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Robert David Parmet (Stylized as Robert D. Parmet; born December 11, 1938) is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at York College, City University of New York.

Career

Parmet taught at Kean University up until 1967 in the Social Science Department, and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967. He has written 7 books on American social history from 1961 to 2012. Additionally he has written for many papers such as the History News Network, United Press International, and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.

He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women, immigrants, and of David Dubinsky. In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew. It was published in 1970.

Personal life

Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf) and is the brother of American historian Herbert Parmet.

He attended Graduate School at Columbia University while teaching at the City College of New York. He was married to Joan Levy on June 8, 1963. She received her Masters in History from Columbia University in 1965. They have a son, Andrew.

Bibliography

Books

• Parmet, Robert D. (1961). Cleveland, Blaine, and New York's Irish in the Election of 1884.
• Patton, Charlotte G.; O'Sullivan, John J.; Parker, K. L.; Payne, Nicholas S.; Parmet, Robert D.; Paige, Susan M. (1961). Inquisitional Jurisdiction Over Magic in Relation to the Commencement of the Witchcraft Delusion in Fifteenth-century Europe.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1966). The Know-Nothings in Connecticut. Columbia University.
• Leonard, Ira M.; Parmet, Robert D. (1971). American Nativism, Eighteen Thirty to Eighteen Sixty. Krieger Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-88275-901-2.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1987). Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. R.E. Krieger Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-89874-968-7.
• Parmet, Robert D. (2011-11-24). Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-61147-473-2.
• Parmet, Robert D. (2012). The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-7036-8.

Papers

• Parmet, Robert D. (1982). "Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. (Immigrant Heritage of America Series.)". The American Historical Review. 87 (4). doi:10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177. ISSN 1937-5239.
• Parmet, Robert D.; Papanikolas, Zeese (1983). "Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre". The Journal of American History. 70 (1): 176. doi:10.2307/1890597.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1985). "Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of 1942". Urban History Review. 14 (1): 86–87. doi:10.7202/1017898ar. ISSN 0703-0428.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1988). "Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Gale, Dennis E. Washington, D.C.: Inner-City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization". Urban History Review. 17 (2): 136–137. doi:10.7202/1017672ar. ISSN 0703-0428.
• Parmet, Robert D.; Marks, Gary (1990). "Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries". The Journal of American History. 77 (2): 691. doi:10.2307/2079272.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1999). "Peter Kwong, Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor". International Labor and Working-Class History. 56: 175–177. doi:10.1017/S0147547999452883.

References

1. Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: 955488
2. "Robert D. Parmet". NYU Press. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
3. "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Kean University; Year: 1967
4. "York History Revisited at Executive Leadership Breakfast". york.cuny.edu. 2016. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
5. Parmet, Robert D. (2013-04-07). "Review of Lisa Phillips's "A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism" (Illinois, 2012)". History News Network. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
6. ^ "From Dallas to Watergate". The Monitor. 1973-11-11. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
7. Howard, Walter T. (1999). "Review of The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?; The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921". International Labor and Working-Class History (56): 177–180. ISSN 0147-5479.
8. Wax, Emily (1998-09-06). "A Driving Force". Newsday. p. 156. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
9. Danyluk, Harry (1981-12-29). "Immigrant Workers". New York Daily News. p. 101. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
10. Crowe, Kenneth C. (1995-02-21). "Union's Influence Has Waned". Newsday. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
11. "Dr. Parmet Gets Grant to Write on Depew". The Reporter Dispatch. 1968-05-28. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
12. "DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2024-09-08. Parmet, Robert D. "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew. New-York Historical Society Quarterly 54 (July 1970): 269-90.
13. National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 221; Page: 20; Enumeration District: 3-1791
14. Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02496; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 3-1406
15. "Robert Parmet Marries at Lincoln Park Center". Herald Statesman. 1963-06-12. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
16. "Mrs. Robert Parmet". Mount Vernon Argus. 1965-06-10. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
17. Greene, Dick (1978-09-12). "Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood". The Star Press. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-09-08.

External links

• Robert Parmet at CUNY York

• 1938 births
• Writers from the Bronx
• Educators from New York City
• The Bronx High School of Science alumni
• Kean University faculty
• Jewish American academics
• Jewish American non-fiction writers
• 20th-century American Jews
• 21st-century American Jews
• Columbia University alumni