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New Leader Records

Call Number

TAM.271

Date

1928-1960, inclusive

Creator

The New Leader
Kolatch, Myron (Role: Donor)

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The New Leader (1924-2006) was a socialist, then liberal, journal of opinion. Under Samuel M. (Sol) Levitas's editorship (1936-61), it gained prominence as a voice of anti-communist liberalism that featured the work of prominent intellectuals. The records contain correspondence (including some in Russian), clippings, and topical files relating to editorial and financial matters, annual dinners, radio broadcasts and other sponsored public programs, and to organizations, events and issues of interest to the editors.

Historical/Biographical Note

The New Leader(1924-2006) was the official (weekly) periodical of the Socialist Party until 1936 when, after a split in the SP, it became the official periodical of the Social Democratic Federation through 1946, after which it was published independently (including a period under the auspices of the American Labor Conference on International Affairs). It became a biweekly in 1961, and a bimonthly in 2000. Under Samuel M. (Sol) Levitas's editorship (1936-61), it gained prominence as a voice of anti-communist liberalism that featured the work of prominent intellectuals.

Sources:

Hugh Wilford, "The New Leaderand the Cultural Cold War," Diplomatic History, Vol. 27, no. 1 (January 2003).

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Organized into one series:

Missing Title

  1. 1. Subject Files.

Scope and Content Note

The records contain correspondence (including some in Russian), clippings, political memoranda, and topical files relating to editorial and financial matters, annual dinners, radio broadcasts and other sponsored public programs, and to organizations, events and issues of interest to the editors, including the American Friends of Czechoslovakia, American Labor Conference on International Affairs, the American Jewish Committee, the Communist Party of Yugoslovakia, the Rand School of Social Science, and the Transport Workers Union. Notable individuals represented include Raphael Abramovitch, Jack Beall, Anton Ciliga, Fernando Gerassi, Sidney Hook, Fulton Lewis, Eugene Lyons, James Oneal, Julia Stuart Poyntz, Marc Rein and Louis Waldman (re: his resignation from American Labor Party). Also included is a manuscript by Michel Collinet, "Quarante Annees de Communisme en Europe Occidentale."

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials ini this collection created by the New Leader was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; New Leader Records; TAM 271; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Myron Kolatch, Executive Editor of the New Leader in circa 1965. The accession number associated with this gift is 1950.009.

Collection processed by

Craig Savino and Peter Filardo

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Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from New Leader Records, Tam #217.doc

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Series 1: Subject Files

Language of Materials

English.

Abramovitch, Raphael: re: Marc Rein Case, etc. (See also file: Correspondence: In Russian), 1939-1941, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Friends of Czechoslovakia, 1946, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Jewish Committee, 1947-1951, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Labor Conference on International Affairs: By-Laws, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Labor Conference on International Affairs: Certificate of Incorporation, 1944, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Labor Conference on International Affairs: Tax-Exempt Status, 1954 , 1962-1964 , 1966, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Annual Dinners, 1927-1934, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Annual Dinners, 1935-1943, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beall, Jack: Broadcasts, 1947 , 1948, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Catholic Digest, 1947-1949, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ciliga, Ante: Book Excerpt ("Chapter 4"), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Collinet, Michel: "Quarante Annees de Communisme en Europe Occidentale" (typescript), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, undated , 1936-1959, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence (in Russian), 1936-1948, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Editorial: "Save the Rescuers", 1952, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Finances, undated , 1941, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gerassi, Fernando (report re:), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hook, Sidney: St. John's College Article (corresp. re:), 1944, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Howe, Quincy: WQXR Broadcast on Krivitsky, 1941, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Council on European Problems: "America and the Post-War World," report, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Lincoln-Petkov Academy and The National Academy Organizations: Proposal by the "Orlando Committee", ca.1954, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Levitas, Sol M.: Personal, 1941, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lewis, Fulton, Jr.: Radio Broadcast Transcripts, 1955-1956, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lists of New LeaderArticles, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyons, Eugene, 1948, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New York Herald Tribune: Editorials, 1944-1946, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oneal, James, 1937, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Operation Survival (film): Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Complaint, 1951, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Political Memoranda, undated , 1944 , 1949, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poyntz, Julia Stuart: Case (incl. misc. photos), undated , 1938, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publicity, undated , 1933 , 1953-1954, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Radio Broadcasts re: New Leaderarticles, 1946-1948, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rand School, 1931, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rubenstein, M .I.: Quotations from Articles by, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stedman, Seymour, 1936, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sunday Leader: Perspectives, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Thomas, Lowell: Broadcast Excerpt on Pyotr Kapitsa, 1946, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Der Tog (The Day): Clipping, Registration Department, Jul 17, 1940

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transport Workers Union: Daily WorkerClipping, 1930, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transport Workers Union and Mike Quill: Edward Maguire Testimony re:, 1938, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Trevino, Jose (Argentinian journalist), 1960, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United States Department of State, 1949-1960, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Wachenheim, Hedwig, 1939, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Waldman, Louis: Resignation from American Labor Party, 1940, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

William, Maurice: Materials on Sun Yat-Sen and Chinese Politics, 1928-1940 , 1944-1946, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Yugoslav Communist Party: Letter to Stalin and Molotov, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Yugoslav Communist Party: Soviet Letters to, undated, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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