Yakov Malkiel papers 1882-1998, , bulk 1942-1992

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Yakov Malkiel papers 1882-1998, , bulk 1942-1992

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The papers of Yakov Malkiel provide an overview of his career as a professor, author, editor and researcher. The collection, spanning the years from 1882 to 1998, with the bulk from 1942 to 1992, contains correspondence, teaching files, interviews, lectures, manuscript drafts, reprints of journal articles, research materials and notes, profession affiliation files, awards, family papers and photographs. The collection also includes the papers of María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, consisting of correspondence, manuscript drafts, offprints of postumously published works, teaching materials, diaries, course notebooks, research notes, and personal miscellany. Although the majority of the collection is in English, portions of correspondence and writings are in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian with a small number in other languages. Malkiel's personal annotations are included throughout the collection.

Number of containers: 34 cartons, 61 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder; Linear feet: 67.4

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University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Linguistics.

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Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-1998

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Yakov Malkiel was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1914. He fled Russia during the civil war and moved to Germany where he received his Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics. He emigrated to the United States in 1940 and joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1942. There he participated in founding the Department of Linguistics and in 1965 became a member of the department where he taught until his retirement. Malkiel wrote and edited more than a dozen books and wrote hundreds of scholarly arti...

Lida de Malkiel, María Rosa

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Biographical Information Yakov Malkiel was born into an intellectual Jewish family in Kiev in 1914, but civil war in Russia forced the family to move to Berlin. By the time he was of college age, Germany was becoming an increasingly difficult place for Jews. He had to overcome serious difficulties before he was admitted into Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, where in 1938 he received his Ph.D. magna cum laude, specializing in romance ...