Issac A. Hourwich
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Brief Description: Manuscripts, documents, printed material, reports, minutes of meetings, memoranda, clippings and correspondence relating primarily to Hourwich's intellectual and organizational involvement in the labor movement, including his extensive participation in arbitration proceedings. Materials relating to the labor movement in Russia. Materials on socialist theory, Jewish Labor Bund, labor laws in the Soviet Union. Materials on the Jewish labor movement in the U.S.  Documents of the Independent Jacket Makers Union of New York and Federated Hebrew Trade Unions of Greater New York.  Minutes of meetings of the Board of Grievances of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Industry. Minutes and reports of various arbitration proceedings.      Correspondence with:  Abraham Cahan, Judah L. Magnes, Zalman Reisen, Isaac Sturner.  Articles by Hourwich on socialism, capitalism, Jewish rights, Zionism.  Hourwich's unfinished memoirs.  Bibliography of Hourwich's works compiled by A.S. Kravetz. Documents on the organization of the American Jewish Congress.
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Record Series Number: RG 587 /RG 587 
Created by: Hourwich, Isaac A (1860-1924)
Volume: 0.0
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Organization: folders numbered sequentially

Arrangement: The papers are divided into 6 series: I) Russia & the Labor Movement (folders 1-25); II) Jewish Labor Movement (26-58); III) American Jewish Congress (59-69); IV) Correspondence (70-79); V) Misc. materials (80-107); VI) Manuscripts, Clippings, & Microfilms (108-134)

Subject Index
Jewish Labor Bund
Labor Movements
Politics and Political Parties
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Scholarship
Socialism
Soviet Union
Unions
United States
USSR
Zionism
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Other Formats: MK 351; MK 407 (3); MK 501 (11)
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/10 ; 1903/01/28 ; GMB
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