Isaacson, Judith Magyar, 1925-2015

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series includes early drafts of sections of Seed of Sarah; comments on the manuscript by Eva Balogh; the transcript of an interview with Judith Isaacson by the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine Oral History Project; a copy of a Bates Honors Thesis written by Karen Meg Schwartz pertaining to women's memoirs; a copy of a PhD dissertation about Seed of Sarah written by Anja Siebert (in German); a copy of the Yale Review Spring 1984 issue with a piece by Isaacson; and copies of the...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series includes early drafts of sections of Seed of Sarah; comments on the manuscript by Eva Balogh; the transcript of an interview with Judith Isaacson by the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine Oral History Project; a copy of a Bates Honors Thesis written by Karen Meg Schwartz pertaining to women's memoirs; a copy of a PhD dissertation about Seed of Sarah written by Anja Siebert (in German); a copy of the Yale Review Spring 1984 issue with a piece by Isaacson; and copies of the...

Abstract Judith (Jutka) Magyar Isaacson was born in Kaposvar, Hungary in 1925. A member of a Jewish family that was persecuted during World War II, Isaacson survived the Holocaust after spending time at both Auschwitz and Birkenau. She met her husband, Irving Isaacson, shortly after her liberation, and moved to Lewiston, Maine, his hometown. She received a degree in mathematics from Bates College (Class of 1965), and a master's degree from Bowdoin College. From 1969 to 1977 she served as first Dean...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series includes early drafts of sections of Seed of Sarah; comments on the manuscript by Eva Balogh; the transcript of an interview with Judith Isaacson by the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine Oral History Project; a copy of a Bates Honors Thesis written by Karen Meg Schwartz pertaining to women's memoirs; a copy of a PhD dissertation about Seed of Sarah written by Anja Siebert (in German); a copy of the Yale Review Spring 1984 issue with a piece by Isaacson; and copies of the...

Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series includes early drafts of sections of Seed of Sarah; comments on the manuscript by Eva Balogh; the transcript of an interview with Judith Isaacson by the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine Oral History Project; a copy of a Bates Honors Thesis written by Karen Meg Schwartz pertaining to women's memoirs; a copy of a PhD dissertation about Seed of Sarah written by Anja Siebert (in German); a copy of the Yale Review Spring 1984 issue with a piece by Isaacson; and copies of the...