Price Library of Judaica Performing Arts Collection
Scope and Content
This collection houses materials that reflect the fascination of the performing arts world with the Jewish experience and the importance of the performing arts in Jewish cultural life all over the world. Currently, a flyer of the musical The Golem of Havana, William Gibson’s two plays paying tribute to the life and career of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Golda and Golda’s Balcony, and the first draft of Michael Abrams’s play The Golem are included in the collection. A poster of the Jerusalem Haḥan Theatre’s Georg Büchner, Woyzeck. Jim Liversidge collected and donated the latter three items given to the Price Library. The collection is expected to grow in the future.
Dates
- Creation: 1973 - 2015
Creator
- University of Florida. Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. (Collector, Organization)
Access
The collection is open for research.
Biographical/Historical Note
The bulk of the collection was donated by Jim Liversidge, curator of Popular Culture Collections in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida. Liversidge graduated in 1979 at Emerson College in Boston and, before joining the University of Florida’s Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, he worked as a radio announcer and radio station program director. In 2008, Jim Liversidge donated The Jim Liversidge Collection (from JFK and Vietnam to George W. Bush, 9-11 and Barack Obama)—the result of 50 years of collecting—to the University of Florida. This collection comprises of 495 volumes housed in 218 boxes. In January 2009, Insight Magazine named him the fourth Most Interesting People of Gainesville. Rebecca Jefferson, head of Price Library initiated the creation of a performing arts collection for the Price Library to flesh out the importance of performing arts in the Jewish experience around the world.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet (1 Box and 1 Flat item)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection holds various materials related to the performing arts. The perfomances they record capture the Jewish experience in different countries and different historical periods and illustrate the importance of the performing arts in Jewish cultural life around the globe.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in chronological order and topically.
Location
University of Florida Smathers Library Building
Acquisition Information
Part of the collection was donated by Jim Liversidge.
Subject
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978. (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to the Price Library of Judaica Performing Arts Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Katalin Franciska Rac
- Date
- March 2021
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Repository
George A. Smathers Libraries
PO Box 117005
Gainesville Florida 32611-7005 United States of America
352-273-2755
special@uflib.ufl.edu