The Alcohol Studies Archives is the online version of the Special Collections and Archives that used to be housed at the Alcohol Library maintained by the Information Services Division at the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies. It was closed in December 2016. These pages, including the blog, attempt to save as much content … Read More
Discovered accidentally among a stack of unrelated documents in the Mark Keller Collection at the Center of Alcohol Studies Archives in 2012, the yellowing image symbolizes the big EMJ-mystery, referring to the adventurous life of E. M. Jellinek, one of the founders of alcohol science. An unorthodox 4×5-inch ex libris marked with the initials E.M.J. … Read More
With time passing, the ink is now barely legible on the original Bunky’s Doodle. Luckily, the CAS Library managed to digitize its cherished treasure in 2011, saving an electronic copy for prosperity and future research. The famous Bunky’s Doodle, or the Progression Phases of Alcoholism by Dr. E. M. Jellinek, pictured here, was presented to … Read More
Since its first edition in 1939, the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous known as the “Big Book” has helped millions of men and women recover from alcoholism. It happened to be published in the exact same year E. M. Jellinek and crew would begin their literature review in earnest. Jellinek’s first reflections were published in … Read More
In the summer of 2013, we at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library took it upon ourselves to transform the conference room into an historical exhibit, displaying affiliated publications, classic photos, CAS-specific artifacts, and a complete run of our scholarly journal. While rummaging through the then-recently unlocked bookshelves seeking items to display, we came across … Read More
The Information Services Division is delighted to share a special issue of its newsletter to commemorate the 125th anniversary of E. M. Jellinek’s birth. Table of Contents Who remembers Jellinek? – We do! Read our thoughts on Jellinek’s significance in the 21st century Career highlights – The list of Jellinek’s most important achievements in one page … Read More
After publishing two book reviews in Hungarian, Jellinek wrote a book entitled A saru eredete (The origin of shoes) in 1917. With its 59 pages, this work is longer than an essay but shorter than a book, meant to elaborate on his presentation at the Ethnography Society in November, 1916. The book is dedicated to … Read More
The study of alcoholism does not just reward but practically demands an interdisciplinary approach, a capacity to navigate and synthesize medical science, psychology, sociology, and more. In this way we might say it takes after its father: E. M. Jellinek, a polyglot and polymath who delighted in jumping between registers of meaning––a fascination apparent in … Read More
The Bunky head. The small, bronze, possibly birthday hat wearing bust you may have noticed as you entered the Center of Alcohol Studies Library. Whose face deserved its very own sculpture? What is the history of this piece? And how did it come to rest at CAS? I first learned about the “Bunky” head in … Read More
Correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson (1963-1990): Part 3 This is the third part of a series featuring a great treasure of the Center of Alcohol Studies Archives: the correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson, one of Jellinek’s former wives. Part 1 was published in the March 2014 issue of the … Read More