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Geraldine Stern Papers, 1949-1987Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteGeraldine Rosenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a Zionist leader and his wife on July 14, 1907. She was a member of the Smith College class of 1929 but left college in January of 1928 in order to marry Herman Stern. She had two children before she divorced her first husband in 1948. Later she married Milton Wayne, a sculptor. Stern lived in Los Angeles for many years and wrote movie scripts. In 1952 she moved to New York City where she used her experience to write television scripts. From 1955-57 she lived in Paris and studied painting with Joseph Hirsch and Henri Gaoetz. She has exhibited her artwork in Paris, New York, and other cities and, after 1956, her paintings and barn-beam totems were collected by both private and public collectors. In addition to her journalistic writing for newspapers and magazines in the 1950s, Stern also wrote Daughters from Afar: Profiles of Israeli Women (1958); and Israeli Women Speak Out (1979) about Israeli women and feminism. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe Geraldine Stern collection consists of material relating to her books: Daughters from Afar: Profiles of Israeli Women (1958) and Israeli Women Speak Out (1979), including articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, proposals, research notes, drafts, a French translation, copy-edited manuscripts, and photographs. The collection also includes a small amount of biographical material, one typed page on an exhibition of Stern's paintings in New York in 1962, several of Stern's articles that are not related to the book, and poems which date from 1959-83. There are also audio tapes of interviews, with transcripts, for Israeli Women Speak Out. Major themes in this collection include writing and journalism, Israeli women, and art. NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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