Executive of the San Francisco Community Relations Council, 1951-1987; advocate of minority rights and democratic pluralism
By: 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,
Contributors: Glaser, Eleanor.; Kahn, Douglas.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: 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.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: 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.