Abraham (Abe) Chanin was an author, historian, former publisher
of the Arizona Jewish Post, sports editor at the Arizona Daily Star, and professor at
the University of Arizona School of Journalism from 1976-1988. From 1988 to 1994, Chanin
was director of the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archive at the University of Arizona. This
collection contains interviews created by Abraham Chanin dating 1974-1977 with prominent
Arizona settlers, politicians, University of Arizona faculty, and members of Native
American communities on 30 audio cassettes.
Collection Number:
MS 675
Language:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu
Biographical Note
Abraham (Abe) Chanin was an author, historian, former publisher of the Arizona Jewish
Post, sports editor at the Arizona Daily Star, and professor at the University of
Arizona School of Journalism from 1976-1988. From 1988 to 1994, Chanin was director of
the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archive at the University of Arizona. He died February 1,
2014 in Albuquerque, NM at the age of 92. He authored several books documenting the
history of Arizona and the Southwest. In 1977, the book This Land, These Voices: A
Different View of Arizona History in the Words of those who lived it authored by Abe
Chanin and his wife Mildred Chanin was published by Northland Press. The book contains
interviews with over 30 individuals and describes the social history and development of
Arizona and the Southwest.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains interviews created by Abraham Chanin dating 1974-1977 with
prominent Arizona settlers, politicians, University of Arizona faculty, and members of
Native American communities on 30 audio cassettes. Notable figures include Charles Loloma
who discusses the Hopi community and Enos Francisco who details life on the Papagueria.
Also of note is an interview with Hiro Nomura, William Kajikawa and Margaret Kajikawa
discussing thier expereinces in a Japanese-American internment camp and Hayzel Burton
Daniels discussing African American pioneers. Other interviewees include politicians
Raul Castro and Morris Udall and University of Arizona faculty Emil Haury, and Roy
Drachman. Several of the interviews were used as source material for This Land
These Voices authored by Abe Chanin with Mildred Chanin, published in
1977.
Organization
This collection is organized alphabetically by interviewee surname.
There are no restrictions on this collection. Use of original audio visual materials is
restricted due to their fragile nature. No access copies are currently available. Please
contact Special Collections for more information.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from theowner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers,
employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he
or she is an owner of copyright.
