Guide to the Papers of Philip Friedman (1901-1960) 1914-1993 (bulk 1930-1960) RG 1258

Processed by Shloyme Krystal, 1989-1990, 1998. Additional processing by Rachel S. Harrison as part of the Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
URL: http://www.yivo.org

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

Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Papers of Philip Friedman (1901-1960) 1914-1993 (bulk 1930-1960) RG 1258

Predominant Dates:bulk 1930-1960

ID: RG 1258 FA

Extent: 25.25 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

Philip Friedman arranged his materials either by format, subject, country, or language and then usually alphabetically. This system was maintained as much as was possible. Many of the materials, including the professional correspondence, are arranged alphabetically, while the personal correspondence is arranged chronologically, as are the materials about the memorial gatherings for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some of the correspondence is filed under the names of organizations, publications, institutions, and publishers, while other correspondence has been filed by the name of the person who signed the letters. Cross-references have been listed whenever possible. The languages of many of the articles follow the title and author in parentheses. Materials for which no language is given are mainly in English. Articles for which no author is given are often by Friedman.

Shloyme Krystal processed the original materials and created an English finding aid in 1989-1990. He then integrated the new materials and created a new finding aid in December 1998. Additional processing was completed in 2012. The collection is organized in ten series, some of which have been further subdivided into subseries.

Languages: Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, English, German, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Dutch;Flemish, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Croatian

Abstract

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of historian and bibliographer Philip Friedman. These materials include correspondence with individuals and with organizations, newspaper clippings, subject files, manuscripts of works by Friedman and by others, and some of Friedman’s personal documents. These materials relate to Friedman’s work on the histories of various Jewish communities, particularly those in Poland, and his work gathering source documents about the Holocaust.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection relates primarily to Friedman’s post-war research on the history of the Holocaust as well as to his administrative activities in various organizations. The bulk of the collection consists of second-hand sources collected by Friedman, as well as manuscripts by Friedman and others, bibliographical manuals and methodological guides prepared for use in the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project, and correspondence with organizations and with individuals. Correspondents include Yiddish writers and prominent historians such as H.G. Adler, Ch. Agnoff, Hannah Arendt, E. Auerbach, Rachel Auerbach, Salo Baron, Shlomo Bickel, Ben Zion Dinur, Simon Dubnow, M. Dworzecki, Sz. Datner, Nathan Menachem Gelber, Rudolf Glanz, Jacob Glatstein, E. Glicenstein, Israel Halpern, Arthur Herzberg, Raul Hilberg, A.W. Jasny, Szmerke Kaczerginski, Joseph Kermish, Israel Klausner, M. Kosover, A. M. Klein, Leibush Lehrer, H. Leivick, Raphael Lemkin, Jacob Lestschinsky, Raphael Mahler, J. Mestel, Nahum Baruch Minkoff, L. Namier, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Koppel Pinson, Leon Poliakov, Sarah Reisen, Gerald Reitlinger, A.A. Roback, L. Rochman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Philip Roth, Isaac Schwarzbart, Hillel Seidman, Genia Silkes, Anna Simaite, E. Sommerstein, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, J. Turkow, M. Turkow, Michael Weichert, and Mark Wischnitzer.

Materials on the Holocaust are primarily arranged geographically by ghetto or concentration camp. Included are over one hundred eyewitness accounts collected from Holocaust survivors by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, a list of survivors of Majdanek, copies and translations of orders of concentration camps commandants and clippings and pamphlets on Displaced Persons and reparations. There are also depositions relating to the trial of Michael Weichert and a Polish typescript of his book Jewish Self-Help 1939-1945 , materials on Nazi war criminals distributed by the Polish government in September 1954, biographical clippings on Nazi war criminals, copies of proceedings from the Nuremberg Trials, and questionnaires for survivors. Papers relating to Friedman’s organizational activities include clippings, offprints, pamphlets, copies of reports, announcements, short biographies of Jewish historians and Yiddish writers written by Friedman, records of the Historian’s Circle of the YIVO Institute, records of the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project, and records of the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland. In addition, there are some of Friedman’s personal papers, a bibliography of his writings, some correspondence, and diaries and writings of Ada Friedman.

Historical Note

Biographical Note Polish Jewish historian Philip (Jeroham Fishel) Friedman was born in Lwow on April 27, 1901 to Eliezer and Sabina Friedman. He finished his studies at the Lwow gymnasium in 1919 and then studied history at the University of Vienna under the direction of Alfred Pribram, 1920-1925, and at the Jewish Teachers College (Pedagogium) in Vienna under Salo Baron, 1920-1922. He earned his teacher's diploma from the Jewish Teachers College in 1922 and his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1925 with a dissertation entitled Die galizischen Juden im Kampfe um ihre Gleichberechtigung (1848–1868) (The Jews of Galicia in Their Struggle for Legal Equality [1848–1868]), which was published in Frankfurt in 1929. Friedman returned to Poland after receiving his doctorate, where he was briefly the director of the Tarbut school in Volkovysk (currently in Belarus) and taught Hebrew and history at the Jewish gymnasium in Konin, Poland. He also taught at the Jewish gymnasium in Łódź (1925-1939), as well as at the People’s University of that city, was a lecturer for doctoral candidates at YIVO in Vilna (1935-1936), and lectured at the Tahkemoni Rabbinical Seminary of Warsaw (1938–1939), and at the Institute of Judaic Studies, also in Warsaw. He continued his historical research, producing, most notably, his 1935 monograph Dzieje Żydów w Łodzi (The History of the Jews in Łódź), and a number of specialized studies on the Jews of Galicia and Lodz. In addition, he attempted to foster academic cooperation among Jewish historians. He participated in the International Congress of Historians, which was held in Warsaw in 1933, following which he endeavored to create a worldwide association of scholars of Jewish history. When World War II began, he was engaged in writing a comprehensive history of the Jews of Poland from the earliest beginnings through the twentieth century. Friedman survived the Holocaust by hiding in and around Lwow, but he lost his wife and a daughter. After the liberation in 1944, he went to Lublin, where he was appointed the first director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission, which he helped to found with the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, whose mission was to gather data on Nazi war crimes. In this capacity he not only collected testimonies and documentation but also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz. This work, To jest Oświęcim , was published in Warsaw in 1945 and appeared in an abridged English version as This Is Oswięcim in 1946. He also published several monographs on various destroyed Jewish communities, including Bialystok and Chelmno, and about Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the Nazi occupation. At the same time, he taught Jewish history at the Łódź University (1945-1946) and was a member of the Polish State Commission to Investigate German War Crimes in Auschwitz and Chelmno. After testifying and acting as a consultant at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in 1946, Friedman and his new wife, Dr. Ada Eber-Friedman, decided not to return to Poland. For two years he directed the educational and cultural department of the Joint Distribution Committee in the American Zone in Germany (1946-1948). He also helped the Centre du Documentation Juive Comtemporaire in Paris to set up its documentary collection. Friedman then moved to the United States in October 1948 at the invitation of his former professor Salo Baron, who was now teaching at Columbia University, where Friedman joined him. There he first held the post of research fellow and then, from 1951 until his death in 1960, that of lecturer in the graduate department of history. From 1949-1954, he was the dean of the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary and Folks University. He taught courses at the Herzliya Teachers Seminary in Israel and was a member of the Research Committee of the Board of Director’s of the YIVO Institute starting in 1952. Friedman’s subsequent research focused on the Holocaust. He produced two popular books, the first account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising titled Martyrs and Fighters: The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto (1954), the second a volume describing Christian rescuers during the war, Their Brothers’ Keepers (1957). A volume of his essays devoted to Holocaust topics, Pathways to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust (1980), was edited posthumously by his wife. He was the Research Director of the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project, a bibliographical series on the Holocaust from 1954-1960. This project consisted of publishing a full bibliography of all published works having a connection to the Holocaust. The first volume, which consisted of Hebrew sources, had been published by the time of Friedman’s death, and the English volume was ready to be printed. He also remained committed to his earlier scholarly interests, and published articles in Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, French, and English, such as “Polish Jewish Historiography between the Two Wars” and “The First Millennium of Jewish Settlement in the Ukraine and in the Adjacent Areas.” Philip Friedman died in New York on February 7, 1960 after a lengthy illness. Polish Jewish historian Philip (Jeroham Fishel) Friedman was born in Lwow on April 27, 1901 to Eliezer and Sabina Friedman. He finished his studies at the Lwow gymnasium in 1919 and then studied history at the University of Vienna under the direction of Alfred Pribram, 1920-1925, and at the Jewish Teachers College (Pedagogium) in Vienna under Salo Baron, 1920-1922. He earned his teacher's diploma from the Jewish Teachers College in 1922 and his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1925 with a dissertation entitled Die galizischen Juden im Kampfe um ihre Gleichberechtigung (1848–1868) (The Jews of Galicia in Their Struggle for Legal Equality [1848–1868]), which was published in Frankfurt in 1929.

Friedman returned to Poland after receiving his doctorate, where he was briefly the director of the Tarbut school in Volkovysk (currently in Belarus) and taught Hebrew and history at the Jewish gymnasium in Konin, Poland. He also taught at the Jewish gymnasium in Łódź (1925-1939), as well as at the People’s University of that city, was a lecturer for doctoral candidates at YIVO in Vilna (1935-1936), and lectured at the Tahkemoni Rabbinical Seminary of Warsaw (1938–1939), and at the Institute of Judaic Studies, also in Warsaw. He continued his historical research, producing, most notably, his 1935 monograph Dzieje Żydów w Łodzi (The History of the Jews in Łódź), and a number of specialized studies on the Jews of Galicia and Lodz. In addition, he attempted to foster academic cooperation among Jewish historians. He participated in the International Congress of Historians, which was held in Warsaw in 1933, following which he endeavored to create a worldwide association of scholars of Jewish history. When World War II began, he was engaged in writing a comprehensive history of the Jews of Poland from the earliest beginnings through the twentieth century.

Friedman survived the Holocaust by hiding in and around Lwow, but he lost his wife and a daughter. After the liberation in 1944, he went to Lublin, where he was appointed the first director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission, which he helped to found with the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, whose mission was to gather data on Nazi war crimes. In this capacity he not only collected testimonies and documentation but also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz. This work, To jest Oświęcim , was published in Warsaw in 1945 and appeared in an abridged English version as This Is Oswięcim in 1946. He also published several monographs on various destroyed Jewish communities, including Bialystok and Chelmno, and about Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the Nazi occupation. At the same time, he taught Jewish history at the Łódź University (1945-1946) and was a member of the Polish State Commission to Investigate German War Crimes in Auschwitz and Chelmno.

After testifying and acting as a consultant at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal in 1946, Friedman and his new wife, Dr. Ada Eber-Friedman, decided not to return to Poland. For two years he directed the educational and cultural department of the Joint Distribution Committee in the American Zone in Germany (1946-1948). He also helped the Centre du Documentation Juive Comtemporaire in Paris to set up its documentary collection. Friedman then moved to the United States in October 1948 at the invitation of his former professor Salo Baron, who was now teaching at Columbia University, where Friedman joined him. There he first held the post of research fellow and then, from 1951 until his death in 1960, that of lecturer in the graduate department of history. From 1949-1954, he was the dean of the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary and Folks University. He taught courses at the Herzliya Teachers Seminary in Israel and was a member of the Research Committee of the Board of Director’s of the YIVO Institute starting in 1952.

Friedman’s subsequent research focused on the Holocaust. He produced two popular books, the first account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising titled Martyrs and Fighters: The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto (1954), the second a volume describing Christian rescuers during the war, Their Brothers’ Keepers (1957). A volume of his essays devoted to Holocaust topics, Pathways to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust (1980), was edited posthumously by his wife. He was the Research Director of the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project, a bibliographical series on the Holocaust from 1954-1960. This project consisted of publishing a full bibliography of all published works having a connection to the Holocaust. The first volume, which consisted of Hebrew sources, had been published by the time of Friedman’s death, and the English volume was ready to be printed. He also remained committed to his earlier scholarly interests, and published articles in Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, French, and English, such as “Polish Jewish Historiography between the Two Wars” and “The First Millennium of Jewish Settlement in the Ukraine and in the Adjacent Areas.” Philip Friedman died in New York on February 7, 1960 after a lengthy illness.

Subject/Index Terms

Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989, Central Jewish Historical Committee, Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, Clippings - Newspaper clippings, Columbia University, Concentration camps, Datner, Szymon, Documents - Administrative reports, Documents - Correspondence, Documents - Manuscripts, Documents - Minutes, Documents - Notes, Duker, Abraham G. (Abraham Gordon), 1907-, Europe, Friedman, Philip, 1901-1960, Germany, Gringauz, Samuel, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Bibliography, Holocaust survivors, Israel, Jewish ghettos, Jewish refugees, Jews - History, Kermish, Joseph, Lestschinsky, Jacob, 1876-1966, London (England), Mark, Bernard, 1908-1966, Minkoff, N. B., 1893-1958, Occupation, 1939-1945, Paris (France), Poland, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands), Soviet Union, Ukraine, War criminals, War resistance movements, Weichert, Michael, 1890-1967, Wiener Library, World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities, World War, 1939-1945 - Jews, Yad va-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah vela-gevurah, YIVO Archives

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

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: The materials were donated to the YIVO Archives by Philip Friedman’s widow, Ada Friedman, in June 1987. Additional materials were donated by Friedman’s niece, Sophia Balk, in February 1993.

Separated Materials: Philip Friedman’s library was also donated to YIVO and forms the Philip Friedman Collection at the YIVO Library.

Related Materials: The YIVO Library has many books by and about Friedman and a wealth of materials about the Jews of Poland, World War II, the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, concentration camps, survivor testimonies, displaced persons, bibliographies of books about the Holocaust, and many other topics found in the Friedman Papers. In addition, many of Friedman’s personal books about Jewish history and Holocaust materials were donated to the YIVO Library.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Philip Friedman; RG 1258; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

Series 1: Series I: Correspondence, 1931, 1944-1982,
Series 2: Series II: Friedman’s Work, 1935-1982,
Series 3: Series III: Research Materials, 1914-1979,
Series 4: Series IV: Ghettos and Concentration Camps, 1939-1968,
Series 5: Series V: Resistance, 1940-1963, 1978-1985,
Series 6: Series VI: The Post-War Era, 1917, 1931-1962,
Series 7: Series VII: Varia (923-937), 1931-1968,
Series 8: Series VIII: Newspaper Clippings, 1942-1993,
Series 9: Series IX: Friedman’s Biographical Materials, 1936-1975, undated,
Series 10: Series X: Ada Friedman’s Writings, 1949-1978, undated,
All

Series II: Friedman’s Work 1935-1982

This series consists of materials relating to Dr. Friedman’s post-war professional positions at the Central Jewish Historical Committee of Poland, Columbia University, various positions and responsibilities at YIVO, and with the YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project. There are also articles and book reviews by Friedman of works by other writers and historians and some reviews of his own books.

Folders: 68

Subseries 1: Central Jewish Historical Committee of Poland 1945-1956

These materials include reports, contracts, publications, bulletins, memoranda, questionnaires, articles, and correspondence in Polish, Yiddish and English.

Folders: 4

Folder 474A: Official documents 1945-1946: statutes (Polish)
reports (Polish)
bulletins, 9/45 (Polish)
report-Second Scientific Conference, 9/19-9/20/45 (Yiddish)
one years work, 1946 (Polish, English)
publications of the Jewish Historical Committee (English)
contract between representatives of the Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish World Congress and the Zionist Labor Organization and the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, regarding collaboration and Publications (English)
memorandums (Yiddish)
staff of the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland
publications of the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland (English)
Bulletin 16/41, Dos Naye Lebn (Yiddish)
Friends of the Central Jewish Historical Committee (Polish)
letterheads
questionnaires and methodological instructions for the collector of historical materials and the study of the Holocaust (Yiddish)
Folder 474B: Press bulletins 1945: Polish Press Agency bulletins, 3/23/45; 3/24/45; 5/27/45; 5/28/45 (Polish)
Jewish Press Agency bulletins, 10/30/45; 11/7/45; 11/9/45; 11/14/45; 11/16/45; 11/23/45
Folder 475: Articles about the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland 1945-1956: (Yiddish, Polish, English)
Folder 476: Central Jewish Historical Committee in Munich 1945-1950: report of activities by the director M. Feigenbaum
report of the first gathering of delegates, 5/11-5/12/45
lecture by I. Kaplan in Gottingen, Germany, 5/12/47 (Yiddish)
Circular, 11/47
publication of the Central Historical Commission in Beren Belzen, 7/21/46
article by Lucy Dawidowicz regarding the Historical Commission in Munich (Yiddish), 1950
circular letter of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone, 5/46 (Yiddish)

Subseries 2: Columbia University 1948-1959

This subseries is made up of correspondence, syllabi and course listings, book lists, memoranda, bibliographies, reports, and recommendations from Dr. Friedman’s position as a professor of history in the graduate department.

Folders: 4

Folder 477: Correspondence 1948-1959: letter offering Friedman a Research Fellowship, 2/19/48
letter from Salo Baron
general letters about Friedman's appointments to Lecture Fellow and Research Fellow, 1950-1959
Folder 478: Courses in Jewish History given by Friedman 1951-1959: course 113: Ancient Jewish History
course 121: Medieval Jewish History
course 121c: Jews in Eastern Europe
course 122: Modern Jewish History
course 122a: Jews in Eastern Europe
course 122b: Economic and Social History of the Years 1789-1914
course 155a: Jews in Europe Since 1914
course 173: Jews in America
non-numbered courses: Jews under Capitalism and Socialism
Jewish Population
The World Jewish Population
General Sociological Introduction
Mixed Marriages and Conversions
Constitutions of the Marxist Democracies
memorandum of instructions for graduate courses
instructions for grading, grading sheets, student cards
Folder 479: Council for Research in the Social Sciences 1949-1959: Bibliography of the Jewish Catastrophe, project 202
Bibliography of Publications in connection with Council projects
letters, reports
Folder 480: Recommendations 1953-1959: for students and others to get employment and grants (English, German, Polish)

Subseries 3: YIVO 1953-1959

This is a subseries of reports, memoranda, correspondence, publications, brochures, bibliographies, meeting minutes, and agendas.

Folders: 4

Folder 481: Archives and Library 1953-1959: report of activities of the archives for 7/1-8/15/54 (Yiddish), 9/1-12/31/54 (Yiddish, English)
memorandum from J. Ezekiel Lipschutz to L. Lehrer
draft of a letter to the Department of State regarding access to the Berlin Document Center
memoranda of Dr. Robinson to J. Ezekiel Lipschutz, 12/24/57 (Yiddish) regarding the catalog of the Vilna Archive
memorandum #6, archival material at YIVO (English)
memorandum #7, archival material at YIVO (Yiddish)
project of the Commission to prepare a guide (Yiddish)
partial list of closed collections (Yiddish)
the proper way to systematize archival material (Yiddish)
relations between YIVO Archives and the Holocaust Document Project, 1955
Main Library and Archives of YIVO 12/5/53 (Yiddish)
list of prospective candidates for the course in Jewish Library Science and Archival Administration (English)
report of a special collection of 2354 books and magazines collected in Germany 1933-1945 (German)
list of YIVO publications sent to libraries, scientific institutions and individuals in Israel
brochure: Wilhelm Christian Just Chrysander's Yiddish grammar of 1750 reproduced from the original with remarks by Dr. Max Weinreich (English)
brochure about the Dr. M. Gaster anniversary volume published in London to honor his 80th birthday
Folder 482: Historians Circle at YIVO 1953-1959: reports of meetings 1956-1957
invitations to meetings (Yiddish, English), 1956-1959
list of Yiddish newspapers 1918-1939 at YIVO's library
partial bibliography of the destroyed European Jewish Communities (Yiddish, English)
letter of Dr. S. Noble, secretary of Commission of Research at YIVO, 6/53 (Yiddish, English)
research on Holocaust Destruction of European Jewry
Folder 483: Reports 1954-1957: meeting reports of the Expert European Jewry Committee for Holocaust Research, 3/31/54; 4/5/54; 4/12/54; 4/28/54; 5/14/54; 9/1/54
reports of meetings of heads of departments on the Holocaust, 2/15/55; 3/1/55; 3/23/55; 4/19/55; 5/10/55; 5/16/55; 6/14/55
agenda for meeting, 4/19/55
plans for project, 12/11/57
Folder 484: Meetings of the Research Committee 1954-1955: minutes: 9/22/54; 2/9/55; 2/23/55; 3/2/55; 3/9/55; 5/4/55
agendas: 9/27/54; 10/22/54; 2/11/55
letter about a project, to Dr. Shapiro, Salo Baron, M. Yuviler

Subseries 4: YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project 1946-1980

This subseries contains meeting minutes, reports, publications, questionnaires, articles and clippings, bibliographies, methodological guides, correspondence, applications, and programs in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Polish, and German.

Folders: 29

Folder 485: Meeting minutes (Hebrew) 1955-1958: 5/16/55; 5/23/55; 5/30/55; 6/6/55; 6/8/55; 6/13/55; 6/20/55; 6/29/55; 7/13/55; 7/20/55; 7/25/55; 8/3/55; 8/17/55; 8/24/55; 9/1/55; 9/7/55; 9/14/55; 9/21/55; 9/27/55; 10/12/55; 10/19/55; 10/26/55; 11/2/55; 11/9/55; 11/23/55; 12/7/55; 12/21/55; 1/11/56; 8/15/56; 1/30/57; 7/17/57; 7/30/57; 8/4/57; 8/19/57; 8/21/57; 2/20/58
Folder 486: Reports (Hebrew) 1957-1958: monthly reports #4, #5 10/57; #6 11/57; #14 7/58; #15 8/58; #17 10/58; #18 11/58
7/1-12/1/57 report
meeting minutes 8/12/57; 8/23/57; 7/13/58
planning of a museum and monuments (Polish, Yiddish)
Folder 487: Yad Vashem publications 1950-1967: Yad Vashem 9/12/58; 10/6/59; 11/8/59; 11/8/59
different brochures, 1950-1967
Yediot Yad Vashem 3/56, 6/60 (Hebrew, English)
Folder 488: Yad Vashem Archives 1954-1955: activities report for 1/54-10/54, by Dr. I. Kermish (Yiddish, Hebrew)
From the Archives of Yad Vashem, reprint for the YIVO-Yad Vashem bulletin: What is not preserved in the archives, by Dr. K.J. Bal-Kadoori (English)
From the Wiesenthal Collection, same reprint as above (English)
note regarding stipend awards for studies and research into the destruction of European Jewry (English, Yiddish, Hebrew)
questionnaire: perished during the Holocaust (Yiddish, Hebrew)
note from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew)
Folder 489: Articles about Yad Vashem 1946-1959: in different magazines and newspapers (Yiddish, Hebrew, English)
Folder 490: Lists of books and articles regarding the Holocaust 1955-1959: (Hebrew, English)
includes Pinkes Hakehiloth (Hebrew)
Folder 491: YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project 1954-1960: agreement announcing the bibliographical series
article about the agreement from YIVO Yedies #53, 6/54
Folder 492: YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project 1955-1956: contemplated catalog of Documents of the European Jewish Catastrophe, 1/56
contemplated bibliography and preparatory work for the printed edition
Folder 493: YIVO-Yad Vashem Joint Documentary Project 1956-1958: Yad Vashem position on the project 3/3/58 (Yiddish)
memoranda and minutes, 11/28/56; 8/19/57; 8/21/57; 10/57 (Yiddish, Hebrew, English)
Folder 494: Correspondence between YIVO and Dr. Nahum Goldman 1956-1957: (president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany), 6/27/56; 6/29/56; 6/26/57
abstracts of eyewitness accounts
Folder 495: Guide to Research in Jewish History, 1933-1945 1958-1962: edited by J. Robinson and P. Friedman, draft for comments and suggestions only
reviews of the Guide
appeal of YIVO to all authors for help in preparing the Guide (English, Yiddish)
Folder 496: Guide to Research in Jewish History, 1933-1945 1957-1959: memoranda on the Guide (bound)
memo to J. Robinson from Chaim Finkelstein
other memos
Folder 497: YIVO-Yad Vashem Committee 1954-1958: meeting minutes (Yiddish): 4/8/54; 5/2/54; 5/17/54; 6/23/54 (includes the report of the visit to Washington by P. Friedman); 10/13/54; 5/17/55; 6/6/55; 10/15/55 (English); 3/7/57 (Yiddish, English)
meeting minutes of the special subcommittee (English): 6/6/55; 10/15/55
meeting minutes of senior staff on the special project (Yiddish): 11/18/58
meeting minutes 2/20/56; 2/4/58
questions of principles concerning the Yad Vashem-YIVO documentation catalog
letter of Salo Baron and Chaim Finkelstein regarding the project
notes by Dr. Fried
Folder 498: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1954-1955: meeting minutes: 6/24/54; 7/2/54; 7/6/54; 7/8/54; 7/15/54; 7/23/54; 7/28/54; 8/4/54; 8/10/54; 8/19/54; 8/26/54; 9/2/54; 9/10/54; 9/22/54; 10/15/54; 10/22/54; 11/24/54; 12/1/54; 1/13/55; 1/26/55; 2/11/55; 5/2/55; 6/10/55; 8/23/55; 10/7/55; 12/6/55
Folder 499: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1956-1958: meeting minutes: 1/17/56; 1/18/56; 1/27/56; 2/1/56; 2/8/56; 2/13/56; 2/21/56; 3/2/56; 3/7/56; 3/23/56; 3/26/56; 4/11/56; 4/17/56; 5/15/56; 5/21/56; 5/31/56; 6/1/56; 6/4/56; 6/12/56; 6/26/56; 7/20/56; 7/25/56; 8/27/56; 9/4/56; 9/12/56; 10/9/56; 10/10/56; 10/15/56; 10/16/56; 11/7/56; 11/23/56; 12/17/57; 12/27/57; 1/4/57; 1/18/57; 2/6/57; 2/8/57; 2/15/57; 2/25/57; 3/4/57; 3/29/57; 5/10/57; 6/12/57; 6/28/57; 9/6/57; 9/11/57; 9/16/57; 10/2/57; 10/28/57; 11/22/57; 12/16/57; 12/26/57; 1/3/58; 1/13/58; 1/14/58; 1/15/58; 1/31/58; 2/4/58; 2/19/58; 2/27/58; 3/6/58; 3/27/58; 4/3/58; 4/8/58; 9/10/58; 9/23/58; 11/4/58
Folder 500: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1954-1957: review of the protocols 1-71 (6/24/54-6/15/57)
report of activities 6/1-8/15/54
discussion on whether to publish the Guide in three languages, 9/54
material for the discussion
report on work of the commission 1/1-4/14/55
report for 9/57-11/57 (Yiddish)
division report, 2/1/57
statistical data 7/11/57
bibliography on the published material on the European Jewish catastrophe 6/54-6/56
bibliography on the Jewry of Lithuania for the period 1918-1940 (Hebrew)
memo to M. Yuviler from P. Schwartz
report and work schedule of the Bibliography Division, 5/11/56 (Yiddish)
Folder 501: A Systematic Survey of the Bibliography on the Jewish Catastrophe 1954-1955: chapters from the Guide (English)
Folder 502: Documentation of the Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance in the Nazi Era 1955: bibliographical manual, prepared by P. Friedman (English)
Folder 503: Documentation of the Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance in the Nazi Era 1955: bibliographical manual (Yiddish)
Folder 504: Documentation of the Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance in the Nazi Era 1955: bibliographical manual (Yiddish)
inventory of material to be processed by the Joint Commission of YIVO-Yad Vashem (English) [bound]
Folder 505: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1954-1957: list of headings on the Hurban prepared by the Bibliographical Commission (English), 1957
preface to the handbook regarding the bibliography on the Hurban (Yiddish)
remarks by Seymour Lubetsky, consultant on the bibliography and cataloging policy, Library of Congress, 11/26/54 (English)
remarks by Rachel Auerbach (Yiddish)
list of participants in the Commission and remarks by P. Friedman
remarks by N. Blumenthal (Yiddish)
remarks by J. Robinson (English)
remarks by I. Kermish (Yiddish)
remarks by S. Dawidowicz (Yiddish)
data about the Hurban in Zaglebie (Yiddish)
references and lists on survivors
bibliographical material on parachutists (Hebrew)
bibliographical material on Hanna Senesh (Yiddish)
bibliographical material on Cracow under German occupation
optional list of topics on which material should be obtained
study of the moral and cultural aspects of the catastrophe
other materials
Folder 506: Guide to Research in Jewish History, 1933-1945 1955: drafts of various chapters
Folder 507: The Turkic languages and literatures 1956: bibliography compiled by Rudolf Loewenthal
Folder 508: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1955: Bibliography on the Hurban literature (Yiddish, English, Hebrew, Polish)
material to be processed (Yiddish)
inventory of material processed (English)
Folder 509: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1954-1959: various bibliographical listings (English, Hebrew, German)
bibliographical division, office work
Folder 510: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1957-1958: Chaim Finkelstein, secretary of the YIVO-Yad Vashem committee, memoranda and circulars (Yiddish, English)
Folder 511: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1954-1958: staff of the commission, work schedule, reports and remarks, memoranda of P. Friedman and others
staff: David Bass, H. Berkowitz, Dr. Braham, C. Burstyn, Ada Fogel, John Fried, S. Fryde, Joseph, Rachel Gar, A. Gutgold, Rose Klepfisz, David Lehrer, Miriam Levitt, H. Sachs
Folder 512: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1950-1957: application for work (English, Yiddish, Polish)
Folder 513: YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Commission 1947-1980: programs (Yiddish, English): YIVO Conference #23, 1/15-1/18/49; #27, 1/3-1/8/53; #29, 1/15-1/18/55; #30, 1/21-1/24/56; #31, 1/19-1/22/57
YIVO Yedies #30, 55, 62 (fragments); #72, 10/59; #113, Spring 1970; #154, Fall 1980
program of the exhibition, The Jews in Europe 1939-1946
announcement of the 4th annual YIVO contest, 1952 (English)
problems in preparation of the Diary of H. Kruk (Yiddish)
project to renew the activities of the Scientific Commission by Yudl Mark (Yiddish)
radio speech of P. Schwartz about YIVO, 2/1/59 (Yiddish)
Conference on Yiddish Studies, NY, 4/7-4/10/58
report of the organizing committee
articles about YIVO by Shmuel Niger, Sz. Noble, Aaron Zeitlin, Lifschutz (Yiddish)
plan of the exhibition to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 3/53-4/53

Subseries 5: Writings of Philip Friedman 1935-1962

The materials in this subseries consist of speeches, book reviews and articles by Friedman, his research materials, and bibliographies of his works.

Folders: 25

Folder 514: Addresses and radio speeches 1949-1959: 9/49, Di Tsiln un Oyfgabes fun Yidisher Hekher Dertsiyung in Amerike baym Hayntikn Tog (The Goals and Tasks of Yiddish Higher Education in America Today)
1/6/49, 23rd YIVO Conference
3/8/50, Di Geshikhte iz di Lererin fun dem Lebn (History is the Teacher of Life)
4/20/52, Conference of Teachers and Officials of the Workmen's Circle Schools
1/2/53, 27th YIVO Conference, article, Der YIVO un zayn Kultur-Svive (YIVO and Its Cultural Milieu)
1/16/55, 29th YIVO Conference, article, Hasidei Oymes Haoylem un di Yidn in der Tsayt fun der Natsi-Okupatsie (Righteous Gentiles and the Jews During the Nazi Occupation)
greetings to Dr. Shatzky
1956, obituary on Shatzky's death
1/13/57, article about YIVO
Die Grundsatzlichen Probleme Unserer Hurbanforshung (The Fundamental Problems of our Holocaust Research) (Yiddish, German)
9/27/57, Coming Back from Israel
11/26/57, Their Brothers Keepers, meeting on the publication of the book (English)
3/19/58, Kolomyja, town in Poland, his birthplace
4/19/58, 15 Yor nokhn Varshever Geto Oyfshtand (15 Years after the Ghetto Upsrising)
9/26/58, Stosunki Polsko-Zydowskie w Perspektywie Dziejowej (Polish-Jewish Relations in the Perspective of Years) (Polish)
12/28/58, greetings to Meyer Brown
2/1/59, YIVO in 1958
article about civil rights
to students of the Teachers Seminary
Historic Circle of YIVO, about Adam Mickiewicz
Folder 515: Book reviews 1949-1958: The Course of Modern Jewish History, by H.M. Sachar
Modern Hebrew Literature, by Simon Halkin
Hitlers Tischgesprache in Fuehrer hauptquartier, by H. Pidrec
The four books to be reviewed, American Historical Review
The Cambridge History of Poland, by W.F. Reddaway and others
The Jews in Poland from Earliest Times up to the Second World War, Jewish Social Studies
Jewish Physicians in Ancient Poland
The Jews in the Soviet Satellites, by Peter Meyers
Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, by David Ben-Gurion
Five Books about the Nazi Holocaust, paperback edition
Race and Reich - The Story of an Epoch, by J. Tenenbaum
The Jewish People: Past and Present (Hebrew)
Haskala in Lithuania, by Dr. J. Shatzky (Yiddish)
To Dwell in Safety, by Mark Wischnitzer (Yiddish)
The Jew in Russia, by L. Greenberg (Yiddish)
Das Dritte Reich und Europa, Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (German)
The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922-1945, by G. Reitlinger
publications of the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews in Germany
Desperate Mission: Joel Brandt's Story, by Alex Weissberg
synopsis of the book Their Brothers Keepers
The Final Solution, by G. Reitlinger
New Books on Germany (Hebrew)
The Politics of Eisenhower and Truman towards the Survivors (Hebrew)
Hitlers Occupation of the Ukraine, by Igor Kamenetzky
The Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1920, by J. Resheter
The Heroism of Jacob Lestschinsky, 1956 (Hebrew)
The Ringelblum Book, Zukunft (Yiddish)
Folder 516: Book reviews 1948-1958: The History of the Jewish Khazars, by D.M. Dunlop (Hebrew)
Pinkes Bialystok, by A.S. Hershberg
Pinkes Kolomey (Kolomyja), by S. Bickel (English, Yiddish)
Sefer Hasht, yiskor bukh (Yiddish)
Sefer Chelm, yiskor bukh (Yiddish)
Yerushalyim d'Lita in Kamp un Umkum, by Dr. M. Dworzecki (Yiddish)
Di Shaarit Haplita in Hurban Literatur (Yiddish)
Yiskor Bikher in Regionale Literatur (Yiddish)
A Fertl Yorhundert Hurban Literatur (Yiddish)
Di Yidn un dos Yidishe Folk (Yiddish)
Bikher vegn Hayntsaytiker Yidishe Geshikhte (Yiddish)
Di Yidishe Entsyklopedie - A Kapitl Kultur Geshikhte (Yiddish)
Yidishe Entsyklopedie in English (Yiddish)
The Slavonic Encyclopedia
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by B. Mach (Polish)
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, by E. Ringelblum
Conscience in Revolt, by Lehrer
A Tower from the Enemy, by A. Nirenstein
Ghetto Theresienstadt, by J. Lederer
Five Books about the Nazi Holocaust
Human Behavior in the Concentration Camps, by Dr. E. Cohen
Hurban Varshe in Shpigl fun der Literatur (Yiddish)
The Theory and Practice of Hell, by E. Kogan
The Road from Weimar to Buchenwald
Theresienstadt, by H.G. Adler
A Shpigl Naye Oystatshung fun Varshaver Geto (Yiddish)
outline of The Jewish Resistance against the Nazis
History of the Jews in Warsaw, by J. Shatzky
New Books about Warsaw (Hebrew)
World History of the Jewish Nation, by S. Dubnow (Yiddish)
Historical Research of the Polish Jewry (Yiddish)
The Jews and the Polish Uprising 1830-1831, by Yakov Halevi (Hebrew)
Better than a Title, by Dr. Lavin, Hurban Europe (Yiddish)
Boll of the Year (Yiddish)
Dzieje Handlu Zyd. na ziemiach Polskich, by Dr. Ignacy Shipper (Polish)
Folder 517: Book reviews - personalities 1951-1959: righteous Gentiles in the Nazi period (Yiddish)
in memory of the departed (Polish)
Simon Dubnow (English, Yiddish, Hebrew)
Professor Graetz - 100 Years
Jacob Lestschinsky - 80 years of Age (Yiddish)
Practice and Theory in Social Life, about Jacob Lestschinsky
Emanuel Ringelblum (Yiddish, English)
Jacob Shatzky: The Historian of Polish Jewry (Yiddish); History of the Jews in Warsaw (English); His Place in Eastern European Historiography
Father Benedetti (Marie-Benoit)
Folke Bernadotte
Case Grynszpan
Felan Kersten
Janusz Korczak
Mother Maria
Andreas Shpetytsky
Raoul Wallenberg, about Dr. Shatzky, by Ilse Bry
Ona Simaite, ADL Bulletin, 10/51
Folder 518: Research on the Holocaust 1957, undated: Problems of Research on the European Jewish Catastrophe (English, Yiddish, French)
American Jewish Research and Literature on the Jewish Catastrophe 1939-1945 (English)
Outlines of a Research on the Jewish Catastrophe (same as above) (English)
Aspects of Hebrew Literature on the Catastrophe (English)
Folder 519: Research on the Holocaust 1955: The Jewish Badge and the Yellow Star in the Nazi Era (English, Yiddish)
Folder 520: Research on the Holocaust undated: Jewish Self-Government in Germany, Austria, and in the German "Protektorat" (Yiddish, English)
Folder 521: Research on the Holocaust 1950-1953: The Messianic Complex of a Ghetto Dictator (Yiddish, Hebrew)
The Messianic Complex of a Nazi Collaborator (English, Yiddish)
The Messianic Complex of Jacob Gens, Vilna
Die falshen messiasse der Nazischen ghetti (German)
Folder 522: Research on the Holocaust 1950-1954: The Jewish Ghettos of the Nazi Era (English, Yiddish)
Ghetto (English)
Social Conflicts in the Ghetto (Yiddish)
Lublin Reservation (English)
A Medical Bibliography on the Recent Jewish Catastrophe (WWII) (English)
Nazi medical Crimes
The Bibliography on the Warsaw Ghetto (10th anniversary of the uprising)
Chapter Warsaw (Yiddish)
Folder 523: Research on the Holocaust 1950-1958: The Jewish Resistance to Nazism (English, Yiddish)
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Polish)
15 Years After the Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish)
Warsaw Jews under the Nazi Regime (Yiddish)
Hurban Warsaw (Yiddish)
Uprisings in the Camps and Ghettos (Yiddish)
The Scope of the Resistance (Yiddish)
In the Woods and Fields (Yiddish)
Folder 524: Research on the Holocaust 1949-1956: The Fate of the Jewish Book during the Nazi Era (English)
Education in Shearith Haplatah in Deautschland (German)
Literary Creativity in Shearith Haplatah in Deautschland (German)
Inflation of the Literature on the Hurban (Yiddish)
Books and Libraries
Literature of the Great Jewish Catastrophe in Nazi Era (English)
Literature on the Hurban (Yiddish)
Printed matter of the Haplatah in Germany (Yiddish)
Bialystok and its Jews during WWII (Yiddish)
Elements of the Research (Yiddish)
Literature of the Shearith Haplatah (Yiddish)
Significant Fateful Partnership (Yiddish)
Regional Historiography and the Romanticism of the Old Home (Yiddish)
Folder 525: Research on the Holocaust undated: Their Brothers Keepers, by P. Friedman, typed chapters
Folder 526: Research on the Holocaust undated: The German Invasion (Hebrew)
Historical Research of the Nazi Period (Hebrew)
The Slaughter of European Jewry in the Nazi Period (Hebrew)
Problems of Historiography of the Nazi Period (Hebrew)
Literature on the Great Jewish Catastrophe in the Nazi Period (English)
Folder 527: Early writings before the war undated: The First Millenium of the Christian Era (Jewish Pioneering in Eastern Europe) (English)
Folder 528: Early writings before the war 1938-1940: History of the Jews in Poland 1918-1938 (Polish)
The First Thousand Years of the Jews in Eastern Europe (Polish, English, Hebrew)
Folder 529: Early writings before the war 1938-1954: Jews in the Polish Uprising January 1863 (Polish)
Jews in the Textile Industry in Lodz (Polish)
Lodz - Center of the Textile Industry in Poland (Polish)
The New History of the Jews in Poland 1905-1908 (Yiddish)
The Galician Jewry (English)
The Beginning of the Jewish Settlements in Eastern Europe (Yiddish)
Research on the Polish Jewry (Yiddish)
Monography of Kehillas and Cities (Yiddish)
Antisemitism in Poland - A Historical View (Polish)
Folder 530: Articles 1947, undated: Meyer Balaban - Great Polish Jewish Historian
Jewish Historiography of Eastern Europe since 1937 to date (English)
East European Historiography since 1939 (English)
Jews in Poland - statistics (Polish)
Folder 531: Articles 1935, 1946, undated: "From Antihistoricism to Superhistoricism (Yiddish)
The Problems of Jewish Historiography and How to Solve Them (Yiddish)
In memory of Historians of Polish Jewry (Polish)
Regarding Cultural Creativity in Freed Poland (Yiddish)
Folder 532: Articles undated: The First Millennium of the Jewish Settlements in the Ukraine (English)
History of the Jews in Ukraine (Yiddish)
Ukrainian Jewish Relation in the Nazi Period (Yiddish)
Folder 533: Articles 1946-1952, undated: The Era of 2100 Years is Not Finished (German)
The Jews of Greece During the Second World War - Bibliographical Survey (English)
Jewish Displaced Persons in the Modern Times (Yiddish)
Jewish Literature about Landsmanschaften for the Period 1941-1942 to 1951-1952 (Yiddish)
Folder 534: Articles 1941-1957: Signs of a New Humanism (Yiddish)
The Roll of Yiddish Culture and Language in America (Yiddish)
The Cultural Crisis in Jewish Life (Yiddish)
General View about Jewish Education and Cultural Activities in the American Zone in Germany (Yiddish)
The Aim and Task of the Higher Jewish Education in America Today (Yiddish)
Problem of Jewish Education (Yiddish)
The Yiddish schools and the Shortage of Jewish Teachers (Yiddish)
The Jewish Teachers Seminary (Yiddish)
Second World Congress for Jewish Studies, 1957 (English)
The Paris Conference of Jewish Historians, 1948 (German)
The Fate of the Jewish Child and Youth under Nazi Occupation (Yiddish)
Folder 535: Articles undated: The Karaites under Nazi Rule
Folder 536: Articles 1951-1959, undated: some suggestions for the title of the book
the tentative outline
the outline suggested by Dr. Friedman
research on the Hurban in America (Hebrew)
introduction to bibliography on the Hurban (Yiddish)
Folder 537: Articles 1947-1948: Mizrach Galicje Trojert (Eastern Galicia Mourns) - (transliterated Yiddish)
The Historical Turn (Yiddish)
German Science and Concentration Camps (Yiddish)
Steps and Methods of Extermination of Polish Jews (Polish)
Folder 538: Bibliographies of writings by P. Friedman 1955-1962: Writings of P. Friedman, a Bibliography (English)
list of publications (English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish)
supplement
bibliography on writings on the Nazi Period (Hebrew)
bibliography, 1935-1945, with index
publications, 1957
some of the publications, 1947-1952
list of printed matters, 1929-1931
varia

Subseries 6: Reviews of Philip Friedman’s Books 1957-1982

This subseries is made up of reviews and events related to Friedman’s published works, including reviews when the books were first published and later reviews of reprints.

Folders: 2

Folder 539: Reviews of P. Friedman's books 1957-1981: Their Brothers Keepers: reception, dedication, guest list, speeches, 11/6/57 at Waldorf Astoria Hotel; 11/26/57 at New York Public Library, Donnell Branch
different reviews, among others Mrs. E. Roosevelt (English, Yiddish, German, Russian, Polish)
summary and synopsis
Poles in the West (Polish)
Keepers of the Light (English)
Literary Evening in Honor of Dr. P. Friedman
list of books in English published after Their Brothers Keepers about the rescue of Jews
Folder 540: Reviews of P. Friedman's books 1979-1982: Roads to Extinction, published in 1960 (after Friedman's death): different reviews (English, Polish, Hebrew, French)