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Youth movements

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Additional Records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in the Lithuanian Central State Archives

 Collection
Identifier: RG 8002
Abstract

The materials in this collection constitute a semi-random sample of the pre-war archive that was transferred to the Central State Archives of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic following the liquidation of the Vilnius Jewish Museum in 1949. The collection includes records of YIVO work and activities, financial records, correspondence, and publications; documents about pogroms in Ukraine, and Red Army and Soviet activity in Vilna and Bialystok; and a significant amount of records of socialist, communist, and Zionist political parties, as well as associated newspapers and one-time publications.

Dates: 1903-1941

Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland

 Collection
Identifier: RG 4
Abstract

The collection consists of more than 300 autobiographies and supplementary biographical materials, such as correspondence, diaries, and documents collected by YIVO in the interest of Jewish youth research. The autobiographies were assembled through public competitions in 1932, 1934, and 1939 directed at Jewish youth aged 16-22. The collection also contains records of the contest, including lists of the contestants, correspondence with them, reports and clippings.

Dates: 1905-1940; Majority of material found within 1932-1939

Erich Drucker collection

 Collection
Identifier: ME 728
Abstract

Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection

Dates: 1918-1980

Irvin Eppstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 864
Abstract

The collection consists of materials pertaining to Irvin Eppstein.

Dates: undated, 1920-2013; Majority of material found within 1920-1963

Leo Gompertz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1990
Abstract

The Leo Gompertz Collection primarily documents Leo Gompertz's search for information on Haus Berta, a recreation and training institution for Jewish youth during the late 1930s. The collection also includes a number of photographs of Haus Berta, its staff and residents, as well as some other documents on it and a few personal papers of Leo Gompertz.

Dates: 1896-1998; Majority of material found within 1963-1967

Mannheim Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 270
Abstract

This collection contains various manuscripts, clippings, photographs and other materials pertaining to the history of the Jewish community in Mannheim.

Dates: 1679-1990

Moses Kligsberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 719
Abstract

The collection consists of the general, personal and professional correspondence of Moses Kligsberg, manuscripts for published and unpublished works, project proposals and outlines, research materials, printed matter and other records relating to Moses Kligsberg's involvement with the Bund and with Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, to his functions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and to his scholarly interests. Included are Moses Kligsberg's manuscripts on the subjects of Jewish sociology, psychology, youth, and political matters. The collection contains a great deal of YIVO administrative and publicity materials, among others editorial records of the Yedies fun yivo (YIVO News) and YIVO radio programs; materials on the Bund; records of the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution. Besides the personal documents and both personal and organizational correspondence, the collection also includes original musical compositions, acetate recordings, magnetic reels, and photographs.

Dates: 1928-1974

Papers of Siegfried Bernfeld

 Collection
Identifier: RG 6
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Siegfried Bernfeld, a writer, educator, psychoanalyst, organizer of the Zionist youth movement in Austria during and after World War I, and founder of several Jewish educational institutions in Austria. These materials include correspondence, by-laws, minutes, programs, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and financial records of Jewish educational institutions, youth organizations, student clubs, sports, tourism associations, and youth publications, mainly in Austria and Germany, which were collected through the various organizations with which Siegfried Bernfeld was associated and maintained in the Archival institutions which he established.

Dates: 1904-1925; Majority of material found within 1912-1922

Samuel Echt - Bernhard Kamnitzer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7016 / MF 569
Abstract

Correspondence and materials by and about Kamnitzer and Echt on Danzig; personal materials on life in emigration; childhood memoirs in Danzig.

Dates: 1913-1970

Shalom Adler-Rudel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 159
Abstract

The collection consists of 6 boxes and 46 folders.

Dates: 1918-1974