Subject Guide: New York History

Papers of Ruth Abrams

Between 1965 and 1966, Ruth Abrams was Art Director for the New School of Social Research Association. She also lectured at the Parsons School of Design and elsewhere on changing perceptions of space as affected by advanced space technology. Abrams is also an accomplished artist, focusing on visual perspective and the image of space and scale.

Ina Golub

Golub was a New Jersey-based artist, who primarily made fiber-based works with Jewish themes. She created custom-designed fiber art, including tapestries, Jewish ceremonial objects, and textiles with secular content, for synagogues, museums, and private collectors.

Aron, W., Israelowitz, Oscar, & Yeshiva University. Museum. (1977). The Changing face of New York synagogues, 1730-1974 : Exhibit (Yeshiva University. Museum. Yeshiva University Museum catalog ; no. 5). New York]: Yeshiva University Museum.

Amir, Z., & Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel. (1984). The embroidered costume of the women of Tuba : Tradition and modernization in a Bedouin village (Edot, studies in ethnography ; 1).

Bilski, E., Braun, Emily, Botstein, Leon, & Jewish Museum. (2005). Jewish women and their salons : The power of conversation. New York : New Haven: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; Yale University Press.​

Rogers, E., Alex, William, & Whitney Museum of American Art. (1972). Frederick Law Olmsted's New York. New York: Praeger, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Schreier, B., Chicago Historical Society, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, & National Museum of American Jewish History. (1994). Becoming American women : Clothing and the Jewish immigrant experience, 1880-1920. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society.

Sephardic Archives. (1986). The Spirit of Aleppo : Syrian Jewish immigrant life in New York 1890-1939. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Sephardic Community Center.

Stieglitz, A., Yochelson, Bonnie, & South Street Seaport Museum. (2010). Alfred Stieglitz : New York.

Wise, W., & Fisher, Leonard Everett. (1958). Silversmith of old New York: Myer Myers. (Covenant books). Philadelphia :]: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Jewish Publication Society.