Oral history interview with Evelyn Torton Beck, 1975

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Beck, Evelyn Torton, interviewee

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Tape-recorded interview conducted April 4, 1975, by Lorna Kniaz with Evelyn Torton Beck, a U.W.-Madison German and comparative literature professor, for the Wisconsin Jewish Archives; concerning he...

Tape-recorded interview conducted April 4, 1975, by Lorna Kniaz with Evelyn Torton Beck, a U.W.-Madison German and comparative literature professor, for the Wisconsin Jewish Archives; concerning her childhood in Germany, Italy, and New York City, youthful Zionist activities, her frustration at being an educated housewife and her return to academia, and her career interests and activities including work with Yiddish author I.B. Singer.

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