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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

RG1.1: YIVO - Vilna Administration Records

Series IX: Germany Correspondence

Series IX:

Germany Correspondence

Description

This series contains correspondence between YIVO and individuals and institutions in Germany, including Bernard Weinryb, Otto Harrassowitz, Solomon Birnbaum, Moritz Stern, Leo Spitzer, Jacob Lestschinsky, Ismar Freund, Jewish Museum, Heinz Kloss, Felix Auerbach, Daniel Charney, and the Friends of YIVO Society in Berlin.

Folder 674 contains records in German from the liquidation period in Vilna in which the Nazi regime prepared to transport valuable books and material from YIVO to Germany. The documents demonstrate that several people, including initially Zelig Kalmanovitch, were involved in translating texts from Yiddish and Hebrew into German and preparing lists of books.

Series and Folders

7 Folders Showing 1 - 7

Folder 674: Reports on translation for Nazis , 1942-1945

Reports in German on the work of Jewish 'employees' in the translation room

List of books

Folder 675: Correspondence , 1926-1929

Folder 676: Correspondence , 1930

January-June

Folder 677: Correspondence , 1930

July-December

Folder 678: Correspondence , 1931-1932

Folder 679: Correspondence , 1933-1939

Folder 680: Correspondence , 1926-1939

Correspondence with Central Board in Vilna, Friends of YIVO

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Archival Reference Information

Archival identifier

RG1.1

Date

1925-1945

Source of original

YIVO Archives

Collection

Archon

Part of Record Group

YIVO - Vilna Administration Records

Enabled

Yes

Document Types

Newspaper clippings

Administrative reports

Correspondence

Membership lists

Minutes (Administrative Records)

Pamphlets

Organizations

Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut

YIVO Archives

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Detailed Subjects

Europe, Eastern

Yiddish language

Yiddish philology

Places

New York (N.Y.)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Warsaw (Poland)

People

Kalmanovitch, Zelig, 1885-1944

Prilutsḳi, Noaḥ

Rejzen, Zalman, 1887-1941

Weinreich, Max, 1894-1969

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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project is an international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The project will also digitally reconstruct the historic, private Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries of Europe.

This project is a partnership between the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and includes the cataloging, conservation, and digitization of documents and books in both New York and Vilnius.

In May 2017, some 170,000 pages of previously unknown documents, lost to history for almost 70 years, were discovered in Vilnius, significantly expanding the scope of our project.

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