Guide to the Papers of Moses Kligsberg
(1901-1975),
1937-1974
RG
719
Processed by Donna Gallers
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 246-6080
Fax: (212) 292-1892
Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
URL: http://www.yivoinstitute.org
© 2005 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. All rights reserved.
Center for Jewish History, Publisher.
Machine-readable finding aid was created by Donna Gallers as MS Word document in July 2003. Electronic finding aid was converted to EAD 2002 by Stanislav Pejša in January 2004. Description is in English.
Descriptive Summary |
|
| Creator: | Kligsberg, Moses |
|---|---|
| Title: | Papers of Moses Kligsberg |
| Dates: | 1937-1974 |
| 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consists of the general, personal and professional correspondence of Moses Kligsberg, manuscripts for published and unpublished works, project proposals and outlines, research materials, printed matter and other records relating to Moses Kligsberg's involvement with the Bund and with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. |
| Languages: | The collection is mostly in Yiddish and English.Correspondence with family and some friends is in Polish. Some documents are also in French, German, Swedish, Russian, and Japanese. |
| Quantity: | 21 linear feet |
| Identification: | RG 719 |
| Repository: | YIVO Archives |
Biographical Note
Moses David Kligsberg (1901-1975) was born in Warsaw, Poland to a family of rabbinic lineage. His father, Icek Matys Kligsberg, was a full-time scholar and his mother, Gitla (née Rygal), managed a store. Moses Kligsberg attended kheyder until the age of ten, at the same time studying secular subjects privately. He later attended a Polish state school, from which he graduated just before the First World War. He attended evening courses at the Warsaw Business School for one year, after which he enrolled in a Jewish vocational school. There Moses Kligsberg studied electrical engineering, graduating in 1920. His interest then switched to the humanities, and in 1922 he enrolled in the Philosophy Department at the Free University of Warsaw, which he attended for two years but never graduated.
In 1917 Moses Kligsberg joined the Yugnt Bund Tsukunft, the young people's organization of the Jewish Labor Bund. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Tsukunft and secretary of its Warsaw branch. From 1921 to 1923 he worked as a librarian at the Groser Bibliotek in Warsaw. Thereafter he taught natural science, mathematics and general studies to youth workers in night schools run by the unions. From 1930 until the outbreak of the Second World War, Moses Kligsberg was Secretary of the Gezelshaft tsu Farshpreytn Bildung tsvishn Yidishe Arbeter (Organization for Educating Jewish Workers), and ran their night school. At the same time he was involved in numerous cultural and educational projects for the Tsukunft.
Throughout this time, Moses Kligsberg was engaged in a systematic and intensive program of self-education. He had stopped attending university classes after two years, partly for financial reasons and partly because he preferred independent study. He studied mostly philosophy, sociology, and psychology.
In 1926 Moses Kligsberg became a regular contributor to the journal Yugnt veker (Young Worker) in Warsaw, for which he wrote various popular science articles on sociological, psychological, historical and economic themes for the next fifteen years. He also contributed to the Polish monthly journal Nasza valka (Our Struggle), mostly in the form of reviews of scholarly books and occasionally also longer articles. In 1938 Moses Kligsberg became the editor of the journal Naye kultur (New Culture), to which he was also a contributor. He also published articles in the Warsaw journals Undzer tsayt (Our Time) and Foroys (Forward).
In 1938 Moses Kligsberg's monograph Yugnt psikhologye un sotsialistishe dertsiung (Youth Psychology and Socialist Education) was published by the Kultur Lige. Thus began Moses Kligsberg's specialization in 'yugnt forshung' (youth research). In 1939 he sent the manuscript of his unpublished article "Di psikhologye fun shpil un estetishn genus" to YIVO in Vilna, and was then invited by Max Weinreich to participate in the YIVO aspirant (YIVO research fellow). With the outbreak of the second World War Moses Kligsberg found refuge in as-yet unoccupied Vilna as a YIVO aspirant. There he began a project of analyzing the collection of youth autobiographies under the title "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln". In 1940, when the Soviet army occupied Vilna, Moses Kligsberg sent his collected notes and materials to the newly-established YIVO in New York.
Moses Kligsberg was granted a special visa and came to New York via Kobe (Japan) in April, 1941. He joined the YIVO staff as Max Weinreich's assistant in charge of research projects. In that capacity, after the war Moses Kligsberg corresponded with East European Jewish refugees around the world, asking them to collect materials for YIVO again. As secretary of the contest committee, he organized and administered three YIVO essay contests: 1) Autobiographies of Immigrants (1942); 2) The Experience of Jewish soldiers in World War II (1946); and 3) Supplementary Contest among participants in the autobiographies contest (1953). He was the project manager for the Yiddish language publication of Herman Kruk's Vilna Ghetto diary and oversaw several other YIVO publication projects. He was also a consultant to the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies.
For over thirty years Moses Kligsberg was in charge of all publicity work for YIVO. In 1950 he was appointed editor of the Yedies fun yivo (YIVO News), which position he retained until the end of his days. He wrote the Yiddish version of the Yedies, which was originally translated to English by Shlomo Noble, and later was translated and written by others.
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Moses Kligsberg was an active member of the I.L. Cahan Folklore Club at YIVO, and was on the editorial committee for their journal Yidisher folklor. From 1963 on, Kligsberg also coordinated, produced and wrote scripts for the YIVO radio program on WEVD broadcast station.
Though lacking in formal degrees, Moses Kligsberg had scholarly ambitions and considered himself a sociologist. It was his lifelong ambition to write a sociological analysis of Jewish youth in Poland based on the Vilna YIVO autobiographies which came out of the contest that took place before World War II. The book never came to be, but Kligsberg wrote and published numerous articles related to the autobiographies and/or Jewish youth in YIVO Bleter / The YIVO Annual, and other journals. Notably, his 100-page article "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes" (The Jewish Youth Movement in Poland between the Two World Wars), appeared in Studies on Polish Jewry 1919-1939 in 1974.
Since his arrival in the United States, Moses Kligsberg was an active member of the American branch of the Jewish Labor Bund. He was secretary of the Foreign Delegation of the Tsukunft, and as such maintained correspondence with Bund and Tsukunft leaders around the world, many of whom were also his personal friends from Poland. Moses Kligsberg helped organize and coordinate Bund youth groups and activities in New York, including a branch of SKIF, the children's movement of the Bund. He was an editor, together with Alexander Erlich and Sholem Hertz, of Yugnt veker, the magazine published by the Bund in the United States. Moses Kligsberg was also a founder and driving spirit of Camp Hemshekh, the Catskills (New York) summer camp run by the Bund from 1959-1978.
Moses Kligsberg also played a central administrative role in the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution (aka Katsetler Farband), a membership organization for Holocaust survivors in North America and Mexico.
Moses Kligsberg's personal life was marked by sorrow. In 1938 he married Mala Bergman in Warsaw. They had one daughter, Guta, born in 1939. When Moses Kligsberg went to Vilna later that year, he was forced to leave his family behind. He corresponded with his wife Mala until 1942. Moses Kligsberg made several attempts through U.S. and Canadian authorities to bring his wife and daughter to the United States, but was continually denied. They remained in the Warsaw Ghetto and eventually perished in the Holocaust.
Moses Kligsberg never remarried. He settled in the Bronx in the Amalgamated Houses, the home to a large community of Polish Bundists, Holocaust survivors and refugees. He maintained close contact and correspondence with many friends and acquaintances in New York and around the world, and was dedicated to helping war refugees. He was much beloved by young people and maintained devoted friendships with many of his friends' children, students at YIVO, and campers and counselors from Camp Hemshekh.
Unknown to most people during his lifetime was Moses Kligsberg's dedicated pursuit of his musical passion. From 1943 to 1954 he was enrolled at Teachers College of Columbia University, where he studied music history, composition and orchestration, as well as violin and piano. He also took private music lessons. For several summers he participated in the summer Composers' Conference at Bennington College, Vermont, where he presented and made recordings of several original compositions. Like many 'Tsukunftists' of his generation, Kligsberg loved the outdoors and was an avid mountain climber, often taking hiking trips through the northeast United States and Europe.
Moses Kligsberg died in New York on June 25, 1975 after a prolonged illness.
-
Selected Published Works by Moses Kligsberg
- "American Jewish Soldiers on Jews and Judaism," YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science 5, (1950): 256-265.
- "Amerikaner yiddisher zelner vegn zikh un vegn yidn," YIVO bleter 31-32, (1948): 233-243.
- "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress," YIVO (1965): 34.
- "The Golden Land (Jewish Immigrants in America: Self Portrait)," Commentary (May 1948): 467-472.
- "Jewish Immigrants in Business: a Sociological Study," American Jewish Historical Quarterly 56, no. 3 (1966): 283-318.
- "Khayim Shloyme Kazdan: A mentsh – a feldz" (Chaim Shlomo Kazdan: A man – a rock) Kultur un lebn (May-June 1973): 14-16.
- "Materialn tsu a terminologye fun psikhologye," (Materials for a Psychological Terminology) Yidishe shprakh 4 (1950): 16-22.
- "Sotsial psikhologishe problemen arum dem YIVO konkurs af oytobiografies," YIVO bleter 21 (1943): 262-275.
- "Socio-Psychological Problems Reflected in the YIVO Autobiography Contest," YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science 1 (1946): 241-249.
- "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes (a sotsiologishe shtudye)" (The Jewish Youth Movement in Poland Between the Two World Wars (A Sociological Study) Studies on Polish Jewry, 1919-1939, ed. Joshua A. Fishman. (New York: YIVO, 1974): 137-228.
- "A zeltn bukh vegn a zeltener institutsye" (A unique book about a unique institution). Review of Medem Sanitorye bukh, ed. Chaim Kazdan et al. Kultur un lebn (November-December 1971): 9-10.
Scope and Content Note
The Papers of Moses Kligsberg (1937-1974) are arranged in fifteen series that include correspondence with individuals and organizations, personal papers, his writings, projects, and research materials, as well as YIVO correspondence, its administrative materials, programs and projects, and publicity materials. Records of the Jewish Labor Bund and the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution are also part of the collection.
The collection reflects the diverse projects that Moses Kligsberg worked on at YIVO, in his personal research and writings, and within the Bundist and survivors' community after World War II. Approximately one third of the collection is made up of materials related to these projects. There is a wealth of material (manuscripts, articles and writings by others, research notes) related to Moses Kligsberg's major scholarly interests, among which Jewish youth movements, Jewish immigrants, the Bund and the Jewish labor movement, and the use of autobiographical materials in sociological research were the most prominent ones.
There are manuscripts (some with corrections and edits) for virtually all of Moses Kligsberg's important articles, including "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" and "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes" [The Jewish youth movement between the Two World Wars]. There are also several copies of the research report and proposal that Moses Kligsberg worked on as a YIVO Aspirant (research fellow) in Vilna in 1940, for which he was invited to New York to continue to work. Many of the manuscripts in the collection are based on analyses of the YIVO autobiographies contests, and there are various notes, some correspondence and a few primary source materials about the contests. Some of Moses Kligsberg's correspondence with individuals also pertains to his personal research and writing projects.
Also of interest are manuscripts for two books projects on which Moses Kligsberg worked in an editorial capacity: Meyer Kushner's memoir about the Cloakmakers' union, and Ber I. Rozen's posthumously published collection of portraits of the Polish Jewish community in the interwar years.
Included in the collection are the papers of the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution (Series XII), a membership organization for Holocaust survivors for which Moses Kligsberg played a significant administrative role. The papers include over 80 membership questionnaires that include information on time spent in concentration and labor camps and the fate of respondents' families. Also of interest is correspondence from the Axis Victims League and the organization's by-laws.
Moses Kligsberg's active involvement in and deep convictions about the Jewish Labor Bund are in evidence throughout the collection, in particular in Series XII, Series IV, and in the personal correspondence. The bulk of these materials are in Series XII. As secretary of the Foreign Delegation of the Yugnt Bund 'Tsukunft', Moses Kligsberg's papers include correspondence with Bundist leaders across the United States and throughout the world, largely about reestablishing post-war Bund organizations and building an active Jewish labor movement. There is a substantial correspondence in Series XII from three New York leaders: Emanuel Nowogrodsky, Shlomo Mendelson, and Emanuel Patt. Also of interest are the texts of various resolutions, speeches and articles on behalf of the Bund, on topics including Palestine, Zionism, and the future of socialism. There are ample materials relating to activities of the Bundist youth groups Tsukunft and SKIF in New York and elsewhere, including Subseries 4, which relates to the summer camp Hemshekh. Series IV includes writings by Moses Kligsberg about the Bund and its members and activities before World War II.
A more personal side of the post-war Bund can be seen in Moses Kligsberg's correspondence (Series I) with friends and colleagues from the Polish Bund and especially from the Tsukunft – mostly from Warsaw, and now scattered throughout the world, including Shanghai, France, Canada, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Australia, and Israel. Much of this correspondence is personal in nature, and deals with emigration, establishing new homes and families, and assisting refugees (often the writers themselves). However, there is also frequent discussion of socialist ideals, the future of the Bund, and reminiscences of activities past. The correspondence is notable for the blending of personal and "movement" themes, and paints a picture of an active, committed network of friends and activists rebuilding after the war. The bulk of the correspondence consists of correspondence to and from Moses Kligsberg himself. However, where letters from principle correspondents of Moses Kligsberg were addressed to other YIVO staff members, these were also included in this series and filed together with other correspondence from that individual.
Approximately half of the collection consists of materials related to Moses Kligsberg's thirty-five year association with YIVO, and includes administrative, publicity, and project materials. Because Moses Kligsberg was involved with so many diverse projects and administrative tasks at YIVO, the collection reflects the broad range of YIVO activities during the 1940s-1970s - from public programs, scholarly conferences, and educational courses to research projects and publications, archival and library collecting, and a radio program. The correspondence with individuals also reflects YIVO's active role in the Jewish community, in particular with war refugees and immigrants to the United States.
The administrative materials include internal correspondence and memos, correspondence with individuals and organizations, notes and reports from Executive Committee and Board of Directors meetings. There is correspondence and reports of activities from several YIVO outposts, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Melbourne, Australia.
The rest of the YIVO materials relate to programs and projects of the organization. There are programs, publicity materials and abstracts from annual academic conferences, colloquia, and exhibitions, as well as syllabi and course listings for educational programs. Of interest are the materials relating to the 1948 UCLA Summer Session in which Max Weinreich taught two courses, and out of which the I.L. Cahan Folklore Club was born. There are also manuscripts and other materials relating to YIVO publications, notably an early draft of Pinchas Schwartz's introduction to the Kruk diary. Although Moses Kligsberg did work on the Yiddish publication of the Kruk diary, no other materials from the diary were found in the collection. There is a small amount of material about various YIVO essay contests, including instructions and announcements for the 1942 autobiographies contest. Also of interest are the materials relating to YIVO's hour-long weekly radio program on the WEVD broadcast station. Included are scripts, press releases, and correspondence about the program.
The collection includes notes, memos, correspondence, articles, and other materials used by Moses Kligsberg in editing the quarterly newsletter Yedies fun yivo (YIVO News), newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Return to the Top of PageArrangement
The collection is divided into fifteen topical series.
- Series I: Correspondence with Individuals, 1941-1974
- Series II: Correspondence with Organizations, 1942-1973
- Series III: Personal papers
of Moses Kligsberg, 1939-1974
- Subseries 1: Immigration, Naturalization, and Visas, 1939-after 1945
- Subseries 2: Personal Papers, 1941-1974
- Subseries 3: Musical Education and Sheet Music, undated, 1948, 1953
- Subseries 4: Acetates and Recorded Compositions by Moses Kligsberg, 1951-1956
- Subseries 5: Aspirantur (Research Training Division) at YIVO, 1941-1942
- Subseries 6: Patt Family Materials, 1956-1963
- Series IV: Writings by Moses Kligsberg, 1939-1972
- Series V: Projects of Moses Kligsberg, 1940-1973
- Series VI: Research Materials, undated, 1940-1972
- Series VII: YIVO Correspondence with Individuals, 1942-1974
- Series VIII: YIVO Administration, 1941-1974
- Series IX: YIVO Programs and
Projects, 1942-1974
- Subseries 1: Conferences, 1942-1974
- Subseries 2: Colloquia, Public Programs, and Exhibitions, 1958-1974
- Subseries 3: Educational Programs and Courses, 1948-1974
- Subseries 4: Essay Contests, 1942-1971
- Subseries 5: Manuscripts and Publications, undated, 1950s-1960s
- Subseries 6: Projects, undated, 1944-1966
- Subseries 7: Proposals - Grants, 1963-1974
- Subseries 8: YIVO Radio Program on WEVD, 1963-1974
- Series X: YIVO Publicity Materials and Newspaper Clippings
- Series XI:
Jewish Labor Bund (Yidisher Arbeter Bund), 1941-1974
- Subseries 1: Bund - International Activities, 1947-1962
- Subseries 2: Bund - New York Activities, 1941-1973
- Subseries 3: Bund - Resolutions, Speeches, Articles, undated, 1943-1967
- Subseries 4: Camp Hemshekh, undated, 1959-1974
- Subseries 5: SKIF (Sotsyalistisher Kinder Farband), 1946-1974
- Subseries 6: Yugnt Bund 'Tsukunft' (Youth Bund 'Tsukunft'), 1942-1954
- Subseries 7: Various, undated, 1967?
- Series XII: United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution, 1946-1957
- Series XIII: Photographs, undated, 1941-1970
- Series XIV: Writings - Other Authors, 1932-1970
- Series XVI: Ephemera, undated, 1962
- Series XVI: Sound Recordings, undated, 1951?-1967
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers by appointment with a YIVO archivist.
Subseries 7: Proposals - Grants of Series IX: YIVO Programs and Projects is closed to researchers.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more
information users should contact:
Chief Archivist, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish
History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011
email:
archives@yivo.cjh.org
Related Material
There are several collections in YIVO's custody that are related to the Papers of Moses Kligsberg, most prominently:
- Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland (RG 4)
- Autobiographies, American-Jewish ( RG 102)
- Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust Period (RG 104)
- Records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York (RG 100)
Separated Material
The acetate discs were separated and housed in the YIVO Sound Archives.
Return to the Top of PageCustodial History
The collection consists of materials bequeathed to YIVO by Moses Kligsberg, which were removed from his home and office at YIVO after his death in 1975.
Some additional records of the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution were received from Rakhmiel Bryks.
Sheet music for original compositions by Moses Kligsberg was received from Chana Mlotek in 2003.
Return to the Top of PagePreferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification
of item, date (if known); YIVO Archives, Moses Kligsberg, RG 719, folder
number.
Processing Information
Personal names are spelled as they appear in materials found in the collection, or have been romanized from Yiddish with transliteration according to the YIVO standard. The names of the institutions were verified in the Library of Congress Authorities where applicable.
Chana Mlotek and Fruma Mohrer proofread, verified, and corrected the final version of this finding aid.
Return to the Top of PageAccess Points
-
Subject Names:
- Blit, Lucjan
- Kligsberg, Moses
- Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944
- Patt, Emanuel, 1912-1971
- Weinreich, Max, 1894-1969
- Weinreich, Uriel
-
Subject Organizations:
- International Jewish Labor Bund
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Ogólny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce
- Sotsyalistisher Kinder Farband (SKIF)
- United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecutions
- Związek Młodzieży "Cukunft" w Polsce
-
Subject Topics:
- Authors, Yiddish
- Holocaust survivors
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish journalists
- Jewish socialists -- Poland
- Jewish archives -- Lithuania -- Vilnius
- Jewish youth -- Poland
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Segregation
- Jews -- Politics and government
- Jews -- Europe -- Persecutions
- Jews -- Poland -- Biography
- Jews -- Psychology
- Labor movement -- Poland
- Labor Zionists -- Poland
- National socialism
- Political parties -- Poland
- Radio programs -- Poland
- Sociologists
- Sociology, Jewish
- Youth movement -- Poland
-
Document Types
- Photographs
- Scores
- Sound recordings
Container List
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Return to the Top of PageReturn to the Top of Page
Series III: Personal Papers of Moses Kligsberg, 1939-1974. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, English, Polish, Russian, and Japanese. | |||
| 0.8 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arranged by topic. |
|||
Scope and Content:Series III comprises material that belonged to Moses Kligsberg. It consists of personal documents, including his passports and correspondence with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, some of his financial and medical records, several membership cards, and his address books. Subseries 6 consists of materials from the Patt family. Emanuel Patt and his wife, Brucha Patt were close friends of Moses Kligsberg from Warsaw and settled in New York later. The series also documents the musical interest of Moses Kligsberg. It holds several of his own compositions, recording of his music, as well as music of other composers. The music is recorded on the acetates. Material testifying to the academic efforts of Moses Kligsberg falls also into this series. Subseries 5 includes notes from classes, papers, and other assignments from his year as a YIVO Aspirant (research fellow) in New York. |
|||
Subseries 1: Immigration, Naturalization, and Visas, 1939-after1965. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, English, Polish, and Japanese. | |||
| 0.2 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Alphabetical by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries includes Polish passports and other identity documents of Moses Kligsberg, as well as correspondence with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding Moses Kligsberg's status in the United States. It also includes affidavits and recommendations for others to come to the United States, and inquiries about the whereabouts of Moses Kligsberg family members and friends. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 10 | 296 | Affidavits and recommendations |
1946-1959 |
|
Including recommendations for Josef Lifszyc, Mojzesz and Roza Grynbaum; Boruch Mojsze Gelbron, David Botwinik |
|||
| 10 | 297 | Autobiographical statement | after 1965 |
| 10 | 298 | Identity documents | 1939-1947 |
|
Includes:
|
|||
| 10 | 299 | Immigration and Naturalization documents | 1941-1950 |
|
Includes:
|
|||
| 10 | 300 | Inquiries about friends and family, including Esther Kligsberg, Maurice Hirzman, Bernard Kligsberg | 1945-1947 |
| 10 | 301 | Kobe, Japan | 1941 |
|
Documents from Moses Kligsberg's three month stay in Kobe. Includes shipping receipts, Japanese phrase book, permit for stay in Japan |
|||
| 10 | 302 | Pozner, Chaim (Jewish Agency for Palestine; Geneva, Switzerland) | 1941-1943 |
|
Correspondence regarding maintaining contact with Moses Kligsberg's wife and Chaim Pozner's brother. Includes receipts for monthly assistance shipments sent by Moses Kligsberg through Chaim Pozner |
|||
| 10 | 303 | Visas and travel documents | 1947 |
|
Includes certificates of vaccination, baggage receipt, Italian visas |
|||
Subseries 2: Personal Papers, 1941-1974. |
|||
| The series is mostly in English. | |||
| 0.2 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Alphabetical by the folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:This subseries includes documents and correspondence about Moses Kligsberg's finances, housing, and medical issues, miscellaneous receipts for donations and care package shipments, membership cards and invitations to organizational events. It also includes a collection of more than ten address books. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 10 | 304 | Address books | undated |
|
Includes address book with notes from Moses Kligsberg's trip to Rome |
|||
| 10 | 305 | Banking and personal finance | 1945-1967 |
|
Includes bank book, loan statement, tax documents and correspondence, social security document, bank receipts |
|||
| 10 | 306 | Delegate cards and invitations to organizational events | 1940s-1960s |
|
|||
| 10 | 307 | Donations and Contributions |
1942-1972 |
|
Receipts from Bund, Central Yiddish Culture Organization, Undzer Tsayt, Holy Yeshivah and Talmud Torah Emeth (Jerusalem, Israel), Relief Committee of the General Workers' Union of Poland, Jewish Labor Committee, YIVO |
|||
| 10 | 308 | Education class - Exams book from college class | undated |
| 10 | 309 | English classes - Student identification cards, notes from teachers | 1941-1942 |
| 10 | 310 | Housing - Leases and correspondence about apartments | 1955-1972 |
| 10 | 311 | Medical documents - Letters from doctors and prescriptions | 1941-1948 |
| 10 | 312 | Memberships Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, Social Democratic Federation USA |
undated, 1944-1953 |
| 10 | 313 | Receipts for freelance work paid | undated, 1943 |
| 10 | 314 | Receipts for shipments and care packages - Correspondence about shipments | 1941-1974 |
| 10 | 315 | Miscellaneous - Receipts, library catalog cards; letter requesting postponement of jury duty | 1942-1963 |
Subseries 3: Musical Education and Sheet Music, undated, 1948, 1953. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 3 includes sheet music of original compositions by Moses Kligsberg, donated by Chana Mlotek, as well as correspondence and other materials relating to Moses Kligsberg's many years of studying music at Columbia Teachers College, Bennington Composers' Conference, and elsewhere. Of interest is a letter from Moses Kligsberg to Maestro Leopold Stokowski requesting permission to send his score for Stokowski's review. The sheet music is mostly undated but likely from the late 1940s - middle 1950s, the years when Moses Kligsberg was most actively studying music. |
|||
A. Sheet music - Original compositions by Moses Kligsberg |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 11 | 316 | "Children's Tale" | 1948 |
| 11 | 317 | "Duet for Viola and Clarinet" | 1953 |
| 11 | 318 | "Little Piano Suite" | undated |
| 11 | 319 | "A marsh" | undated |
| 11 | 320 | "A marsh far Zalmelen, fun Moyshen" (A march for Zalmen, from Moyshe) | undated |
| 11 | 321 | "Prelude (for Chana)" | undated |
| 11 | 322 | Untitled | undated |
| 11 | 323 | Untitled: Allegro Scherzo and Allegro Moderato | undated |
B. Correspondence |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 11 | 324 | Bennington Composers' Conference (Bennington, Vt.) | 1953-54. |
| 11 | 325 | Columbia University. Teachers College | 1943-1950 |
| 11 | 326 | Columbia University. Teachers College - Bursar's receipts and receipts for other payments | 1943-1952 |
| 11 | 327 | Columbia University. Teachers College - Practice room cards and other identification cards | 1943-1947 |
| 11 | 328 | Columbia University. Teachers College - Transcripts and grade reports. | 1943-1953 |
| 11 | 329 | Composers and music professors | 1943-1973 |
|
Includes:
|
|||
| 11 | 330 | Concert programs and invitations | 1947, 1956, 1970 |
| 11 | 331 | Music schools | 1943 |
| 11 | 332 | Receipts and correspondence re: recordings and tapes | 1955-1956 |
Subseries 4: Acetates and Recorded Compositions by Moses Kligsberg, 1951-1956. |
|||
Arrangement:Alphabetical by the folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:This subseries consists of one box of recorded acetate disks of musical compositions by Moses Kligsberg, performed by others. The acetate disks were removed to the YIVO Sound Archives (SA). |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| SA | Clarinet Quintet, Movements I & II. Wallace Shapiro, clarinet. Bennington Composers' Conference | 1955 | |
| SA | Clarinet Quintet, Movements III & IV and Duo for Viola and Clarinet | undated | |
| SA | Clarinet Quintet, Movement V. Wallace Shapiro, clarinet. Bennington Composers' Conference | 1955 | |
| SA | Duo for Clarinet and Viola. Wallace Shapiro, clarinet; Melvin Berger, viola. Bennington Composers' Conference | 1956 | |
| SA | Hasidic nigunim , a Passover song, and a folksong performed by Yakov Gorelik - Three green soundscriber disks recorded at YIVO | May 10, 1951 | |
| SA | Huswifery. Performed by Earl Rogers, tenor. Bennington Composers' Conference | 1956 | |
| SA | Little Suite for Four Violins. Bennington Composers' Conference | 1954 | |
| SA | Little Suite for Four Violins. Bennington Composers' Conference (2nd copy) | 1954 | |
| SA | Henry Brant, On the Nature of Things | undated | |
| SA | Unidentified composition | undated | |
Subseries 5: Aspirantur (Research Training Division) at YIVO, 1941-1942. |
|||
| Subseries is mostly in Yiddish. | |||
Arrangement:Alphabetical by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 5 includes materials from Moses Kligsberg's year as a YIVO Aspirant (research fellow) in New York . Mostly notes from classes, papers, and other assignments. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 11 | 333 | Aspirant thesis proposal for socio-psychological research about the Jewish community in the United States - Based on the American autobiographies contest | undated |
| 11 | 334 | Catalog for 1942-1943 academic year | 1942-1943 |
| 11 | 335 | Correspondence and registration materials | 1941-1942 |
| 11 | 336 | Notes and assignments from Hebrew class | undated |
| 11 | 337 | Notes and papers | 1941-1942 |
| 11 | 338 | Notes from class with Raphael Mahler | 1942 |
| 11 | 339 | Notes from class with Abram Menes | 1942 |
| 11 | 340 | Notes from classes | 1941-1942 |
Subseries 6: Patt Family Materials, 1956-1963. |
|||
| The subseries is in Yiddish and English. | |||
Arrangement:Alphabetical by the folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:This subseries consists of materials from the Patt family, close friends of Moses Kligsberg from Warsaw who settled in New York. Emanuel Patt was a family physician, writer, educator, Bundist and community leader. Emanuel Patt was an innovator in creating secular Yiddish texts and observances for important Jewish holidays and rituals. He and his wife, Brucha Patt, hosted an annual secular Yiddish Passover seder in their home in the Amalgamated neighborhood of the Bronx, N.Y. His son, Avram Patt, had a secular Yiddish bar mitzvah. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 11 | 341 | Avram Patt's bar mitzvah speech (Bronx, N.Y.) | 1963 |
| 11 | 342 | Haggadot from Emanuel Patt's secular Yiddish seder (Bronx, N.Y.) | 1956 |
| 11 | 343 | Haggadot from Emanuel Patt's secular Yiddish seder (Bronx, N.Y.) | 1958 |
| 11 | 344 | Haggadot from Emanuel Patt's secular Yiddish seder (Bronx, N.Y.) | 1959 |
Series IV: Writings by Moses Kligsberg, 1939-1972. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, few texts are in English. | |||
| 1.6 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arrangement is alphabetical by title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Manuscripts, typed copies and drafts of articles, papers, and other writings by Moses Kligsberg. Major themes represented in Kligsberg's writings include: Jewish youth and youth movements in Poland before World War II, Jewish youth in America, Jewish immigrants in America, the Bund and the Jewish labor movement, the use of autobiographical materials in sociological studies, Yiddish culture and American Jewry, the YIVO autobiographies contests. The researchers can find numerous early drafts of articles written by Moses Kligsberg. Some versions have his editorial remarks. The materials and notes for Moses Kligsberg's article on Chaim S. Kazdan "Ch. S. Kazdan: a mentsh, a feldz – Tsu zayne 90 yor" [Ch. S. Kazdan: A Man, a Rock – In honor of his 90th Birthday] can be also found in Series V, Subseries 2: Materials for article on Chaim Kazdan. The collection also includes drafts of some of Kligsberg's other published articles, many of which are based on Kligsberg's extensive analyses of materials from the YIVO American autobiographies contests. There are also various articles and manuscripts relating to the history and personalities in the Jewish Labor Bund during the interwar period, including several personal profiles of people whom Kligsberg knew well, among them Emanuel Patt, Gabriel Fryshdorf, Leah Jacubowich. Of interest is a lengthy, untitled manuscript in Kligsberg's hand, written in first person. It contains 33 titled sections and seems to be a memoir about a Bundist activist in Warsaw during the 1930s. There are sections about strikes and protests, underground activities, getting arrested, individuals active in Warsaw during that period, and personal reminiscences about life in the city. It is unclear if this is Kligsberg's own memoir or copied from someone else. The bulk of the materials in this series are in Yiddish, some of which also include English translations. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 12 | 345 | "Amerikaner yidishe zelner vegn zikh un vegn yidn" [American Jewish soldiers on themselves and Jews]. | undated |
|
Draft with corrections. Typed, 11 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 346 | "Arbeter, burzhuazye, un di itstike milkhome" [Workers, Bourgeoisie, and the Current War] | undated |
|
Typed, 6 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 347 | "Arbets yomim toyvim fun der nayer tsayt" [Work Holidays of the New Era] | undated |
|
Typed manuscript, 32 pp. and 5 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 348 | "Di batsiungen tvishn doyres bay amerikaner yidn" [The relationships between the generations among American Jews] | undated |
|
Based on the American autobiographies. Typed, 7 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 349 | "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" | 1965? |
|
Manuscript, early draft, 44 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 350 | "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" | 1965? |
|
Typed draft, 40 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 351 | "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" | 1965 May |
|
Typed draft, 32 pp. with edits. Includes Table of contents |
|||
| 12 | 352 | "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" | 1965? |
|
Typed draft, 32 pp. with edits. Includes General Outline with edits, 5 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 353 | "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" | 1965 |
|
Title pages and bibliography, 5 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 354 | "A duner fun heln himl: mapole B. Shefners onfal oyf di yidishe shuln un kempn" [A Thunder from the Clear Sky: Response to B. Shefner's attack on Yiddish schools and camps] | undated |
|
Typed, 10 pp. Includes photocopy of first six pages. |
|||
| 12 | 355 | "Familye problemen" [Family Problems]. Probably for "Childhood Under Stress" | undated |
|
Typed, 12 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 356 | "Gabriel Fryshdorf" | undated |
|
Typed, 4 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 357 | "Iberlebungen fun mizrakh eyropeyishe yidishe kinder in der tsveyter velt milkhome" [Experiences of Eastern European Jewish Children during World War II] | undated |
|
Typed draft with corrections, 12 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 358 | "Ideology and Psychiatry" | undated |
|
Typed, 37 pp. and loose pages |
|||
| 12 | 359 | "Ideology and Psychiatry" | undated |
|
Typed, 44 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 360 | "Ideology and Psychiatry" | undated |
|
Typed, 64 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 361 | "Ideology and Psychiatry" | 1962 |
|
Revised version, with letter to Norman Podhoretz of Commentary. Typed, 37 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 362 | "Der iker iz: pozitiv arbets program" [The Main Thing Is: A Positive Work Program] | undated |
|
Typed, 5 pp. and photocopy of original manuscript, 9 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 363 | "Jewish Immigrants in Business: a Sociological Study" | 1962 |
|
Untitled draft, in Yiddish, originally intended for book edited by Rabbi Samuel Dresner. Typed, 42 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 364 | "Jewish Immigrants in Business: a Sociological Study" | 1954? |
|
Untitled draft, in Yiddish. Typed, 42 pp, with footnotes on index cards |
|||
| 12 | 365 | "Jewish Immigrants in Business: a Sociological Study" | 1954? |
|
Untitled draft with corrections, typed, 36 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 366 | "Jewish Immigrants in Business: Some Characteristic Features" | 1954 |
|
Draft of translation submitted to Rabbi Dresner. Typed, 47 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 367 | "Khayim Shloyme Kazdan: a mentsh, a feldz - Tsu zayne 90 yor" [Chaim S. Kazdan: A Man, A Rock - In honor of his 90th Birthday] for Kultur un lebn. May-June 1973 | 1973 |
|
Typed, 6 pp., with manuscript, 10 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 368 | "Konspekt fun der opteylung 'Yidishe yugnt bavegungen in poyln' fun der oysgabe'Yidn in poyln'" [Abstract for the section 'Jewish youth movements in Poland' for the publication 'Jews in Poland' [Studies on Polish Jewry]]. | undated |
| 12 | 369 | "Di kooperative bavegung bay yidn in mizrakh eyrope tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes" [The Co-operative Movement Among Jews in Eastern Europe between the Two World Wars] | undated |
|
Notes for a lecture. Typed, 1 p. and manuscript, 1 p. |
|||
| 12 | 370 | "Leah Jacubovich" | 1952 |
|
Elegy. Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 371 | "Leyb Iglevitsh" | undated |
|
Elegy. Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 372 | "Der marksism un di arbeter-bavegung" [Marxism and the Labor Movement] | 1943 |
|
Paper in honor of the 60th yortsayt and 125th birthday of Karl Marx. Typed, 14 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 373 | "Di metodishe problemen fun forshn perzenlekhe dokumentn" [The Methodological Problems of Using Personal Documents for Research] | undated |
|
Typed with handwritten inserts and corrections, 76 pp. |
|||
| 12 | 374 | "Monye der zukher" [Monye the Seeker] | 1971 |
|
Elegy for Dr. Emanuel Patt. Typed, 8 pp. Manuscript, 2 pp. and notes for gravestone inscription |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 13 | 375 | "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln" [Personal goals and communal ideals of the Jewish youth in Poland] | 1939-1940 |
|
Moses Kligsberg's first report about the YIVO autobiographies contest, written during his year as aspirant in Vilna. Typed, 8 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 376 | "Problemen fun der yidisher visnshaft in amerike" [Problems of Jewish research in America] | undated |
|
Remarks on YIVO's 25th anniversary. Typed, 12 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 377 | "Proyekt fun a rezolutsye vegn yidisher kultur un yidishe yugnt in amerike farn velt tsuzamenfor fun kultur kongres, nyu york, detsember 1969" [Project for a resolution about Yiddish culture and Jewish youth in America for the World Conference of the Congress for Jewish Culture, December 1969] | 1969 |
|
2 copies. Typed, 3 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 378 | "Di psikhologye fun shpil un fun estetishn genus" [The psychology of play and of esthetic pleasure]. | undated |
|
Typed, 199 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 379 | "Sotsyal psikhologishe problemen arum dem Yivo konkurs af oytobiografies" [Socio-psychological problems of the YIVO autobiographies contest] | undated |
|
Typed, 18 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 380 | "Di svive fun yidishn yugntlekhn in poyln (di yidishe familye)" [The Environment for Jewish Youth in Poland (The Jewish family)] - Pages 1-40 | undated |
|
Chapter 3 of a larger, unidentified work. Manuscripts, 139 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 381 | Di svive fun yidishn yugntlekhn in poyln (di yidishe familye)" [The Environment for Jewish Youth in Poland (The Jewish family)] - Pages 41-69 | |
| 13 | 382 | Di svive fun yidishn yugntlekhn in poyln (di yidishe familye)" [The Environment for Jewish Youth in Poland (The Jewish family)] - Pages 70-104 | undated |
| 13 | 383 | Di svive fun yidishn yugntlekhn in poyln (di yidishe familye)" [The Environment for Jewish Youth in Poland (The Jewish family)] - Pages 105-139 | undated |
| 13 | 384 | Di svive fun yidishn yugntlekhn in poyln (di yidishe familye)" [The Environment for Jewish Youth in Poland (The Jewish family)] | undated |
|
Two other unidentified manuscripts about related topics. 8 pp. and 38 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 385 | "Triumf fun yidish: Di ershte velt konferents far yidish forshung un ir batayt" [The Triumph of Yiddish: The First World Conference for Yiddish Research and its Significance] | undated |
|
Typed, 8 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 386 | "Tsum ershtn yortsayt fun Shloyme Mendelson: A por verter tsu der kharakteristik fun zayn perzenlekhkayt" [On the first anniversary of the death of Shlomo Mendelson: A few words about the characteristics of his personality] | undated |
|
Typed, 4 pp. |
|||
| 13 | 387 | "Di tsvey dimensyes fun virklekhkayt in traditsyoneln veltbanem fun mizrekh eyropeyishn yidntum" [The two dimensions of reality in the traditional world outlook of Eastern European Jewry] | undated |
|
Typed, 17 pp. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 14 | 388 | "Di umvegn fun der yidisher propagande" [The Detours of Jewish Propaganda] | undated |
|
Typed, 13 pp. and typed original with corrections, 13 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 389 | "Vegn heylike un umheylike nemen" [On holy and profane names] | undated |
|
Typed, 3 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 390 | "Vos zenen un vos kenen zayn di sotsyale visnshaftn" [What is and what can be social science research] | undated |
|
Typed, 54 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 391 | "A Working Hypothesis about the Origin of the Perception of Consonances and Dissonances" | undated |
|
Manuscript, 8 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 392 | "Yiddish and the Intellectuals" | undated |
|
Draft of article championing Yiddishism among American Jewish intellectuals as non-conformism in the face of haskala and Zionist prohibitions against using it. Typed with corrections, 32 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 393 | "Di yidishe perzenlekhkayt in likht fun oytobiografyes" [The Jewish personality revealed by autobiographies] | undated |
|
Typed, 15 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 394 | "Di yidishe yugnt un di yidish kultur in amerike" [Jewish Youth and Yiddish Culture in America] | undated, 1943 |
|
Manuscript in notebook, 21 pp. Includes an article about liquidation of the Komintern, 7 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 395 | "Di yidishe yugnt un di yidish kultur in amerike" [Jewish Youth and Yiddish Culture in America] | 1943? |
|
Based on the American autobiographies. Typed, 10 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 396 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] - Introduction and Part I | undated |
|
Manuscript, 12 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 397 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] - Part II | undated |
|
Manuscript, 37 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 398 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] - Introduction, Parts I and II | undated, 1972 |
|
Typed, 64 pp. Includes related correspondence with Joshua Fishman |
|||
| 14 | 399 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] - Introduction, Parts I and II | undated, 1972 |
|
Typed, 64 pp. Includes photocopies of related correspondence with Joshua Fishman |
|||
| 14 | 400 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] - Part III | undated |
|
Typed, 52 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 401 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars - a sociological study] | undated |
|
Manuscript sections, 14 pp. and 50 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 402 | "Der YIVO nokhn khurbn" [YIVO After the Holocaust] | undated |
|
Typed manuscript with edits, 20 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 403 | "Yugnt un sotsyalizm in der itstiker epokhe" [Youth and Socialism in the Present Era] | undated |
|
Typed, 9 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 404 | "Zayn kholem" [Its Dream] | undated |
|
Satirical poem about archives. Manuscript, 2 pp. |
|||
| 14 | 405 | "A zeltn bukh vegn a zeltener institutsye" [A unique book about a unique institution] | 1971 |
|
Review of Medem Sanitorye bukh, edited by Chaim Kazdan et al. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 15 | 406 | Untitled manuscript in Moses Kligsberg's hand | undated |
|
Probably a memoir about a Bundist activist in 1930s Warsaw. Unclear if this is Kligsberg's own memoir or copied from someone else. 33 sections, 100 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 407 | Untitled. Critique of article about the Bund by Dr. Morgentaler | undated |
|
Moses Kligsberg's stance that the cultural heritage of Yiddish(ism) is part of the spiritual personality of contemporary American Jews. Typed, 14 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 408 | Untitled article about the work of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki | undated |
|
Typed, 27 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 409 | Untitled manuscript about the work of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki | undated |
|
Manuscript, 19 pp. and notes on John Dollard's Criteria for the Life History, typed, 3 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 410 | Untitled article | undated |
|
On published autobiographies by "ordinary people" being authentic Jewish literature. Typed, 13 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 411 | Untitled article about Zionism | undated |
|
Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 15 | 412 | Untitled manuscript about American Jewish youth after the Holocaust | undated |
| 15 pp. | |||
| 15 | 413 | Untitled manuscript about school memories in pre-war Poland and teacher Julian Wielikovski | undated |
| 8 pp. | |||
| 15 | 414 | Untitled manuscript about social research on Jewish culture in America | undated |
| 40 pp. | |||
| 15 | 415 | Untitled manuscript sections from book about Jewish labor movement. Five short sections | undated |
| 15 | 416 | Untitled collection of 15 manuscripts about Jewish youth in Poland | undated |
|
These are probably sections for a book. Some pieces are written in first person. Titles of sections include: "Shloyme Mendelson" (Typed and manuscript); "Avremele Shenker"; "Mile 51"; "Der morgnshtern" [The Morning star]; "Tsukunft shturem" [Tsukunft Storm] |
|||
| 15 | 417 | Unidentified manuscripts and documents - Loose pages | undated |
Series V: Projects of Moses Kligsberg, 1940-1973. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, some documents are in Polish and English. | |||
| 1.2 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arranged by topic |
|||
Scope and Content:Project proposals, grant applications, outlines, research plans, progress reports and other related materials for Moses Kligsberg's personal and YIVO projects. Many of the materials relate to Moses Kligsberg's yugnt forshung (research on youth). Of note are drafts and final versions of a grant proposal for Moses Kligsberg's article "Childhood and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress", based on materials from the YIVO autobiographies contests and published as a pamphlet by YIVO in 1965. Many of the proposals and outlines are for projects which later became published works by Moses Kligsberg. The series contains materials Moses Kligsberg used for his article on Chaim Kazdan. Separate subseries hold materials for two published memoirs; one by Meyer Kushner and the other by Ber I. Rozen. Moses Kligsberg appears to have worked on them in an editorial capacity. The Kushner materials consist of manuscripts – some with corrections – and loose pages. The Rozen materials consist of typed and handwritten manuscripts, including a memoir about life in Shanghai. |
|||
Subseries 1: Project Proposals and Outlines , 1940-1972. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by the folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Project proposals, grant applications, outlines, research plans, progress reports and other related materials for Moses Kligsberg's personal and YIVO projects. Many of the materials relate to Moses Kligsberg's yugnt forshung (research on youth). Of note are drafts and final versions of a grant proposal for Moses Kligsberg's article "Childhood and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress", based on materials from the YIVO autobiographies contests and published as a pamphlet by YIVO in 1965. Many of the proposals and outlines are for projects which later became published works by Moses Kligsberg. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 16 | 418 | Autobiographies proposal, Vilna | 1940 |
|
Copies of 4 letters from Moses Kligsberg to Max Weinreich about Moses Kligsberg's planned research project about the YIVO autobiographies |
|||
| 16 | 419 | "Childhood and adolescent behavior under stress" - Grant application | 1965? |
|
Study based on the YIVO autobiographies. Manuscript, 28 pp. |
|||
| 16 | 420 | "Childhood and adolescent behavior under stress" - Grant application | 1965 |
|
Typed, 26 pp. 3 copies, with edits and remarks by Max Weinreich and Uriel Weinreich |
|||
| 16 | 421 | "Childhood and adolescent behavior under stress" - Correspondence and edits by Alexander Erlich | 1965 |
| 16 | 422 | "Childhood and adolescent behavior under stress" - Materials for grant application and progress reports | 1964 |
| 16 | 423 | "Childhood and adolescent behavior under stress" - Outlines and other materials for grant application and progress reports | 1964-1965? |
| 16 | 424 | "Far vos bin ikh avek fun der alter heym un vos hob ikh dergreykht in der nayer heym" [Why I left the old country and what I have accomplished in the new home"] - Project proposal and letter | 1941 |
| 16 | 425 | "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln" [Personal Goals and Social Ideals of Jewish Youth in Poland] - Original proposal and first progress report | 1940 |
| 16 | 426 | "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln" [Personal Goals and Social Ideals of Jewish Youth in Poland] | 1940 |
|
Progress report, letters to Max Weinreich and project outlines |
|||
| 16 | 427 | "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln" [Personal Goals and Social Ideals of Jewish Youth in Poland] - Draft of project proposal and manuscript | undated |
| 24 pp. | |||
| 16 | 428 | "Perzenlekhe tsiln un gezelshaftlekhe idealn bay der yidisher yugnt in poyln" [Personal Goals and Social Ideals of Jewish Youth in Poland] | 1941 |
|
Letter to YIVO and proposal for book expanding on Moses Kligsberg's work as an Aspirant (research fellow) in Vilna, based on the Vilna autobiographies contest. Typed, 5 pp., with handwritten manuscripts of original letter and proposal, and Moses Kligsberg's biographical information. 3 pp. |
|||
| 16 | 429 | "Proyekt fun a forshung vegn der sheyres hapleyte in di fareynikte shtatn un kanade" [Research project about Holocaust survivors in the U.S. and Canada] | undated |
|
Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 16 | 430 | "Proyekt fun rezolutsye vegn yidisher kultur un yidisher yugnt in amerike" [Plan for a resolution about Jewish culture and Jewish youth in America] | undated |
|
Manuscript, 3 pp. |
|||
| 16 | 431 | A. Roback research projects | undated |
|
Letter from A. Roback and three reports by Moses Kligsberg:
|
|||
| 16 | 432 | "The small Jewish merchants and artisans in the United States as reflected in their own life-stories" - Project outline | undated |
|
Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 16 | 433 | "Temes vegn sotsyal kultureln lebn fun yidn in poyln (un mizrakh eyrope)" [Some topics on East European Jewry, their social life and culture] - Project | undated |
| 16 | 434 | "Tsushtand fun der yidisher yugnt in eyrope bizn oysbrukh fun der milkhome" [The State of Jewish Youth in Europe Before the Outbreak of the War] and "Hilf far krigs gelitene kinder" [Help for War-Suffering Children] - Project outline by Emanuel Patt | undated |
| 16 | 435 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln in gerem fun kamf far kiyem fun poylishn yidntum, 1919-1939" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland in the frame of the fight for survival of Polish Jewry] - Tentative outline for article | undated |
|
Typed, 4 pp. with handwritten outline |
|||
| 16 | 436 | "Di yidishe yugnt bavegung in poyln tsvishn beyde velt milkhomes - a sotsyologishe shtudye" [The Jewish youth movement in Poland between the World Wars – a sociological study]. | 1970, 1972 |
|
Published in Studies on Polish Jewry, 1919-1939, YIVO, 1974, pp. 137-228 - Contract and correspondence for its earlier version "Jewish Youth Organizations and their Participation in the Jewish Struggle for Existence" |
|||
Subseries 2: Materials for Moses Kligsberg Article on Chaim Kazdan, 1937-1973. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:This subseries contains materials for an article by Moses Kligsberg on the educator and Bundist, Chaim Kazdan |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 16 | 437 | Articles about Chaim Kazdan | undated, 1947-1973 |
|
Includes a bibliography of Chaim Kazdan's writing, and Moses Kligsberg's review of Medem Sanitorye bukh [Medem Sanitorium Book], edited by Chaim Kazdan |
|||
| 16 | 438 | Articles by Chaim Kazdan | 1937-1973 |
| 16 | 439 | Birthday greetings for Chaim S. Kazdan from individuals | 1973 |
| 16 | 440 | Bibliography of Chaim S. Kazdan and other materials | undated |
| 16 | 441 | Kligsberg, Moses, "Khayim Shloyme Kazdan: A mentsh - a feldz" [Chaim-Shlomo Kazdan: A man - a rock]. Kultur un lebn (May-June, 1973) | 1973 |
|
Article written in honor of Kazdan's 90th birthday |
|||
| 16 | 442 | Letters to Chaim S. Kazdan from Genye Manger | 1959-1968 |
| 16 | 443 | Notes from Chaim Kazdan to Moses Kligsberg | undated |
Subseries 3: Meyer Kushner's Book Zikhroynes fun mayn lebn, 1960. |
|||
Scope and Content:Typed and manuscript sections of book Zikhroynes fun mayn lebn [Memories of My Life] by Meyer Kushner, about Local 9 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Cloakmakers' Union. This manuscript was published by ILGWU as Lebn un kamf fun a klokmakher [The Life and Struggles of a Cloak Maker] in 1960. Moses Kligsberg appears to have been an editor of the book, since many of the manuscripts sections have corrections in his hand. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 17 | 444 | Title page, dedication, and afterword | 1960 |
| 17 | 445 | Pages 1-20 | 1960 |
| 17 | 446 | Pages 1-69 | 1960 |
| 17 | 447 | Pages 70-105 | 1960 |
| 17 | 448 | Pages 106-166 | 1960 |
| 17 | 449 | Pages 180-215 | 1960 |
| 17 | 450 | Pages 216-233 | 1960 |
| 17 | 451 | Pages 234-250 | 1960 |
| 17 | 452 | Pages 235-275 | 1960 |
| 17 | 453 | Miscellaneous manuscript sections | 1960 |
| 17 | 454 | Miscellaneous short sections | 1960 |
| 17 | 455 | Manuscript and typed pages | 1960 |
| 17 | 456 | Miscellaneous typed early sections | 1960 |
| 17 | 457 | Miscellaneous typed middle sections | 1960 |
| 17 | 458 | Miscellaneous typed later sections | 1960 |
| 17 | 459 | Miscellaneous typed and manuscript sections with no corrections | 1960 |
| 17 | 460 | Unnumbered section | 1960 |
| 17 | 461 | Miscellaneous loose pages | 1960 |
| 17 | 462 | Galleys and photos | 1960 |
Subseries 4: Ber I. Rozen's Book Portretn, undated, 1941-1955. |
|||
Scope and Content:Moses Kligsberg seems to have been involved in getting a book of Ber I. Rozen's writings published posthumously, Portretn. There are several letters from Moses Kligsberg to an Argentine publisher about this subject. Another notable document is a 1941 copy of In veg, a Yiddish journal published by Jewish refugees in Shanghai, including Ber I. Rozen, Yosl Mlotek. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 18 | 463 | Portretn [Portraits] - Typed manuscripts | 1955 |
|
Included are clippings and letter from Moses Kligsberg to Argentine publisher Mark Turkov about Rozen's book |
|||
| 18 | 464 | Typed and handwritten manuscripts | 1946 |
| 18 | 465 | Typed and handwritten manuscripts, clippings | undated |
| 18 | 466 | Typed manuscripts | undated |
| 18 | 467 | Typed and handwritten manuscripts | undated |
| 18 | 468 | Kumt morgn [Come Morning ] | undated |
|
Memoir about life in Shanghai and other typed manuscripts |
|||
| 18 | 469 | Typed manuscripts from Shanghai | undated |
| 18 | 470 | Handwritten manuscripts from Shanghai | undated |
| 18 | 471 | Handwritten manuscripts | 1941-1944 |
| 18 | 472 | Typed manuscripts from Australia | 1947 |
| 18 | 473 | Notes and correspondence about Ber I. Rozen's book | undated, 1955 |
| 18 | 474 | "Ber I. Rozen: Er aleyn un vegn im aleyn" [Ber I. Rozen: Himself and Regarding Him] | undated |
|
Introductory essay for book, probably by Pinchas Schwartz. 3 copies, typed, 32 pp. |
|||
| 18 | 475 | Ber I. Rozen - Articles | 1952-1955 |
|
Included are clippings and magazine obituaries for Bar I. Rozen |
|||
| 18 | 476 | In veg [On Way] (Shanghai, China) | 1941 |
|
Yiddish literary journal with article by Ber I. Rozen |
|||
Series VI: Research Materials of Moses Kligsberg, undated, 1940-1972. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, in English, Polish, and Russian. | |||
| 0.8 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arranged by topic. |
|||
Scope and Content:Unsorted research materials, probably used by Kligsberg for his own writings and research projects as well as for YIVO-related projects. This series consists of photocopies and excerpts from articles, charts and graphs, handwritten notes, typed or handwritten outlines, and notes on index cards or in notebooks. The materials are largely unsorted. Includes materials about Jewish youth, Polish Jews, Polish nationalism and economic history, the labor movement, using autobiographical sources in research, and diverse other topics. Also included are various bibliographic lists on a broad range of topics. |
|||
Subseries 1: Articles on Youth, undated. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 19 | 477 | Harthorne, Edward T, "The Collection of Life History Documents" | undated |
|
Typed manuscript., 15 pp., and Moses Kligsberg's translations of selected sections of Edward T. Harthorne's text |
|||
| 19 | 478 | Khalutsim (Pioneers) materials | undated |
| 19 | 479 | Khalutsim (Pioneers) training - Photocopies of pages from books about khalutsim | undated |
| 19 | 480 | Notes about youth | undated |
| 19 | 481 | Notes - Youth movement article | undated |
| 19 | 482 | Notes - New materials for Chapter 3: Family Relations | |
| 19 | 483 | Quotes from autobiographies for youth movement article | undated |
| 19 | 484 | Statistical charts about the youth autobiographies | |
| 19 | 485 | Yugnt veker [Youth Call] - Notes and photocopied articles | undated, 1929, 1935 |
| 19 | 486 | Youth materials and manuscripts. Notes for a section called Shpil un shul svive [Play and school environment] | undated |
Subseries 2: Bibliographies, undated, 1951. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 19 | 487 | "Addenda to the Bibliography of the Writings of Elias Tcherikower" | 1951 |
|
Published by YIVO, 7 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 488 | Bibliography of YIVO publications about the Holocaust | undated |
| 19 | 489 | Friedman, Philip. List of publications from 1945-1950 | undated |
|
Typed, 5 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 490 | "Geshikhte" [History] - Pages 237-260 | undated |
| 19 | 491 | Jews in Eastern Europe - List of books and articles published between 1920-1939 | undated |
|
Typed, 4 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 492 | "Lernbikher fun matematik af yidish" [Math Textbooks in Yiddish] | undated |
| 3 pp. | |||
| 19 | 493 | Memorial books (Seforim zikorim or yisker bikher) from 1943-1972, arranged and edited by David Bass | undated |
|
In Hebrew, 42 pp. Photocopy of published article |
|||
Subseries 3: Unsorted Material, undated, 1970. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 19 | 494 | Bialostotski, Zalmen and Mendelson, Shloyme - Notes | undated |
| 19 | 495 | Co-op Movement in Poland - Notes and statistics | |
| 19 | 496 | "Ekonomishe antviklung fun yidn in amerike" [The economic development of Jews in America] | undated |
| 19 | 497 | Estimated Yiddish Mother Tongue Speakers | 1970 |
|
Typed, 14 pp. Includes tables and charts from unnamed sources |
|||
| 19 | 498 | German list of Jewish periodicals | undated |
|
Typed, 3 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 499 | Ginsburg-Marek Collection - Report based on remarks by A. Landau | undated |
|
Handwritten, 10 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 500 | Jewish communal education - Outline | undated |
|
Typed, 1 p. |
|||
| 19 | 501 | Jewish Workers' Lives - Outline of citations | undated |
|
Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 19 | 502 | Jews and Blacks - Notes and photocopies | undated |
| 19 | 503 | Jews in Poland - Photocopies from various publications | undated, 1970 |
| 19 | 504 | Jews in the United States - Photocopies | 1971 |
| 19 | 505 | Kultur lige (publishing house) in the 1920s - Notes, statistics | undated |
| 3 pp. | |||
| 19 | 506 | Labor movement in Poland - Notes from various sources | undated |
| 19 | 507 | Polish nationalism | undated |
|
Notes in Polish and Yiddish. Included are also excerpts from Pilsudski, Zheromsky, Slovatzki and others. Also a list of "racial proverbs" in English |
|||
| 19 | 508 | Psychological terminology | undated |
|
Typed, 4 pp. In Yiddish |
|||
| 19 | 509 | Quotations | undated |
|
Includes some quotations and some bibliographic materials |
|||
| 19 | 510 | Shatzky, Jacob: The Jews of Poland - Photocopies | |
| 19 | 511 | Shtetl materials - Notecards and photocopies from books and articles in Yiddish and Polish | undated |
| 19 | 512 | Social stratification of Jews in Russia - Outline | undated |
|
Typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 20 | 513 | State archive of Braunschweig, Germany - List of materials | 1950 |
| 2 pp. | |||
| 20 | 514 | Statistical material - Economy and employment in pre-war Poland - Photocopies | undated |
| 20 | 515 | Statistical material - Population and employment in pre-war Poland | undated |
|
Photocopies of articles and tables from Yidishe ekonomik [Jewish Economics] and other sources |
|||
| 20 | 516 | Statistical materials from Polish publications | undated |
| 20 | 517 | Vilna - Notes and citations | undated |
| 20 | 518 | Wirth, Louis: The Ghetto, University of Illinois Press, 1928 - Notes and photocopied pages | undated |
| 20 | 519 | Unidentified author. Poem in Russian, | undated |
|
Poem dedicated to the author's distant ancestor reb Yosef of Dubno. 2 copies |
|||
| 20 | 520 | Notes from articles about using autobiographical sources - John Dollard, H.G. Wells, and others - Notebook | undated |
| 20 | 521 | Notes | undated |
| 20 | 522 | Notes and lists | undated |
| 20 | 523 | Notes and outlines | undated |
| 20 | 524 | Notes and outlines | undated |
Subseries 4: Notes and Notebooks, undated. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 20 | 525 | Khalutsim (Pioneers) in Israel | undated |
| 20 | 526 | Research notes and additions to articles | undated |
| 20 | 527 | Youth work | undated |
|
Included also are quotes from other authors |
|||
| 20 | 528 | Notebooks | undated |
| 21 | Notes on index cards | undated | |
| 22 | Notes on index cards | undated | |
| 23 | Notes on index cards | undated | |
| 24 | Notes on index cards | undated | |
Return to the Top of Page
Series VIII: YIVO Administration, 1941-1974. |
|||
| The series is in Yiddish and English. | |||
| 1.2 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Series VIII contains administrative records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research offices. It includes internal memoranda, circulars, press releases, but also minutes and annual reports of the various committees. Documents relating to the administrative routine of YIVO, donations to both archives and library can also be found here. Besides documenting the activities of the New York headquarters it also contains materials from YIVO branches abroad. Correspondence of the leading figures of the YIVO offices and YIVO staff members about YIVO business is also part of this series. |
|||
Subseries 1: Internal Memoranda and Correspondence, 1941-1973. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged chronologically. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 1 consists of internal memoranda, notes and correspondence between YIVO staff members about YIVO business, projects and activities. Principal staff members represented herein include Max Weinreich, Mark Uveeler, Leybush Lehrer, Mendl Elkin, Dina Abramowicz, Ezekiel Lifschitz, Shmuel Lapin, and Moses Kligsberg. Also included are form letters to YIVO members about events and projects. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 27 | 563 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1941 |
| 27 | 564 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1942 |
| 27 | 565 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1944 |
| 27 | 566 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1946 |
| 27 | 567 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1947 |
|
Includes packet of letters written to Moses Kligsberg by YIVO staff members during his trip to Europe. Letters from Mark Uveeler, Miriam Zalcman, Raymond Gabiner, Henye Berkovich, Chana Mlotek. Sheet music and lyrics for Rivka Tcherikower are also included |
|||
| 27 | 568 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1948 |
| 27 | 569 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1950 |
| 27 | 570 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1951 |
| 27 | 571 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1952 |
| 27 | 572 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1953 |
| 27 | 573 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1954 |
| 27 | 574 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1955 |
| 27 | 575 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1956 |
| 27 | 576 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1957 |
| 27 | 577 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1958 |
| 27 | 578 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1959 |
| 27 | 579 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1960 |
| 27 | 580 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1963 |
| 27 | 581 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1964 |
| 27 | 582 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1965 |
| 27 | 583 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1966 |
| 27 | 584 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1967 |
| 27 | 585 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1968 |
| 27 | 586 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1970 |
| 27 | 587 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1972 |
| 27 | 588 | Memoranda and Correspondence | 1973 |
| 27 | 589 | Memoranda and Correspondence | undated |
Subseries 2: Administrative Files, 1941-1972. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 2 consists of administrative materials, many of which relate to the activities and functions of the YIVO Board of Directors (Direktorn rat) and the Executive Committee (Farvaltung). Included are meeting, commission and budget reports, lists and outlines, and an annual report (1941), as well as library and archives reports and lists of important or new holdings. There is a 1946 list of YIVO organizations around the world, with contact names. Of note is a folder of materials related to the death of Research Director Max Weinreich in 1969, including press releases and obituary articles by Shlomo Noble, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Roman Jakobson. |
|||
A) General |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 27 | 590 | Ab. Cahan Fund Materials | 1964 |
| 27 | 591 | YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science | undated |
|
Review of Volume 8 of the YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science by Abraham Burstein |
|||
| 27 | 592 | Annual Report - Printed brochure | 1941 |
| 8 pp. | |||
| 27 | 593 | Banquets | undated, 1969-1970 |
|
Invitations, seating list, opening remarks; also a press release for banquet in Boston |
|||
| 27 | 594 | Board of Directors (Direktorn rat) - Report of meetings, speech at meeting, author unknown | undated, 1951, 1961 |
| 27 | 595 | Budgets - Income and expenditures report | 1950, 1952, 1954 |
| 27 | 596 | Executive Committee (Farvaltung) - | 1943-1944 |
|
Included are agenda for meetings, correspondence between committee members, and minutes of meetings |
|||
| 27 | 597 | Fiscal and budgetary lists | undated |
| 27 | 598 | Letterheads | undated |
| 27 | 599 | List of YIVO organizations abroad | 1946 |
| 27 | 600 | Materials on YIVO in the United States | undated |
| 27 | 601 | Meeting notes | undated |
| 27 | 602 | Notecards with outline of YIVO chronological history | undated |
| 27 | 603 | Reports about the work of zamlers | 1950 |
|
Included are memoranda to Mark Uveeler about zamlers and other topics |
|||
| 27 | 604 | Reports from the Special Commission - YIVO goals | undated |
| 27 | 605 | Weinreich, Max - Obituaries | 1969 |
|
Included are press releases, memorial meetings, biographical materials, and obituaries by:
|
|||
| 27 | 606 | Yidisher folklor - Correspondence with the editors | 1954-1958 |
| 27 | 607 | YIVO Academic Council - List of members | undated |
| 27 | 608 | YIVO and the American Jewish Community - Fund-raising report | mid-1950s |
| 27 | 609 | Youth Book - Printing receipts and budget lists | 1945-1946 |
| 27 | 610 | Unsorted materials | undated |
B) YIVO Archives and Library |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 27 | 611 | "Duplicate Collections in YIVO Through August 1, 1962" | 1962 |
|
Typed, 4 pp. and manuscript, 15 pp. |
|||
| 27 | 612 | Library Reports - Annual report about YIVO library activities and acquisitions | 1953, 1961, 1972 |
| 27 | 613 | Lists of archival collections | 1950's |
| 27 | 614 | List of noteworthy items in the YIVO Archives and Library | undated |
|
Typed, 11 pp. |
|||
| 27 | 615 | Lists of YIVO publications | undated |
Subseries 3: YIVO Outposts, 1952-1972. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 3 includes correspondence, clippings, brochures, programs, and flyers from YIVO offices and organizations in the U.S. and around the world. Cities represented are Chicago, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Miami. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 28 | 616 | Chicago - Correspondence with M. Shafran; programs from events; report from the Chicago YIVO Conference | 1954 |
| 28 | 617 | Copenhagen - Correspondence with S. Beilin | 1952-1954 |
| 28 | 618 | Los Angeles - Correspondence with Joseph Tilles | 1950-1972 |
| 28 | 619 | Melbourne - Flyer | 1953 |
| 28 | 620 | Miami - Flyer | 1972 |
Subseries 4: Other Administrative Materials , undated, 1950-1974. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 28 | 621 | Addresses of people from the Folklore Seminar | undated |
| 28 | 622 | Addresses - Unsorted | undated, 1950 |
| 28 | 623 | Addresses and phone messages - Unsorted | undated |
| 28 | 624 | Calendar (day book) notes | 1961, 1962, 1964 |
| 28 | 625 | Correspondence from YIVO - Returned to sender | 1949-1950 |
| Box | Title | Date | |
| 29 | Stenopads | 1952-1962 | |
|
Moses Kligsberg's notes from Executive Committee, Board of Directors, and other YIVO staff meetings |
|||
Series IX: YIVO Programs and Projects, 1942-1974. |
|||
| The series is mostly in Yiddish, with some documents in English and Polish . | |||
| 1.4 linear feet | |||
Arrangement:Arranged by topic. |
|||
Scope and Content:Programs, conferences, colloquia, exhibitions and related publicity material, as well as syllabi are part of Series IX. It contains material on the 1948 UCLA Summer Session, after which course the I.L. Cahan Folklore Club was initiated and other courses related to fostering Yiddish language and culture. Some materials relate to YIVO publication activities, administration of YIVO autobiographies essay contests. The actual autobiographies can be found in the YIVO collection Autobiographies, American - Jewish (RG 102). The series also contains several projects and grant proposals, including collaboration of YIVO and Yad Vashem on cataloging documents pertaining to the Holocaust and Eastern European Jewry in 1955-1956. The scripts, press releases, and correspondence and other materials relating to YIVO's hour-long weekly radio program on the WEVD broadcast station can also be of interest to the researchers. |
|||
Subseries 1: Conferences, 1942-1974. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged chronologically by year. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 1 consists of programs, correspondence, and publicity materials from YIVO's annual scholarly conferences. Also included are a number of abstracts for papers given at various conferences, and texts for a few speeches. Notable are the speeches and introductory remarks for the 40th anniversary conference in 1966. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 30 | 626 | Programs of the YIVO Annual Conferences | 1942, 1943, 1949, 1952, 1954 |
| 30 | 627 | 29th Annual Conference - Program and publicity | 1955 |
| 30 | 628 | 30th Annual Conference - Program and publicity | 1956 |
| 30 | 629 | 32th Annual Conference - Publicity, correspondence, abstracts of papers, and press contact list | 1957 |
| 30 | 630 | 32th Annual Conference - Program, abstracts of papers, correspondence, and publicity | 1958 |
| 30 | 631 | Annual Conference - Publicity material | 1959-1960 |
| 30 | 632 | 38th Annual Conference - Program, abstracts of papers, correspondence, and publicity | 1964 |
| 30 | 633 | 39th Annual Conference - Publicity | 1965 |
| 30 | 634 | 40th Annual Conference - Program, speeches, publicity | 1966 |
| 30 | 635 | 43th Annual Conference - Publicity | 1969 |
| 30 | 636 | 44th Annual Conference - Publicity | 1970 |
| 30 | 637 | 45th Annual Conference - Abstracts of papers and | 1971 |
| 30 | 638 | 46th Annual Conference - Abstract of papers and | 1972 |
| 30 | 639 | 47th Annual Conference - Publicity and press lists | 1973 |
| 30 | 640 | 48th Annual Conference - Abstracts of papers and publicity | 1974 |
| 30 | 641 | Various abstracts | undated |
Subseries 2: Colloquia, Public Programs, and Exhibitions, 1958-1974. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 2 consists of materials related to various YIVO colloquia, topical conferences, and exhibitions between 1958 and 1974. Included are programs, publicity materials, and abstracts. Of particular interest are the materials from the 1967 "Colloquium of the German-imposed Jewish ‘Representations' (Judenrat) Before and During WWII". These include copies of seven papers given at the conference. Also notable are materials from the Conference on Yiddish Studies and the Research Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress that took place in 1958, 1964 respectively. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 31 | 642 | American Historical Association Meeting - Program of YIVO session | 1972 |
| 31 | 643 | Colloquium
on the German-Imposed Jewish "Representations" (Judenrat) before and during
WWII - Papers and Program |
1967 |
|
|||
| 31 | 644 | Colloquium on the German-Imposed Jewish "Representations" (Judenrat) before and during World War II - Press releases | 1967 |
| 31 | 645 | Conference on Yiddish Dialectology - Report on Atlas Coverage of Alsace | 1965 |
| 31 | 646 | Conference on Yiddish Studies - Program | 1958 |
| 31 | 647 | Conference on Yiddish Studies - Program and other materials | 1974 |
| 31 | 648 | Leadership Conference on Yiddish in American Jewish Life - Program | 1968 |
| 31 | 649 | Modern Language Association Annual Meeting - Notes for YIVO presentations | undated |
| 31 | 650 | Research Conference on Jewish Participation in Movements Devoted to the Cause of Social Progress - Programs, abstracts, presentation of songs and poems | 1964 |
| 31 | 651 | "Yidn in eyrope: 1939-1946" [Jews in Europe] - Exhibition program | undated |
| 31 | 652 | "The Yiddish Language: It's History and Study"- Exhibition program | undated |
| 31 | 653 | Youth and Student Sessions -Flyers | 1972-74 |
Subseries 3: Educational Programs and Courses, 1948-1974. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 3 consists of course catalogs, course descriptions, syllabi, flyers, and correspondence related to YIVO's educational programs. There are materials from the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program at Columbia University, as well as other courses. Of note are materials from the 1948 UCLA Summer Session, at which Max Weinreich taught two courses – on Yiddish linguistics and Jewish popular & folk literature. YIVO created 12 scholarships for graduate students to attend the program, and among these were Joshua Fishman, Chana Mlotek (neé Eleanor Gordon), Yosl Mlotek, Bina Weinreich (neé Beatrice Silverman), Uriel Weinreich, and Gabriel Weinreich. The materials include reading lists, course outlines and administrative items. There are also songsheets, correspondence, announcements and memos from YIVO's I.L. Cahan Folklore Club, which was formed by graduates of the UCLA Summer Session and which edited and published the journal Yidisher folklor (Jewish Folklore). |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 31 | 654 | Courses - Flyers | 1971-1972 |
| 31 | 655 | Courses - Various Outlines and Course Materials | undated, 1953 |
| 31 | 656 | I.L. Cahan Folklore Club - Correspondence and Memos | 1947-1958, 1966 |
| 31 | 657 | I.L. Cahan Folklore Club - Songsheets | 1948-1950 |
| 31 | 658 | Jewish Teachers' Seminar - Notes for a report after the seminar | undated |
| 31 | 659 | Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies | undated, 1970-1974 |
|
Correspondence between Columbia and YIVO, fliers, syllabi |
|||
| 31 | 660 | Nathan Chanin Cultural Foundation of the Workmen's Circle - Flyers | 1966-1972 |
| 31 | 661 | Psychological Genres of Modern Yiddish Prose taught by David Roskies | 1973 |
| 31 | 662 | UCLA Summer Session | 1948 |
|
Included are student list, song sheets, course outlines, reading lists, library information, application forms, lending library sign-out logs, and postcard invitation to graduation ceremony |
|||
| 31 | 663 | Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language - Correspondence, Fliers, Syllabus | 1970-1971 |
| 31 | 664 | Yiddish Orthography taught by Mordkhe Schaechter | 1965 |
|
Lesson plan, typed, 11 pp. |
|||
| 31 | 665 | YIVO Center for Advanced Jewish Studies | 1970-1971 |
|
Text for catalog for the fall and spring sessions |
|||
| 31 | 666 | Other Yiddish Educational Programs | 1969-1974 |
|
Correspondence from universities and Jewish organizations |
|||
Series 4: Essay Contests, 1942-1971. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 4 consists of announcements and instructions for YIVO essay contests, including the 1942 American autobiographies contest, as well as for the "Tsugob" (Supplemental) autobiographies contest in 1953. There are announcements for annual essay contests for graduate students, and there is also a set of instructions for a contest about life under the Nazis. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 32 | 667 | Autobiography Contest - Announcements | 1942 |
| 32 | 668 | Life Under the Nazis - Instructions for essay contest | undated |
| 32 | 669 | Tsugob kontest [Supplemental Contest] | 1953 |
|
Announcement of supplemental autobiography contest, correspondence and list of prize winners |
|||
| 32 | 670 | YIVO Essay Contests - Announcements of contests for college and graduate students | 1949-1952, 1969-1971 |
Series 5: Manuscripts and Publications, undated, 1950s-1960s. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 5 consists of manuscripts, proofs and other materials for various YIVO publications, including autobiographies by Solomon Simon and Abraham Unger, the journal Yidisher folklor (Jewish Folklore), and Studies on Polish Jewry. It also includes an early manuscript of Pinchas Schwartz's biographical introduction to Herman Kruk's diary (Yiddish version). |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 32 | 671 | Schwartz, Pinchas: "Hersh/Herman Kruk: Zayn lebn un zayn tetikayt in vilner geto, 19 may 1897-19 september 1944" [Hersh/Herman Kruk: His life and activities in the Vilna Ghetto] | undated |
|
Manuscript included in Togbukh fun vilner geto [Diary of the Vilna Ghetto], published in 1961 |
|||
| 32 | 672 | Solomon, Simon (neé Velvl Mints): "Fertsik yor in der yidisher arbeter bavegung, 1891-1931" [Forty years in the Jewish Labor Movement] | undated |
|
Manuscript, published by YIVO in 1952 |
|||
| 32 | 673 | Solomon, Simon (neé Velvl Mints): "Fertsik yor in der yidisher arbeter bavegung, 1891-1931" [Forty years in the Jewish Labor Movement] - Sections of manuscript with corrections | undated |
| 32 | 674 | Solomon, Simon (neé Velvl Mints): "Fertsik yor in der yidisher arbeter bavegung, 1891-1931" [Forty years in the Jewish Labor Movement] - Galley proofs | undated |
| 32 | 675 | Studies on Polish Jewry, 1919-1939 - Project announcement and preliminary list of contributors | undated, 1965 |
| 32 | 676 | Stutchkoff, Nahum: Der oytser fun der Yidisher shprakh [ Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language] - Excerpts of reviews | 1950 |
| 32 | 677 | Unger, Abraham, "Mayn heymshtot Strikov: geshikhte fun a lebn in der alter heym un in amerike" [My hometown Strykow: The history of a life in the old country and in America] - Manuscript | undated, 1956 |
| 32 | 678 | Yidisher folklor [Jewish Folklore] - Correspondence. | 1954-1956 |
| 32 | 679 | Yidisher folklor [Jewish Folklore] | undated |
|
Poems, stories, sayings, jokes, music sent in by readers |
|||
| 32 | 680 | Yidisher folklor [Jewish Folklore] - Various | undated |
Subseries 6: Projects, undated, 1944-1966. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. Folders with unsorted materials have been kept together in the original arrangement in which they were found. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 6 consists of proposals, outlines, reports, correspondence, notes, publicity and other items relating to YIVO-sponsored projects – research, archival, library, publishing, oral history projects and contests. Highlights include materials for the Yad Vashem Project, a cooperative project between YIVO and Yad Vashem to establish a bibliographic catalog for Holocaust-related literature and documents. Other items of note include various questionnaire projects (e.g. for Jewish immigrants to America after 1945, for Jewish organizations giving aid to Holocaust survivors, for Jewish immigrants to Israel) and materials about the Muzey fun der Alter Heym [Museum of the Homes of the Past]. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 32 | 681 | Barikht fun der arbet farn proyekt 'Amerikaner yidishe geshikhte balpe' [Report on the work for the project 'American Jewish oral history'] | 1964 |
|
3 copies, typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 32 | 682 | Clearinghouse and Index to Jewish Subjects in American Humanistic and Social Research | 1964 |
|
Announcements, blank questionnaires, correspondence |
|||
| 32 | 683 | Clearinghouse and Index to Jewish Subjects in American Humanistic and Social Research | 1964 |
|
Responses to questionnaire about dissertations and research studies |
|||
| 32 | 684 | Dos farmegn, institutsyes un durkhgefirte visnshaftlekhe proyektn fun YIVO in Vilna, 1925-1939 [The Holdings, Institutions, and Research Projects of the Vilna YIVO, 1925-1939] | undated |
|
Listing of library and archival collections, source materials for research, instructions and methods for collectors, Aspirantur program in the name of Dr. Tsemakh Shabad. Typed, 8 pp. |
|||
| 32 | 685 | Fregboygn (Questionnaire) - Summer camp for children | undated |
|
Typed, 3 pp. |
|||
| 32 | 686 | Fregboygn vegn di iberlebungen beys der milkhome 1939-1945 [Questionnaire about wartime experiences 1939-1945)] | undated |
|
Interviewing instructions for collectors of testimonies - Draft and final copy |
|||
| 32 | 687 | "Jews in Poland: An Illustrated Catalog of Photographs of Jews in Poland from the End of the 19th Century Until the Eve of the Second World War" - Project description | undated |
| 32 | 688 | Klasifikatsye fun dialekt-materialn [Classification of Dialect-Materials] | undated |
|
Typed, 5 pp. |
|||
| 32 | 689 | Muzey fun der Alter Heym [Museum of the Homes of the Past] | 1944 |
|
Notes, outlines, correspondence, and publicity |
|||
| 32 | 690 | Muzey fun yidish afn nomen fun Uriel Weinreich [Museum of Yiddish in the name of Uriel Weinreich] - Proposal | undated |
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 33 | 691 | Outline for the preparation and description of a catalog of photographs "The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union" | undated |
|
Project outline, typed, 2 pp. |
|||
| 33 | 692 | Oyftuen un arbetn in gang 1965-1966 [Plans and projects during 1965-1966] | 1965-1966 |
| 33 | 693 | Passover Questionnaire - Correspondence | 1949 |
| 33 | 694 | Passover Questionnaire | 1949 |
|
Notes, reports, requests from the public |
|||
| 33 | 695 | Plan fun barikht fun yivo: Tsvantsik yor arbet vegn khurbn [Plan for a report about 20 years of work on the Holocaust] | undated |
|
Included is a list of guest speakers for unnamed event |
|||
| 33 | 696 | Projects "A" and "B" | undated |
|
Typed, 16 pp.
|
|||
| 33 | 697 | Proyekt fun ankete tsvishn yidishe imigrantn vos zaynen gekumen nokhn 9tn may 1945 [Project for a Questionnaire for Jewish Immigrants who came to America after May 9, 1945 | undated |
|
Typed, 5 pp. |
|||
| 33 | 698 | Proyekt fun register fun bateylikte in varshever geto oyfshtand [Project for a Register of People who Took Part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising] | undated |
| 33 | 699 | Proyket vegn grindn bam YIVO a 1) museum fun yidishn shtetl un an 2) arkhiv fun landsmanshaftn in amerike [Project for founding a "Museum of the Jewish Shtetl" and an "Archive of Landsmanshaftn in America"] | undated |
|
Typed, 1 p. |
|||
| 33 | 700 | Proyekt vegn der propagande arbet far der yidish katedre [Publicity Project for the Chair in Yiddish] - Meeting notes | 1952 |
| 33 | 701 | Questionnaire for Jewish organizations giving aid to Holocaust survivors | undated |
| 33 | 702 | Terminologisher arbet [Terminology Project] | undated |
|
Memorandum from Mordkhe Schaechter |
|||
| 33 | 703 | A vort tsu di onfirndike kerpershaftn fun di fundatsyes un tsu di fraynt fun der yidisher visnshaft [A Word to the Leading Bodies of Foundations and To the Friends of Jewish Research] | 1962? |
|
Project proposals and budgets. Typed, 24 pp. |
|||
| 33 | 704 | YIVO - Yad Vashem Project | 1955, 1956 |
|
Inventory of material processed at YIVO for the contemplated bibliography and project report for the catalog about the Holocaust and European Jewry |
|||
| 33 | 705 | YIVO - Yad Vashem Project | 1956 |
|
Report to President of Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany - Nahum Goldmann |
|||
| 33 | 706 | YIVO - Yad Vashem Project | 1957 |
|
Reports from Jacob Robinson and Lists of Holocaust collections in the YIVO archive |
|||
| 33 | 707 | Yesoymim farzorgung in poyln nokh der ershter velt-milkhome [Care of Orphans and Child Welfare in Poland after World War I] | 1971 |
|
Correspondence and comments about reworking Nina Bar-Yishay's article |
|||
| 33 | 708 | Zaml arbet proyektn [Collecting Projects] | undated |
|
Notes and sample letters from Max Weinreich on collecting |
|||
| 33 | 709 | Project descriptions and outlines | undated |
|
Also includes:
|
|||
| 33 | 710 | Unsorted Memos and Reports |
1953-1974 |
|
Includes:
|
|||
| 33 | 711 | Unsorted
Projects |
undated, 1953, 1957 |
|
Included are:
|
|||
| 33 | 712 | Unsorted Reports - YIVO Archives and Library | undated |
Subseries 7: Proposals - Grants, 1963-1974. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by folder title. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 7 includes grant proposals for YIVO-sponsored research projects, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. |
|||
Restrictions:This subseries is closed to researchers. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 33 | 713 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare Grant for Moses Kligsberg's project "Analysis of a Collection of Personal Documents" - Correspondence and grant application | 1963 |
| 33 | 714 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare Grant for Moses Kligsberg's project "Child and Adolescent Behavior Under Stress" - Grant award | 1964 |
| 33 | 715 | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - Proposal for Support of the Max Weinreich Center | 1971 |
| 33 | 716 | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - Proposal for Support of the Max Weinreich Center | 1974 |
| 33 | 717 | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - Other Proposals for YIVO research projects | 1972 |
| 33 | 718 | New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Grant Application for Catalogue of Photographs of Polish Jewry | 1973 |
Subseries 8: YIVO Radio Program on WEVD, 1963-1974. |
|||
Arrangement:Arranged chronologically by year. |
|||
Scope and Content:Subseries 8 consists of materials from YIVO's radio program on station WEVD in New York City. Included are program scripts, press releases, program listings, correspondence, and newspaper clippings about the program. |
|||
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 34 | 719 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1957 |
| 34 | 720 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1963 |
| 34 | 721 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1964 |
| 34 | 722 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1964 |
| 34 | 723 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1965 |
| 34 | 724 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1965 |
| 34 | 725 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1965 |
| 34 | 726 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1966 |
| 34 | 727 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1966 |
| 34 | 728 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1967 |
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 35 | 729 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1968 |
| 35 | 730 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1969 |
| 35 | 731 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1970 |
| 35 | 732 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1971 |
| 35 | 733 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1972 |
| 35 | 734 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1973 |
| 35 | 735 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts | 1974 |
| 35 | 736 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts - Undated | 1965-1966 |
| 35 | 737 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts - Undated | 1967-1969 |
| 35 | 738 | YIVO Radio Program Scripts - Undated | 1970-1974 |
| Box | Folder | Title | Date |
| 36 | 739 | Radio script about Warsaw Ghetto | undated |
| 36 | 740 | Press Releases for Radio Program | 1965-1966 |