Guide to the Robert Perlman Papers 1880-1997
1880-1997
Metadata Details
- Title
- Robert Perlman papers 1880-1997 1880-1938 papers
- Creator
- Subject
- Perlman, Robert, Jews--Pennsylvania--Employment, Jews--Migrations--Europe, Eastern, Immigrants--Pennsylvania--History--19th century, Immigrants--Pennsylvania--History--20th century, Europe, Eastern--Emmigration and immigration, Pennsylvania--Ethnic relations
- Description
- This collection contains Perlman's research material for his book, From Shtetl to Milltown. The collection consists of photocopied government documents, National Tube Company records, oral history transcripts and family memoirs, as well as Perlman's extensive handwritten notes, recorded on loose leaf paper as well as in margins of the photocopied documents. Much of this demographic information is also represented in long computer printouts created by Perlman. A small amount of the material, including the correspondence from author Jacob Feldman, pertains to Perlman's 1991 work, Bridging Three Worlds: Hungarian - Jewish Americans, 1848-1914, Robert Perlman was born on February 24, 1919. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.S.W. from Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University with a concentration in planning. Perlman worked in Jewish community centers, as a field instructor in Social Work for the University of Illinois, and as a director for the Action for Boston Community Development before becoming Professor Emeritus at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is the author of many published works on social planning and community organization. In 2001, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania published Perlman's book From Shtetl to Milltown: Litvaks, Hungarians, and Galizianers in western Pennsylvania, 1875-1925. The work describes how Jewish immigrants from Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Galilcia reshaped their traditions and lifestyles to fit into rapidly industrializing milltowns in westrn Pennsylvania., Gift of Robert Perlman, Processed MSS 0493 7/1/08 M. Strauss., Inventory available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Perlman, Robert, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1880-1997
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt: US-QQS-mss493
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss493, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Europe, Eastern, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, McKeesport (Pa.), Europe, Eastern, Pennsylvania
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/