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Rodelle Weintraub

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Mrs. Rodelle Weintraub
 

Rodelle Selma Horwitz [1] was born April 29, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of Benjamin Raphael and Minerva Wascoff Horwitz. She graduated from The Philadelphia High School for Girls, January 1950, matriculated at West Chester State Teachers College, now West Chester University of Pennsylvania, before transferring to Temple University in Philadelphia. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education degree in January, 1954. On June 6, 1954 she married Stanley Weintraub with whom she has three children, Mark Bennett 1956, David Andrew 1958, and Erica Beth 1961, and 8 grandchildren.

In September 1954 Weintraub relocated from Philadelphia to State College, Pennsylvania, the location of The Pennsylvania State University. She lived in Centre County until 2003, then moving to Newark, Delaware. In 1955, as its founding mother, she was a member of a committee that established the Bellefonte-State College Jewish Community Center which later became Congregation Brit Shalom. After holding numerous positions with that organization, in 1963 she became President of the unaffiliated synagogue, possibly the first woman in the United States to head a Jewish congregation. She was a member of NOW and the League of Women Voters and ran, unsuccessfully, for election to the State College Borough Council. She was president of the Harris Acres Civic Association and member and chair of the Boalsburg Water Authority. She is a charter member of the National Museum for Women Artists and a founding member of the Jewish History Museum in Philadelphia. She is on the boards of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Newark Symphony Orchestra and has been board member and president of the Delaware Chamber Music Festival and the Friends of the Newark Symphony. She is a member of Hadassah and for three years served as editor of the Bulletin of the Wilmington Delaware Chapter of Hadassah of which she is also a board member. She is an officer in the Beech Hill Maintenance Association and editor of its monthly Newsletter.

Weintraub taught Business and Technical Writing at Penn State for 14 years, has been a technical writing consultant to industry, and has been a literary editor. Among the books she “invisibly” edited are Beardsley, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and Victoria, which was in first place on the best seller list in England.

She co-authored with Stanley Weintraub

Lawrence of Arabia: The Literary Impulse, Louisiana State University Press, 1975[2]

Co-edited with Stanley Weintraub
Dear Young Friend The Letters of American Presidents to Children, 2000.[3]

 

Co-edited

Evolution of a Revolt Early Postwar Writings of T. E. Lawrence, Pennsylania State University Press, 1968[4]

“Moby-Dick and Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” with Stanley Weintraub, Studies in American Fiction,[5]

“Chapman’s Homer,” with Stanley Weintraub, The Classical World, September-October 1973[6]

Arms and the Man and John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, Bantam, 1993[7]

Misalliance and Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, Bantam, 1995[8]

 

and edited

Shaw and Woman, The Shaw Review, January 1974[9]

Fabian Feminist Bernard Shaw and Woman, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977[10]

Shaw Abroad, Shaw 5, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985[11]

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion volume of Bernard Shaw Early texts: play manuscripts in facsimile, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1981[12]

Bernard Shaw “Arms and the Man”, Penguin Classic 2006[13]
She was Assistant Editor of The Shaw Review and has published numerous articles on Shaw including

“Shaw’s Celibate Marriage: Its Impact on His Plays,” Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens, October 1979[14]

“The Irish Lady in Shaw’s Plays,” The Shaw Review, May 1980[15]

“‘Only the man . . . draws clear of it’: a new look at Anthony Anderson” The Shaw Review, September 1980[16]

“Misalliance as High Comedy,” 1984-85 Humanities Booklet #4[17]

“Johnny’s Dream: Misalliance” Shaw 7, 1987[18]

“A Parachutist Prototype for Lina,” Shaw 8, 1988[19]

“Getting Married? An Edwardian Dilemma,” The Once and Future Shaw, 1990[20]

“Oh, the Dreaming, the Creaming: Arms and the Man“, Shaw and Other Matters, Associated University Presses 1998[21]

“Votes for Women: Bernard Shaw and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Ritual Remembering History, Myth and Poltics in Anglo-Irish Drama, Costerus New Series 99, 1995[22]

“Bernard Shaw’s Fantasy Island: Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles,” The Classical World and the Mediterranean, Universita de Sassari, 1996[23]

“Bernard Shaw’s Henry Higgins: A Classic Aspergen,” English Literature in Translation 1880-1920, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2006[24]

“Don Roberto in Bernard Shaw’s Plays,” SHAW 31, 2011[25]

She has had reviews published in The New Republic and the San Francisco Review of Books and was included in Who’s Who of American Women in 1979/80.

She is a member of the International Shaw Society and former member of the International Association for Anglo-Irish Literature (now the International Association of Irish Literature). Weintraub has participated in conferences and delivered talks not only in the United States, but Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, and South Africa.

References

  1. ^ Information provided by Mrs. Rodelle Weintraub
  2. ^ Lawrence of Arabia: The Literary Impulse, Louisiana State University Press, 1975
  3. ^ Dear Young Friend The Letters of American Presidents to Children, 2000.<
  4. ^ Evolution of a Revolt Early Postwar Writings of T. E. Lawrence, Pennsylania State University Press, 1968
  5. ^ “Moby-Dick and Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” with Stanley Weintraub, Studies in American Fiction
  6. ^ “Chapman’s Homer,” with Stanley Weintraub, The Classical World, September-October 1973
  7. ^ Arms and the Man and John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, Bantam, 1993
  8. ^ Misalliance and Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, Bantam, 1995
  9. ^ Shaw and Woman, The Shaw Review, January 1974
  10. ^ Fabian Feminist Bernard Shaw and Woman, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977
  11. ^ Shaw Abroad, Shaw 5, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985
  12. ^ Captain Brassbound’s Conversion volume of Bernard Shaw Early texts: play manuscripts in facsimile, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1981
  13. ^ Bernard Shaw “Arms and the Man”, Penguin Classic 2006
  14. ^ “Shaw’s Celibate Marriage: Its Impact on His Plays,” Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens, October 1979
  15. ^ “The Irish Lady in Shaw’s Plays,” The Shaw Review, May 1980
  16. ^ “‘Only the man . . . draws clear of it’: a new look at Anthony Anderson” The Shaw Review, September 1980
  17. ^ “Misalliance as High Comedy,” 1984-85 Humanities Booklet #4
  18. ^ “Johnny’s Dream: Misalliance” Shaw 7, 1987
  19. ^ “A Parachutist Prototype for Lina,” Shaw 8, 1988
  20. ^ “Getting Married? An Edwardian Dilemma,” The Once and Future Shaw, 1990
  21. ^ “Oh, the Dreaming, the Creaming: Arms and the Man“, Shaw and Other Matters, Associated University Presses 1998
  22. ^ “Votes for Women: Bernard Shaw and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Ritual Remembering History, Myth and Poltics in Anglo-Irish Drama, Costerus New Series 99, 1995
  23. ^ “Bernard Shaw’s Fantasy Island: Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles,” The Classical World and the Mediterranean, Universita de Sassari, 1996
  24. ^ “Bernard Shaw’s Henry Higgins: A Classic Aspergen,” English Literature in Translation 1880-1920, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2006
  25. ^ “Don Roberto in Bernard Shaw’s Plays,” SHAW 31, 2011
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Stanley Weintraub

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Stanley Weintraub (born. April 17, 1929) is a professor, historian, and biographer. He is an expert on George Bernard Shaw. Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub, followed by siblings Herbert and Gladys. Weintraub married his wife Rodelle Horwitz in 1954, with whom he has three children: Mark Bennett, David Andrew, and Erica Beth. They have eight grandchildren.

Professor Stanley Weintraub and Mrs. Rodelle Weintraub among their books

Early life

Weintraub started to accrue his knowledge about world affairs at an early age. From a one-volume children’s encyclopedia he moved to the stacks of National Geographic magazines bought second-hand by his father for him at five cents each. His expertise in war also started early, when he collected the then-popular bubble-gum war cards in the 1930s, though he was too young to recognize the patriotic propaganda. In 1939, ten-year-old Weintraub became able to check out adult books when his father applied for a library card. The first book he checked out was radio commentator H. V. Kaltenborn’s I Broadcast the Crisis, about the Munich Conference in 1938.

His first attempt at writing beyond school assignments began with a chronicle of World War II in 1939, a task abandoned the next year due to illness. His interest in the development of the war and domestic politics continued, especially after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The early creative efforts included ranged from building model warplanes to the publication of verses marking the 1941 Japanese capture of Wake Island and the Battle of Bataan.

War years

Receiving a commission as Army Second Lieutenant, Weintraub served with the Eighth Army in Korea, largely as admissions officer for the UN POW Hospital on the Korean mainland. He spent seventeen months in Korea, and was separated from active duty as a first lieutenant, having been awarded a Bronze Star. [1]

Post war

A distinguished alumnus of South Philadelphia High School, he attended West Chester State Teachers College (now West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He was presented a Distinguished Alumnus Award by West Chester University in 1968. On 11 November 1982, the university inaugurated the “Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub Center for the Study of the Arts and Humanities,” showcasing a collection of his and her books, papers and memorabilia. The exhibits include a head sculpted by Samuel Sabean. Weintraub continued his education at Temple University were he received his master’s degree in English “in absentia,” as he was called to duty in the Korean War. In 2011, Professor Weintraub was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by West Chester University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Weintraub enrolled at the Pennsylvania State University in September 1953, and his doctoral dissertation “Bernard Shaw, Novelist” was accepted on May 6, 1956. But for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State throughout his career, moving through the ranks from teaching assistant as a Ph.D. student to Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus rank on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.

Weintraub’s Shaw editorships began in 1956 when he took over the then-moribund Shaw Bulletin, which became Shaw Review in 1959 and SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies in 1981. His copious writings on Shaw include some twenty volumes about or by Shaw, such as the award-winning Journey to Heartbreak; the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914-1918. The first of his Shaw-related books, in 1963, was Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G.B.S..

As a biographer, Weintraub has focused upon nineteenth-century England, from Four Rossettis and Whistler to Victoria, Albert, and Disraeli. His Korean War experience led him also into military history, with books on both world wars, the Korean War, and the Spanish Civil War–an interest sparked early by the inter-war conflicts pictured on his boyhood collection of bubble-gum cards. As a critic, beyond his books and articles he has written hundreds of reviews for scholarly journals, and for the Saturday Review (now defunct), The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post’s Book World, and the Wall Street Journal. Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post has called him “a gifted, accomplished biographer and literary historian.”

The Weintraub’s Stanley Tree

Weintraub’s awards for teaching, research and publications include the PSU Class of 1933 Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities in 1964, a National Book Award Nomination for Beardsley: A Biography in 1967, Guggenheim Fellow in 1968, the George Freedley Award from the American Theatre Library Association for Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914-1918 in 1971, the Freedom Foundation Award for The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in London, 1894-1914 in 1980, a third Distinguished Humanist Award by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council in 1985. Whistler; a Biography was one of the “30 Notable Books of the Year” in 1974. Long Day’s Journey Into War was on the “best” list of Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, the New York Times Book Review and the New York Public Library. The Last Great Victory: the End of World War II, July–August 1945 was one of his many books selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, going into its third printing within a month of its release date. Many of his books, from Victoria to Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914, have become audiobooks.

He and Rodelle now live in Newark, Delaware.[3]

Notable Quotation from Stanley Weintraub

“Peace is harder to make than war.” From A Stillness Heard Round the World: the End of the Great War, November 1918.

Books by Stanley Weintraub

  • Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Arabia and G. B. S.. London: Braziller, 1963.
  • The Yellow Book, Quintessence of the Nineties. Edited with an introd. by Stanley Weintraub [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday 1964.
  • The Art of William Golding [by] Bernard S. Oldsey & Stanley Weintraub. New York Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.
  • Reggie: a Portrait of Reginald Turner. New York G. Braziller, 1965.
  • The Last Great Cause ; the Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1968.
  • Journey to Heartbreak ; the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914-1918. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1971.
  • Beardsley: A Biography. London: Braziller, 1967.
  • Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1971.
  • Directions in Literary Criticism; Contemporary Approaches to Literature. Edited by Stanley Weintraub and Philip Young. University Park Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973.
  • Saint Joan: Fifty Years After, 1923/24-1973/74. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
  • Whistler: a Biography. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1974.
  • Lawrence of Arabia: the Literary Impulse. With Rodelle Weintraub. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
  • Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976
  • War in the Wards: Korea’s Unknown Battle in a Prisoner-of-war Hospital Camp 2d ed. San Rafael, Calif. : Presidio Press, 1976.
  • Four Rossettis: a Victorian Biography. New York : Weybright and Talley, 1977.
  • The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in London, 1894-1914. New York: Harcourt, 1979.
  • Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982.
  • The Unexpected Shaw: Biographical Approaches to George Bernard Shaw and His Work. New York: Ungar, 1982,
  • British Dramatists since World War II. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982.
  • The Portable Bernard Shaw. New York : Penguin Books, 1986, 1977.
  • A Stillness Heard Round the World: the End of the Great War, November 1918. London : Allen & Unwin, 1986, 1985.
  • Victoria: An Intimate Biography. New York: Dutton, 1987.
  • Bernard Shaw on the London Art Scene, 1885-1950. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
  • Long Day’s Journey Into War: December 7, 1941. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, 1991.
  • Bernard Shaw: a Guide to Research. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
  • Disraeli: A Biography. New York: Dutton, 1993
  • Arms and the Man and John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, with an Introduction by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
  • The Last Great Victory : the End of World War II, July–August 1945. New York : Truman Talley Books, 1995.
  • Heartbreak House and Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw, with Introduction by Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
  • Shaw’s People: Victoria to Churchill. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
  • Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. New York: Free Press, 1997.
  • MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero. New York: Free Press, 2000.
  • Dear Young Friend the Letters of American Presidents to Children. Edited with Rodelle Weintraub. Mechanicburg: Stackpole Press, 2000.
  • Edward the Caresser: the Playboy Prince who Became Edward VII. New York: Free Press, 2001.
  • Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914. New York: Free Press, 2001.
  • Charlotte and Lionel: a Rothschild Love Story. New York: Free Press, 2003.
  • General Washington’s Christmas Farewell: a Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783. New York: Free Press, 2003.
  • Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire, 1775-1783. New York: Free Press, 2005. (also, subtitled Rebellion in America, 1775-1783. London: Simon and Schuster, 2005)
  • Eleven Days in December. Christmas at the Bulge, 1944. NY: Free Press, 2006
  • 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century New York: Free Press, 2007.
  • General Sherman’s Christmas. Savannah, 1864 New York: Harper/Smithsonian, 2009
  • Farewell, Victoria! English Literature 1880-1900 Greensboro, NC: ELT PRESS/ Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011
  • Who’s Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Some Personalities in Shaw’s Plays Gainesville, FL: Univ. Press of Florida, 2011
  • Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria’s Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2011 [A brief preliminary text delivered as a lecture was published under the same title earlier in Canada.]
  • Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 New York: DaCapo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2011
  • FDR’s Last Campaign: The 4th Term Election, 1944 New York: DaCapo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2012 [book delivered and scheduled for July 2012 release; subtitle not finalized]

Other publications by Stanley Weintraub including editions, forewords and prefaces

  • Shaw, Bernard. An Unfinished Novel. London: Constable, 1958.
  • Snow, C.P. C.P. Snow: a Spectrum, Science, Criticism, Fiction. Edited by Stanley Weintraub. New York Scribner, 1963.
  • MacCarthy, Desmond. The Court Theatre 1904-1907: a Commentary and Criticism. Edited, with a foreword and additional material, by Stanley Weintraub. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966.
  • Savoy. The Savoy : Nineties Experiment. Edited with an introd. by Stanley Weintraub. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Pref. by Harry T. Moore. Edited, with an introd. by Stanley Weintraub. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.
  • Lawrence, T.E. Evolution of a Revolt ; Early Postwar Writings of T.E. Lawrence. Edited with an introd. by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968.
  • Oscar Wilde. Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1968, 1970.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Shaw. Selected from his Writings by Stanley Weintraub. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1969-70.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Shaw; an Autobiography. London: M. Reinhardt, 1970.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Saint Joan. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Stanley Weintraub. Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Bernard Shaw’s Nondramatic Literary Criticism. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1972.
  • Shaw, Bernard. The Portable Bernard Shaw. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
  • Wilde, Oscar. The Portable Oscar Wilde. Rev. ed. New York : Viking Press, 1981.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Heartbreak House : a Facsimile of the Revised Typescript. New York : Garland Pub., 1981.
  • Shaw, Bernard. The Playwright and the Pirate : Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris, a Correspondence. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Bernard Shaw: the Diaries, 1885-1897 : with Early Autobiographical Notebooks and Diaries, and an Abortive 1917 Diary. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.
  • Shaw, Bernard. Heartbreak House : and, Misalliance. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1998.
  • Rusinko, Susan. Shaw and Other Matters : a Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of his Forty-second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1998.

 

Autobiographical Writings

  • War in the Wards: Korea’s Unknown Battle in a Prisoner-of-war Hospital Camp. 2d ed. San Rafael, Calif. : Presidio Press, 1976.
  • “Confessions of a Bookworm’ Apprentice,” Town & Gown (September 1984): 24-54.
  • “Research as Fun” (unpublished typescript of a talk delivered to a local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, April 1986).
  • “A Kid’s War,” Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series 20. Detroit: Gale Research 1994. 297-317.
  • Interviews:
  • John F. Baker, “Stanley Weintraub,” Publishers Weekly 2-5 (4 February 1974): 8-9.
  • Jean W. Ross, “The Practice of Biography: An Interview with Stanley Weintraub,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1982. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. 34-46.
  • Jo Chesworth, “Biography of a Biographer,” Town & Gown (August 1990): 66-76.
  • Biography:
  • Orso, Miranda. “Stanley Weintraub.” <http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Weintraub__Stanley.html
     

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  • Crawford, Fred D. “The Dreaded Weintraub.” In Shaw and Other Matters : a Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of his Forty-second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University. Edited by Susan Rusinko. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1998.
  • Colon, John J. “Stanley Weintraub,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume III American Literary Biographers, Second Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. 285-99.

References

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The Saslav Collection

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We would like to thank Dr. Isidor Saslav for kindly giving permission to reproduce this video online.

You may also wish to take the Virtual Tour of the Isidor Saslav Shaw Collection


Here is the Isidor Saslav New Zealand Collection. Do you recognize Dr. Saslav?

The Saslav Collection Part I

The Saslav Collection Part I


Saslav Collection Part II


 The Salsav Collection Part III

 The Saslav Collection Part IV

Saslav Collection Part V

Saslav Collection Part VI


Saslav Collection Part VII

Saslav Collection Part VIII

DR. ISIDOR SASLAV:

 

       Isidor Saslav, Director of String Studies at Stephen F. Austin State University, ret.,  began the collection in 1960 while a student at Wayne State University in Detroit with the purchase of a first edition of Shaw’s first play, Widowers Houses (1893).  From that time up to the present Dr. Saslav and his family have added to the collection until it has reached its present size of approximately 8,000 items.  By comparison the gargantuan Shaw holdings at the University of Texas atAustin’sHumanitiesResearchCenter are comprised of some 9,000 items.

Besides books, which include first editions, collected editions, and bibliographies, the collection features Shaw autograph postcards and letters, magazines, both individual and in extended runs, movie and radio scripts, photos, caricatures, videos, cassettes and LPs of theatrical productions and musicals, stamps, theatrical and movie posters and placards, and much ephemera including pamphlets, theater programs (many of original productions), proof copies, cigarette cards, etc.

Reflected strongly in the collection is Shaw’s many-sided career as playwright, producer/director, screen writer, novelist, and letter writer; as critic of books, art, music, theater, aesthetics, photography, and cinema; his pioneering work in British politics; religious and philosophical thought; philology and the development of the English language; his humanitarian crusades against vivisection and for vegetarianism; and other topics.

Besides Shaw himself the collection emphasizes the influences on him and his career; his circle of friends, collaborators, and associates; and those in field after field of endeavor whom he in turn influenced and assisted.  A naming of some of these figures and personalities, many of whom are represented strongly in the collection, would include William Morris, Henry George, William Archer, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, G.K. Chesterton, H. L. Mencken, Lady Gregory, Annie Horniman, Harley Granville- Barker, Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Lawrence of Arabia, Joan of Arc, Gene Tunney, and many others; theatrical and movie personalities such as Katherine Hepburn, Gabriel Pascal, Danny Kaye, Sir Laurence Olivier, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, Agnes de Mille, and many others.

Scholarly books on Shaw include strong representation of works by Stanley Weintraub, Michael Holroyd, Charles Carpenter, the late Dan H. Laurence, and many others, with whom Dr. Saslav has been in communication and interaction over the years, and who have assisted Dr. Saslav by advice and contribution in the building up of the collection.  In addition Dr, Saslav is a founding member of the International Shaw Society.  A uniquely  exhaustive sub-collection documenting Shaw’s visit to New Zealand in 1934 has also been created by Dr. Saslav for the collection thanks to his six years as concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.  An extensive selection of memorabilia from the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake inCanadais also part of the collection.

Aiding scholarly analysis of the collection is a database of information containing approximately 2,500 items, identifying the works and analyzing their relationship and relevance to the collection.  Dr. Saslav continues to update this database as the collection grows and will continue to curate the collection until the database is complete.

As stated above Dr. Saslav has been in communication and interaction with the Shaw scholarly community over the years and the results of Dr. Saslav’s researches are summarized in the list below:

 LECTURES, PAPERS, AND PUBLICATIONS ON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:

 

“ “SHAW-CAGO” Celebrating Shaw’s Chicago Century,” The Shavian, Journal of the [London] Shaw

Society, Summer 2011, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 17-22.

“ ‘Shaw cathedral’ damaged” The Shavian, Journal of the [London] Shaw Society, Summer 2011, Vol.

11, No. 6, pp. 22f.

“Celebrating Shaw’s Chicago Century,” article for online Ezine Swans Commentary, April 23, 2011.

“Celebrating Shaw’s Chicago Century,” paper read at the International Shaw Society Symposium in

ChicagoILhosted by ShawChicago, October 23, 2010.

“Shaw as Musical (2)” review of A Minister’s Wife, musicalization of Candida by the Wrtiers’ Theater

in GlencoeIL, July 2009, The Shavian, Journal of the [London] Shaw Society, Summer 2010, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 10-15.

“How I Found Shaw,” autobiographical article for online Ezine Swans Commentary, March 23, 2009

[revised and expanded version of Shavian article below].

            “George Bernard Shaw on the Art of Conducting, 1877-1950,” lecture for the Conductors’ Guild

Convention,New YorkNY, January 11, 2009.

“How I Found Shaw,” autobiographical article in The Shavian [London], Autumn 2008, V.10, No. 7,

pp. 21- 25.

“Working with Dan Laurence,” Nicholas Grene, compiler; article of reminiscence, “Isidor Saslav,”

SHAW, The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, No. 28, 2008, pp. 263f.

            “Shaw’s letters in other people’s books,” article in SHAW, The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, No. 27,

2007, pp. 201-12.

            “[150th] Birthday Party: Isidor Saslav reports on a Shaw dinner in California,” The Shavian, Journal of

the [London] Shaw Society, Autumn 2006, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 30-31.

            “Shaw’s letters in other peoples’ books,” paper read at the Shaw 150th birthday conference,

BrownUniversity,ProvidenceRI, June 8-11, 2006.

            “Bernard Shaw and Religion,” lecture for the Unitarian Fellowship of Longview, TX,

January 16, 2005.

“GBS in Heaven (and Hell): The Shaws inNew ZealandApril 1934,” paper read at the International                                Shaw Society, Shaw Festival Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake ONT, July 21, 2004.

“Bernard Shaw’s New Zealand Progress March-April 1934: An illustrated commentary,”

                        Stout Centre Review, Vol II, No. 3,VictoriaUniversity,Wellington NZ, May 1992.

 

            MAN AND SUPERMAN

“Man and Superman and Don Juan in Hell: Highlights from a Performance History 1905-2005,” paper read at the International Shaw Society, Shaw Festival Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake ONT, August 26, 2006. [accompanied by a 10-panel display of items from the Saslav Collection on the topic].

“Texas Celebrates Man and Superman,” review of the Round Top Theatre Forum, The Shavian                                        [London], Spring 2006, V. 10, No. 2., pp. 33-35

            “Man and Superman and Don Juan in Hell: Highlights from a Performance History 1905-2005,”                                      lecture for the Round Top TX Festival Institute Theatre Forum November 4-7, 2005;

[including the10-panel display.]

           

ARMS AND THE MAN

“Arms and the Man in Texas,” The Independent Shavian [NY] Vol. 41/2-3, 2003, pp. 68-70.

“Bernard Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man,’ ” lecture Texas Shakespeare Festival,Kilgore TX, 2003.

[including a display case of memorabilia from the Saslav Arms and the Man collection].

“Bernard Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man,’ ” lecture Stephen F. Austin St. U. Theater Department,

NacogdochesTX, 1999.

“Bernard Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man,’ ” lecture Theater Hopkins, Johns Hopkins

University,BaltimoreMD, 1984

Radio New Zealand/Concert FM radio lectures, 1991-92

“Bernard Shaw on the Art of Musical Criticism”

“Victorian Concert Life as Seen by Bernard Shaw”

“Bernard Shaw on Conducting”

“Bernard Shaw on and at the Keyboard”

“Bernard Shaw on the Voice and the Art of Singing”

“How Bernard Shaw Reviewed the Ladies”

 

Other lectures and papers:

“Bernard Shaw: The Books, the Writing, the Man,” Book Arts Society ofNew Zealand,

WellingtonNZ, 1992.

“Bernard Shaw as Critic of 18th-century Musical Theatre,” New Zealand Musicological                                               Society Symposium, “Dramatic Music in the 17th and 18th Centuries,” Wellington NZ, 1992.

“Shaw: and, on, and inNew Zealand,” Stout Research Centre,VictoriaUniversity,WellingtonNZ,

1992.

“Noel Coward and Bernard Shaw,” Khandallah (NZ) Arts Theatre, 1992.

“Shaw Collecting inNew Zealand,” Bernard Shaw Society of New York, 1991.

“Bernard Shaw as Music Critic,” Institute of Registered Music Teachers,WellingtonNZ, 1990.

“Bernard Shaw as Music Critic and his Visit toChristchurch,”CanterburyUniversity,

ChristchurchNZ, 1989.