I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers Union
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Brief Description: Minutes of meetings.  Accounting records.  Financial reports and correspondence.  Photographs of members. Materials on the Fund for Jewish Refugee Writers.  General correspondence with individuals, organizations and publishers.  Correspondence relates to the Works Progress Administration, contracts, labor disputes, strikes, labor conditions.  Correspondents include: Baal Makhshoves (Isidor Eliashev), Shlomo Bickel, Menahem Boraisha, Reuben Brainin, Abraham Cahan, Simon Dubnow, Ossip Dymow, Alexander Harkavy, David Ignatoff, H. Leivick, Kalman Marmor, Alexander Mukdoni, Shmuel Niger, David Pinsky, Melech Ravitch, Abraham Reisen, Zalman Reisen, Kasriel Sarasohn, Zalman Shneur, Lamed Shapiro, Jacob Shatzky, Baruch Vladeck, Max Weinreich, Chaim Zhitlowsky.  Organizations include:  Jewish Labor Bund, Central Yiddish Culture Organization, *The Day* (*Der tog*), *Jewish Daily Forward*, *Freie Arbeiter Stimme*, HIAS, *Keneder odler*, Jewish Labor Committee, *Morgn zhurnal*, Jewish National Workers' Alliance, *Di yidishe velt* (Philadelphia), Jewish Writers' Fund for Suffering Writers in Europe, *Kinder zhurnal*, *Morgn frayhayt*, ORT, Workmen's Circle, YIVO.
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 701/RG 701
Created by: I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers Union
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 8 series: I) Minutes (folders 1-9B); II) Finances: a) Financial Reports (10-47); b) Ledgers (48-65); III) Correspondence, 1914-1940 (66-279); IV) Fund for Jewish Refugee Writers - Correspondence, 1939-1943 (280-343); V) Corres. (yellow series) 1940-1945 (344-431); VI) Corres. (blue series) 1945-1956 (432-529); VII) Corres., 1960's (530-680); VIII) Financial Corres., current matters & misc. (681-720); ADDENDA - I) Minutes (721-727); II) Finances (728-736); III) Misc. (737-748)
Subject Index
Jewish Labor Bund
Press, Jewish
Unions
United States
Writers
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Records
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/14 ; 1999/03/02 ; GMB
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