Issac A. Hourwich 1896-1924

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.Inventory: English, 33 pp., typedPublicist, economist, lawyer and lecturer. Active in the Jewish labor movement in the U.S. and an authority on immigration matters. One of the founders of the Protocol movement in the garment industry. One of the organizers of the first American Jewish Congress in 1918. Author of *Immigration and Labor*

Immigration and labor; the economic aspects of European immigration to the United States.

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