Oral history interview with Seymour Melman, 1988

 

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
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