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Allon Gal collection

 Collection — Box: CB-P7, Folder: P-251
Identifier: P-251
Abstract

Contains a bibliography of articles by Borochov published in 6 Yiddish newspapers in New York City, 1914-1917; and copy of lecture given by Gal at American Jewish Archives (1990).

Dates: undated, 1990

Hebrew-American Typographical Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 445
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Certificate of incorporation, 1891. Manuscript of union by-laws, 1888. Minutes of regular and executive meetings, 1901-1959. Correspondence with unions, organizations and individuals. Financial records, 1948-1954. Membership register, 1898-1948. Scrapbooks, memorabilia, press clippings about the strike against the Day, 1941.

Dates: 1888 - 1961

I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 701
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1903-1973

Israel London Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 485
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, relating to London's publishing activities. Letters from Daniel Charney, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Jacob Glatstein, Abraham Golomb, H. Leivick, Leib Olitzky, Melech Ravitch, Zalman Shneur, Abraham Sutzkever. Manuscripts and typescripts by H. Leivick, Reuveni, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Abraham Sutzkever. Typescript of a Yiddish translation of a work by Shmuel Yosef Agnon.

Dates: 1947 - 1964

Jacob Adler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 473
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1890s-1970

Jacob Katz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1157
Scope and Contents

Manuscript of a play by Katz, titled In blut un fayer. Correspondence, 1946-1971. Photographs of J. Katz in Poland in the 1930s, of DP camps. Documents from DP Camps. Clippings from DP camp newspapers.

Dates: 1930s-1970s

Jewish Daily Forward Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 686
Scope and Contents

The collection contains records of the "Bintl briv" department and consists of letters asking for personal advice.

Dates: 1954 - 1956

Joseph H. Hyman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1144
Scope and Contents

The collection relates to Hyman's work for the AJDC and includes the following: photographs of a children's home in Riga, 1927; miscellaneous documents and clippings relating to the AJDC.

Dates: 1920s-1930s

Kasriel H. Sarasohn collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-708
Abstract

Collection contains correspondence, legal documents, news clippings, issues of newspapers, and photographs pertaining to Bashe and Kasriel Sarasohn and their Yiddish/English newspaper The Jewish Daily News. Correspondence includes letters of condolence upon Kasriel's death, a protest letter written by the Jewish Daily News to Mayor George B. McClellan concerning a statement Commissioner of Police Bingham made regarding Jews and crime, a thank you for fundraising efforts from the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War, and a letter from Rolls Royce of America regarding storage of a limousine. Legal documents pertain to a libel suit brought by Sarasohn against Arbeiter Zeitung Publishing Association. News clippings consist of articles and memorial tributes to Bashe and Kasriel, and anniversaries of The Jewish Daily News. Complete issues of the 25th and 30th anniversary numbers are available. Photographs include a confirmation class and Kasriel Sarasohn.

Dates: 1881-1933

Mark Khinoy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 644
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with individuals, circa 1908-circa 1962. Materials about individuals involved in the Russian revolutionary movement. Materials about Russian emigres, the Menshevik party Narodnaya Gazeta, Socialist Party (U.S.), Jewish Socialist Verband, Jewish Daily Forward, Zukunft, the Rand School. Personal materials.

Dates: 1908 - 1962

Mark Mrachny Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 520
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with literary figures including Leibush Lehrer, H. Leivick, Jacob Lestschinsky, Mani Leib, Shmuel Niger, Abraham Reisen, Lamed Shapiro, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Manuscripts and holographs by H. Leivick, Mani Leib, Abraham Reisen, Chaim Zhitlowsky.

Dates: 1930s-1950s

Max N. Meisel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 257
Scope and Contents

Records of Meisel's publishing house: ledgers and business correspondence. Letters to Meisel as editor of the New York Tageblatt, 1916-17. Bankruptcy papers of the Jewish Book Agency, 1921-22.

Dates: 1916 - 1954

Maxim Kovensky Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 774
Scope and Contents

The papers contain materials on the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia and include flyers, appeals, clippings from the Russian and Yiddish press about Socialist Revolutionaries.

Dates: 1906 - 1913

Meir Kastoff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 414
Scope and Contents

The collection relates primarily to HATU, Local 83. Correspondence with organizations such as Israeli typographical unions, typographical unions in Poland, Hebrew-American Typographical Union, Local 83. Correspondence with individuals: Daniel Charney, David Pinsky. Kastoff's memoirs: Mit fiftsik yor tsurik: A kapitl zikhroynes (Fifty Years: A Chapter of Memoirs), Kastoff's diaries, 1944-1955. Materials relating to the strike at the Jewish Daily Forward, 1908, and at the Abend blat, 1898. HATU's 45th anniversary yearbook.

Dates: 1901 - 1959

Menashe Unger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 509
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of lectures and studies on the Holocaust, Hasidism, Palestine. Manuscripts of stories and novels. Correspondence pertaining to his column in the Tog-morgn zhurnal. Records of the Arbeter Kultur Farband in Palestine, 1927-1928, including minutes. Manuscript of a study of the Yiddish press in Palestine until 1929. Photographs of rabbis.

Dates: 1925 - 1965

Mendel Mark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 623
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with literary figures such as Shmuel Niger, Max Weinreich, and Leibush Lehrer. YIVO materials from Vilna, Riga, 1925-1933. Miscellaneous materials such as election flyers from Latvia, 1930s, Yiddish newspaper from Riga, 1925.

Dates: 1921 - 1951

Mordecai Ginzburg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 617
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with individuals and Jewish cultural institutions.

Dates: 1930 - 1966

Mordecai Jaffe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 624
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of Jaffe's poems, short stories, translations. Personal documents. Correspondence with organizations. General correspondence including Shlomo Bickel, Daniel Charney, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Abraham Sutzkever, Malka Heifetz Tussman. Family correspondence. Materials for the anthology of Hebrew poetry in Yiddish (published). Materials on the theme of motherhood in world poetry.

Dates: 1909 - 1960

Papers of Aaron Samuel Kurtz

 Collection
Identifier: RG 523
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Jewish writers. Clippings from Yiddish newspapers. Manuscripts by Kurtz. Photographs of Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Feffer during their trip in the U.S. on behalf of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1920 - 1964

Papers of Abraham Liessin (1872-1938)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 201
Abstract

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Abraham Liessin, including correspondence with many important literary figures, manuscripts of essays and poems by Liessin from Di Tsukunft(The Future) and from his published works, clippings, receipts, invitations, and other materials relating to Liessin’s family. This collection shows how Di Tsukunft became one of the leading Yiddish literary journsl during hte 25 years of Liessin's editorship.

Dates: 1894-1948

Papers of Abraham Rechtman

 Collection
Identifier: RG 677
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with individuals and family members. Manuscript of a translation of Itzhak Katzenelson's Sheshet yemei bereshit. Manuscripts of Yiddish and Hebrew poems. Photographs. Personal documents.

Dates: 1920s-1960s

Papers of Alexander Seldin

 Collection
Identifier: RG 433
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of Seldin's novels, plays and articles. Correspondence and other materials relating to the journalist's strike at The Day, 1941.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Papers of B. Alkwit

 Collection
Identifier: RG 698
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, news clippings and photographs relating to Alkwit's career and personal life. Correspondents include Ephraim Auerbach, Shlomo Bickel, Jacob Glatstein, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, H. Leivick, Nahum Baruch Minkoff, Alexander Mukdoni, Shmuel Niger, Melech Ravitch, Lamed Shapiro, Moshe Starkman, Abraham Sutzkever, Tolush, Isaiah Trunk.

Dates: 1920s-1950s

Papers of Benjamin Dubovsky

 Collection
Identifier: RG 468
Dates: undated

Papers of Boruch Rivkin

 Collection
Identifier: RG 476
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Yiddish literary figures such as Daniel Charney, Chaim Grade, David Ignatoff, H. Leivick, Kalman Marmor, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu. Manuscripts by Rivkin, Abraham Liessin, H. Leivick, David Pinsky and Rivkin's wife, Mira Bordo Rivkin. Correspondence with readers. Clippings of Rivkin's articles.

Dates: 1930s-1960s

Papers of Chaim Zhitlowsky

 Collection
Identifier: RG 208
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence between Chaim Zhitlowsky and many important political figures and organizations, as well as manuscripts and other writings, some written by Zhitlowsky and some written by others. There are also notes and other materials from speeches and lectures that Zhitlowsky gave, financial documents, articles written about Zhitlowsky, newspaper clippings of articles by Zhitlowsky, materials from celebrations held in Zhitlowsky’s honor, photographs, excerpts from his works, and various other assorted items. These materials serve to illustrate both Zhitlowsky’s importance in the Yiddish and Russian literary field and his deep involvement in the American and Russian-Jewish Socialist, Territorialist and Diaspora Nationalism movements.

Dates: 1881-1958; Majority of material found within 1900-1943

Papers of Emanuel Patt

 Collection
Identifier: RG 452
Scope and Contents

Clippings of his column Fragn fun gezunt, which appeared in the Tog morgn zhurnal.

Dates: undated

Papers of Hirsch Loeb Gordon

 Collection
Identifier: RG 505
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts by Gordon relating to the bible, kabbalah, semitica, medicine. Manuscripts of literary works such as songs and plays, articles for the Yiddish press. Personal documents: diplomas, membership cards, family correspondence and genealogical tree.

Dates: 1909 - 1964

Papers of I. Vainsenker

 Collection
Identifier: RG 731
Dates: 1930s-1970s

Papers of Isaac Liebman

 Collection
Identifier: RG 480
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to the activities of the Nyu yorker vokhnblat. Correspondence with literary figures, 1936-1948, including Jacob Adler, A. Almi, Michel Licht, Saul Raskin, Zalman Shneur. Photographs, including staff of the Nyu yorker vokhnblat. Manuscripts submitted to the Nyu yorker vokhnblat by writers.

Dates: 1940s-1950s

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