Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957

The records of the People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers consist of correspondence with Jewish communities and relief organizations in Europe, Palestine, Cuba, South America, the United States, and Canada; as well as scrapbooks containing U.S. and Canadian Yiddish and English newspaper clippings and printed promotional literature pertaining to the fundraising activities of the People's Relief Committee in North America and abroad.

This collection contains materials related to the relief activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Europe in 1919. These include cables and other communications to the American Relief Administration, as well as to Sholom Asch, Jacob Billikopf, Morris Engelman, Max Pine, Lewis Strauss and Baruch Zuckerman.

This collection contains the minutes, correspondence and financial records of the I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers’ Union from its founding in 1915 until 1973. Among the correspondence is a fair amount concerning the Fund for Jewish Refugee Writers, unions and union grievances, requests for aid from Jewish writers and activists in New York and abroad, and labor disputes and strikes.

Correspondence with individuals including: A. Almi, Shalom Asch, Nahum Baruch Minkoff, Abraham Cahan, Daniel Charney, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Jacob Glatstein, Ephim Jeshurin, Zavel Kwartin, Herman (Chaim) Lieberman, Leibush Lehrer, Mani Leib, Kalman Marmor, Kadia Molodowsky, Moshe Nadir, Chaim Pett, Melech Ravitch, Yosele Rosenblatt, Sholom Secunda, Shea Tenenbaum, Baruch Vladeck, Berish Weinstein, M. Winograd, Zalmen Zylbercweig. Correspondence with organizations. Clippings of articles about Adler, including reviews of his memoirs and of the play Yente telebende. Clippings of articles by Adler including stories, jokes, poems. Manuscripts by Adler: plays, humorous sketches, skits, poems, articles, jokes, stories. Photographs of Adler, family and friends.

Administrative reports, 1939-1960. Correspondence, minutes, clippings, bills, posters relating to the Anniversary Committee, 1932-1960. Correspondence, 1920s-1960s with individuals and organizations, including Shalom Asch, Shlomo Bickel, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Lamed Shapiro, I.J. Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Malka Heifetz Tussman, Max Weinreich, Aaron Zeitlin, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Kinder zhurnal records: manuscripts of poems, plays, stories, songs and drawings. Authors include David Bridger, Bella Gottesman, Itzik Kipnis, Rivke Kope, Kadia Molodowsky, Mates Olitsky, Malka Heifetz Tussman. Financial documents. An unpublished bibliography of Hillel Zeitlin's Yiddish articles.

This collection contains correspondence between Abraham Cahan and many important literary and political figures, as well as Yiddish manuscripts sent to Cahan for consideration in the Forward and notes and drafts of Cahan’s own writings. There are also several articles written about Cahan, before and after his death. These materials serve to illustrate both Cahan’s importance in the literary and publishing fields as well as his involvement in the American socialist and labor movements.

Correspondence with Yiddish literary figures: Shalom Asch, Daniel Charney, Abraham Golomb, Alexander Mukdoni, Melech Ravitch. Clippings of Reisen's articles.

Correspondence with individuals including Sidor Belarsky, Menahem Boraisha, Simon Dubnow, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, David Hofstein, H. Leivick, Jacob Lestschinsky, Abraham Liessin, S. Nepomnyashtchy, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Melech Ravitch, Abraham Reisen, A.A. Roback, Abraham Sutzkever, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Max Weinreich, Aaron Zeitlin. Family correspondence. Clippings of articles by and about Charney. Manuscripts by Charney, photographs, personal documents. Diaries, 1935-1936. Papers of Baruch Vladeck (1886-1938). Letters to B. Vladeck from Shalom Asch, Eduard Bernstein, Leon Blum, Marc Chagall, Albert Einstein, Karl Kautsky. Articles and obituaries about B. Vladeck.

Correspondence, manuscripts, posters, playbills, photographs. Manuscripts of plays. Correspondence with Shalom Asch, Peretz Hirschbein, Melech Ravitch. Photographs of Sara Herman. Obituaries.

Correspondence with writers including Shalom Asch, Peretz Hirschbein, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Israel Joshua Singer. Correspondence with family members and organizations. Poems and articles by Brownstone. Press clippings, 1921-1932. Manuscripts of other writers. Photographs of writers.

The bulk of the collection consists of letters from readers. There are also letters from rabbis, notably Rabbis Berl Baumgarten, S.I. Bick, Zvi Yehuda Hacohen Kook, Ezekiel Landau, Chaim E. Moseson, Chaim Porille, Samuel Ephraim Tiktin. Correspondence includes letters from writers A. Almi, Shlomo Bickel, Abba Gordin, Solomon Grayzel, Ida Maze, Hillel Seidman, Joseph Tunkel. Many of the letters in the collection relate to Lieberman's book on Shalom Asch.

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison, leading actors of the Vilna Troupe and of the Yiddish and English stage, both in the United States and internationally. Most of the information concerns their theatrical careers, including play manuscripts, drawings and photographs of plays and actors, reviews, flyers, and musical scores. There is also some personal biographical information about Buloff, including his memoirs and audio cassettes of interviews. These materials show the importance and influence of Buloff and Kadison for Yiddish and English theater for over sixty years.

This collection contains correspondence between Mendel Osherowitch and many important literary and political figures, as well as Yiddish manuscripts by Osherowitch, clippings, photos, and obituaries and letters written to his family after his death. These materials illustrate Osherowitch’s importance in the Yiddish literary field as well as his role in various Jewish organizations.

This collection contains manuscripts of plays, articles and other writings, correspondence, memoirs, photographs, theater programs, and personal materials of Yiddish playwright, novelist, journalist, travel writer, and theater director Peretz Hirschbein. The collection helps to illustrate Hirschbein’s importance and lasting impact upon the revival of Yiddish theater and literature in the early twentieth century.

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Shmuel Niger, including correspondence with many important literary figures, as well as manuscripts by Niger, writings about Niger written by others, Niger’s speeches and lectures, selections from his published writings, and biographical materials. These materials serve to illustrate Niger’s great importance to Yiddish literary criticism and Jewish historical writing as well as his role as a writer on contemporary themes, a teacher and lecturer, editor and communal leader.

- "Got fun nekome," 5 items. In Vilna and Białystok, tour of actors of the New York Yiddish Art Theatre, featuring Baratov and Lidia Potocka. In Paris, directed by H.-B. Epstein, with Weintraub-Graf, Burstin, and Berger family. In an unspecified locality in Poland, theater of K. M. Ebel of Lwów. In an unspecified locality in Poland, appearances of the Vilna Ensemble, featuring Nekhama, Kadish, Khash (Chasz), and Szryftzecer.

- "Onkl Mozes," 2 items. In Warsaw, guest performer Zygmunt Turkow, dramatization by Ida Kaminska, anniversary premiere in honor of Sholem Asch. In Antwerp/Brussels, guest performer Zygmunt Turkow, with Diana Blumenfeld and Yitzhak Turkow ("Grudberg").

- "Rebe Doktor Zilber," 2 items. In Vilna, guest performer Abraham Morewski, with Genia Shalit. In Zurich, 1934, directed by Rudolf Zaslavsky.

- "Tsurik gekumen" in Chicago, 1912. Progressive Literary Dramatic Club.

- "Unzer gloyben," 3 items. In Buenos Aires, 1922. In Vienna, 1927, Act II, Jüdische Künstlerspiele. In Vilna, assistant director, B. Epstein.

- "Mit'n shtrom" in Chicago, 1910. Progressive Literary and Dramatic Club.

- "Motke ganev," 9 items. In Pińczów, 1929, production of the Fareynikte Idishe Trupe under the direction of L. Winer. In Równe, directed by Isaac Nozyk. In an unspecified locality, under troupe leader Khayim Frenkel, with Henry Tarlo. In Warsaw, directed by and starring Zygmunt Turkow. In Warsaw, directed by Turkow and Landau. In Vilna, troupe of the Yidisher Artistn Fareyn under the direction of M. Winder. In Vilna, directed by and starring A. Samberg. In Vilna, directed by and starring Adam Domb. In Płock, 1922, with Henry Tarlo.

- "Kidesh hashem" in Vilna, 1928. Adapted for the stage and directed by Michael Weichert, based on the novel by Asch.

The beginning of Act I (characters: Sara and Rivkele). Fragment. 1 leaf.

Actor's role book for the role of "Mekubl" (Kabbalist/mystic). Title page has a rights notice in Yiddish and Polish from the firm of Stanislaw Rechtleben, Warsaw. Typescript, with handwritten emendations. 2 leaves.

Adapted for the stage by Michael Weichert, based on the novel by Asch.