Guide to the Papers of William Edlin (1878-1947) RG 251

Processed by David Wolfson. Additional processing by Rachel S. Harrison as part of the Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation.

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Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Rachel S. Harrison in July 2012. Description is in English.

Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Papers of William Edlin (1878-1947) RG 251

ID: RG 251 FA

Extent: 7.5 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

David Wolfson originally processed the collection in 1974. Additional processing was completed in 2012.

David Wolfson arranged the collection and created an index, which he divided into three sections representing more of an intellectual arrangement rather than a physical arrangement. These sections were: correspondence with individuals; correspondence with organizations, institutions, schools, publishers, and correspondence by subject; and personal materials, including manuscripts and articles. Materials in the index are often cross-listed by both organization and by individual. The index lists the language of the materials as Y for Yiddish, E for English and R for Russian.

The physical arrangement of the collection is in five series and an addendum, which is not represented in David Wolfson’s index, and is arranged by subject. The correspondence is arranged in a general alphabetical order, as is the addendum.

Languages: English, Yiddish, Russian, French, German, Hebrew, Czech

Abstract

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of William Edlin, editor of The Day and a prominent Socialist. It includes correspondence with individuals and with organizations, newspaper clippings, manuscripts of works by Edlin and by others as well as translations done by Edlin, and some of Edlin’s personal documents. These materials relate to Edlin’s involvement with The Day, with the Socialist Party, the Workmen’s Circle, various labor and Zionist organizations, literary clubs and activities, and with music, art and drama.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection relates to Edlin’s position as the editor of The Day as well as his work with various Socialist, labor and Zionist organizations. It contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to individuals including Jacob P. Adler, Nathan Ausubel, Joseph Barondess, Herman Bernstein, Menachem Boraisha, Reuben Brainin, Abraham Cahan, Abraham Coralnick, Jacob de Haas, Eugene Debs, Celia Dropkin, Isadora Duncan, Ossip Dymow, Ilya Ehrenburg, Samuel Gompers, Moshe Leib Halpern, Alexander Harkavy, Peretz Hirschbein, Isaac Hourwich, Sol Hurok, Harold Ickes, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Yefim Jeshurin, Bertha and Jacob Kalich, Leon Kobrin, Herbert H. Lehman, Jack London, Joseph Margoshes, Louis Marshall, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Paul Muni, Moshe Nadir, Shmuel Niger, M. Olgin, Mendel Osherowitch, Molly Picon, David de Sola Pool, Joseph Proskauer, John D. Rockefeller, Hillel Rogoff, Ludwig Satz, Jacob Schiff, Maurice Schwartz, Yente Serdatzky, Sholem Aleichem, Upton Sinclair, Alfred E. Smith, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, Nathan Straus, Jr., Samuel Untermeyer, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Felix Warburg, Chaim Weizmann, President Woodrow Wilson, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Aaron Zeitlin, and Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky.

There is also correspondence and other materials relating to the Socialist Party and other organizations, among them the American Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (ICOR), American Jewish Congress, American Labor Party, American ORT Federation, Columbia University, The Day, Educational Alliance, Folksbiene, Morning Freiheit, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Jewish Agency, Jewish National Workers’ Alliance, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Joint Distribution Committee, Keren Hayesod, New York City Board of Education, New York Times, Social Democratic League, Workmen’s Circle, World Zionist Organization, Yiddish Culture Society, Yiddish Writers Union, Zionist Organization of America, and Zukunft.

There are also manuscripts by Edlin, including Edlin's translations into Yiddish of literary works, manuscripts of other writers, such as Peretz Hirschbein and Pinchas Friedlander, newspaper clippings of Edlin's writings, including his column "What is New in the Socialist World" and other articles, financial records, notices of meetings, photographs, a metal printing template for a business card, autobiographical materials, birthday greetings, visiting cards, family correspondence, fundraising appeals, programs, resolutions, minutes, announcements for lectures, reports, bulletins, and speeches. The addendum contains materials from many of the same organizations and individuals found elsewhere in the collection.

This collection would be particularly helpful for those interested in the history of The Day and Yiddish newspaper publishing, Yiddish theater in America, the history and development of various communal institutions, and WWI-era Socialism and Zionism. The collection dates from 1894-1948, with three items from 1960-1969.

Historical Note

William Edlin was born in Priluki, Poltawa Province, Ukraine on May 3, 1878 to Paltiel Nochim and Miriam (Borodinsky) Edlin. He attended cheder until he was 12, at which point his family immigrated to the United States, settling in San Francisco in 1891. Edlin attended public evening school for two years and then enrolled at Stanford University, where he was greatly influenced by Socialist ideas.

At the end of 1896, he came to New York and began writing articles for English and Yiddish Socialist publications, including Abend Blatt (Evening Paper), as well as writing a book, The Coming Social Struggle (1897). He also was involved in the Socialist Labor Party, and was the assistant editor of The People in 1900. He became the manager of the Folks Tsaytung (Peoples Paper) in 1899 and later helped to found the weekly Social Democrat, for which he was the first editor, along with several other break-away members of the Socialist Labor Party, including B. Feigenbaum, Leon Kobrin, B. Weinstein, A. Kaspe, Morris Hillquit, as well as Abe Cahan and Morris Winchevsky. After the Social Democrat ceased publication, Edlin began working at The Jewish Daily Forward, where he was the editor from 1902-1903 and also wrote a weekly column about drama and music. He edited the Haverhill Social Democrat in Haverhill, MA, 1901, was the editor of the Capmakers’ Journal in Yiddish and English from 1902-1905, wrote for the Abendpost (Evening Post), the Jewish Daily Herald, 1903-1904, and the Morgn Zhurnal (Jewish Morning Journal), 1904-1913, for which he was also the drama and music editor.

Edlin helped to found the Workmen's Circle and was the General Secretary in 1913-1914. He supported Yiddish cultural activities and more widespread labor education through lecture tours and publications. He was later involved in the educational commission of the Workmen's Circle and served as the president. In late 1914, Mr. Edlin became city editor of Der Tog (The Day) newspaper and served as editor-in-chief from 1916 to 1925. He resigned from The Day in 1925 and became the National Executive Secretary of the Keren Hayesod in the U.S.A. from 1925-1928. He returned to The Day as editor-in-chief in 1929.

Edlin was also involved with music and theater. His book, Velt-Berimte Operas (World-Famous Operas) (1907) discusses and critiques popular Italian, French and German operas as well as music and opera in general. Der Yid (The Jew) was a four-act play, written with L. Cooperman in 1911, and was one of several plays Edlin wrote, including Mentshn in Keytn (Men in Chains), which was going to be performed in Jacob P. Adler’s People’s Theater with Adler playing a role in 1912, although this ultimately did not happen. Edlin was also president of the New York Foreign Film Critics, president of the I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers Union, a prominent member of the Zionist Organization of America, and a translator of various works of fiction and history, including Ellen Thomas’ two-volume History of the United States (1912).

Edlin married Sarah Boudianoff in New York City in 1901 and they were divorced in 1912. He married Pauline (Polia) Zeltzer in 1912 and their daughter Charmian was born 1914. William Edlin died in New York November 30, 1947.

Subject/Index Terms

American Jewish Congress, American ORT Federation, Authors, Yiddish, Barondess, Joseph, 1867-1928, Bernstein, Herman, 1876-1935, Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951, Charities, Clippings - Newspaper clippings, Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926, Di Tsukunft, Documents - Correspondence, Documents - Financial records, Documents - Manuscripts, Documents - Minutes, Edlin, Villyam, 1878-1947, Educational Alliance (New York, N.Y.), Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, Ickes, Harold L. (Harold Leclaire), 1874-1952, Icor, Israel, Keren Hayesod, Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963, London, Jack, 1876-1916, Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955, Morgn-frayhayt, Newspaper editors, Newspaper publishing, New York (N.Y.), Periodicals, Photographs, Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944, Socialism, Socialist Party (U.S.), Soloveichik, Hayyim, 1853-1918, Straus, Nathan, 1889-1961, Tog, Vladeck, B. (Baruch), 1886-1938, Warburg, Felix M 1871-1937 (Felix Moritz), Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952, Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949, Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, Yiddish newspapers, YIVO Archives, Zhitlowsky, Chaim, 1865-1943, Zionism, Zionist Organization of America

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist. For information write to archives@yivo.cjh.org

Use Restrictions: Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Method: Donated to YIVO by Mrs. Charmian Cohn, daughter of William Edlin, in 1949.

Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Original/Copies Note: There is an index created by David Wolfson in the front of the first box, which reflects an intellectual arrangement in three sections.

Related Materials: The YIVO Library has Edlin’s book about opera and his book The Coming Social Struggle as well as many books and other materials about Socialism, Zionism and labor. Edlin’s correspondence and records of his activities as well as the activities of organizations with which he was involved can be found in Records of the Day-Morning Journal, RG 639; Records of the Workmen’s Circle, RG 575; Records of the I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers’ Union, RG 701; Papers of Abraham Coralnick, RG 321 and the personal collections of many Yiddish writers, particularly those who wrote for, or were otherwise connected with, The Day.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of William Edlin; RG 251; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.


Box and Folder Listing


Series I: Personal Materials
1896-1948
The materials in this series are generally directly related to William Edlin’s personal life, including financial and legal records, materials from Stanford University, autobiographical materials, clippings of articles by and about Edlin, including his column from The Day and articles and reviews he wrote about music, theater, film, and art, photographs, speeches, and manuscripts of Edlin’s writings, including translations he made of world literature. There is also a great deal of material about various Socialist and labor groups and activities he was involved with, including the Socialist Labor Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Social Democratic League of America, the U.S. Socialist Party, and the American Labor Party, among others.
Folders: 66
Folder 1: Personal loans
1912-1940
Folder 2: Legal matters
1919-1935
Folder 3: Income and personal taxes
1918-1943
Folder 4: Stanford University Club
1921-1935
Folder 5: Miscellaneous personal papers
1901, 1917-1927, 1939-1944
Folder 6: Press cards-visiting cards
1909-1943
Folder 7: College papers
1896-1899
Folder 8: Insurance and leases
1913-1942
Folder 9: Receipts and business papers
1918-1947
Folder 10: Budgets
1932-1938
Folder 11: Autobiographical materials
1925-1941
Folder 12: 50th birthday jubilee
1928
Folder 13: Notes and outlines
1921-1943, undated
Folder 14: Clippings and circulars about Edlin
1903-1912
Folder 15: Clippings and circulars about Edlin
1907-1946
Folder 16: Condolences to Mrs. Edlin
1947-1948
Folder 17: Obituary clippings
1947-1948
Folder 18: Autographs of friends and relatives
1925-1940
Folder 19: Photographs
1915, undated
Folder 20: Talks and addresses
1944-1945, undated
Folder 21: Talks and addresses
1944, undated
Folder 22: Talks and addresses
1939-1945, undated
Folder 23: Talks and addresses
1899, 1946, undated
Folder 24: Talks and addresses
undated
Folder 25: Manuscript - Heldn in Kaytn (Heroes in Chains)
1910
Folder 26: Manuscripts - miscellaneous
1910, undated

includes: Geshmite Helden (Chained Heroes), 1910

Di Rusishe Revolutsie fun 1917 (The Russian Revolution in 1917)

Folder 27: Manuscripts - translations by Edlin
undated

includes: A Trip to Beethoven's Shrine, by James Faller

The Abyss, by Kazimerz Tetmajer and Stanislaw Przbyszewski

Bartel Turaser, by Philip Langman

A Victim from Russia, by S. Schiffman

Folder 27A: Manuscripts - translations by Edlin
1909
La Rencontre (The Meeting), by Pierre Berton, Paris, translated from French to Yiddish
Folder 28: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1897
Folder 29: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1900-1905
Folder 30: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1897-1905
Folder 31: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1909, 1920, 1936, undated
Folder 32: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1935-1937
column in Der Tog: Vos Tut zikh in der Sotsialistisher Velt (What's Happening in the Socialist World)
Folder 33: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1906-1907
music and opera, from Der Amerikaner
Folder 34: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1906-1944, undated
music and opera
Folder 35: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1907, undated
music and opera
Folder 36: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1907-1911, undated
music and opera
Folder 37: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1907-1912
Richard Wagner (English, German, Yiddish)
Folder 38: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1928-1933
Richard Wagner (English, Yiddish)
Folder 39: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1908-1910, 1929-1946
reviews of English theater and film (Yiddish, English)
Folder 40: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1933-1945
reviews of Yiddish theater and music
Folder 41: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1909-1915
Jewish music and art
Folder 42: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1910-1912, 1923-1933, 1946
Jewish music and art
Folder 43: Articles by Edlin - clippings
1908-1912
Jewish music and art
Folder 44: Project for a popular grand opera organization in New York City
1920, undated
Folder 44A: Project for a new kind of motion picture theater
undated
Folder 45: Yiddish (Jewish) press - clippings
1923-1946, undated
(Yiddish, English)
Folder 46: Yiddish literature - clippings
1910, undated
Folder 47: Picture postcards - art pictures
1908-1937, undated
(English, German)
Folder 48: Socialist Labor Party - clippings
1897-1899
Folder 49: Socialist Labor Party - Socialist Manifesto
1896-1899
Folder 50: Social Democratic Party
1899-1902
Folder 51: Social Democratic Party - election campaign
1901-1902
Folder 52: Social Democratic League of America
1918-1920
Folder 53: Social Democratic League of America - constitution and by-laws
1919
Folder 54: Socialist Party
1938-1939
Folder 55: Socialist Party
1935-1937
Folder 56: Socialist Party
1912-1917, 1930-1935
Folder 57: Socialist Party
1931-1935, undated
Folder 58: Socialist Party - election campaign
1932-1936
Folder 59: Socialist Party - press clippings
1933-1936
Folder 60: American Labor Party
1939-1943
Folder 61: Jewish Socialist organizations
1913-1918, 1940
Folder 62: Socialism - miscellaneous materials
1928-1931
Folder 63: Socialism - miscellaneous clippings
1900-1916, 1930-1947
Folder 64: Socialism - miscellaneous clippings
1900-1905, 1943-1945
Series II: Correspondence with Organizations
1897-1947
The correspondence and related materials in this series concern various Socialist, Zionist and labor organizations, Yiddish and English periodicals, unions, aid societies, cultural organizations and societies, local and national government institutions, schools, and publishers. There is also a great deal of information about Edlin’s work at The Day, including correspondence with staff and other professional correspondence, information about charity cases that The Day was involved with, financial records, reports, and minutes. Edlin’s connection to the Workmen’s Circle, including his work as Secretary General, is also well-represented through correspondence, by-laws, convention materials, and speeches.
Folders: 90
Folder 65: A
1906, 1920-1947
Agence Litteraire et Dramatique Internationale; Ambijan; American League for a Free Palestine; American ORT; Der Arbeiter
Folder 66: American Alliance for Labor and Democracy
1917-1919
Folder 67: American Federation of Labor, American Jewish Conference
1904, 1917-1918, 1945
Folder 68: American Jewish Congress
1916-1918
Folder 69: American Jewish Congress
1919-1925
Folder 70: B
1924, 1934
Biographical Encyclopedia of American Jews; Brownsville and East New York Hospital
Folder 71: Bronx Jewish Herald / Bronx Jewish Weekly
1928
Folder 72: Bronx Jewish Herald / Bronx Jewish Weekly
1927-1929
Folder 73: C
1901-1906, 1922, 1939
Cantors Association of America; The Comrade; Coopers International Union; Coralnick Branch of Jewish National Workers Alliance
Folder 74: California Jewish Voice
1913-1928
Folder 75: Columbia University
1912, 1926
Folder 76: Committee on Public Information
1917-1918
Folder 77: D
1910, 1935
Daughters of Jacob; Dress and Waistmakers' Union
Folder 78: E
1919-1925, undated
Educational Alliance; Eureka Benevolent Society; The Evening Mail; The Ezra School
Folder 79: Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
1924-1925
Folder 80: F
1902-1903, 1926-1942
Fellowship of Faiths; Folksbiene; Foreign Press Publicity Service; Forward; Di Morgn Freiheit
Folder 81: H
1920-1925, 1942
Hebrew Actors' Union; Hebrew-American Typographical Union; Hebrew Free Loan Society; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS); Histadruth Ivrith
Folder 82: I
1934-1944
ICOR; Indritz's Yom Tov Schriften
Folder 83: J
1909-1929, 1945
Jewish Agency for Palestine; Jewish Biographical Bureau; Jewish Economic Board; Jewish Morning Journal; Jewish Publication Society; Jewish Telegraphic Agency; Jewish War Rally Committee; Jewish Welfare Board; Jewish League of American Patriots; Junior Patriots of America
Folder 84: Jewish Labor World
1907-1913
Folder 85: Jewish Writers Club
1912, 1937, undated
Folder 86: L - M
1901, 1915-1936
Labor Secretariat; Labor Stage, Inc.; Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union; League for American Citizenship; League of Foreign-Born Citizens; The Literary Digest; Metropolitan Opera Company
Folder 87: N
1903, 1915-1935
The Nation; National Security League; National Labor Committee; National Social Club; The Neighborhood Playhouse; The New Leader; New Netherlands Publishing Company; The New Palestine
Folder 88: New York City - New York Fraternal Congress
1905-1925
New York City Board of Education; New York City Department of Education; New York City Department of Public Welfare; New York Fraternal Congress
Folder 89: New York Independent
1927, undated
Folder 90: New York Newspaper Writers Union
1912-1913
Folder 91: New York Public Library - Newspaper Club
1922-1929
New York Public Library; New York Telegram; The New York Times; The Newspaper Club
Folder 92: P
1922-1946
PM; Palestine Emergency Fund; The People; Poets' Guild; Polish Telegraph Agency; Port Morris School; Progressive Worker's Club
Folder 93: Pi Tomid
1907-1909
Folder 94: R
1918-1927
Reflex; Russian Political Club
Folder 95: Theatre Guide
1927, undated
Folder 96: U
1900, 1916-1933
United Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers Union; United Jewish Campaign; United Palestine Appeal; United States House of Representatives; United States Industrial Commission
Folder 97: United Nations Conference
1945
Folder 98: United Nations Conference - clippings
1945
Folder 99: W
1906, 1921-1924
The Warheit; Workers Self Educational Center; Dos Wort
Folder 100: Y
1922-1923, 1935
Yehoash Farlag Gezelshaft; Yeshiva College; Yiddish Art Theater; Young Judea
Folder 101: Yiddish Writers Union
1916-1929
Folder 102: Yiddish Writers Union
1930-1939
Folder 103: Yiddish Writers Union
1940-1943
Folder 104: Yiddish Writers Union
undated
Folder 105: Zionist Congress, ninth
1909
Folder 106: Zionist organizations
1919-1921, undated
Zionist Commission to Palestine; the Zionist Organization Executive; World Zionist Organization
Folder 107: Zionist Organization of America
1922-1931
Folder 108: Zukunft, Die
1905-1913
Folder 109: Day - Correspondence - A-C
1919-1943
Folder 110: Day - Correspondence - D-E
1924-1942
Folder 111: Day - Correspondence - F-K
1924-1925, 1939
Folder 112: Day - Correspondence - L-M
1922-1942
Folder 113: Day - Correspondence - N-R
1921-1932
Folder 114: Day - Correspondence - Sa-Sc
1919-1935
Folder 115: Day - Correspondence - Shapiro, David
1919-1925, 1937-1938
Folder 116: Day - Correspondence - Sh-St
1924-1926, 1939-1942
Folder 117: Day - Correspondence - Staff
1916-1925, 1941, undated
Folder 118: Day - Correspondence - W-Y
1917-1930, 1942
Folder 119: Day - Correspondence - unidentified
undated
Folder 120: Day - Correspondence - charity cases B-C
1924
Folder 121: Day - Correspondence - charity cases F-M
1922-1934
Folder 122: Day - Correspondence - charity cases R-Z
1919-1925
Folder 123: Day - budgets and financial affairs
1927, 1941, undated
Folder 124: Day - lists of staff members and salaries
1920-1925, 1937, undated
Folder 125: Day - miscellaneous papers
1919-1940
Folder 126: Day - miscellaneous papers
undated
Folder 127: Day - newspaper clippings
1923-1947
Folder 128: Workmen's Circle - circular letters
1927-1941
Folder 129: Workmen's Circle - circular letters
1942-1945
Folder 130: Workmen's Circle - constitution
1903
Folder 131: Workmen's Circle - convention
1910
Folder 132: Workmen's Circle - convention
1914
Folder 133: Workmen's Circle - convention
1915-1917
Folder 134: Workmen's Circle - convention
undated
Folder 135: Workmen's Circle - correspondence
1906-1930
Folder 136: Workmen's Circle - correspondence
1931-1935
Folder 137: Workmen's Circle - correspondence
1936-1945
Folder 138: Workmen's Circle - correspondence, Edlin as Secretary General
1913
letters of congratulations
Folder 139: Workmen's Circle - correspondence, Edlin as Secretary General
1913-1914
Folder 140: Workmen's Circle - correspondence, Edlin as Secretary General
1913-1914
Folder 140A: Workmen's Circle - clippings, Edlin as Secretary General
1914
Folder 141: Workmen's Circle - Independent Workmen's Circle
1910-1914
Boston, MA
Folder 142: Workmen's Circle - meeting notices and bills
1912-1947
Folder 143: Workmen's Circle - miscellaneous materials
1913-1915
Folder 144: Workmen's Circle - National Executive Committee
1933-1935
Folder 145: Workmen's Circle - clippings
1908-1915
Folder 146: Workmen's Circle - clippings
1931-1941
Folder 147: Workmen's Circle - clippings
undated
Folder 148: Workmen's Circle - notices of meetings addressed by Edlin
1913-1932
Folder 149: Workmen's Circle - sanitorium
1913-1914, 1930
Folder 150: Notices of meetings that Edlin addressed
1897-1900
Socialist Labor Party
Folder 151: Notices of meetings that Edlin addressed
1900-1905
Social Democratic Party
Folder 152: Notices of meetings that Edlin addressed
1906, undated
Folder 153: Notices of meetings that Edlin addressed
1897-1906
unions and others
Series III: Family Correspondence
1896-1947, 1969
There is correspondence with Edlin’s sister, brothers, father, cousins, uncle, nieces and nephews, his daughter, Charmian, his first wife, Sarah, and his second wife, Polia, as well as other friends and family members. This correspondence is mostly in English, with some Yiddish and Russian.
Folders: 36
Folder 154: Correspondence with family and friends
1907-1943
Folder 155: Correspondence with family and friends
1901-1941
Folder 156: Correspondence with family and friends
1909-1941
greeting cards and postcards
Folder 157: Edlin, Alvin; Edlin, Blanche
1911, 1941-1943
(cousins)
Folder 158: Edlin, Ben
1901-1942
(brother)
Folder 159: Edlin, Chaim
1906-1912
(brother)
Folder 160: Edlin, Charmian
1917-1941
(duaghter)
Folder 161: Edlin, Edith
1897-1942
(sister)
Folder 162: Edlin, Edward M.
1900-1943
(brother)
Folder 163: Edlin, Gershon
1904-1928
(uncle)
Folder 164: Edlin, Henry and Annie
1897-1942
(brother and sister-in-law)
Folder 165: Edlin, James S.; Edlin, Mrs. Juda; Edlin, Isaac; Edlin, Marshall
1923-1932, undated
(Isaac is a brother, Marshall is a nephew)
Folder 166: Edlin, Max
1905-1927
(brother)
Folder 167: Edlin, Mildred; Edlin, Mordecai Ber; Edlin, Morris
1896-1927
(Mildred is a niece, Morris is a brother)
Folder 168: Edlin, Nathan (Paltiel Nahum)
1897-1899
(father)
Folder 169: Edlin, Nathan
1900-1909
Folder 170: Edlin, Nathan
1910-1919
Folder 171: Edlin, Nathan
1920-1929
Folder 172: Edlin, Nathan
1930-1943
Folder 173: Edlin, Nathan
undated
Folder 174: Edlin, Raymond
1927-1935
(nephew)
Folder 175: Edlin, Sam; Edlin, Ted; Edlin, Vitali
1897-1947
(brothers)
Folder 176: Edlin, Sarah
1900-1928, 1969
(first wife)letters to William Edlin
Folder 177: Edlin, Sarah
1900-1907
letters from William Edlin
Folder 178: Edlin, Sarah
1899-1906
miscellaneous letters
Folder 179: Edlin, Polia (Paula, Pauline)
1908-1909
(second wife)letters to William Edlin
Folder 180: Edlin, Polia
1910
letters to William Edlin
Folder 181: Edlin, Polia
1913
letters to William Edlin
Folder 182: Edlin, Polia
1916-1918
letters to William Edlin
Folder 183: Edlin, Polia
1924-1931
letters to William Edlin
Folder 184: Edlin, Polia
undated
letters to William Edlin
Folder 185: Edlin, Polia
1899-1909
letters from William Edlin
Folder 186: Edlin, Polia
1910
letters from William Edlin
Folder 187: Edlin, Polia
1913-1915
letters from William Edlin
Folder 188: Edlin, Polia
1913
postcards from William Edlin
Folder 189: Edlin, Polia
1909-1942
miscellaneous letters
Series IV: Correspondence with Individuals
1894-1943, 1960
The correspondence in this series is with various individuals, including prominent Socialists, people involved with the labor movement, Yiddish and English writers, and actors and other cultural figures. Some of these include Jacob P. Adler, Joseph Barondess, Abraham Coralnick, Eugene V. Debs, Celia Dropkin, Isadora Duncan, Isaac Hourwich, Herbert H. Lehman, Jack London, Joseph Margoshes, Shmuel Niger, Jacob Schiff, Maurice Schwartz, Sholem Aleichem, Upton Sinclair, Alfred E. Smith, Baruch C. Vladeck, Edward and Felix Warburg, Chaim Weizmann, Woodrow Wilson, Stephen S. Wise, Chaim Zhitlowsky, and many more.
Folders: 55
Folder 190: A
1900-1943
Abbott, Leonard D.; Abrahams, David; Abramowitz; Adler, Jacob P.; Adler, Stella; Arnstein, Ira B.; Astor, H.; Atkinson, Warren; Auerbach, R.; Ausubel, N.; Avery, Martha
Folder 191: Ba
1902-1933
Bandlow, Robert; Baradulin, L.; Barnum, Gertrude; Barondess, Joseph; Baskin, Joseph; Basovsky, Estelle;
Folder 192: Be
1899-1942
Belikov, Israel; Belovski, Morris; Berg, Isabelle; Berger, Victor L.; Bernstein, Abraham; Bernstein, Herman; Bernstein, L.P.; Bersford, Thomas; Berul, Zalmon; Berwin, Anna; Beuler, B.; Beverly, Helen
Folder 193: Bl-Bo
1906-1938
Blank, L.; Blatch, Harriet Stanton; Bloch, Joshua; Boraisha, Menachem; Boyarsky, J.
Folder 194: Boudin, Louis Boudianoff
1901-1923
Folder 195: Br-Bu
1922-1942
Brainin, Reuben; Brand, Ira; Brooks, M.; Budish, Jacob; Bushinsky, J.M.
Folder 196: Brown, Louis H.
1909-1940
Folder 197: C
1896-1941
Cahan, Abe; Celler, Emanuel; Chanin, L.; Cohen, B.; Coh, Albert; Conheim, Herman; Coralnick, Abraham and Beatrice; Coralnick, Manya; Coralnick, Sarah; Crowell, C.H.
Folder 198: D
1901-1941
Danzis, M.; Dalinda, Joseph Z.; Davenport, B.; de Haas, Jacob; Debs, Eugene V.; Denemon, E.S.; Dluzhnowski, M.; Dowler, A.S.; Dropkin, Celia; Dreier, Margaret D.; Duncan, Isadora; Dymow, Ossip
Folder 199: E
1924-1941
Ehrenburg, Ilya; Elbe, Leon; Elias, Miriam; Elstein, Morris; Ephros, Gershon; Epstein, H.J.
Folder 200: F
1901-1942
Faller, James; Feigenbaum, B.; Fein, David; Feinman, A.; Fels, Mary; Fink, Reuben; Finkelstein, Chaim; Finnegan, Elizabeth; Firth, Maurice; Fisher, Mendel; Fox, George I.; Friedkin, Israel
Folder 201: Ga-Gi
1902-1929
Gaisky, N.A.; Geiger, N.P.; Gelbart, Michael; Ginsburg, Saul; Gisnet, Morris
Folder 202: Go-Gu
1906-1942
Goldberg, B.Z.; Golub, Solomon, Foundation; Gonzer, A.M.; Gonzer, Gertrude; Gordon, M.; Graubart, Y.Z.; Greenberg, Alla; Grossman, Vladimir; Gutlevsky, Molly
Folder 203: H
1902-1937
Hardman, J.B.S.; Harkavy, Alexander; Harkavy M.R.; Hartman, Gustave; Hayes, Max S.; Herndon, Richard; Horowitz, Isac; Hourwich, Isaac; Hurok, Sol; Hurwitz, Maximilian; Hyndman, H.M.
Folder 204: Imchanitzky, Marie and Michael
1897-1909
Folder 205: I-J
1928-1942
Ish-Kishor, Shulamith; Jasinowski, Pinchas; Jefroykin, Israel; Jeshurin, Yefim; Jordan, David Starr
Folder 206: Ka-Ke
1912-1942
Kalich, Bertha; Kalich, Jacob; Kalich, Lillian; Kamenetsky, Sonia; Kantor, K.; Katz, Jacob; Katz, Louis H.; Kennedy, Charles R.; Kellar, Harold
Folder 207: King, Cameron H., Jr.
1899-1908
Folder 208: Kl-Kw
1909-1940
Klein, Alfred; Klein, S.; Kobrin, Leon; Koelble, Alphonse; Koenigsberg, M.; Kohut, Mrs. Alexander; Kremer, Ilsa; Kuperson; Kwartin, Bernard
Folder 209: La-Le
1909-1937
Landman, Isaac; Lapson, Dvora; Latzky, W.; Lavser, B.; Le Bosquet, C.H.; Lehman, Herbert H.; Levenson, Boris; Levin, Simon J.; Levitzky, B.; Levy, Aaron J.; Lewis, William H.
Folder 210: Li-Lu
1909-1940
Liberman, Meyer; Lilith, Ola; Lombard, Leo; London, Jack; London, Charmian (Mrs. Jack); Lopatin, A.; Lubin, Arthur
Folder 211: Mac-Mar
1919-1925
Machalansky, Esther; Marcus, Joseph S.; Margolin, Arnold; Margoshes, Joseph
Folder 212: Margoshes, Samuel
1917-1926
Folder 213: Marshall, Louis
1918-1923
Folder 214: Mc-Mo
1901-1929
McLoughlin, J.E.; Meister, Isaac; Milch, Jacob; Mishman, Rose; Monfried, Lazarus; Morewsky, A.; Morgenthau, Henry; Morrill, C.A.; Morrison, Captain; Morrison, Maurice; Mosessohn, Nehemiah
Folder 215: N
1924-1935
Neumann, Emanuel; Nicoll, William C.; Niger, Shmuel; Nochotowitch, Achill; Noel, Rose F.; Noel, Sterling
Folder 216: Pe-Pi
1916-1941
Peck, George; Petrunkevitch, I.; Pfeffer, J.; Phelps, Philo F.; Phillips, Nathaniel; Pilsk, M.
Folder 217: Po-Q
1900-1938
Pool, David de Sola; Posess, M.; Postel, Max; Potter, Sarah; Proskauer, Joseph M.; Putnam, E. Val; Quirk, D.
Folder 218: Ra
1913-1927
Rabinowitz, S.; Rappaport, W.K.; Raskin, Rae; Raskin, Saul; Rauch, C.E.
Folder 219: Re-Rj
1901-1935
Regulsky, M.; Reich, H.; Reisenberg-Sherman, Nadia; Richards, Bernard G.; Riley, William Harrison; Rjawski, Anna
Folder 220: Ro
1909-1940
Rockefeller, John D.; Rockmore, Clara; Rogoff, H.; Rogovin, J.; Roncini, G.; Rose, Mrs. F.A.; Rosen, Emanuel; Rosen, Lia; Rosenauer, Nicholas; Rosenberg, Albert A.; Rosenberg, James N.; Rosenblatt, H.; Rosenbloom, Ben-Zion; Rosenwald, William; Ross, Jacob M.; Ross, L.; Rottauer, N.
Folder 221: Ru
1917-1932
Rubinstein, Z.H.; Rumsey, Mrs. David; Russell, Theresa H. (Mrs. Charles Edward)
Folder 222: Sa
1909-1943
Sachs, S.A.; Salmanowitz, Mrs.; Samuel, Maurice; Saphirstein, Jacob; Satz, Ludwig; Savage, Leon;
Folder 223: Sc
1909-1931
Schachnowitz, Mollie; Schaenen, Mendell M.; Schaffer, Benjamin N.; Schiff, Jacob; Schomer, Abraham; Schwartz, Maurice; Schweitzer, Mrs. Peter
Folder 224: Se
1918-1938
Seglow, Celia; Seglow, Edwin; Selkin, Alexander; Semel, Bernard; Semenoffsky, A.D.; Serdatzky, Yente
Folder 225: Sh
1894-1942
Shank, Mrs. Max; Shapiro, Chaim; Shapiro, David; Shelubsky, M.; Shelvin, B.; Sherrill, Charles H.; Shiplacoff, A.I.; Shipman, Samuel; Sholem Aleichem; Shuman, L.
Folder 226: Si-Sm
1909-1929
Sinclair, Upton; Slezak, Leo; Slobodin, Henry L.; Slokowsky, Zelman; Slozow, I.; Smith, Alfred E.
Folder 227: So-Sr
1901-1932
Solotaroff, H.; Soloveitchik, Chaim; Spargo, John; Srebnick, David;
Folder 228: St
1900-1932
Steinberg, Shirley; Steinbrook, H.; Stern, Augusta; Stokes, J.G. Phelps; Stolinsky, A.; Stone, N.I.; Straus, Nathan, Jr.
Folder 229: Strunsky, Anna
1897-1902, 1960
Folder 230: Strunsky, Hyman
1897-1913
Folder 231: Strunsky, Manya
1907-1941
Folder 232: Strunsky, Simeon
1908-1924
Folder 233: Sw-Sz
1919-1939
Swick, Otto; Syrkin, Marie; Syrkin, Nahum; Szurpicki, Frank
Folder 234: T
1905-1933
Tarlan, Evelyn; Tauber, L.; Tchaykovsky, N.W.; Teitelbaum, Abraham; Teller, Charlotte; Tenenbaum, Joseph; Terriss, Tom; Tobenkin, Elias; Trommer, Lazarus
Folder 235: U
1917-1933
Udin, Sophie A.; Untermeyer, Samuel
Folder 236: V
1898-1934
Vladeck, B.C.; Vornberg, K.; Voss, J.C.
Folder 237: Walling, William English
1917-1918
Folder 238: Wa-We
1916-1940
Warburg, Edward M.M.; Warburg, Felix; Warhaft, Gertrude; Weinstein; Weis, J. Max; Weiss, Shmuel; Weizmann, Chaim
Folder 239: Wi
1906-1924
Wichnitz, H.; Williams, John D.; Wilson, Woodrow; Wise, Stephen S.
Folder 240: Wo
1906-1939
Wohliner, A.; Wolf, Artur; Wolff, Marcus D.; Wortsman, Charles
Folder 241: Y
1917-1934
Yehoash; Young, Clara
Folder 242: Za-Zl
1906-1940
Zagor, Frieda; Zametkin, M.; Zeitlin, Aaron; Zelikovitch, G.; Zemach, Benjamin; Zhitlowsky, Chaim; Zilberts, Zavel; Zimbalist, Efrem; Zlotzowsky, Pauline
Folder 243: Zu-Zw
1907-1942
Zuckerman, M.; Zuckerman, William; Zunser, Miriam; Zwerin, Joseph; Zwig, Israel
Folder 244: unidentified
1897-1925
Series V: Manuscripts
1900-1938, undated
The manuscripts in this series include plays in Yiddish and English, as well as one in German, an English and Yiddish list of plays from the Federal Theatre Project, and a patriotic poem.
Folders: 6
Folder 245: Manuscript - Der Yid (The Jew)
1911
Folder 246: Manuscript - untitled
undated
drama in 4 acts
Folder 247: Anglo-Jewish Plays
1938
list of plays from the Federal Theatre Project
Folder 248: Manuscripts - by other writers
1900, 1922, undated

includes: Farvos Roze Krankt (Why is Rosa Sick?), by M. Phillips, 1900

Di Fardekte Vane (The Covered Bath), by Pinchas Friedlander

Does Might Make Right?, by Benjamin Levinson, 1922

Folder 249: Drama scripts - by other writers
undated

includes: Dos Kind fun der Velt (The Child of the World), by Peretz Hirschbein

Der Weisse Apfelbaum (The White Apple Tree), by Sholom Pollak (German)

Innoculation to Prevent War, by James Faller

Folder 250: Drama scripts - by other writers
undated

includes: Benedict Spinoza, by Harry Krachmalnicoff

Jacobowsky and the Colonel, by Franz Werfel

Series VI: Addendum
1915-1948, 1962
The addendum consists of more of Edlin’s professional materials, including correspondence, clippings, meeting minutes, and reports from many of the same organizations found earlier in the collection. These include the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Coralnick Farlag Committee, Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, materials about labor Zionism, Keren Hayesod, for which he was the National Executive Secretary, and the Zionist Organization of America.
Folders: 25
Folder 251: American Jewish Congress
1917-1926
Folder 252: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
1940-1941
Folder 253: Concourse Center of Israel
1924-1927
Folder 254: Cooperative Credit Union of New York
1922-1940
Folder 255: Coralnick Farlag Committee
1938-1944
Folder 256: Coralnick Farlag Committee
1938-1944
Folder 257: Coralnick Farlag Committee
1929-1944
Folder 258: Correspondence - miscellaneous
1915-1942
Folder 259: Facts about the Jews in Germany
undated
Folder 260: Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies
1926-1948
Folder 261: Hillel Solotaroff Publication Committee
1921-1923
Folder 262: Jewish Publication Society
1928-1933
Folder 263: Labor Zionism
1922-1932, 1943, 1962
Folder 264: Palestine Foundation Fund Keren Hayesod
1918-1948
Folder 265: Palestine Foundation Fund Keren Hayesod
1927-1928
fundraising campaigns in Dayton, OH and Buffalo, NY
Folder 266: Palestine Foundation Fund Keren Hayesod
1922-1926
clippings
Folder 267: Zionist Organization of America
1918-1920
Folder 268: Zionist Organization of America
1921
Folder 269: Zionist Organization of America
1922
Folder 270: Zionist Organization of America
1923
Folder 271: Zionist Organization of America
1924
Folder 272: Zionist Organization of America
1925-1926
Folder 273: Zionist Organization of America
1927
Folder 274: Zionist Organization of America
1928
Folder 275: Zionist Organization of America
1929-1932
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