YIVO Project. Interviews in the Irving Howe Collection conducted by Bernard Rosenberg.

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.