I can’t remember how or exactly when I met Roy. I imagine it was at the MARHO table at the AHA, sometime in the late 1970s when I was finishing my PhD. Sue Porter Benson might have introduced us, or perhaps I had just signed up to sit at the…

Reading through these stories I was delighted to learn of all the accolades which Roy earned through his career. Being his oldest friend, you would think I would have known about them, but that was Roy's style. He was never one to toot…

ROSENZWEIG, ROY Published: October 15, 2007

ROSENZWEIG--Roy . We mourn the untimely death of a warm friend, scholar, and Columbia '71 classmate. Paul Scham, Barry Leiwant, Bob Meyer, Ed…

ROSENZWEIG, ROY

Published: October 14, 2007

ROSENZWEIG--Roy, The staff and board members of The American Social History Project (CUNY) mourn the passing of our cherished collaborator, advisor, and friend. A distinguished historian, visionary…

Years ago I decided to build a deck. I'm reasonably good with tools and I did this kind of work in grad school, but I needed some help and I invited my brother, my colleague and friend Matt Karush, and yes, Roy to help out. Roy very happily…

Roy was my friend for nigh on two decades. I first came across him through his work. Eight Hours is a marvelous book. For mine, it was one of the key books that helped make labor history interesting, that showed that the term could encompass rather…

Rosenzweig, Roy

ROY A. ROSENZWEIG 1950-2007 Loved dearly by his wife, the Rosenzweig, Schkrutz, and Kaplan families and by many, many others, Roy Rosenzweig died of lung cancer on October 11, 2007. He began his career as an innovative…