Oral history interview with Gerda Lerner, 1981
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- Name
- Lerner, Gerda, 1920- (Interviewee)
- Goldstein, Judith (Interviewer)
- Alexander, Cathy (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Gerda Lerner, 1981
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Gerda Lerner, 1978-1981
- Abstract
- Education and imprisonment in Vienna, 1938; emigration to United States, 1939, unskilled jobs; New School for Social Research, B.A., 1963; Columbia University, PhD., 1966; skeptical acceptance as womens historian; raising family in an integrated neighborhood; involvement with women and labor organizations; screenwriting "Black Like Me"; organization and presidency of Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Professions, 1969; organization of women's history program at Sarah Lawrence, 1970s; effect of experience on intellectual development; complexities of documenting female experience and need to restructure methods of historical inquiry; goals and responsiblities as a teacher
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Historians--United States; Women historians--United States; Women college teachers; Women's rights; Women's studies; United States Race relations; Lerner, Gerda, 1920-; New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.); Columbia University; Sarah Lawrence College
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Historian, educator
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Biographical interview
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Judith Goldstein; Cathy Alexander
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7094946
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/f5rv-fn76
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.