This collection contains short story writing notebooks with handwritten notes, binders from Tom Regan on contemporary writers, newspaper clippings, research papers, correspondence, animal rights research, research notes, research papers with various subjects including biomedicine and animal rights and life. Also included are journal articles, documents from Margaret Grant, photographs taken in France and England, Life of Anna Kingsford vol. 1 and 2 photocopies, handwritten research notes on Anna Kingsford's "The Perfect Way in Diet," and on Claude Bernard and science and religion. Roberta Kalechofsky, Ph.D., born May 11, 1931, is an American writer, feminist, speaker, essayist, and animal rights activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within Judaism and the promotion of vegetarianism within the Jewish community. In 1975, Kalechofsky founded Micah Publications or Micah Books, which specializes in the publication of animal-rights, Jewish vegetarian, and Holocaust literature, including The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook and Judaism and Animal Rights: Classical and Contemporary Responses. In 1985, she founded Jews for Animal Rights. She is the author of Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons (2003), as well as seven works of fiction, poetry, two collections of essays, and a monograph on George Orwell. She is married to Dr. Robert Kalechofsky, a retired mathematics professor from Salem State University.
