Morris Schappes, a longtime Jewish leftist, journalist and historian, died June 3 in New York at age 97. Schappes was a longtime editor of Jewish Currents Magazine, a leftist publication that slowly moved away from its pro-Communist line after Khrushchev revealed the extent of Stalin’s crimes in 1956.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
