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Israel - Writings About (includes photograph of crew for S.S. Ben Hecht) [see also oversize box 106], n.d., 1946-1962

 File — Box: 77, Folder: 2348

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Clippings, offprints, photographs, and other ephemeral material relating to people or topics collected by Ben or Rose Hecht. Most of the material is about people they knew, such as the poet Maxwell Bodenheim, the convicted gangster Mickey Cohen, or Rose’s sister Minna Emch, a published psychoanalyst. There is also a book order catalog from the Covici-Friede publishing company that lists books by both Ben Hecht and Rose Caylor, and a letter from and information about John D. MacArthur, the multi-millionaire philanthropist and brother of Hecht’s collaborator Charles MacArthur. Documents from Hecht’s stint as a postwar correspondent in World War I Germany are in the folder marked “Berlin” (see also Series 1: Works – Berlin Dispatches, and Series 2: Incoming Correspondence under individual names of correspondents, 1919, for more documents relating to this topic). Items relating to Ben and Rose’s involvement in the political movements for a state of Israel and Irgun are listed under the heading “Israel”. AKC papers and miscellaneous material concerning the family dog Google is listed under “Poodle.”

Dates

  • Creation: n.d., 1946-1962

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Ben Hecht papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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