Scope and Content Note

This series is comprised of the correspondence files that Vladeck kept related to his professional and political activities and interests. Notable correspondents include: Friedrich Adler, Sholem Asch, Roger Baldwin, Otto Bauer, Victor and Meta Berger, Abraham Cahan, Albert Einstein, Daniel Hoan, Louise Kautsky, Harry Laidler, Fiorello La Guardia, Algernon Lee, Herbert H. Lehman, Meyer London, Ramsay McDonald, Tom Mooney, Paul Muni, Upton Sinclair, Norman Thomas, and Lillian Wald. In addition, for each letter of the alphabet (preceding the folders for named individuals or organizations), is a folder of general correspondence, "A", "B", etc. For the general folders there is a handwritten alphabetical list of some 500 names occurring therein, which is available upon request.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a number of unsorted boxes identified by general subject. These include: correspondence dated from 1907-1918, personal correspondence and that of other Vladeck family members, and correspondence regarding Vladeck's illness and passing. Also included in this series are several boxes of clippings and other printed materials, which have not been microfilmed.

Scope and Content Note

This series is comprised of materials received after the original donation was processed and microfilmed. It documents Vladeck's career in the Socialist and American Labor parties, as business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, and as a leader of anti-fascist and anti-Nazi organizations. The earliest material in this series dates from soon after Vladeck's arrival in the United States. There are copies of papers he wrote while in college, early tax returns, and a few letters relating to Vladeck's brief tenure as a NYC Alderman during World War I. Most of the correspondence and subject files are devoted to the 1930s, the last decade of Vladeck's life. A small selection of correspondence and related materials of Vladeck's wife, Clara Richman Vladeck, and his daughter, May Vladeck Bromberg, are included in a family sub-series. There is also material documenting the Women's Division of the American Labor Party, in which May Bromberg was a major figure, as well as clippings and condolence letters about Vladeck's death in 1938.

In the correspondence series are important letters to and from Daniel Hoan, Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair, and prominent figures in the world of Jewish culture and the Jewish labor movement. This series also strongly represents Vladeck's role in the political, cultural, and charitable activities of the Forward Association and radio station WEVD. Vladeck's tenure as a member of the New York City Housing Authority is documented in Sub-series B, and his 1937 campaign for the City Council in Sub-series C. A set of clippings (mostly in English) document Vladeck's career in the Council as the majority leader of the Socialist, American Labor Party, and Republican Fusion coalition. The housing series includes files of minutes of several committees and sub-committees of the NYC Housing Authority. Included, as well, are materials about workers' housing collected from Israel, the Soviet Union, England, and Canada, as well as the United States, and a group of speeches about workers' housing in New York. A small selection of documents and clippings details the opening and construction of the Vladeck Houses, a public housing project named for Vladeck after his death.

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This series contains over 480 photoprints and offers an in-depth view of both the personal and political life of Baruch Charney Vladeck. Among the pictures included in the initial donation, portraits of Vladeck himself and snapshots of his family make up one-fourth of the collection. Included are albumen prints of Vladeck and his brother in Russia as young men. Photoprints such as the fourth reunion of the Jewish Labor Bund in 1929 and Vladeck with a group of bundist and futurists in Europe emphasize that he maintained his ties with Jewish leftists in Europe. At the same time, the range of his political involvements in America are also documented in these photoprints. Examples include: Vladeck with Mayor La Guardia and other New York City Housing Authority members, Vladeck at an unidentified rally with John Lewis, and David Dubinsky and Vladeck speaking at the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the Jewish Press in America. The collection also includes photoprints of his funeral in 1938 (including those showing Governor Lehman, Mayor La Guardia and Senator Wagner), the dedication of the S.S. Vladeck in 1944, and a group of thirty-two images of Governor Lehman. In 1996 an additional forty-one black and white photographs were donated to the library, ranging in type from 2" x 3" snapshots to 8" x 10" formal portraits. Dates range from the 1920s-1940s. Subjects include Vladeck himself, acquaintances, and housing in the United States, Eastern Europe, and Israel.

Scope and Content Note

This series primarily consists of recordings created after Baruch Charney Vladeck's death in 1938, including a memorial service broadcast on WEVD Radio in 1942 and a speech given by his daughter to the New York City Housing Authority to celebrate the opening of the Valdeck City Houses in 1940. This series also contains a speech given by Baruch Charney Vladeck to the Workmen's Circle at Madison Square Gardens in 1935.