Oral history interview with Edith Porada, 1987

Biographical Note

Art historian

Scope and Contents

Early education; interest in ancient Near East archeology, study of stamp seals; study in Vienna, Paris, and the United States; Guggenheim fellowship; expeditions to the Near East; teaching at Queens College, Columbia University, the Morgan Library

Subjects

• Archaeology.
• Art--History.
• Art historians--Interviews.
• Columbia University--Faculty--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Middle East--In art.
• Middle East--Study and teaching.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Porada, Edith, 1912-1994--Interviews.
• Stein, Rose (Rózsi), interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988