Papers of Gustave Eisner
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of:
1. Materials relating to the PPS (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Polish Socialist Party), including trial records and proclamations, 1905-1912
2. Proclamations by the Socialist-Zionist Party (SS) and the Bund, 1905 and 1934
3. Correspondence: family (1912-1938) and general (1911-1938, including a number of letters from Yiddish writers)
4. Records pertaining to the activities of various Łódź landsmanshaftn in the U.S.
5. Manuscripts, notes, printed articles, and personal documents of Gustav Eisner
6. Photographs taken in Poland, some during World War I
7. Records of the Gustave Eisner Travel Bureau, 1930s
Dates
- 1905 - 1938
Biographical / Historical
Gustave Eisner (1886-1939) was a reporter in Łódź, Poland, active in the socialist movement. Later, he was the owner of Gustave Eisner Travel Bureau in New York. Eisner was an active colleague of YIVO, and became a member of the executive board of the American branch of YIVO (Amopteyl) in 1927, representing it at the YIVO world conferences of 1929 and 1935.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
5 Reels (MKM 12)
Language of Materials
Yiddish
Polish
Russian
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These records were received from the family of Gustave Eisner in 1954.
Separated Materials
Removed from Gustav Eisner's collection of letters and distributed according to the Yiddish alphabet in the general letters archive of famous personalities, the letters of:
Yeshaye Uger
Fishl Bimko
Stanislaw Bender
Moyshe Broderzon
Nahum Gergel
Moyshe Gros (Moshe Gross-Zimmermann)
Alexander Harkavy
Max Weinreich
Zalmen Zylbercweig
Abraham Tenenbaum
Yehudah Leib Cahan
Joseph Margoshes
Moyshe Nadir
Shmuel Niger
Zusman Segalovitsh
Dr. Filip Friedman
Dr. Avrom Koralnik
Menakhem Kipnis
Harry (Yitzhak Hersh) Radoshitzky
Melech Ravitch
Isaac Rivkind
Zalmen Reyzen
Lamed Shapiro
Dr. Yankev Shatzky
Separated Materials
Films in this collection were placed and catalogued in the Film Collection, RG 105.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository
