Shmuel Niger

Title: Shmuel Niger

Inclusive Dates: 1907-1950s

ID: RG 360

Extent Information

50'2.5"; 120 5"ltr; 1 2.5"ltr; 1 map folder

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in 10 series: I) Family Corres. (folders 1-35); II) Corres. with Individuals (36-460); III) Corres. with Readers (461-495); IV) Corres. with Organizations (496-1234); V) Manuscripts & Typescripts (1235-1411); VI) Bibliographical Materials (1412-1432); VII) Speeches & Lectures (1433-1501); VIII) Manuscripts of other Authors (1502-1532); IX) Press Clippings (1533-3050); X) Biographical Materials (3051-3106)

Creators

Niger, Shmuel (1883-1955)

Administrative/Biographical History

Pen name of Shmuel Charney. Prominent Yiddish literary critic and historian. Active in Yiddish cultural and community organizations. Contributed to numerous newspapers and periodicals, among them *Di yidishe velt* (Vilna), *Der tog* (New York), and the *Jewish Daily Forward* (New York). Edited or co-edited periodicals and books, including: the first volume of the *Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur un prese*, edited by Zalmen Reisen, Vilna, 1914; *Zukunft*, New York; *Kinder zhurnal*, New York; *Dos naye lebn*, New York; *Zhitlovski-zamlbukh*, New York; *Ale verk fun I.L. Peretz*; first volume of the *Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literature*, New York, 1956. Niger held important positions in many Jewish organizations, among them, the following: president, Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute; member of the Research Commission and of the Executive Board of the YIVO Institute; founder and president of the Louis Lamed Fund for Jewish Literature in Yiddish and Hebrew; co-founder of the World Congress for Jewish Culture; chairman of the *Groyser verterbukh fun der yidisher shprakh* (Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language). Teacher of Yiddish literature at the Jewish Teacher's Seminary, New York. Niger was also active in CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organization), Jewish Writers Union, Yiddish Pen Club, Jewish Publication Society of America. Born in Dukor, District of Minsk, Byelorussia. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1919 and settled in New York.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Culture
Holocaust and Aftermath
Immigration and Emigration
Literature
Poland
Press, Jewish
Russia
Scholarship
United States
World War I
Writers
Yiddish Language and Linguistics
Yiddish secular movement
Zionism

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Papers

Finding Aid Information

Inventory, English, 64 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Description: Correspondence with several thousand individuals, 1907-1961, including S. An-Ski, Shalom Asch, David Bergelson, Nathan Birnbaum, Menahem Boraisha, Ber Borochov, Marc Chagall, Jacob Dinesohn, Simon Dubnow, Aaron Glanz- Leieles, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Reuben Iceland, Leon Kobrin, Louis Lamed, Leibush Lehrer, H. Leivick, Jacob Lestschinsky, Abraham Liessin, Joseph Opatoshu, Isaac Leib Peretz, David Pinsky, Alexander Pomerantz, Moshe Starkman, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, Abraham Sutzkever, Max Weinreich, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Family correspondence, 1909-1960, with Niger's mother, wife, children, brothers Daniel Charney and Baruch Vladeck, other relatives. Letters from readers of Niger's columns. Correspondence with hundreds of organizations including Yiddish periodicals, publishing houses, educational and cultural institutions, professional associations, especially institutions he was closely involved with such as the YIVO, Congress for Jewish Culture, Louis Lamed Fund, *The Day*, I. L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Union, *Zukunft*. Manuscripts and typescripts of major works by Niger on Isaac Leib Peretz, Shalom Asch, H. Leivick, Isaac Meir Dick. Bibliographical materials on various topics in Yiddish literature. Speeches and lectures. Manuscripts of other writers, including Salo Baron, Daniel Charney, Philip Friedman, Szmerke Kaczerginski, Yona Rosenfeld, Abraham Reisen. Clippings of Niger's regular columns published in *The Day* (*Der tog*), *Day-Morning Journal* (*Der tog-morgn zhurnal*), *Di yidishe velt*. Niger's aricles pertaining to other writers, or on topics of Jewish interest, such as Jewish education, Yiddish literature, Zionism, religious issues, the Holocaust, Niger's travels. Clippings by other writers about Niger. Biographical materials about Niger, 1907-1957. Manuscripts and notebooks of Niger's diary. Materials on Niger's activities in Russia during World War I, and his immigration to the U.S. Personal documents such as passports, invitations, including invitation to the Czernowitz Conference on Yiddish, 1908. Materials relating to copyright. Obituaries.