Brief Description: Files of the YIVO Executive Committee. Correspondence between Tcherikower and other members of the Committee: Naftali Feinerman, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Jacob Lestschinsky, Zalman Reisen, Jacob Shatzky, Max Weinreich. Minutes and reports of the Executive Committee. Copies of letters from various correspondents to YIVO in Vilna which were sent from Vilna to Tcherikower for his information. Correspondence and reports from YIVO departments. Materials relating to various YIVO research projects.      Files of the YIVO Historical Section. Correspondence, minutes of meetings. Minutes and reports of the Historical Commission on Poland in Warsaw. Materials relating to the Section's publications.      Materials on the founding of the YIVO Institute, 1925-1927. Correspondence and memoranda mainly of Nahum Shtif and Tcherikower and of the Berlin Initiative Group For a Jewish Academic Institute.      Records of the YIVO branches in Berlin, 1929-1931 and Paris, 1933-1940.

Held at: