Rabbi Abraham Shusterman (1906-), 1974 January 8
Summary
His participation in the Clergy Brotherhood of Baltimore; the Baltimore County Commission on Human Relations after the Gwynn Park demonstrations; "To Promote Good Will" television program; open housing demonstration at the War Memorial; memorial programs at Loyola College and Hopkins Place after the assassinations of Jewish athletes at Munich in 1972; the Interfaith baseball game; the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Baltimore; personal background; support of interfaith activities by the wealthy; methods and potential end results; prospects for leadership; causes for the slow period of the 1970s; role of the media interfaith activities.
Dates
- 1974 January 8
Creator
- Shusterman, Abraham, 1906- (Narrator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Biography
Rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation.
Extent
From the Collection: 23 Items : 23 oral histories
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Scope and Contents
Includes 23 oral histories with various religious leaders in Baltimore, Maryland. Topics discussed in this series include: methods to achieve interfaith understanding; the role of politics and the media in interfaith activities; organization and goals of various religious and interfaith organizations including the Office of the Clergy Brotherhood of Maryland, Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Baltimore, Maryland Churches United, Associated Catholic Charities, and Associated Jewish Charities; the civil rights movement; 1963 Gwynn Oak Park demonstrations; Vietnam War protests; (Please see the interview summaries on the inventory page for more topics).
Materials available for this series include audio recordings for each interview and tape indexes for 21 of the interviews. There is a partial transcript available for OH 8231, Father Joseph Connolly.
OH 8071, which is not part of this series, consists of an interview with Lenora Nast in which she discusses her doctoral dissertation and the oral history interviews she conducted for it.
Creator
- Shusterman, Abraham, 1906- (Narrator, Person)
- Nast, Lenora Heilig (Interviewer, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org