ULS launches Jewish oral history site
The University Library System and the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Pittsburgh section have launched a web site dedicated to NCJW’s oral history project, “Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community.” The web site (http://digital.library.pitt.edu/n/ncjw/) provides online access to more than 500 audio interviews of members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community.
In 1968, Pittsburgh’s NCJW began tape-recording the immigrant experiences of Jewish men and women who came from Eastern Europe between 1890 and 1924.
In 1973 NCJW embarked on a second phase of the project to compile the histories of Pittsburgh’s Jewish men and women who made contributions locally, nationally and internationally.Interviewees include Sophie Masloff, Leon Falk and Cyril Wecht.
The collection, held by the ULS Archives Service Center (ASC), contains more than 1,000 audio cassettes of 1,200 interview hours. It is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. The NCJW designated the ASC as its official repository in 1964.
For more information, contact Ed Galloway at 412/244-7524 or edwardg@pitt.edu or Jennifer Honig at 412/977-7703 or pr@ncjwpgh.org.
