Morris U. Schappes Papers 1891-2004 (bulk 1940-1990)

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Morris U. Schappes Papers 1891-2004 (bulk 1940-1990)

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Morris U. Schappes, self-taught historian of American Jewry, author, teacher and editor of across four decades, is also known as a victim of hearings conducted in 1941 by the Rapp-Coudert Committee, a New York legislative committee investigating Communist activities in the state educational system. His collection is comprised of materials related to the Rapp-Coudert proceedings and his subsequent imprisonment and of materials generated in the following decades. Topics represented include academic freedom, Communism in the U.S., the roles of Jews in U.S. history, and Emma Lazarus. The formats primarily present in the collection are research notes, manuscripts, clippings and correspondence. Jewish Currents

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City University of New York. City College

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Morris U. Schappes, 1907-2004

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Morris Urman Schappes, self-taught historian of American Jewry, author, teacher and editor of Jewish Currents across four decades, is also known as a victim of hearings conducted in 1941 by the Rapp-Coudert Committee, a New York legislative committee investigating Communist activities in the state educational system. Morris Schappes was born Moise ben Haim Shapshilevich on May 3, 1907. Prior to Schappes’s birth, his father, Hyman, a wood turner and carpenter, and his mot...

Rapp-Coudert Committee.

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College of the City of New York (1926-1961). City College

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Schappes, Sonya Laffer

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Schappes, Morris U. (Morris Urman), 1907-

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Born Moishe Shapshilevich in 1907 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, Schappes was raised in Brazil and moved with his parents to New York in 1914. Earning his Bachelor of Arts at City College and his Master of Arts at Columbia University, he joined the faculty of City College as an English lecturer in 1928. As a scholar, Schappes first achieved prominence for his work on the poetry and letters of Emma Lazarus, published in a series of books and monographs between 1944 and 1987. His broader historical...

New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Educational System of the State of New York

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The Joint Legislative Committee of the State Education System, chaired by Assemblyman Herbert A. Rapp, was created by concurrent resolution of the New York State Senate and Assembly on March 29, 1940. The Committee was given broad authority to investigate the administration and financing of education in the state, and to study "the extent, if any, to which subversive activities may have been permitted to exist in the schools and colleges of the public educational system of the City ...