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1867-1980, predominant 1921-1980 (Creation)
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12.36 m of textual records ca. 240 photographs 25 postcards
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William Jaffé (1898-1980), born in Brooklyn, N.Y., scholar, educator and author, was associated with York University for the last ten years of his life as a professor in the Economics Department. Jaffé received his B.A. in English and Classics from the City College of New York (1918), his M.A. in History from Columbia (1919) and his Docteur en Droit es sciences économiques et politiques from the University of Paris (1924). Prior to his tenure at York, Jaffé had spent the period 1928-1966 at Northwestern University (Illinois), and was acknowledged to be the foremost authority on the work of French nineteenth-century economist Leon Walras. He translated Walras' 'The elements of pure economics,' and edited three volumes of Walras correspondence. Jaffé was made a Member of the French Legion of Honour, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and Letters, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.
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The fonds consists of material that documents Jaffe's career as an educator and author and includes personal and professional correspondence, photographs, drafts and reprints of articles, speeches and reviews written by Jaffe as well as financial records related to his personal and professional life. It also includes academic and teaching files consisting of course outlines, lecture notes, copies of class assignments, minutes, reports, and other material related to committee work, grant applications, research material and other items that document his time at Northwestern University, Harvard, the University of British Columbia and York University. The bulk of the fonds, however, consist of material that documents Jaffe's ongoing interest and research into the life and work of the French nineteenth-century economist Leon Walras including reviews, articles and essays related to Walras' work written by Jaffe as well as copies of articles and papers written by Walras himself. There are transcriptions of Walras' correspondence and other material from the fonds Walras housed in Lausanne, Switzerland and used by Jaffe in editing his 'Correspondence of Leon Walras and Related Papers'. There are also original documents from Walras and his family such as royalty statements that document Walras' earnings from his books, family photographs, correspondence and other material dating from about 1860 to 1910.
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archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000333.htm
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The fonds comprises the following accession: 1983-009. No further accruals are expected.