Mel Wacks papers relating to Gerta Ries Wiener and the Jewish-American Hall of Fame
name: label: Creator
content: Wacks, Mel
label: Names
content: Wiener, Gerta Ries, 1898-2000
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- California
label: Topic
content: Medals
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2007 and 2009 by Mel Wacks, director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wacks, Mel
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mel Wacks (b. 1938) is Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, Woodland Hills, Calif. The Jewish-American Hall of Fame was a project of the Judah L. Magnes Museum from 1969 through 2001 and is currently a division of the American Jewish Historical Society.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wackmel
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters; sketches (mostly photocopies) of medals; photographs; an interview on DVD, and medals concerning Wacks' involvement in the work of medalist Gerta Ries Wiener for the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, a project and institution created by the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters, circa 100, from Wiener to Wacks concerning commemorative medals created by Wiener and commissioned by Wacks for the Judah L. Magnes Museum, from Emma Lazarus, Adolph Ochs, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Béla Schick, Ernestine L. Rose, Gertrude Stein, Louis D. Brandeis, Gershom Mendes Seixas, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, Gershom Mendes Seixas, and Jascha Heifetz (medal not made). Photographs are of medals and subjects used for medals. Interview on DVD is of Wiener conducted by Wacks, December 30, 1994. Five commemorative medals are by Wiener of Schick, Ochs, Brandeis, Rose, and Rebecca Gratz.