Remember - Yizkor Howard Umansky 30. January 2006
Please write a few words to us about Howard
Birthe Braad Lund & Elias Ole Tetens Lund >> otel@mail.dk
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| In front of Yonah Schimmel's Knishery Oct. 2001 | Howard walking the streets of NY. Oct. 2001 | |
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Howard in front of Fritz Syberg:
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Howard visiting Skovsgaard |
February 2011:
Howard Umansky was a fine human being, conscientious,
observant,
thoughtful, idealistic, humane, and ever on the lookout for what
could be improved in the lot of all other humans. His life was not
without deep and grave troubles, but neither was it without joys,
among them his travels to Denmark and his happy sojourns there. I
knew him for many years, but grew to know him better as those years
grew later and then even later. I became closer to him toward the
very last years, and last scenes, of his life. And yet after that,
there was silence. I tried several times to reach him by telephone
but was not successful. Until today, February 17, 2011, I did not
know that he had died on January 30, 2006, now already five years
ago. I grieve at not having known this. But now that I do know it, I
grieve all over again.
In memoriam, in respect, and with love,
Eric Larsen
John Jay College of Criminal
Justice
Lloyd George Sealy Library
Classified Information Spring 2006
The Library Newsletter
THE UMANSKY BOOK COLLECTION
We recently acquired several thousand books from the estate of the late Howard Umansky,
formerly of the History Department. Most of these titles are in the areas of American history,
literature, and culture and reflect Howard’s many intellectual interests. The books are in the
process of being
processed and catalogued for the collection.
Elizabeth Echford
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Howard Umansky was engaged in social righteousness and the civil rights claim. He was proud that the NY- intellectuals took part in the struggle for equal rights, against the educational segregation in the South. His friend Benjamin Fine was a reporter for NYT at the time as Elizabeth Echford walked past a line of National Guardsmen who barred her from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
Ed: Elias Ole Tetens Lund, Svendborg, Denmark otel@mail.dk