Oral history interview with Seymour Melman, 1988
Oral history interview with Seymour Melman, 1988
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- Name
- Melman, Seymour (Interviewee)
- Dorman, Joseph, 1958- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Seymour Melman, 1988
- Abstract
- Youth; family; Bronx neighborhood; City College of New York 1930s; undergraduate political life, American Student Zionist Federation (Avukah), protests, anti-Bund rally 1939; Depression of1930s, effects of, bank failures, rise of fascism, attraction of communism and socialism, street rallies; Anti-Stalinism; World Zionist Congress, Geneva,1939; Palestine 1940, United States Army 1942-45; McCarthyis m, anticommunism, problems of; New Left and old left, Columbia crisis 1968, Port Huron Statement; interest in productivity problems; National Commission on Economic Conversion and Disarmament; distortions of a military economy
- Collection Name
- Arguing the World oral history collection
- Subjects
- New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century; Melman, Seymour
- Format
- oral histories; video recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1988
- Note
- Interviewed by Joseph Dorman on August 10, 1988
- Note (Provenance)
- Joseph Dorman, Gift 1998
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15146215
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-datp-te51
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.