Emanuel Muravchik oral history interview, 2001 June

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Summary

Creator:
Wilk, Daniel Levinson
Abstract:
Daniel Levinson Wilk is a historian. Muravchik was a longtime staff member of the Socialist Party of America and the Jewish Labor Committee. Collection comprises an audiocassette tape of the oral history interview conducted by Wilk with Emanuel Muravchik while Wilk was completing his graduate work at Duke University. The interview primarily focused on Muravchik's career in the Socialist Party, particularly from the 1920s to the 1950s, and mostly in New York State. There is no transcript for the interview, and two digital files have been created from the audiocassette.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.00921

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises an audiocassette tape of the oral history interview conducted by Wilk with Emanuel Muravchik while Wilk was completing his graduate work at Duke University. The interview primarily focused on Muravchik's career in the Socialist Party, particularly from the 1920s to the 1950s, and mostly in New York State. Related topics include Muravchick's education; the process followed to place Norman Thomas on the New York State ballot as a Socialist Party candidate for the 1940 Presidential election; the relationships between socialists and communists; approaches used to build the Socialist movement; union and other organizing; as well as the impact of WWII on the movement and its leaders. Among the noted persons mentioned was J. Edgar Hoover. There is no transcript for the interview, and two digital files have been created from the audiocassette.

Biographical / historical:

Daniel Levinson Wilk is a historian. Emanuel Muravchik was a longtime staff member of the Socialist Party of America and the Jewish Labor Committee.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 2001
Processing information:

Processed by: Alice Poffinberger, November 2010

Encoded by: Alice Poffinberger, July 2011

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2003-0154

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[Identification of item], in the Emanuel Muravchik oral history interview, 2001 June, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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