Pete Steffens papers

This collection consists of Pete Steffens’s research and writings on the history of the modern Hebrew press. Steffens completed at least three chapters of this history and the collection includes typescripts and manuscript drafts of chapters, interviews with Israeli editors, such as Uri Avnery, research notes, notebooks, correspondence, and various publications and articles pertaining to the Jewish press.  Some of the research notes focus on specific newspapers, such as HaMashkif, Kol Israel, The Jersulaem Post, HaTzofeh, HaBoker  and Al HaMishmar. The collection contains material in both Hebrew and English and the bulk of it was created while Steffens was living in the Middle East from the 1950s to the early 1960s.