Abstract

Moshe Lazar (1928-2012) was a professor in many subjects at the University of Southern California from the late 1970s until a year before his death. In addition to the many topics he taught at the University, he actively and avidly researched a variety of topics related to medieval literature, antisemitism, and Sephardic studies. The materials in this collection span the breadth of his scholarly interests and activities.

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Atlas Angelico de la Gran Bretaña, Bello Monte de Helicona, Biography Desmbozos de la Verdata, Don Carlos Segundo y Dona, Eight Interludes, Epitalamio Regio, Estrella de Jacob, Flor de Apolo, Interludes/Entremeses Luna Opulenta de Holanda, The Marvelous Pageant the Marvellous Puppet Show, Relacion de los Poetas y Escritures Espanoles de la Nacion Judyca, Amstelo Dama Sol de la Vida

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: 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...

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: 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: The two boxes which comprise this series consist primarily of slides and a few photographs and negatives of topics related to Lazar’s lectures and presentations. Whenever possible, folder titles were copied from Lazar’s photo envelopes and slide boxes. Subjects represented in the slides include the art of Marc Chagall and Hieronymus Bosch; modern art in general; travel images of Mexico, Israel, Spain, etc.; and several folders of “miscellaneous” or unidentified slides. The photographs and...