Guide to the Papers of Corinne Azen Krause 1845-2002
Arrangement
Repository
Heinz History Center
Title
Papers of Corinne Azen Krause,
Creator
Krause, Corinne Azen
Collection Number
mss113
Extent
7 linear feet(fourteen boxes)
Date
1845-2002
Abstract
This collection contains the working papers of Dr. Krause's professional and organizational activities. Corinne Azen Krause conducted research regarding the social history of Jews that resulted in a documented oral history project and published books and articles. The material pertains to various institutions, organizations, people, synagogues, as well as to the history of Jewish life in Pittsburgh. Included are original and photocopies of certificates, handwritten research notes, oral history transcripts, presentation and exhibit drafts, programs, various materials related to organizational membership, and newspaper clippings.
Language
The material in this collection is in English.
Author
The guide to this collection was written by Susan Melnick.
Corinne Azen Krause (CK) is a historian who has made Pittsburgh, the women of Pittsburgh, and the Jewish communities of the city the focus of her research. She earned a B. A. with Honors in economics from the University of Michigan, an M. A. in history from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught history at Taylor Allderdice and Schenley High Schools, Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow and Chatham Colleges.
Dr. Krause was a research associate in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh; she taught oral history at the University Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
An oral history project of three generations of American women of Italian, Jewish, and Slavic descent resulted in a nationally distributed report and several scholarly articles in 1978. A book entitled Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters (1991) contains oral histories of eighteen of the women interviewed in the three-generation study (see MSS# 348). In 1982, Dr. Krause produced Roots and Branches, an interpretive exhibition of the history of the Jewish communities of Pittsburgh.
Other publications include Isaac W. Frank: Engineer and Civic Leader (1980); Los Judios en Mexico (1987), a social history of Jews in independent Mexico; Refractories: the Hidden Industry (1987); as well as articles and book reviews.
Dr. Krause is a founding member of Jewish Residential Services, an agency organized to provide housing with professional support services to young adults with serious and persistent mental illness. She was also a founder of the Pittsburgh Ethnic Coalition. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Rauh Jewish Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, a former member of the board of the Historical Society, and a life member of the board of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
Scope and Content Notes
The Corinne Krause Papers are housed in nine archival boxes and are arranged in three series. Reflecting the fact that the materials in this collection are the working papers of Dr. Krause's professional and organizational activities, series have been designated for Organization Membership Files, Project Files, and Research Files. Represented among the papers are original certificates, handwritten research notes, oral history transcripts, presentation and exhibit drafts, programs, various materials related to organizational membership, and newspaper clippings. However, many documents are photocopies of pages and chapters from books, periodicals, correspondences, and other miscellaneous materials relating to CK's research.
Embedded within the larger collection are the scrapbooks of Miriam Schonfield, The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Pittsburgh Section, the Irene Kaufman Center of Squirrel Hill, and the records of the Podolier Beneficial Organization. Miriam Schonfield's scrapbooks consist of clippings related to her work as an educator and her involvement in Jewish organizations. The loose contents were removed from the scrapbook and are arranged in box 8, folder 53 in the "People" series. Also included are news clippings related to theater in Pittsburgh as well as many playbills. The Podolier papers include contractual documents supporting the creation and development of the society; the papers are arranged in the "Organizations" series.
Transcripts for the oral histories created for the Roots and Branches exhibit as well as audiocassette tapes of interviews for her book Refractories: the Hidden Industry are included in the collection (tapes are closed pending creation of use copies). Records documenting the development of the Roots and Branches exhibit include exhibit scripts and floor plans.
Materials collected regarding various institutions, organizations, people, synagogues, and the history of Jewish life in Pittsburgh may provide connections and information otherwise difficult to research. Researchers should scan the "Container List" for papers relating to their subject searches.
2003.0118 accession:
These papers are housed in five archival boxes and arranged in four series. Series are designated for materials related CK's work with the Jewish Residential Services; various aspects of her professional work; her research and her writings.
The Jewish Residential Services series contains financial and fund-raising records, personal narratives, program descriptions and miscellaneous board materials.
The Professional series includes correspondence, biographical material of CK, materials related to her exhibit Roots and Branches, and to the Western Pennsylvania Jewish Archives (now the Rauh Jewish Archives.)
The Research series includes copies of articles collected by CK as well as her notes. The subjects are primarily biographies, organizations, education, and women, although there are materials on other subjects as well.
The Writings series includes the work of CK. Most are based on the oral histories she did for Grandmothers, Mothers, and Daughters: An Oral History of Ethnicity, Mental Health, and Continuity of Three Generations of Jewish, Italian, and Slavic-American Women. Other writings include biographies of Bertha Floersheim Rauh, Miriam Schonfield, as well as on Rodef Shalom women, activists, and Jewish immigrant women in Pittsburgh.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no interview agreement/release forms for the oral histories in this collection. Researchers must obtain permission from the copyright holders in order to publish quotes from the tapes/transcripts. Audiocassette tapes are closed until copies can be made for preservation as well as use. Since many of the materials are photocopies of original documents, researchers must obtain permission from copyright holders in order to publish quotations.
2003.0118 accession
With only two exceptions (as indicated in listing), there are no interview agreement/release forms for the oral histories in this accession. Restrictions as indicated above.
Lists of donors to the Jewish Residential Services and their contributions in Box 10, Folder 9, are restricted until 2030.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These materials came in thirteen accessions.accessions from 1988-1998.
Acc# 1988.0086, 1989.0068, 1990.0124, 1991.0027, 1992.0134, 1992.0166, 1992.0264, 1993.0112, 1997.0394, 1998.0109, 2001.0087, 2001.0146, 2003.0118 , Gift of Corinne Azen Krause.
Preferred Citation
Papers of Corinne Azen Krause, 1845-2002, MSS#113, Rauh Jewish Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
Processing Information
Papers arranged by Susan Melnick, March, 1999. Papers rearranged and inventory rewritten by Janie Weaver on August 23, 2000. Papers rearranged and inventory edited by Robert Stakeley, 2002. Latest accession (2003) added and inventory amended by Susan Melnick, April 2008. Further revisions by Susan Melnick, February 6, 2015.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the Senator John Heinz History Center. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Library and Archives of the Senator John Heinz History Center.
Separated Materials
To the Annual Report Collection:
American Jewish Committee, Pittsburgh Chapter, 1987-88;
The Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh Annual Report, 1913-1928;
Papercraft Corporation, 1980; United Jewish Federation, 1990.
To the Audiocassette tape Collection: 1.0 linear feet, two boxes, of audiocassette tapes arranged and cataloged as MSC #113. The oral history audiotapes are closed until copies can be made for use.
2003.0118 accession: .05 linear feet, 3 boxes, of audiocassettes arranged and cataloged as MSC#113.
With the exception of those listed in the finding aid for MSC#113, for which use copies have been created, the audiotapes cannot be used until use copies can be made.
To the Oversize Manuscript Collection:
.05 linear feet, one oversize folder, arranged as MSO #113:
Alpha Pi Shovel, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1921 (from M. Schoenfeld scrapbook).;
Bes Almon Minutes (photocopy), 1875-1906.;
Emma Camp Information Form, 1924.;
Podolier Society Certificates, 1924.;
Rodef Shalom:
Seat certificate, 1863.
"The Past We Inherit, The Future We Create" Supplement to Jewish Chronicle1989,
Roots and Branches: Pittsburgh's Jewish History, Exhibit Artwork, Poster and Signs, 1982.;
YM&WHA Weekly, vol. 6, no. 1, September 11, 1931.
To the Photograph Collection:
2.0 linear feet, four boxes, of photographs have been separately arranged and described as MSP #113.
To the Oversize Photograph Collection: .05 linear feet, one oversize folder, arranged as MSR #113:
Azens established, 5th Ave. during sesquicentennial at courthouse.;
Forbes Avenue and Murray Avenue intersection, n.d.;
Rodef Shalom Confirmation, 1919.;
Roots and Branches exhibit (14 total), 1982.;
Schenley High School, June 1917.
To the Printed Collection:
Allderdice Class of '44, 1994.;
Beauty Culture's Edlis Inc. 1888-1938 Golden 50 Jubilee.;
Poale Zedeck Congregation, Inaugural Banquet of the Centennial Year Celebration, 1980.;
Selection of Sermons: Delivered by Dr. Walter Jacob to the Rodef Shalom Congregation, 1979.;
Strength to Strength: A History of Montefiore Hospital and Jewish Health Care in Pittsburgh, 1992.;
Taylor Allderdice 40th Reunion, 1984.;
Temple Emanuel, 25th Anniversary, 1951-1976.;
Temple Sinai, n.d.;
Tree of Life Congregation, 70th Anniversary, 1934.;
United Young Men's Hebrew Association of Pennsylvania: Souvenir Program, 1917.;
Working Women: An Analysis of the Employment Situation of Women Working in Pittsburgh Offices, 1980.;
Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association of Pittsburgh, Silver Anniversary, 1935.
2003.0118 accession
The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh: A Case Study of Adult Immigrant Education by Ida Cohen Selavan, 1976.
The Jewish Family Welfare Association of Pittsburgh, Pa.: History and Organization. by Charlotte Heller Shapiro, 1933.
"Jewish Wage Earners in Pittsburgh, 1890-1930," by Ida Cohen Selavan. Reprint from American Jewish Historical Quarterly, vol. LXV, no. 3, 1976.
Letters from Fanny Edel, Richmond, VA, to Leon Falk, Pittsburg, PA 30 July 1900 -11 November 1900.
Pittsburgh Conference of Jewish Women's Organizations Directory 1936
The Power and the Glory: Pittsburgh Industrial Landscapes by Aaron Harry Gorson (1872-1933)
Tri-Boro Chamber of Commerce Year Book 1926
Unemployment Relief and the Jewish Community in Allegheny County; A Study of 415 Families known to the Allegheny County Emergency Relief Board, 1933-1937, by Sol Charon, 1938.
To the Serial Collection:
Jewish Criterion:
vol. 34, no. 10, April 12, 1912;
vol. 39, no. 24, September 1914;
vol. 47, no. 5, September 22, 1916;
vol. 47, no. 12, November 10, 1916;
vol. 49, no. 4, September 14, 1917;
May 12, 1922;
vol. 65, no. 8, January 2, 1925;
vol. 67, no. 3, November 27, 1925;
vol. 75, no. 5, December 13, 1929;
vol. 83, no. 14, February 9, 1934;
vol. 83, no. 16, February 23, 1934;
vol. 83, no. 17, March 2, 1934;
vol. 83, no. 19, March 16, 1934;
vol. 87, no. 4, November 1935;
September 11, 1942 (50th Anniversary, with index);
vol. 119, no. 14, January 25, 1952; vol. 133, no. 24, March 20, 1959;
vol. 138, no. 23, September 8, 1961;
Jewish Pictorial Leader, vol. 65, no. 11, July 1953.;
