YIVO Project. Interviews in the Irving Howe Collection conducted by Bernard Rosenberg., 1968-1968
Collection Number: 6036/003
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
YIVO Project. Interviews in the Irving Howe Collection conducted by Bernard Rosenberg., 1968-1968
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6036/003
Abstract:
Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Bernard Rosenberg for a project
of Irving Howe in conjunction with the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research between
1964 and 1968.
Creator:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Howe, Irving
Rosenberg, Bernard
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing about 2,000 members in cities
in the northeastern United States, the ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership
size, political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized
labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU
worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective
bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing,
educational opportunities, and other efforts. In 1995, the ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE).
The collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews with veterans of the
Jewish labor movement under the supervision of Professor Irving Howe of the City University
of New York. Howe was accumulating material and research in preparation of writing
a large volume on immigrant Jews in the U.S., Yiddish culture, and the Jewish labor
movement. He had enlisted Professor Bernard Rosenberg, chairman of the sociology department
at City College of New York, to conduct the interviews with both leaders and rank
and file members of the Jewish labor movement. The project also involved the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research which provided additional support and transcription
services. Interviewees include Emil Schlesinger (who provides recollections of his
father, former ILGWU president Benjamin Schlesinger)and Israel Breslow, but many of
the transcripts are in Yiddish.
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archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
YIVO Project. Interviews in the Irving Howe Collection conducted by Bernard Rosenberg.
#6036/003. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 6036/002: YIVO Archives. Interviews in Amerikaner Yiddishe Geschichte Bel- Pe.
Names:
Breslow, Israel.
Deutchman, Max.
Fenster, Bernard.
Glass, Louis.
Halpern, Gershon.
Halpern, Pearl.
Haskel, Hannah.
Haskel, Max.
Held, Adolph.
Hershovitz, Abe.
Kazin, Abraham.
Kreindler, Charles.
Novick, Paul.
Painkin, Louis.
Scherer, Abraham.
Schlesinger, Emil.
Schoenholtz, Isidore.
Shapiro, Feigel.
Weiss, Flora.
Wisotsky, Isidore.
Zierlin, Abe.
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research -- Archives.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- Archives.
Subjects:
Jewish labor unions.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Abe Hershovitz
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 14. Interviewed by YIVO Institute at the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
on May 26, 1964. Typed Yiddish. 33 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Pearl and Gershon Halpern
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1965 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 15. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on November 11, 1965. Typed Yiddish. 32
pages and 6 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Emil Schlesinger
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 16. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on May 8 and 9, 1968. 41 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Flora Weiss
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 17. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on June 15, 1964. Typed Yiddish. 45 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Bernard Fenster
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 18. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on December 6, 1963. Typed Yiddish. 20 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Louis Glass [Folder 1 of 2]
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 19. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on November 4, 1963. Typed Yiddish. 59 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Louis Glass [Folder 2 of 2]
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 19. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on November 4, 1963. Typed Yiddish. 59 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Abe Zierlin
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 20. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on May 4, 1964. Typed Yiddish. 16 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Abraham Scherer
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 21. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on November 23, 1963. Typed Yiddish. 16
pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Isidore Schoenholtz
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 22. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on May 16, 1964. Typed Yiddish. 33 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Charles Kreindler
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1965 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 23. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on August 2, 1965. 11 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Hannah Haskel (Mrs. Charles Kreindler)
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1965 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 24. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on March 16, 1965. 25 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Max Haskel
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1964-1965 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 25. Interviewed by YIVO Institute, circa 1964-1965. Typed Yiddish. 4 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Feigel Shapiro
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 26. Interviewed by YIVO Institute on Auguts 6, 1964. Includes typed Yiddish.
32 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Max Deutchman
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1964 |
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Scope and Contents
#2 R.I. 27. Interviewed at YIVO Institute on February 3 and 7, 1964. Typed Yiddish.
31 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Abraham Kazin
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 1. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 23 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Isidore Wisotsky
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 2. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 31 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Paul Novick
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 3. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 22 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Adolph Held
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 4. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 21 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Pearl Halpern
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 5. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 26 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Louis Painkin
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 6. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 48 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Israel Breslow
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 7. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 31 pages.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Abe Zierlin and wife
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
#3 R.I. 8. Interviewed by Bernard Rosenberg. 18 pages.
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