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Executive of the San Francisco Community Relations Council, 1951-1987; advocate of minority rights and democratic pluralism : oral history transcript / 1998.
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Title:

Executive of the San Francisco Community Relations Council, 1951-1987; advocate of minority rights and democratic pluralism : oral history transcript / 1998

Creator/Contributor:

Raab, Earl, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Glaser, Eleanor, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Kahn, Douglas.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Early years, political activity, City College, NY; Army combat intelligence; marriage, writing for Commentary; to San Francisco, 1951, executive director Jewish Community Relations Council: issues of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazi activities, Soviet Jewish emigration, church and state, civi rights, black-Jewish relations; cooperation with Farm Workers Union, San Francisco and California Mental Health associations, Bay Area Human Relations Clearinghouse, Human Rights Commission, World Without War Council, San Francisco Organizing Project, American Association for the United Nations; discusses political environment of the sixties and seventies, Israel, retirement involvement with Jewish studies. Appendices include extensive examples of Raab's writings.

Date:

1998 (issued)

Subject:

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San Francisco Community Relations Council.
Jewish Community Relations Council.
Executives -- California -- Interviews
Civil rights -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Race relations -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Social service -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Antisemitism
Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews

Note:

Earl Raab ; with an introduction by Douglas Kahn. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3043 C:1-16.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Earl David Raab was born in New York City, Apr. 3, 1919.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (vi, 264 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
16 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.