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Summary

Abstract:
This collection contains correspondence, book catalogs, and research materials of Frederick Ungar, especially those relating to the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company.
Extent:
11.12 cubic ft.
Language:
English , German .
Preferred citation:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Frederick Ungar Papers, 1931-1989. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Ungar Papers).

Background

Scope and Content:

The collection contains correspondence with Bruno Bettlehem, Franz Rudolf Bienenfeld, Edward L. Ericson, Erich Fromm, Alexander Gode, Fritz Hochwlder, Norman Lear, Robert Lohan, Viktor Mateja, Thomas Mann, Jan Masaryk, Will Schaber (with translations into German), Joseph Liutpold Stern (with manuscripts of poetry), Ernst Waldinger, Marie Weiss, Thornton Wilder, and others; Ungar's notebooks, 1959-1968; working materials for Ungar's unpublished German-English dictionary, 1945-1957; copies of early imprints, and catalogs and other promotional publications of the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1941-1988. There also are subject files, including ones about honors and awards, biographical materials, A. Gode, Austrian in poetry and history, the American Pictorial Encyclopedia, the Barash arbitration, and American women writers.

Biographical / Historical:

Frederick Ungar was born and educated in Vienna, where he founded Phaidon Verlag and Saturn Verlag. He founded the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company in 1941 and directed it from its offices in New York City for more than forty years. Ungar edited or introduced many volumes on German and Austrian literature. Frederick Ungar died in 1989. Some titles from the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company are now owned by the Continuum International Publishing Group.

Acquisition information:
All items in this manuscript group were donated to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections Archives by Hansi Ungar in 1990 .
Processing information:

Processed in 2006 March by M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY.

Arrangement:

The collection is unprocessed, but there is a general arrangement at the box level.

Physical location:
The materials are located onsite in the department.

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PREFERRED CITATION:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Frederick Ungar Papers, 1931-1989. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Ungar Papers).

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