Herbert Solow Papers

Identifier
77101
Language of Description
English
Dates
1924 - 1976
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI

Scope and Content

Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, depositions, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to the communist movement in the United States, the Non-Partisan Defense League, the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, Soviet espionage in the United States, Whittaker Chambers and the Alger Hiss case, Zionism, the Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, 1945-1946, and post-World War II international business enterprises. Includes some papers of Sylvia Salmi Solow, 1964-1976. Notes: American journalist; editor, Fortune magazine, 1945-1964. Indexes: Register. Special note should be made of the following materials: Box 4 - Speeches and writings including: a) "Life and Death of a Scholar, Hedwig Hintze, l884-l942." The story of a German Jewish refugee historian; b) "The Realities of Zionism" (Menoral Journal, No. 2, l930), c) "Refugee Scholars in the United States" (American Scholar, Summer, l942), Box 8 - Subject file (mostly clippings): Jews in Poland (an open letter to the Jewish people, December 30, l932), Box l0 - Subject file: Refugees, Jewish, Palestine.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

12 ms. boxes.

Archivist Note

Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson

Sources

  • The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0