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Alice Sachs Hamburg papers, 1981-1991.
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Alice Sachs Hamburg papers, 1981-1991Creator/Contributor:
Hamburg, Alice., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1987.005.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection includes autobiographical materials relating to political and social activist Alice Sachs Hamburg; short writings
by Hamburg; an invitation to a dinner at which Hamburg and five others were honored by Congressman Ron Dellums; and a transcript
for an oral history of Alice Hamburg.
Date:
1981 (issued)Subject:
Hamburg, Alice -- ArchivesDellums, Ronald V -- 1935-2018
Women political activists -- California -- Berkeley
Women political activists
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1987.005.
Alice Sachs Hamburg papers, BANC MSS 2010/528, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Audiotape of oral history transferred to the museum holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life for separate
handling and cataloging.
Alice Sachs Hamburg was born in 1905 in Wilton, South Dakota to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. She came into the world
at the Wilton Coal Mining Company Hospital. Her parents arrived in North Dakota in 1904 as part of a colony of 50 Jewish families
organized by the Jewish Agricultural Aid Society to settle in north central Burleigh County. Her father farmed and worked
in the coal mine during the winters. Alice moved to California in 1924 to attend Fresno State University and then later the
University of California, Berkeley. She married Sam Hamburg, the noted California agricultural pioneer and political activist,
in 1926. Alice Hamburg became an active California political activist and leader in the women's peace movement. Her activities
included teaching migrant laborer children, co-founding the Citizens' Committee Against the Loyalty Oath, and a life-long
affiliation with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Women Strike for Peace.
Materials in English.
Type:
Autobiographies.Invitations.
Transcripts.
Physical Description:
print
1 folder.
Language:
English
Identifier:
2008574559