| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Bea Stadtler |
| Title: | Bea Stadtler Papers |
| Dates: | 1954-1995 |
| Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | Bea Horwitz Stadtler (1921-2000) was a prominent author who lived and worked in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area for her entire life. Graduating from Glenville High School, she attended Case Western Reserve University and the College of Jewish Studies, obtaining the first Bachelor of Judaica Studies degree awarded by the College of Jewish Studies in 1971. Stadtler served as an educator at B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Beth Sholom, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and the Temple-Tifereth Israel. Stadtler served as registrar at the College of Jewish Studies from 1960-1983 and as assistant editor of the Israel Philatelist. She was active in the Cleveland Holocaust Center. The author of six books and articles, stories and poems that appeared in more that twenty different publications, she also co-wrote a rock opera and created an award-winning filmstrip. Her book The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance received the National Book Council prize for the outstanding juvenile book of 1974-1975. She worked with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as he prepared the manuscript for his book Where Judaism Differed. She married Oscar Stadtler in 1943 and was the mother of three children and nine grandchildren. The collection consists of publications, scripts, correspondence, unpublished children's stories, curriculum guides, a libretto, and working drafts for published books. |
| MS Number | MS 4905 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Bea Horwitz Stadtler, (1921-2000) was a prominent author who lived and worked in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area for her entire life. Graduating from Glenville High School, she attended Case Western Reserve University and the College of Jewish Studies, obtaining the first Bachelor of Judaica Studies degree awarded by the College of Jewish Studies in 1971.
Stadtler served as an educator at B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Beth Sholom, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and The Temple-Tifereth Israel. Stadtler served as registrar at the College of Jewish Studies from 1960-1983 and as assistant editor of the Israel Philatelist. She was active in the Cleveland Holocaust Center. The author of six books and articles, stories and poems that appeared in more than twenty different publications, she also co-wrote a rock opera and created an award winning filmstrip. Her book The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance received the National Book Council prize for the outstanding juvenile book of 1974-1975. She worked with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as he prepared the manuscript for his book Where Judaism Differed.
She married Oscar Stadtler in 1943 and was the mother of three children and nine grandchildren.
The Bea Stadtler Papers, 1954-1995, consist of publications, scripts, correspondence, unpublished children's stories, curriculum guides, a libretto, and working drafts for published books.
This collection is of value to researchers studying women authors in general, and Cleveland, Ohio, women authors in particular. The collection is also of value to researchers studying children's book authors, particularly those who write about Judaism and Jewish history, the Holocaust, Jewish women in history, and Israeli stamp collecting.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4905 Bea Stadtler Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Oscar Stadtler, 2002
Processed by Evy Rosenblum in 2003
The collection is arranged alphabetically by document type and then chronologically 1954-1995 |
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| 1 | 1 | Articles, magazines and journals, "A Surprise for King Solomon," Young Judean, February 1958. "The Pearl of Men," Our World, December 1960. "Gluckel of Hamlin," Young Judean, April 1962. "Speech Was Silver," South African Jewish Frontier, April 1962. "Carry the Battle to the Day of Freedom," Our Age, March 1970. "The Russians are Coming," Outlook, Spring 1972. "Asher Kalderon - Designer," Pioneer Women, September 1973. "The Hanukkiah," Kadima, November 1973. "Asher Kalderon," Judaica Philatelic Journal, December 1973. "Religious Objects on Israeli Stamps," Israel Philatelist, December 1973. "Ye Shall Not Profane My Name," Kadima, Novebmer 1974. . | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Articles, "The Story Behind the Stamp," Israel Philatelist, August 1974. "O Holocausto," Heranca Judaica, 1975 (in Portuguese). "The Birth of Hebrew Printing," The Jewish Digest, January 1975. "Haym Salomon, Revolutionary Poet Honored on a U.S. Stamp," Judaica Philatelic Journal, March 1975. "U. S. Navy Ships Named After Jewish Heroes," World Over, October 22, 1976. "Reminiscences About a Great Zionist Leader, Abba Hillel Silver," Israel Philatelist, June 1981. "Father of Orphans, Janusog Korzak, Jewish Combatants of World War II, Winter 1981. . | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Articles, "American Greetings Corporation, a Family Success Story," The Western Reserve Magazine, March-April 1982. "What's New in Jewish Juvenile Literature?" Jewish Education, Winter 1984-1985. "The Gates of Jerusalem," Shofar, May 1987. "Israel's Postal History," Keeping Posted, October 1987. "Abraham Jacob Stern - Inventor, Scholar, and Poet," Judaica Philatelic Journal, Winter 1990. "Gemilut Hassadim - Deeds of Loving Kindness," Judaica Philatelic Journal, Fall 1992. . | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Books, Once Upon a Jewish Holiday, 1965 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Books, Adventures of Gluckel of Hameln, 1967 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Books, The Story of Dona Gracia Mendes, 1969 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Books, The Test, 1973 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Books, The Holocaust: History of Courage and Resistance, 1974 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Books, History of Israel Through Her Postage Stamps, 1993 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Books, Personalities of the American Jewish Labor Movement, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Certificates, honors and awards, 1975, 1998, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence, 1963, 1966-1970, 1973-1975, 1980-1985, 1991-1992, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Libretto, Solomon the King, including sheet music by Yehuda Levy, program, and publicity, 1974 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Newspaper articles, 1967, 1979-1971, 1973-1975, 1983, 1986-1988, 1990, 1993, 1999, 2001, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Programs, 1965, 1983, 1985-1991, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Scripts, 1967 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Teaching materials, curriculum guides, 1962, 1976-1978, 1981, 1994, 2000, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Teaching materials, booklets, A Guessing Game, 1954. ________, booklets, Rams Horn, 1954. ________, booklets, Jews in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Teaching materials, booklets, reprints of Cleveland Jewish News articles, Moments in Time, 1989. ________, booklets, reprints of Cleveland Jewish News articles, Significant Lives, 1976. ________, booklets, reprints of Cleveland Jewish News articles, Everyone Has a City and Its Name is Jerusalem, 1995 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Teaching materials, booklets, reprints of Cleveland Jewish News articles, Planting Seeds of Jewish National Fund in Our Youth, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Teaching materials, workbook, Hebrew language, 1962 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Thesis, draft for Masters Degree, term papers for college courses, and drafts for newspaper columns, 1965-1966, 1974, 1991, and undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Working draft, The Test, includes cover drawing, original photographs pasted in place and quotations with their sources used for writing the book, 1973 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Working draft, The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance, major revision of the Test, published by Behrman House, includes interview with the author on changes, 1974. . | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Writings, "Israeli Postage Stamps,' undated. "Holocaust," 1988 . | |||||||||