Papers, 1907-1976.

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Papers, 1907-1976.

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The brief Biographical series contains some personal correspondence, memorabilia, and obituaries. The bulk of the collection consists of Recht's unpublished writings, including A World to Win, an autobiography (along with several autobiographical fragments) covering Recht's life through the early 1930s, including his travels throughout the Soviet Union, Selector H. One, a social-satirical historical science fiction novel, an untitled and incomplete novel largely about "Ernest Strohman," an immigrant of Bohemian origin, various poems, two untitled plays dealing with Jewish history, and an early (1907) pamphlet-length non-fiction manuscript, The Bohemian in America. The published writings consist of several articles dealing with civil rights and Jewish history.

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Recht, Charles, 1887-1965

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Charles C. Recht (1887-1965) was born in Bohemia to Jewish parents, emigrated to the United States at age thirteen, and graduated from New York University Law School in 1910. He served as general counsel for the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, which provided free legal service to men who resisted the new draft laws related to the entry of the United States into World War I. Recht also represented many radicals who faced deportation at that time, and later served as an officer of a Communist Par...