Yiddish Culture Society
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Brief Description: Executive Board administrative records. Circulars, publicity materials, press announcements and reports. Materials on activities: Yiddish Book Club, Lecture Club, others. Correspondence: Shalom Asch, Jacob Ben-Ami, Shloyme Berkovitch, Felix (Fishl) Bimko, Menahem Boraisha, Yehude Leib Cahan, Mendl Elkin, Todros Geller, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Baruch (Boris) Glassman, Ben Zion Goldberg, Naftoli Gross, Alexander Harkavy, Peretz Hirschbein, Malka Lee, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Israel Chaim Pomerantz, Melech Ravitch, Abraham Reisen, Israel Jacob Schwartz, Maurice Schwartz, Jacob Shatzky, Solomon Simon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Baruch Vladeck, Max Weinreich, Yehoash, Chaim Zhitlowsky.      Correspondence with libraries, book dealers and organizations. Correspondence and materials of the branches: Burlington (Vermont), Denver (Colorado),  Havana (Cuba), Calgary (Canada), Rochester (New York), Allentown (Pennsylvania), Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago. Records of the Mid-West Region. Correspondents:  Chaim Zhitlowsky, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger.
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Record Series Number: RG 258 /RG 258 
Created by: Yiddish Culture Society
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement:

Organization: Boxes 1-23 are arranged in folder numerical sequence; Boxes 24-25 are not arranged

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in the following series: I) Executive Board administrative records (folders 1-23); II) E.B. general information circulars (24-30); III) E.B. circulars to branches (31-33); IV) E.B. publicity (34-36); V) E.B. materials on activities (37-72); VI) E.B. correspondence (73-197); VII) E.B. business correspondence (198-202); VIII) Branch correspondence (203-277); IX) Mid-West Region conferences (278); X) M.W.R. circulars (279-280); XI) M.W.R. correspondence (281-299); XII) I.A. Pomerantz correspondence of the M.W.R. (300-313); XIII) M.W.R. miscellaneous (314-316); XIV) Miscellaneous of YCS archive (317-319)

Subject Index
Culture
Literature
United States
Writers
Yiddish Culture Society
Yiddish secular movement
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Records
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/08/17 ; 1999/02/23 ; y.a.t.
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