MenuGuide to the Emanuel Muravchik oral history interview, 2001 June
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.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Creator
- Wilk, Daniel Levinson.
- Title
- Emanuel Muravchik oral history interview, 2001 June
- Language of Materials
- English
- Extent
- 3 items (0.1 lin. ft.)
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection Overview
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.
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Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
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Contents of the Collection
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Daniel Levinson Wilk is a historian. Emanuel Muravchik was a longtime staff member of the Socialist Party of America and the Jewish Labor Committee.
Subject Headings
- Communists--New York (State)--History.
- Communism--New York (State)--History.
- Labor--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- Labor unions--United States.
- Socialists--New York (State)--History.
- Socialism--New York (State)--History.
- Socialism--United States--History--20th century.
- War and socialism.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
- Muravchik, Emanuel.
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968.
- Wilk, Daniel Levinson.
- Socialist Party (U.S.)--History.
- Audiocassette.
- Digital audio formats.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Emanuel Muravchik oral history interview, 2001 June, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Provenance
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
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.