Reminiscences of Henriette Castex Epstein : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Interviewee married Abraham Epstein.

Scope and Contents

Husband Abraham Epstein's activities: emigration from Russia to United States; involvement with the workers' education movement, 1920; impressions of Russia, 1921; research director for Pennsylvania Old Age Commission, 1920-27; founding of American Association for Old Age Security, 1927; fight for old age pension laws in various states; Social Security Act of 1935.

Subjects

• Epstein, Abraham, 1892-1942.
• Epstein, Henriette Castex.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Old age pensions.
• Oral histories.
• Sobey, Esta Drucker, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Social security--United States.
• Soviet Union--Social life and customs.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.