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• Title:Jacob Zilber fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Zilber, Jacob, 1924-
  
• Published/Created:1950-2003
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:8
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Zilber, Jacob, 1924-
  
• Description:2. 55 m of textual records.
  1 16mm film.
  36 photographs.
  13 audiotapes.
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of personal and professional materials created and collected by Professor Jacob Zilber. The fonds consists of screenplays, manuscripts, drafts, notes, and correspondences relating to Zilber's published and unpublished materials. The fonds also includes biographical and autobiographical material, clippings, teaching records and course materials. It also contains manuscripts by students, materials related to musician and composer Michael Zilber, Department of Creative Writing administrative records, as well as various UBC committee records. The fonds is divided into five series: Manuscripts, Screenplays, Monologues series (1950-1999); Administrative and Teaching Materials series (1964-1989); Personal Materials series (1950-1997); Photographs series (1947-1989); and Audiovisual Materials series (196?-1985).
  
• Biography/history note:Professor Jacob Zilber taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia from 1957 to 1989. He served as chairman of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Committee prior to the establishment of the Department of Creative Writing in 1965. Zilber was also one of the founders of UBC's "Prism" magazine and served as its editor from 1966 to 1973. Jacob Zilber was born on May 15, 1924 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin in 1948 where he earned Honors in General Scholarship. Jacob Zilber went on to earn a Masters of Arts from the University of Washington in 1957. Professor Zilber joined UBC's Department of English in 1957 as a Lecturer until 1962 when he became an Assistant Professor. In 1965 he held the position of Associate Professor and become a full Professor by 1975. Professor Zilber held memberships in various professional and learned societies such as CAUT and the UBC Faculty Association. He was also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the first director of the B.C. Writers Service, and served as a judge for the ACTRA awards. As a prolific writer, Professor Zilber's literary work has appeared in various Canadian and American magazines while his plays have been presented in Vancouver and off-Broadway in New York. A co-written screenplay, "The Inbreaker" (1974), became a feature film produced by the Bob Elliott Film Company of Vancouver. Professor Jacob Zilber retired from teaching in 1989 and remains active in the field of creative writing.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.