Scope and Contents
This collection contains notes related to Maurice Zigmond’s ethnographic research of the Kawaiisu and drafts and edits of a Kawaiisu dictionary.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1973-1975
Creator
- Zigmond, Maurice L. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research by appointment. Researchers must register and provide one form of valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Extent
0.33 linear feet (1 legal document box)Biographical / Historical
Maurice L. Zigmond was born on March 5th, 1904, in Denver, Colorado to Joseph and Esther Zigmond. Maurice graduated from the University of Colorado in 1925 and became ordained as a Rabbi in 1929 at Hebrew Union College. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 1941 and later received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College.
Zigmond created the Hillel Foundations at Yale as well as the University of Connecticut in 1941. He was the Hillel Director at Harvard and Radcliffe from 1947-1968, the New England Regional Director of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations from 1950-1969, and the Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1955. From 1948-1961 he taught anthropology at Yale.
He married Kate Levy, with whom he had two sons, in 1940. Zigmond died on June 12, 1998 in Belmont, Massachusetts.
References
Maurice L. Zigmond papers. Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at NEHGS, Boston, Mass. https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/50
Provenance
The papers were removed from a storage space in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in October 2023. The collection was frozen, organized, and transferred to the Economic Botany Archives.
Processing Information
Processed by Victorya Dube, 2024, January.
Creator
- Zigmond, Maurice L. (Person)
- Title
- Zigmond, Maurice L. 1904-1998. Maurice L. Zigmond Kawaiisu ethnobotany papers, circa 1973-1975: A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- ecb00019
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries.The Economic Botany Library specializes in materials related to economic botany or the commercial exploitation of plants. The Archives of the Economic Botany Herbarium of Oakes Ames houses unique resources including personal papers, institutional records, field notes and plant lists, expedition records, photographs, original artwork, and objects from faculty, curators, staff, and affiliates of the Economic Botany Herbarium.
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