Oral history interview with Seymour Melman, 1988

Scope and Contents

Youth; family; Bronx neighborhood; City College of New York 1930s; undergraduate political life, American Student Zionist Federation (Avukah), protests, anti-Bund rally 1939; Depression of1930s, effects of, bank failures, rise of fascism, attraction of communism and socialism, street rallies; Anti-Stalinism; World Zionist Congress, Geneva,1939; Palestine 1940, United States Army 1942-45; McCarthyism, anticommunism, problems of; New Left and old left, Columbia crisis 1968, Port Huron Statement; interest in productivity problems; National Commission on Economic Conversion and Disarmament; distortions of a military economy

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Melman, Seymour--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman