Miriam Bogorad Gittelson Papers and Photographs Bulk, 1930-1945 1925-1975

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Miriam Bogorad Gittelson Papers and Photographs Bulk, 1930-1945 1925-1975

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Miriam Bogorad Gittelson (1916 – 2006), a life-long political activist, joined the Communist Party’s Young Pioneers as a child and worked for left-wing and labor organizations such as the American Youth Congress, the Young Communist League, Camp Kinderland, and the Greater New York City CIO in the 1930s and 1940s. She also pursued a lifelong interest in music, playing several instruments, singing in a Yiddish choral society, and editing, with singer-songwriter Earl Robinson, a songbook of American ballads and American and international folk-songs. The contents of this collection are largely sheet music, songsheets and scores, published and unpublished song books accumulated by Gittelson. The bulk of the materials were created or published between the early 1930s through the 1940s. The political point of view represented in them ranges from strongly left-wing--including support for the Communist Party of the United States--to more liberal mainstream positions supporting labor unions and international cooperation. The collection also contains photographs, including an album with snapshots of delegates attending the Second World Youth Congress in August 1938.

1.0 linear feet; in two manuscript boxes, one oversize flat box, and three oversize folders

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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