Title: Robert H. Segal Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1945-1971

Creator:

• Segal, Robert H., 1912-

Call Number: Mss 714

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Scripts for radio dramas written, directed, or produced by Robert H. Segal, a cantor at Temple Beth-El in Cedarhurst, Long Island, together with collected files on other religious broadcasts sponsored by various Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Theological Seminary and the American Zionist Council. Most extensively documented is The Eternal Light (NBC) on which Segal was frequently featured as cantor.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00714

The Segal script files were donated to the Mass Communications History Center at the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1983 by Professor J. Fred McDonald as part of a large personal library of material on contemporary culture. It is not clear when or how McDonald acquired them from Segal.

The scripts are arranged alphabetically by series title with the holdings on the Jewish Theological Seminary's Eternal Light being the most extensive. Segal was featured on many of these programs as cantor. These files have been compared to holdings in the radio script files in the National Broadcasting Company Records held by the Historical Society and all duplicates eliminated. On other documented programs Segal was variously writer, producer, or director. Only a few scripts bear annotations or emendations.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Robert H. Segal, Cedarhurst, New York, via J. Fred McDonald, Chicago, Illinois, August 1, 1983. Accession Number: MCHC83-29

Processing Information

Processed by Hans Kaiser and Carolyn J. Mattern, 1987.

Box   1 Folder   1	American Zionist Council, Israeli anniversary broadcasts, 1953-1961
	Eternal Light
Box   1 Folder   2-6	Chapter 1-282, 1944-1950
Box   2	Chapter 292-850, 1951-1965
Box   3 Folder   1-2	Chapter 861-1058, 1966-1971
Box   3 Folder   3	Frontiers of Faith, 1951, 1957
Box   3 Folder   4	Look Up and Live, 1959-1962
Box   3 Folder   5	Lamp Unto My Feet, 1949
Box   3 Folder   6	A World to Build, undated
Box   3 Folder   7	Miscellaneous scripts, 1945-1966