Labor Lyceum bibliography

Collections

Rauh Jewish Archives

  • Derrick L. Tillman Labor Lyceum Demolition Digital Photographs [2018.0065] (catalog record).

University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections

Documents & Objects

Rauh Jewish Archives

  • “Labor Lyceum,” Pittsburgh Jewish Community Book, 1921 (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • Labor Lyceum cornerstone [2018.50.1] (online—Heinz History Center eMuseum).

Teenie Harris Archive at the Carnegie Museum of Art

  • “Church of God in Christ on Miller Street," photograph, c. 1940-1945 [2001.35.4104] (online—CMOA.org).

University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections

  • “New Theatre Presents ‘Bury The Dead,'" Communist Collection of A.E. Forbes [2000.07.080] (online—Historic Pittsburgh)
  • “Stop Layoffs! Act Now," Communist Collection of A.E. Forbes [2000.07.068] (online—Historic Pittsburgh)
  • “Marx Lenin Exhibit Workers School," Communist Collection of A.E. Forbes [2000.07.055] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Ethel Friedman oral history, 1969, Tape 1/Side 1," from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Fanny Gittleman oral history, 1969, Tape 1/Side 2," from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Samuel Greenberg oral history, 1968, Tape 2/Side 3" from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Mollie Katz, 1968, Tape 1/Side 2," from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Hyman Richman, 1986, Tape 1/Side 1,"  from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Belle Swartz, 1969, Tape 1/Side 2," from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • “Bess Topolsky, 1968, Tape 1/Side 2," from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online—Historic Pittsburgh).

Newspapers.com

  • “Scenes Attending Cornerstone Laying," Pittsburgh Daily Post, Sept. 4, 1916 (online—Newspapers.com).
  • “New Jewish Labor Lyceum is Opened," Pittsburgh Daily Post, Feb. 5, 1917 (online—Newspapers.com).
  • “Labor Lyceum Factions Riot," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dec. 15, 1930 (online—Newspapers.com).

Books & Articles

Carnegie Mellon University

  • Scoratow, Leon B. “The Arbiter Ring, the Growth and Decline of the Socialist Labor Movement in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community 1904-1947,” The Sloping Halls Review, 1997 (online).

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation

  • Carlin, Abigail and Louise Sturgess, eds. “Memories from Miller," Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2005 (online—PHLF).

University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections

  • “Labor Lyceum," Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy (online—Labor Legacy Web Site).

Rauh Jewish Archives

  • Conner, Lynne. “Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater," Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 (catalog record).
  • Lidji, Eric. “The optimistic afterlife of the old Labor Lyceum," Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, April 19, 2019 (online—Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle).
  • McCormick, Charles H. “Seeing Reds: federal surveillance of radicals in the Pittsburgh mill district, 1917-1921," Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997 (online—Historic Pittsburgh).
  • Selavan, Ida Cohen. “Jewish wage earners in Pittsburgh, 1890-1930," American Jewish Historical Quarterly, March 1976 [F160 .J5 J5 1976] (online—Berman Jewish Policy Archive).

Western Pennsylvania History magazine

  • Bamberg, Angelique. “The Pittsburgh Labor Lyceum: Remnant of a Radical Society," Western Pennsylvania History, Fall 2017 (online—Penn State University).
  • Richman, Hyman. “Life on Pittsbugh’s ‘Hill’: Some Views and Values of Jews Who Lived There Before the 1940s,’ Western Pennsylvania History, Spring 1991 (online—Penn State University).