Menashe Vaxer
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Brief Description: The collection consists for the most part of Vaxer's notes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, on various topics including Yiddish and Hebrew writers and Jewish history in various countries and Jewish folklore.  In addition, there are manuscripts by Menashe Vaxer, some correspondence with individuals, libraries, writers, family members.  Rabbinic manuscripts, fragments and letters, 19th century. Microfilms of rare manuscripts deposited in Judaica libraries, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, England.      The collection also includes manuscripts by M. Vaxer's brother, the Yiddish poet Israel Vaxer (1892-1919).
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 564 /RG 564 
Created by: Vaxer, Menashe (1897-1968)
Volume: 0.0
Subject Index
Folklore and Ethnography
Literature
Rabbis
Russia
Scholarship
Ukraine
United States
Writers
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/10 ; 1999/03/02 ; GMB
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