WebSCHAPPES, MORRIS U. ( Moise ben Haim Shapshilevich ; 1907–2004), historian and social activist. Born in Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine, he immigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1914. He received a B.A. from City College and …

WebEditor, educator, and author. Schappes was best known as the former editor of Jewish Currents and an authority on Jewish history. Having spent his early childhood in the Ukraine and Brazil, Schappes ended up in New York City after his family, then en route back to the Ukraine, abandoned their trip in New York when World War I began.

Webmorris u. schappes(pronounced shap-pess, born moishe shapshilevich; may 3, 1907 – june 3, 2004) was an american educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor, best remembered for a 1941 perjury conviction obtained in *ociation with testimony before the rapp-coudert committee (investigating communism in education in …

WebMorris U. Schappes, self-taught historian of American Jewish History, author, teacher, and editor of Jewish Currents for 40 years, is also known as a victim of hearings conducted in 1941 by the Rapp-Coudert Committee, a New York legislative committee investigating Communist activities in the state educational system.

WebOct 23, 2015 · Morris U. Schappes (1907-2004) was the editor of Jewish Currents for more than four decades. His books included The Jews in the United States: A Pictorial History (1958), A Documentary History of the Jews in the United States, 1654-1875 (1950), and two annotated collections of writings by Emma Lazarus.

WebDec 08, 2014 · If Schappes had wanted to piece together Bierfield’s life when he researched his book in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he would have struggled. In those days, Williamson County’s clerk held...

WebMorris Chang (Chinese: 張忠謀; pinyin: Zhāng Zhōngmóu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiuⁿ Tiong-bô͘; born 10 July 1931), is a Taiwanese-American businessman who built his career in the United States and subsequently in Taiwan.He is the founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). He is known as the …

WebHis prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s, resulted in his relocation to England, where he became an English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

WebJan 09, 2013 · In 1950, historian Morris U. Schappes built on Kohler’s work and presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society detailing all the references to Haym Salomon, and other Jews, in the diaries of Robert Morris the Superintendent of Finances, in charge of the Office of Finance between 1781 and 1784.

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WebRobert Morris (1734-1806) was a prominent colonial business man in Pennsylvania, signed the non-importation agreement of 1765, and became an active opponent of the British after the battle of Lexington, April 23, 1775, although he …

WebSchappes, Morris U., A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1645-1875 (New York: Citadel Press 1950) —-----——— series on Jewish Labor Movement in Jewish Life, “Socialist Traditions of Jewish Labor,” May 1950; “Jewish Labor in the (18)90s,” June 1950; “Appeal of Jewish Workingmen’s Union 1885,” May 1952 ...

WebBorn in Ukraine in 1886, Shavelson emigrated to the United States with her family in 1904. In New York City, she found work in a garment factory. She officially joined the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in 1906 …