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The materials in this series are published articles, magazines, serials, and pamphlets by Moshe Lazar and other authors.

Scope and Content From the Series: The bulk of this series is comprised of materials by and about Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. A personal friend of Moshe Lazar, Ionesco was interviewed by him; the transcripts are part of this series. An article by Moshe Lazar called “The Psychodramatic Stage: Ionesco and His Doubles” is included in several drafts as well as the final publication. Several of the folders contain copies of...

Scope and Content From the Series: The bulk of this series is comprised of materials by and about Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. A personal friend of Moshe Lazar, Ionesco was interviewed by him; the transcripts are part of this series. An article by Moshe Lazar called “The Psychodramatic Stage: Ionesco and His Doubles” is included in several drafts as well as the final publication. Several of the folders contain copies of...

Scope and Content From the Series: The bulk of this series is comprised of materials by and about Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. A personal friend of Moshe Lazar, Ionesco was interviewed by him; the transcripts are part of this series. An article by Moshe Lazar called “The Psychodramatic Stage: Ionesco and His Doubles” is included in several drafts as well as the final publication. Several of the folders contain copies of...

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The series contains personal and professional materials including correspondence, personal and family records, professional presentations and papers, and newspaper and magazine clippings; as well as audiovisual materials, ephemera, and realia such as textiles, patches, and pins.

Scope and Content From the Series: Many of Moshe Lazar’s areas of interest and expertise are grouped together in the series “Special Subjects,” although there is considerable overlap with the other eighteen series. The seven boxes which comprise this series cover many topics including Samuel Beckett, Hieronymus Bosch, Marc Chagall, Courtly Love, Heaven and Hell, Italian Jewry, Jewish History, Arnold Schoenberg, and many other subjects. One particular subject of note is referred to simply as “Girona” from Lazar’s own...

Scope and Content From the Series: Sephardic studies refers specifically to the Jewish community which originated on the Iberian Peninsula at the start of the second millennium. More broadly, Sephardim includes the traditionally Eastern Jewish communities of West Asia and beyond who, although not having genealogical roots in the Jewish communities of Iberia, have adopted a Sephardic style of liturgy and Sephardic law and customs imparted to them by the Iberian Jewish exiles over the course of the last few centuries. The...

Scope and Content From the Series: Many of Moshe Lazar’s areas of interest and expertise are grouped together in the series “Special Subjects,” although there is considerable overlap with the other eighteen series. The seven boxes which comprise this series cover many topics including Samuel Beckett, Hieronymus Bosch, Marc Chagall, Courtly Love, Heaven and Hell, Italian Jewry, Jewish History, Arnold Schoenberg, and many other subjects. One particular subject of note is referred to simply as “Girona” from Lazar’s own...

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Includes 1 "Dressed for the Occassion" safe sex poster (16" x 22.75") and 1 poster for a 4th annual gay film festival in Tel Aviv from June 1 to July 1, 1994 (19" x 27").

Scope and Content From the Series: Provençal literature consists of the body of writings in the Occitan, or Provençal, language of Provence and neighboring regions in southeastern France. It was most representative in the lyric love poetry between the 11th and 14th centuries, that of the troubadours. Though most of the materials in this series contain examples of Provençal poetry and Hebrew- Provençal literature, there are also some studies and critiques of the period including a study of the Provençal drama “Le Jugement...