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Box 6

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Correspondence, circa 1930s-1950s

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s

Videos, 2000 - 2009

 Series — Box: 6
Scope and Contents

Two VHS Tapes. One (circa 2009) is labeled "Dreams and Fighters: The New York City Teacher Purges Producers: Sophie-Louise Ullman-Vidal and Lori Styler Running Time: 31:00." The other is labeled "Oscar and Vera - for 10/21/00 Master."

Dates: 2000 - 2009

Lenore (close friend), circa 1940s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa 1940s

Friends/Former Students (Nancy Cleeland, Vivienne Wax; Hazel), circa 1940s

 File — Box: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa 1940s

Oscar Shaftel Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence, flyers, press clippings, memos, press releases, transcripts of testimony, and subject files documenting student activism at Queens College in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the effect of McCarthyism on academic freedom in New York State. Oscar Shaftel, one of the original faculty members at Queens College, was fired in 1953 under Section 903 of the New York City Charter for refusing to testify in front of the Senate Internal Security...
Dates: 1932 - 2009