The Morris Fromkin Memorial Collection The Morris Fromkin
Memorial Collection was launched in 1970 with seed money donated
in memory of Morris Fromkin, who died in 1969. The donors were
Morris Fromkin's widow, Selma Fromkin, and his three children,
Marcia Fromkin Prester, Sari Fromkin Magaziner, and David H.
Fromkin. The Collection is now fully supported by the Golda Meir
Library. The Collection's broad theme is social justice in the
United States from the end of the Civil War to the end of World
War II. It also contains materials on European and Asian ideas
and movements -- for example, the Russian and Chinese
Revolutions, the rise of Fascism in Europe, the Civil War in
Spain, the social insurance, city planning, and housing reform
movements in England and Germany--that affected the American
Left. Morris Fromkin's interest in social justice and his legal
work for the labor movement and pro bono work for the poor
inspired this theme. The Fromkin Collection covers a variety of
subjects: - The labor movement in