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The Ginsberg papers are primarily his writings and related research materials, with some ephemera from his produced films and plays.
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Milton Moses Ginsberg (1935-2021) was a film writer, editor, and director. He released only two feature films, Coming Apart (1969) and The Werewolf of Washington (1973), and authored many other screenplays, novels, and stage plays. He has a successful career as an editor, working with documentarians such as Lee Grant and Keiko Ibi. He made several short films independently.
Ginsberg was a prolific writer, with many of his screenplays moving from short story or novel, to a stage play, before becoming a screenplay. Many of his works have different versions with significant updates and changes over time. His works encompass many different genres and subjects.
Born in the Bronx to a cutter in the garment district and a housewife, Ginsberg wrote extensively about growing up in New York, specifically growing up Jewish in New York, and in Yiddish speaking neighborhoods. His work addressed many topics of personal identity, cultural and political conflicts, and war, including religion, race, gender, and sexuality, and the Holocaust, the us of nuclear weapons against Japan by the United States, the Cold War, abortion, cancer, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
Ginsberg attended the Bronx High School and Columbia University. He was married to the painter Nina Posnansky from 1989 to his death in 2021.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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| Screenplays | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
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| Authors, American | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Motion picture authorship | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Screenwriters | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |