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1986
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2000
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1986
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{"value"=>"Jeff Kisseloff (1955 - ) is an American writer and oral historian. This collection (1986-2000) contains sound recordings of interviews Kisseloff conducted for his published and unpublished books and articles. Two books were published from these interviews: <span class=\"title\">You Must Remember This: An oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II</span> and <span class=\"title\">Generation on Fire: Voices of protest from the 1960s</span>. The interviews for a book on the integration of baseball and a book on early rock and roll were never published."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Jeff Kisseloff oral history interviews, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Jeff Kisseloff is an American writer and oral historian. Kisseloff was born in 1955 in New York City, but raised on Long Island. He graduated from Clark University in 1977 with a degree in government. As a junior in college, Kisseloff became Alger Hiss’s research assistant, working alongside Hiss at the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee office. Kisseloff received his master’s degree from the School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1979 and worked as a reporter and editor at various papers in New York City.</p> <p>His first book, <span class=\"title\">You Must Remember This: An oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II</span> (1989) grew out of a supplement he wrote for the <span class=\"title\">Chelsea Clinton News</span> where he interviewed longtime Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen residents. He expanded his interviews to include over 150 interviewees from across Manhattan, framing his interviews by neighborhood. His next book, <span class=\"title\">The Box: An oral history of television, 1920-1961</span>, was published in 1995.</p> <p>A longtime baseball fan, Kisseloff began conducting interviews in 1995 for a book on the integration of American baseball. He interviewed baseball players, managers, and journalists but the project was never completed. Kisseloff wrote two young adult books on baseball, <span class=\"title\">Who is Baseball’s Greatest Hitter?</span> and <span class=\"title\">Who is Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher?</span></p> <p>From 1999 to 2000, Kisseloff interviewed social and political activists for his third book, <span class=\"title\">Generation on Fire: Voices of protest from the 1960s</span>, which was published in 2007.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection (1986-2000) contains sound recordings of interviews Kisseloff conducted for his published and unpublished books and articles. Books published include <span class=\"title\">You Must Remember This: An oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II</span> and <span class=\"title\">Generation on Fire: Voices of protest from the 1960s</span>. The interviews for a book on the integration of baseball and a book on early rock and roll were never published.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jeff Kisseloff oral history interviews are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6399#c822765'>Series I: You Must Remember This</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1986-1988</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of over 150 interviews Kisseloff conducted for <span class=\"title\">You Must Remember This: An oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II</span>. The recordings are listed alphabetically by neighborhood; within each neighborhood, interviewees are arranged alphabetically by surname. Some interviews took place over multiple sessions and these sessions are arranged sequentially by date. Due to the large number of interviewees and length of the interviews, only a portion of each interview was transcribed and incorporated into the published book. About ten percent of the interviewees were not represented in the final work at all.</p> <p>Kisseloff interviewed native New Yorkers and immigrants from Europe, Russia, South America, and the Caribbean who represented a broad spectrum of social, economic, ethnic, and racial groups. Included are conversations with artists and writers who lived in Greenwich Village, longshoremen and merchant seamen who worked the docks in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, and dancers and musicians from Harlem. Interviews chronicle an interviewee’s education and profession; religion; family, friends, and neighbors; and key life events like marriage and childbirth. The interviews are rich with accounts of everyday life including descriptions of apartments and houses; health and hygiene; modes of transport; and the purchase of household goods like groceries, ice, and coal. Many interviewees also discuss their military service and their involvement with unions and community groups.</p> <p>While the majority of the interviewees are not notable, there are interviews with saxophonist Eddie Barefield; newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; Barney Josephson, founder of New York’s first integrated nightclub, Café Society; sculptor Reuben Kadish; New York state Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz; New York Supreme Court justice Owen McGivern, who was educated through the dual support of his priest, Reverend Francis P. Duffy, and the sponsorship of Tammany Hall; and Naomi Waller Washington, the sister of Thomas “Fats” Waller. Many otherwise ordinary people were involved in key events in New York City history; Pauline Pepe survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and Edna Doering was six years old when she survived the fire on the General Slocum. For additional background material on some of the interviewees, researchers may wish to consult the published book.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6399#c823489'>Series II: Negro Leagues</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1995</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of interviews Kisseloff conducted for an unpublished book on the integration of American baseball. Kisseloff interviewed African American and Cuban baseball players who played in the Negro leagues; white and black players who played for integrated teams in the minor leagues; teammates of Jackie Robinson from the Brooklyn Dodgers; and journalists. Of note are substantial interviews with Les Rodney, the sports editor at the <span class=\"title\">Daily Worker</span> who lobbied in the 1940s for the integration of the major leagues. Some of the interviews were for an earlier article Kisseloff was writing on the effect of Jackie Robinson’s appointment to the Brooklyn Dodgers on African American communities in Brooklyn. Interviewees include baseball historians David Falkner and Donald Kaplan, Brooklyn judge Frank Barbara, and Reverend Gardner Taylor from the Concord Baptist Church. Kisseloff also interviewed attendees at a Dodger fan event called Return to Brooklyn Day.</p> <p>The interviews are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6399#c823551'>Series III: Generation on Fire</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1999-2000</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of interviews Kisseloff conducted with activists for his book <span class=\"title\">Generation on Fire: Voices of protest from the 1960s</span>. Most interviews were held over multiple sessions and the recordings are arranged sequentially using Kisseloff’s own alphanumeric designations. The majority of the of the interviews are undated. The interviews touch on many of the key issues of the 1960s including the push for civil rights for African Americans and gays; the anti-war movement; the organization of unions; folk and rock music; and communal living.</p> <p>Though only 15 people were profiled in the published book, Kisseloff interviewed 28 people, including ancillary interviews with the children of Paul Krassner, Gloria Richardson, Shoshana Rihn, Marilyn Webb, and Lee Weiner. Substantial interviews that were not published include Yippie and political activist Stew Albert; Vietnam soldier turned peace activist Jan Barry; Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn; civil rights activist Bob Ross; gay rights activist Jim Fouratt; author Marty Jezer; anti-war activist Shoshana Rihn, who was formerly known as Patricia Swinton; musician Happy Traum; basketball player and sportscaster Bill Walton; and feminist Marilyn Webb. There are also interviews with Ben Chaney, brother of James Chaney, and Carolyn Goodman, mother of Andrew Goodman, regarding the murders of Chaney and Goodman by Ku Klux Klan members during the Freedom Summer. Barry Levine and Doris Krause were also interviewed about the death of Allison Krause at Kent State in 1970; Levine was Krause’s boyfriend and next to her when she was shot by the Ohio National Guard.</p> <p>This series is arranged alphabetically by interviewee.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/6399#c823930'>Series IV: Other Projects</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains interviews with Marshall Lytle, Vito Picone, and Ivan Ulz . They were conducted for an unfinished book on the history of early rock and roll. Figure skater Albertina Noyes was interviewed regarding her career as both a skater and teacher, and Fred Schuster was interviewed for an article on his bakery, S & S Cheesecake.</p> <p>This series is arranged alphabetically by interviewee.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Jeff Kisseloff, 2007</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan Malsbury</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Audiocassettes were digitized and 256kbps MP3 service files were created as well as master Broadcast WAV files at 96/24 for preservation purposes.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">The Jeff Kisseloff Collection. Archive of American Television, Television Academy Foundation ( Interviews conducted for the The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961 are held here.).</span>"}
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772 audio files
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1986
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2000