in activities concerning the welfare of Jews in America.

FRANK, LEO (MSS 674)

Collection, 1915-1988; .75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized folder, 3 reels of microfilm)

Leo Max Frank (1884-1915), son of Rudolph and Rhea Frank, was born in Paris, Texas.  The Franks, a Jewish family, moved to Brooklyn, New York, during Leo Frank's infancy.  He attended Pratt Institute and Cornell University, graduating from Cornell in 1906 with a degree in mechanical engineering.  After working as a draftsman and testing engineer for companies in New York and studying pencil manufacturing in Europe he came to Atlanta, Georgia, to work with his uncle, Moses Frank, to establish the National Pencil Company factory.  In 1908 he became Superintendent and Vice President.

Frank was sentenced to death by hanging (1913) for the murder of Mary Phagan, an employee he supervised at the factory. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment (July 1915) because of doubt by some trial officials as to his guilt.  Thomas E. Watson, publisher of The Jeffersonian, wrote scathing articles attacking Governor Slaton's decision.  Watson called for the boycotting of Jewish businesses and defended lynch mobs as "guardians of liberty".  Frank was abducted by a mob (August 1915) and taken from a prison farm outside Milledgeville, Georgia, to Marietta, Georgia, where he was hung. On December 22, 1986, a posthumous pardon was granted to Leo Frank by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on the grounds that the state had failed to adequately protect his life and chance for further appeal.  The collection consists of an artificially assembled group of materials related to the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, including a transcript of the sentence commutation hearing, defense attorney Luther Z. Rosser’s notes from the trial, and an address and exhibits created by Tom Watson Brown for a talk he delivered to the Symposium Club asserting Frank’s guilt. 

Note:  Restrictions to access and reproduction may apply.

           Related materials are located at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.

           See also Ralph McGill papers, Ernest Rogers papers, Mildred Seydell papers,

           Alfred Uhry collection, and Thomas E. Watson collection

GEFFEN FAMILY (MSS 651)

Papers, 1923-1996; 73 linear ft. (105 boxes, 4 oversized folders)

The Geffen family is prominent in the Jewish community in Atlanta, Georgia.  Tobias Geffen (1870-1970), was rabbi of the Congregation Shaerith in Atlanta from 1910 until his death in 1970.  Louis Geffen (1904-2001), son of Tobias Geffen, attended Emory University and Columbia University, then practiced law in Atlanta (1927- ).  He also served as chief prosecutor at the Yokohama war crimes trials during his duty with the 310th Military Government Group, 3rd Army.  David Geffen (1938- ), son of Louis Geffen studied at Emory University, then served as rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalon (Wilmington, Del.) from 1970-1977, and in 1993 became rabbi at Temple Israel (Scranton, Pa.).  He was involved with the Masorti Movement in Israel.

The Geffen family papers consist of personal, professional, and religious material, including correspondence, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia relating to  Louis Geffen, and his grandson David Geffen.  Very few materials relate to Tobias Geffen.   Also included are school papers of the Geffen children. Materials relating to Louis Geffen include correspondence between family and friends, especially his wife, Anna; materials relating to the Emory University Class of 1923; law school notebooks from Columbia University; photographs, manuals memorabilia, correspondence from his service with the 310th Military Government Group, 3rd Army, and as chief prosecutor at the Yokohama war crimes trials during World War II; law files; and collected printed material.  David Geffen’s materials consist of correspondence, religious writings, school and college materials, and collected religious material.  Some of the materials pertain to Geffen’s experiences with the Masorti Movement.

GOODFRIEND, CANTOR ISAAC (T-118)

Collection; 1 folder

Cantor Goodfriend was born into a Chassidic family in Poland and was later interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 16.  He hid with a Polish farmer after escaping the camp and was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.  He attended the Berlin Conservatory of Music, McGill Conservatory of Music, Conservatoire Provincial de Quebec, the Music School Settlement, and Baldwin Wallace College. Goodfriend served as cantor at the Shaare Zion Congregation in Montreal and at Cleveland’s Community Temple. He is now with the Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta, one of the largest Conservative congregations in the United States. Cantor Goodfriend has been active in musical, civic, and Jewish organizations in Atlanta and has written extensively on the Holocaust.  The collection includes transcripts of interviews with Cantor Goodfriend, photographs, a telegram from Elie Wiesel, and original artwork depicting the Holocaust.

JAFFE, PHILIP J.  (MSS 605)

Papers, 1936-1980; 90 linear ft. (163 boxes, 1 oversized folder, 3 microfilm reels)

Philip Jacob Jaffe (1897-1980) was born in Mogileb, a village near Poltova in the Ukraine, the second son of Morris Jaffe, a Jewish laborer, and Reva Jaffe.  In 1906, he immigrated to the United States with his mother and three younger siblings, joining the father who had left Russia in 1904 to seek a new home for his family.  Jaffe considered himself a Socialist during the 1920's, but grew increasingly dissatisfied with the party.  In 1932, he attended the first meeting of the American Friends of the Chinese People (AFCP), where, except for Jaffe, all present were also members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA).  In 1933, under the pseudonym of J.W. Phillips, Jaffe became the first editor of the AFCP's newsletter (later a glossy magazine) China Today which published numerous reports on the Chinese Communists.  In addition to editing two journals, he was the author of New Frontiers in  Asia (1943), served on the boards of numerous organizations, consulted and corresponded with scholars and government officials, spoke  on college campuses and in large public forums, and was a prominent figure in left-wing political circles.  Although Jaffe was never a member of the Communist Party (CPUSA), his contacts with the CPUSA were close.  The Philip J. Jaffe papers include personal papers, correspondence manuscripts by Jaffe and others, photographs, documents, clippings, pamphlets, and rare journals.  The collection includes materials related specifically to Jewish affairs.

KLEHR, HARVEY (MSS 664)

Papers; 32.75 linear ft. (55 boxes)

Harvey Klehr is Mellon Professor of Politics and History at Emory University.  He has written extensively in the areas of American communism and Soviet espionage.  The collection contains political periodicals and books, including articles related to Jews in Russia and the United States; FBI research files; oral history interviews; and communications between Communist Party operatives. 

Note: Restrictions to access and reproduction may apply.

LANE, MARY (MSS 607)

Papers, 1954-1980; .5 linear ft. (1 box)

Mary Lane, English teacher from Waycross, Georgia, who after reading Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, began corresponding with Frank's father Otto, the only member of the Frank family to survive the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and his second wife, Fritzi Frank.  The collection consists of papers of Mary Lane from 1954-1980. The collection includes correspondence from Otto and Fritzi Frank to Lane in which they discuss the "secret annex" where the Franks hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; Miep Gies, the women who aided the Franks; Anne Frank's diary and reputation; the play based on her diary; Lane's visits to Europe and subsequent meetings with the Franks; and post World War II politics. The collection also includes photos of the Frank and Gies families; clippings, and printed material relating to Anne Frank's diary and its dramatization; and copies of the diary and collected stories by Anne Frank.

LEVINE, ISAAC DON (MSS 700)

Papers, ca. 1914-1978; 82 linear ft. (149 boxes)

Isaac Don Levine (1892-1981), journalist and author, was born in Russia into a family of a Zionist sympathizer.  He came to the United States in 1911 and worked for the Kansas City Star and the New York Tribune.  In the early 1920s he returned to Russia to cover the civil war as a correspondent for American newspapers.  In the late 1920s and during the 1930s, Levine became well known as a columnist for the Hearst newspapers.  After World War II, he became editor of Plain Talk, an anti-communist monthly.  He was also author of more than a dozen books.  In the early 1950s, Levine was active in forming the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, organized in Munich, West Germany, with the objective of seeking the overthrow of the Soviet regime.  The collection documents Levine's interest in the Russian Revolution; the anti-communist movements in the United States, particularly anti-Soviet and anti-Chinese; the defection of various individuals from the Soviet Union; and the careers and lives of the Romonov Imperial family, Trotsky, Gorky, and Stalin.  The collection includes materials related to Jews in Russia.

MCBLAIR, VIRGINIA MYERS (MSS 74)

Papers, 1818-1894; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Virginia Myers McBlair (ca. 1821-1896) was born in Pensacola, Florida, and died in Virginia.  She married (1843) William McBlair of Maryland, a commander in the U.S. Navy, who was a part of the Confederate Navy as of 1861. He died (1863) while commanding the C.S.S. Atlanta. The McBlairs had five children and also raised the child of a relative. The eldest son, William Jr., served on the Atlanta with his father.  Letters and notes are to Virginia McBlair from her husband William McBlair, concerning Confederate Navy life and military operations, as well as from her mother Louisa Marx Myers concerning family, home, religion (the Marx and Myers were Jewish), and social activities.  These letters include occasional references to Jewish-Christian relations.  The collection also includes letters to Louisa Myers from her husband Samuel Myers (Virginia's father) in Pensacola, Fla., discussing life there, Indians, and slave traders, and from Louisa to her father Joseph Marx. School compositions are Virginia's, and a sermon is from Samuel Myers' funeral.

Note:  Related collections of Myers Family Papers are located at the American Jewish

          Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 

          Virginia.

MCGILL, RALPH (MSS 252)

Papers, 1853-1971; 58.5 linear ft. (118 boxes, 32 oversized folders, 75 bound volumes)

Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill (1898-1969), journalist, editor, and publisher, was born in Igou's Ferry, Tennessee, and died in Atlanta, Georgia.   All materials document McGill's personal life, his career as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, and his leadership role in the fight for civil rights in the South.   Subject Files include a folder (box 53, folder 13) on the Leo Frank case (see also Frank, Leo MSS 674).

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS:  F (MSS 358)

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized folder, 1 bound volume)

Miscellaneous collections contain items not particularly related to any individual or institution represented elsewhere or any subject field not represented in a topical Miscellany Collection. Of particular interest is “Order of Prayers for Rosh Hashonoh {sic} and Yom Kippur Like the Ritual of the holy Congregations of the Sephardim written by Abraham Alexander, the son of Joseph Raphael, in the holy Congregation, Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 5565,” ca. 1809, which is written in Hebrew.  Also, there is a photocopy of Seymour Krieger’s diary (July 1945-March 1946).  Krieger was a member of the U.S. Prosecution Staff at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.  Included in his diary are detailed narratives on the trial proceedings, summaries of testimonies, and photocopied clippings.  The original is at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

NEW SOUTH MISCELLANY (MSS 49)

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

The collection of various manuscript materials related to the New South includes Ruth Scheinberg’s oral history project entitled, “The Pekl: Folk/Histories of Jewish Peddlers in the South 1890-1914” (1980).  Included with the corrected typescript are summaries and audiocassettes of the interviews with descendants of Jewish peddlers, background of the subject matter, and an explanation of the terminology.

RICH, RICHARD (MSS 575)

Papers, 1902-1981; 42.5 linear ft. (83 boxes, 7 oversized folders, 9 oversized bound volumes)

Richard H. Rich (1901-1975), merchant and business executive, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Herman and Rosalind Rich Rosenheim.  His father was a shoe manufacturer in Savannah, his mother the daughter of Morris Rich, founder of Rich's department stores in Atlanta.  Richard Rich legally changed his name from Rosenheim to Rich in 1920 at the urging of his grandfather.  In 1924, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of M. Rich and Brothers' real estate holding company and, in 1929, the year the company changed its name from M. Rich and Bros. to Rich's, Inc., he became a Rich's director.  He continued his rise through management ranks, being elected company vice-president in 1937, treasurer in 1947, and president in 1949.  Twelve years later, he became Chairman of the Board, a position he held until 1972 when he entered semi-retirement as Chairman of the Executive Committee.  He was president and life trustee of the Rich Foundation, a charitable non-profit corporation, and a member of The Temple (Jewish Reform religion), the Standard Town and Country Club, and the Atlanta City Club.  The Richard H. Rich Papers contain general correspondence, subject files, materials created by and about Rich's, Inc., family financial and legal papers, writings and printed materials, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellany.  These papers document Rich's business career, his service to the Army, his extensive participation in local civic and business organizations, and, to a lesser extent, his role as a family man. The movement toward desegregating store facilities and the sit-ins of the early 1960's protesting store policies are covered in the Rich's, Inc. series.  Papers relating to Hosea Williams's 1973 lawsuit against Rich for slander during a strike of black employees are found in the subject files.  Although the Rich family was one of the most prominent Jewish families in Atlanta, their role in Atlanta's Jewish community from the 1860's when Morris Rich opened shop to modern times is hardly mentioned. 

Note:  Restrictions to access and reproduction may apply.

           Related materials are located at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.

ROGERS, ERNEST (MSS 328)

Papers, 1918-1967; 10 linear ft. (20 boxes, 1 oversized paper)

Ernest Rogers (1897-1967), the son of Wallace R. (a Methodist minister) and Mary (Brinsfield) Rogers, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He attended the Thomson High School and the Atlanta Boys High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Emory University in 1920.  Rogers was founder and first Editor of the Emory Wheel, campus newspaper, and in 1920 was president of both his class and the entire student body.  He was elected an alumnus member of Phi Beta Kappa since there was no chapter at Emory while he was an undergraduate.  Since shortly after his graduation from Emory he was connected with the Atlanta Journal where he was a feature writer.  The collection consists of the papers of Ernest Rogers from 1918-1967.  The papers include correspondence, biographical information, writings, scrapbooks, a diary (1918-1919), newspaper columns (1945-1967), photographs, book illustrations, notebooks, sound recordings, minutes, and memorabilia.  Of particular interest is a special notebook on Leo Frank (see Frank, Leo MSS 674), as well as another folder of materials related to the Frank case.

ROTHSCHILD, JACOB M.  (MSS 637)

Papers, 1933-1985; 13.25 linear ft. (27 boxes, 2 oversized papers)

Rothschild (1911-1973) was rabbi of The Temple, Atlanta's leading Reform Judaism congregation, from 1947 to 1973. During this period, he was active in the civil rights movement and school desegregation. Correspondents of note include Ralph Abernathy, Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph McGill. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, writings, clippings, printed and audiovisual materials, and memorabilia. There are also some materials relating to the 1958 bombing of The Temple, which was in retaliation for Rothschild’s stance on Civil Rights.

Note: Related collections are located at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum                     

          and the Atlanta History Center.

SEYDELL, MILDRED WOOLLEY (MSS 449)

Papers, 1842-1987; 65.25 linear ft. (150 boxes, 48 oversized folders, 2 medals)

Seydell (1889-1988) was a journalist, author, and lecturer from Atlanta, Georgia where she worked for the newspaper Atlanta Georgian from 1924-1939.  She also lived and worked in New Jersey and West Virginia (1910-1923) and in Belgium (1947-1967).  During her life she published several books and edited her own magazine.  Seydell was also an active participant in many women's organizations in both the United States and Belgium.  The collection contains correspondence, both personal and professional, writings, personal and family records, memorabilia, photographs, and source material used for her writings.  Of particular interest is a March 15, 1945, letter regarding the Leo Frank case (see Frank, Leo MSS 674).

Notes: Restrictions to access and reproduction may apply.

SINGER, SOL, COLLECTOR (MSS 909)

Collection of Philatelic Judaica; 12 boxes

The Sol Singer Collection of Philatelic Judaica was compiled over more than forty years by retired Atlanta businessman Sol Singer. It includes every stamp issued by the state of Israel as well as supporting material and stamps featuring Jewish themes issued all over the world.  A selection of the stamps from the Singer collection may be viewed on line at http://marbl.library.emory.edu/DigitalExhibits/stamps/.  The first part is a complete set of stamps of the State of Israel from the period just before independence up to 2002.  The second part of the collection contains stamps of Jewish content issued by countries around the world.  The third part is a nearly complete set of stamps created by the Jewish National Fund to help raise money to purchase land in Palestine and to develop the land once the State of Israel had been established.  The fourth part of the collection consists of whole sets of philatelic journals describing Israeli and Judaica stamps. 

UHRY, ALFRED (MSS 833)

Collection; 10 linear ft. (10 boxes)

Playwright Alfred Uhry (1936- ) was raised in Atlanta, Georgia.  The collection holds notebooks, drafts of scripts and television screenplays, including Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Parade, which was a musical based on the Leo Frank case (see Frank, Leo MSS 674).  Additionally, there are photographs, printed material, and a videotape of the documentary, “Southern Roots, Southern Stories: Alfred Uhry.”

WATSON, THOMAS E.  (MSS 121)

Collection, 1906-1923; 5 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922), lawyer, editor, politician, was born on his grandfather's plantation near Thomson, Georgia, in Columbia, later renamed McDuffie, County.  He enrolled at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1872, but had to drop out after two years because of lack of funds.  Watson taught school and studied law and in October 1875, he was admitted to the Georgia Bar.  Watson was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives from McDuffie County in 1882, serving for a year. In 1890 he was elected to Congress on the Farmer's Alliance Platform.  During this tenure he supported advanced labor legislation, introduced Alliance reform bills, and introduced a measure to establish the Rural Free Delivery system. Watson was defeated in the election of 1892 due to gerrymandering in his district. He was also defeated in the election of 1894.  In 1896, Watson was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate by the national Populist convention.  His party lost the election and Watson retired from politics.  In his later years, Watson changed affiliation from Populist to Democrat.  He spoke out against Catholicism, Socialism, Blacks, Jews, foreigners, and U.S. Participation in World War I.  Writing in his Weekly Jeffersonian, he editorialized about the Mary Phagan murder case and the suspected murderer, Leo Frank (see Frank, Leo MSS 674).  In 1920 Watson was elected to the United States Senate from Georgia, by a wide margin and served until his death.  Watson died 26 September 1922 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, of complications from bronchitis.  The materials in this collection consist of correspondence, editorials and articles by Thomas E. Watson, financial records, clippings, and collected materials.

Note: Restrictions to access and reproductions may apply.

WEINSTEIN, ALFRED ABRAHAM (MSS 564)

Papers, 1940-1976; 2.25 linear ft. (5 boxes, 4 oversized folders, 10 oversized bound volumes, 1 oral history)

Weinstein (1908-1964) was a physician, author, and sculptor who moved to Atlanta in 1938.  During his service in the U.S. Army he spent three and one half years as a POW in Japan.  His collection includes materials related to professional, civic, and religious organizations in Atlanta.  His experiences as a P.O.W. were the basis for his book, Barbed-Wire Surgeon (1948). A series of articles first published in the Atlanta Journal (1963) were subsequently published as As I Saw Russia (1963). Weinstein was a member of many professional, religious, and civic organizations including B'nai B'rith. As a sculptor, he exhibited his work at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard and the Atlanta High Museum of Art.

WINN, DAVID READ EVANS (MSS 363)

Papers, 1861-1863; .5 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversized folder)

David Read Evans Winn (1831-1863), physician and Confederate soldier, was born in Camden, South Carolina, and died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  He received a degree from Jefferson Medical College (1852), and practiced in Americus, Georgia, until 1861 when he enlisted in the Sumter Light Guards (4th Georgia Infantry). He was acting adjutant to thirteen Georgia companies, including many from the 4th Georgia (the Albany Guards, the Baldwin Blues, and the Macon County Volunteers), and was promoted to lieutenant colonel before he was killed in action.  The collection includes correspondence and typed copies, photograph, genealogical information, and military documents.  Of particular interest are three letters in which Winn mentions Jewish Confederate soldiers (December 12, 1861, July 9, 1862, and July 17, 1862).

WOLF, ALFRED (MSS 747)

Papers; 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Alfred Wolf (1989-1981) was born in Heilbronn, Germany, to Julius (1870-[?] 1939) and Cecile Held Wolf (1876-[?] 1937).  Wolf's Jewish name was Menachem Bar Joel Malivi.

He served in the Signal Corps of the Royal Bavarian Army (1916-1918). Afterwards, he enrolled in the School for Textile Technology in Reutlinger and upon graduation was certified as a textile engineer. He obtained his Ph.D. (1922) from the University of Frankfurt in economics and political science. Because he was a German, Wolf was interred in camps in France (1939-1940). Wolf served as a member of the 313 Compagnie des Prestataires (1940). Wolf emigrated to New York (1941), worked in the textile industry there, and later settled in Atlanta (1945-retirement).  The Alfred Wolf papers consist of his autobiography "Alfred & Story" which is in the form of both manuscript carbon and audiocassette recordings. The autobiography, written to pass down family history, describes his life growing up and gives family history of other family members.  Wolf describes his experiences as a soldier in World War I, as a student, and his working career in the textile industry in Europe and in America.  He also discusses his marriages to Trudl Victor and Lillian Greta Lazarus, as well as other aspects of his life and thoughts.  The collection also includes a photograph of Wolf.

WSB RADIO STATION (ATLANTA, GA) (MSS 663)

Collection, 1955-1980; 189 linear ft. (189 boxes/4000 sound recordings, 1 oversized folder)

Licensed in 1922, WSB was the first radio station in the South.  Originally owned by the Atlanta Journal, the station broadcast first from the roof of the newspaper's building, then from the Biltmore Hotel, and finally from the headquarters of WSB Radio and WSB-TV on West Peachtree Street.  Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal and WSB Radio in 1939.  The collection consists of sound recordings of news and other programming of WSB (Radio Station: Atlanta, Ga.) from the 1950s-1970s.  Of particular interest are programs on Jewish holidays, Judaism, discrimination against Jews, and the common goals and problems of Jews and Christians.

Note:  Restrictions to access and reproduction may apply.

           Related materials are located at the Georgia State University Library.