Preliminary Inventory of the Lenora Greenbaum Ucko papers, 1966-1998

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Ucko, Leonora Greenbaum

Lenora Greenbaum Ucko papers, 1966-1998

Material in English

5.4 Linear Feet

3,020 Items

Professor of anthropology, sociology, and social work, who founded StoriesWork, a non-profit organization in Durham, N.C. that advocates Therapeutic Storytelling, or the use of folk story analysis for empowering abused women.

Accession (2006-0015) consists primarily of files, lectures, and papers for classes taught by Ucko; files pertaining to cross-cultural communications prepared for the U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center; 20 labeled color slides; and travel diaries from Sierra Leone, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Senegal, Pakistan, and Holland. The 2007 addition (2007-0015)(750 items, 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1973-1994) contains typescripts and promotional material for articles and books including Endangered Spouses; course materials including files, papers, and class rosters; correspondence; and one audio cassette. Also included are materials from a study of Russian genealogy by students at Aldephi University directed by Ucko. The 2007 addition (2007-0066)(200 items, 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1996-1998) contains slides, photographs, oral histories on audiocassettes, 1 VHS videotape, printed and other materials all concerning a 1996 exhibit Lenora Ucko curated in honor of her late husband, Henry Zvi Ucko. The exhibit was entitled "What We Brought with Us" , an exhibit about the personal items taken by German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The exhibit was first at Duke University and then moved to the NC Museum of History in Raleigh. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

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[Identification of item], Lenora Greenbaum Ucko papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Lenora Greenbaum Ucko papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 2006 and 2007.

Processed by RBMSCL staff, March 2006; John Mayrose, May 2007

Encoded by John Mayrose, May 2007

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Accession (2006-0015) consists primarily of files, lectures, and papers for classes taught by Ucko; files pertaining to cross-cultural communications prepared for the U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center; 20 labeled color slides; and travel diaries from Sierra Leone, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Senegal, Pakistan, and Holland. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Addition (2007-0015)(750 items, 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1973-1994) contains typescripts and promotional material for articles and books including Endangered Spouses; course materials including files, papers, and class rosters; correspondence; and one audiocassette. Also included are materials from a study of Russian genealogy by students at Aldephi University directed by Ucko.

Addition (2007-0066)(200 items, 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1996-1998) contains slides, photographs, oral histories on audiocassettes, 1 VHS videocassettes, printed and other materials all concerning a 1996 exhibit Lenora Ucko curated in honor of her late husband, Henry Zvi Ucko. The exhibit was entitled "What We Brought with Us" , an exhibit about the personal items taken by German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The exhibit was first at Duke University and then moved to the NC Museum of History in Raleigh.

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