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1984
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{"value"=>"Sidney Hertzberg papers"}
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The papers, which include correspondence, organizational papers, notes, writings, printed ephemera, and audio-visual materials, document Mr. Hertzberg's various employments as editor of <span class=\"title\">Common Sense</span>, <span class=\"title\">Consumers Union</span> and <span class=\"title\">Current</span> magazines; as journalist and as special correspondent for <span class=\"title\">The Hindustan Times</span> ; and as writer, publicist, and friend of India."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Sidney Hertzberg Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Hertzberg, Sidney", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Sidney Hertzberg (1910-83), editor, writer, journalist, and publicist, was born in Manhattan, the son of immigrant garment workers. He was educated in the New York City public schools and was graduated from Morris High School. He attended (without taking a degree) the Experimental College founded by Alexander Meiklejohn at the University of Wisconsin.</p> <p>His journalistic career began in 1929 when, in order to support his college studies, he took a job as a copy boy at the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>. He was quickly invited to join the <span class=\"title\">Times</span>' staff as general assignment reporter where he remained (at the expense of his college career) until 1934, perfecting his skills as a journalist and carrying out a variety of assignments including assisting the poetry editor, writing editorials and \"Topics of the Times\" columns, and reporting on political and economic conditions in Scandinavia (where he was sent as special correspondent) for the newspaper's Sunday edition.</p> <p>During the mid-Depression years (1934-39) Mr. Hertzberg's talents as journalist and publicist found expression in a variety of ways. He was for a time editor of the <span class=\"title\">Labor Tribune</span> (of Jamestown, N.Y.), labor editor of the <span class=\"title\">New Leader</span>, contributing editor for <span class=\"title\">Time</span> (magazine), consultant and reporter on industrial relations for <span class=\"title\">Fortune</span> (magazine) and correspondent for the <span class=\"title\">Milwaukee Leader</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Nation</span>, the <span class=\"title\">New Republic</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>. As publicist he managed publicity for the New York State Socialist Party; for the 1936 presidential campaign of Norman Thomas; and for the Workers Defense League in its campaign against municipal corruption in Jersey City (N.J.). His on-site coverage of the murder trial of Joseph Shoemaker in Tampa, Florida as representative of the Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa was widely publicized in the labor press.</p> <p>By the outbreak of World War II Mr. Hertzberg had become national publicity director of the America First Committee and had organized the Writers Anti-War Bureau whose members included Stuart Chase, Marquis Childs, Quincy Howe, and Oswald Garrison Villard. The Bureau published under his and Cushman Reynold's editorship a weekly newsletter, <span class=\"title\">Uncensored</span>, which was widely respected for its objectivity and journalistic integrity. In 1943 he succeeded Edward Bingham as editor of <span class=\"title\">Common Sense</span>, a monthly public affairs magazine; and afterwards (1945-47) he served as editorial consultant for <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span> where he was responsible for writing the magazine's \"The Month in History\" column which analyzed events in the Middle East.</p> <p>With the return of peace Mr. Hertzberg became increasingly involved with matters relating to India. Since 1943 he had assisted the India League of America in organizing public support for the Indian nationalist movement. When India was threatened with famine in 1946 he organized the India Famine Emergency Committee which was successful in obtaining increased food aid for India. The Committee sponsored the American Famine Mission to India which visited India in the summer of 1946 for the purpose of evaluating India's food requirements. As member of the mission Mr. Hertzberg conferred with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and established lasting friendships with several prominent Indian political figures.</p> <p>During the next two years (1947-48) Mr. Hertzberg travelled extensively in the Far East as regional representative for Asia of the United Nations Appeal for Children. Based in Shanghai, he visited various countries, consulting with governmental officials and interviewing prominent persons in an effort to obtain the cooperation of foreign governments in carrying out the program of UNAC. The following year he became special consultant in Asia for CARE.</p> <p> Capitalizing on his knowledge of Asia and on his friendships with Indian figures, Mr. Hertzberg was appointed in 1950 special correspondent in America for <span class=\"title\">The Hindustan Times</span>, a New Delhi daily edited by Mahatma Gandhi's son, Davidas Gandhi. Until his resignation for financial reasons in 1956 he provided weekly commentaries and analyses of American affairs for the Indian audience. During this time he also represented the Gandhi Films Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Trust which sought to collect original film footage of Mahatma Gandhi. In the spring of 1952 on a return visit to India he succeeded, after much difficult negotiation, in obtaining for CBS Television's \"See It Now\" program directed by Edward R. Murrow, the first formal television interview ever granted by Prime Minister Nehru.</p> <p>After brief and personally disappointing stints as public relations director (1956) of the Liberal Party of New York State and as executive director (1957-58) of the League for Industrial Democracy, Mr. Hertzberg founded (1959) <span class=\"title\">Current</span>, a monthly magazine which sought to provide the concerned citizen with a compendium of new ideas derived from a multitude of sources. He remained as its editor until 1964. The following year he served as editorial director of <span class=\"title\">Consumers Union</span>, publisher of \"Consumer Reports\"; and afterwards (until 1967) he was engaged in a variety of free-lance editorial assignments with the Ford Foundation, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and with <span class=\"title\">Life</span> magazine as director of its educational reprints program.</p> <p>His last major employment as editor and publicist occurred in 1967 when he was appointed special consultant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey for the purpose of aiding the latter's bid for the presidency in 1968.</p> <p>In 1976 in response to Indira Gandhi's \"emergency rule\" of that year he organized a public appeal for the restoration of human rights in India which was supported by many prominent persons and which was published in the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>.</p> <p>Mr. Hertzberg lived for many years in Palisades, New York. He was married in 1941 to Hazel Whitman Hertzberg who was for many years a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. They had two children: a son, Hendrik Hertzberg; and a daughter, Katrina Hertzberg.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">Chronology</div> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> Date Event <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1910, Jan. 30</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Manhattan.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1929-34</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span> : copy boy; reporter on general assignment; special foreign correspondent in Scandinavia.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">July 1932-Oct. 1933</span> <span class=\"event\">Associate editor of <span class=\"title\">Current History</span> magazine.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1935-37</span> <span class=\"event\">Editor of Jamestown (N.Y.) <span class=\"title\">Labor Tribune</span> ; labor editor of the <span class=\"title\">New Leader</span> ; Washington correspondent of the <span class=\"title\">Milwaukee Leader</span> ; special correspondent for the <span class=\"title\">New York Post</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Nation</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">New Republic</span> . Co-founder of the Workers Defense League and of the National Sharecroppers Fund.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1937-39</span> <span class=\"event\">Contributing editor of <span class=\"title\">Time</span> (magazine); reporter on labor affairs for <span class=\"title\">Fortune</span> (magazine).</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1939</span> <span class=\"event\">Labor relations secretary for Greater New York Fund.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940-41</span> <span class=\"event\">Editor of <span class=\"title\">Uncensored</span> a weekly newsletter of the Writers Anti-War Bureau. Married (1941) Hazel M. Whitman.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1943-45</span> <span class=\"event\">Editor of <span class=\"title\">Common Sense</span>, a monthly magazine on public affairs.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945-46</span> <span class=\"event\">Editorial consultant and writer of \"The Month in History\" column for <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span> (magazine).</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947</span> <span class=\"event\">Organizer and member of the American Famine Mission to India sponsored by the India Famine Emergency Committee.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Chief regional representative for Asia of the United Nations Appeal for Children.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949</span> <span class=\"event\">Special consultant on Asia for CARE.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1950-56</span> <span class=\"event\">Special correspondent and United Nations correspondent in New York for <span class=\"title\">The Hindustan Times</span> of New Delhi, India.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1956-57</span> <span class=\"event\">Public relations director of The Liberal Party of New York State.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1958</span> <span class=\"event\">Executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1959-64</span> <span class=\"event\">Editor of <span class=\"title\">Current</span>, a monthly magazine on public affairs.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1965</span> <span class=\"event\">Editorial director of Consumers Union</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1966</span> <span class=\"event\">Free-lance editorial consultant for the Ford Foundation, Columbia Broadcasting System, and other organizations.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1967</span> <span class=\"event\">Editor of educational reprints at <span class=\"title\">Life</span> (magazine); writer of CBS Television documentaries on Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru. Author (with Hazel Hertzberg) of <span class=\"title\">The UN in the Age of Change</span> .</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1967-69</span> <span class=\"event\">Special Consultant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1976</span> <span class=\"event\">Organizer of a public appeal for the restoration of human rights in India during the \"emergency rule\" of Indira Gandhi.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1984, Dec. 18.</span> <span class=\"event\">Mr. Hertzberg died of lung cancer in Pomona, New York.</span></li></ul>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers document Mr. Hertzberg's various employments, interests and affiliations throughout his career as editor, journalist, writer and publicist. About 40% of the papers consist of general correspondence, organizational (and other) papers reflecting his editorship of <span class=\"title\">Common Sense</span>, <span class=\"title\">Consumers Union</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Current</span> magazines; his work as regional representative in the Far East for the United Nations Appeal for Children; as editorial consultant for the Columbia Broadcasting System, and for Time, Inc.; and his activities as special correspondent for <span class=\"title\">The Hindustan Times</span> and as special consultant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. His longstanding interest in India is also reflected in the papers relating to the India Famine Emergency Committee and to the Gandhi Films Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Trust. The remaining papers consist of notes, writings, personal miscellaneous papers, printed ephemera; and audio-visual materials.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Sidney Hertzberg papers are arranged in eight series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183218'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'></div>\n<div class='series-description'>The correspondence is arranged into two sub-series: A. General Correspondence B. Family Correspondence</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183236'>II. Organizational Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Organizational Papers, which are arranged alphabetically, reflect Sidney Hertzberg's numerous professional employments and affiliations throughout his career as editor and publicist. The papers are described in sequence below.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183261'>III. Papers as Special Consultant to Hubert H. Humphrey</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1965-73</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The papers include correspondence arranged chronologically; drafts of speeches and articles; memoranda; papers relating to a book on foreign policy; and the Gandhi Centennial. The correspondence, which is with Max Kampelman and Ted Van Dyck, respectively advisor and assistant to Vice President Humphrey, relates to the preparation of drafts of articles, addresses and speeches for the Vice President; advice on campaign tactics and other political matters. Included are five letters from Hubert H. Humphrey (12/27/65, 12/12/66, 6/3/67, 7/8/71, and 2/3/72); and one letter from Chester Bowles (1/27/66).</p> <p>The drafts of speeches and articles include drafts written by Mr. Hertzberg and drafts written by others which were submitted to him for his editorial comments. Included are drafts of speeches for the Overseas Press Club (Apr. 22, 1968), the American Iron and Steel Institute (May 23, 1968); and preliminary drafts of speeches on the United States and Asia and on Vietnam. There is also a draft (by Mr. Hertzberg) of an article on patriotism intended for <span class=\"title\">Redbook</span> magazine.</p> <p>The memoranda which are arranged chronologically and by topic consist of inter-office exchanges between Mr. Hertzberg and other vice presidential advisors.</p> <p>The papers relating to a book on foreign policy include correspondence with Charlotte L. Mayerson, senior editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, relative to the preparation of a manuscript; memoranda, notes and outlines.</p> <p> The Gandhi Centennial papers (1967-69) include correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of inter-agency meetings relative to the preparation of a program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's birth. Included are papers relating to the United States Committee on the Gandhi Centennial; and papers relating to a symposium on Gandhi held at Dag Hammarskjöld College, Washington, D. C.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183269'>IV. Notes</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The notes, which are arranged topically, are written mainly in pencil on sheets of paper of varying sizes. Included are extensive notes on Zionism which were intended for a book on that subject. Following the topical file is a file of miscellaneous and fragmentary notes.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183272'>V. Writings by Sidney Hertzberg and Others</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The writings by Sidney Hertzberg consist of drafts of articles arranged alphabetically by title; and papers, including correspondence, agreements, proposals, outlines, and drafts of introductions, relating to books which he proposed to write on consumer protection, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vietnam, and Zionism.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183298'>VI. Personal Miscellaneous Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The personal miscellaneous papers which are arranged topically include address and pocket memorandum books (1941-81); biographical papers including curricula vitae; college papers including essays, assignments, syllabi and bibliographies; miscellaneous financial papers; papers (1942-43) relating to the Lower East Side Defense Council; minutes and reports (1982-83) of the board of directors of the Palisades Free Library; and photographs. The photographs include portraits of Sidney Hertzberg, group photographs; and photographs of persons and places in India many of which were taken by Bradley Smith as member of the American Famine Mission to India.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183315'>VII. Printed Ephemera</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The printed ephemera consists of a topical file; and a chronological file (1924-83) of miscellaneous ephemera. Included are oversized Indian newspapers published at Bombay and New Delhi mainly in the period 1946-51 including issues of <span class=\"title\">The National Standard</span>, <span class=\"title\">Independent India</span>, and <span class=\"title\">JANATA</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1389#c183374'>VIII. Audiovisual Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The audio-visual materials consist of miscellaneous sound recordings and motion picture films relating mainly to India.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Katrina and Hendrik Hertzberg, 1996</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Audiovisual Materials in Series VIII are unavailable for use pending preservation treatment, as of February 2000.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division also has custody of the records of <span class=\"title\">Uncensored</span>, a magazine published by the Writers Anti-War Bureau which Sidney Hertzberg edited. An inventory of this collection is available online. <span class=\"archref\"> Uncensored Records, 1938-1941 View finding aid</span></p> <p>The papers of Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, wife of Sidney Hertzberg, are located in the Milbank Library, Special Collections, Teachers College, Columbia University.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Eight series: I. Correspondence; II. Organizational Papers; III. Papers as Special Consultant to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; IV. Notes; V. Writings; VI. Personal Miscellaneous Papers; VII. Printed Ephemera; and VIII. Audiovisual Materials", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>John D. Stinson.</p>"}
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1924
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1984