Papers of Henry Shoshkes
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Izhak Ben-Zvi, David Ben-Gurion, Joseph Sprinzak, Rabbinate of Cairo. Report on the Jewish Community in Lebanon, 1956. Correspondence relating to Felix Kersten, personal physician of Himmler. Photostats of Polish underground press, 1940-1945. Manuscripts and notes of a projected book by Shoshkes, Jews in Russia Today. Memoirs by Irene Eskenazi about World War II experiences in Yugoslavia.
Dates
- Creation: 1930s-1962
Creator
- Shoskes, Henry, 1891-1964 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Economist, journalist, diplomat, communal leader. Directed work of Jewish Credit Cooperatives in Poland, 1921-1939. Chief analyst of the Board of Economic Warfare, Washington, D.C., 1943. Contributor to the Morgn zhurnal. Radio broadcaster on WEVD radio station. Member, YIVO Board of Directors. Overseas representative for the United HIAS Service. Born in Bialystok, Poland. Lived in Russia, Belgium. Settled in the U.S. in 1940.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Yiddish
Subject
- Ben-Zvi, Itzhak, 1884-1963 (Person)
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 (Person)
- Sprinzak, Joseph, 1885-1959 (Person)
- Kersten, Felix, 1898-1960 (Person)
- Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945 (Person)
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Holocaust survivors
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish women -- Personal narratives
- Jews -- Egypt -- Cairo
- Jews -- Lebanon
- Jews -- Soviet Union
- Jews -- Yugoslavia
- Physicians -- Germany
- Underground press publications -- Poland
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish -- Yugoslavia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground literature -- Poland
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository
