YIVO Archives. Interviews in Amerikaner Yiddishe Geschichte Bel-Pe.
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews with veterans of the Jewish labor movement conducted at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research between 1963 and 1965. They were conducted in conjunction with 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. Many of the transcripts are in Yiddish.
Dates
- 1963- 1964
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
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).
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research between 1963 and 1965.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Articles, reprints, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, August 26, 2011
- EAD encoding:
- Kathryn Dowgiewicz, January 10, 2013
- Title
- YIVO Archives. Interviews in Amerikaner Yiddishe Geschichte Bel-Pe.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- January 10, 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853