Reminiscences of Morris U. Schappes : oral history, 1983.

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Reminiscences of Morris U. Schappes : oral history, 1983.

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Family background in Ukraine, emigration to the United States, 1914; BA, City Univerity of New York, 1928: participation in campus political groups; lecturer at City University 1928-1941: lack of academic freedom, publication of TEACHER-WORKER, expulsion for using radical texts, subsequent reinstatement; Rapp-Coudert Committee, 1936: refusal to provide names of fellow Communist Party activists; trial and imprisonment for perjury; various publications on Jewish history.

Transcript: 66 leaves.Tape: 2 cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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