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Jacob Kahan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 691

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, clippings, personal documents. Materials concerning Jews in Bialystok.

Dates

  • Creation: 1945 - 1972

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Yiddish writer. Contributed to Haynt (Warsaw), Emes, Nayer veg (Warsaw), Dos naye lebn, Unzer lebn, Gut morgn, Zukunft, New yorker vokhnblat, Tsionistishe shtime. Born in Biala Podlaska, Poland. In 1948 moved to Paris, France. Settled in the U.S. in 1954.

Extent

3.5 Linear Feet (7 5"lgl)

Language of Materials

Yiddish

Legacy Finding Aid

A digitized version of the legacy finding aid is available at http://digipres.cjh.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2128485.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository

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